Garageband electric guitar chord display

so i plug my guitar into the the computer and i open up garageband and i can play straight through the computer no problems, i go to the how to play and the tuner and i tune my guitar. then i go to a new electric guitar project, i turn it on with clean combo and i practice my chords (im only a beginner)
and i practice chords like f which i find to be one of the most difficult chords to play due to the positiong of your fingers, but when i play i can never get the chord display thing at the bottom to come yup with an f chord, it comes up with e, b major, a. this is the same with c minor and some of the major and minor and seventh chords. also sometimes when i play a basic b major chord it says im playing an e chord when i have my finger position perfect. is the note display accurate ornot, cause it could be really messing up my learning if it isnt.
also ive had some problems sometimes when i've had garageband open for a while, i dont know if i tripped something by pressing a hot key, but every guitar gets massive delay on it (even when i havent got any delay pedal or effect on the guitar), i close it down and its normal again, has this happened to anybody

Chords work only with software instruments - GB isn't able to single out the notes in a real guitar chord. So what you're getting is just the reading of the tuner that tries to identify a single clean tone and is confused if you play several at a time.

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