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Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time? (self.technology)
submitted 8 months ago by HonoraryMancunian to c/technology
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I'm sick of random capitalisations mid sentence. I'm sick of common words being replaced by less common ones or even downright nonsense. I'm sick of it taking three attempts to successfully get the word I want. I swear it's been like this for five years or more. Can we have a better version yet, or at least the old one back?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I finally found the setting in the keyboard to delete the words it has learned so I stop getting the stupid typos it picks instead of actual words. Of course there was no list and I had to agree to delete all learned words which now means I will have to teach it again all of the words in another language that I use regularly.

Would have highly preferred going through the list and deleting the stupid typos it saved. I agree with you that it seems deliberate.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You can add multiple languages to your keyboard and make spellcheck work on them simultaneously

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Unfortunately the keyboard I use doesn't support the language I'm referring to but I've not needed it to anyway. It's just frustrating to lose all the words I'd taught it just to rid myself of remembered typos.