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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] 8 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I don't know about you, but I just swiped my way through the first sentence off this reply with Google's keyboard and all I had to do was select swiped instead of the suggested settled.

They do remember common words that you use, so if you have accidentally "approved" a few misspellings they'll be suggested/given to you more often so a drastic solution to that is to clear your personalised data from the keyboard.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Did you mean to type “off this reply”?

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

They do remember common words that you use

Sometimes your own peril... I keep getting my ex's name randomly when I'm swiping for another word 🤦‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

You can always hold and remove any suggestion, be it a typo or an ex's name.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I don't seem to have an issue with swiping on my keyboard either except for names and abbreviations/capitalisations but then all phone keyboards struggle with that except for T9 and blackberries. I think it's a small price to pay for such fast and effortlessly swiping for 99.9% of the time.