I remember like seven years ago my android keyboard's autocorrect was completely fine? Not only would it seem to remember my common finger slip-induced typos and correct them on sight, but it could also autocorrect typos with numbers in them, ie recognizing "3" as a missed "e", etc

But nowadays my autocorrect fucking sucks rank ass? It's awful at guessing the correction for typos as it looks like (to me) it only uses the first letter as the basis for autocorrect, and if I mistyped the first letter then I'm shit out of luck for autocorrect picking up, like there's absolutely no way it could possibly guess what I mean when I say "I want vurgers for dinner"

But somehow it's gotten even WORSE than just bad at its job lately? I've had regular instances of the autocorrect changing a correctly spelled and grammatically correct word to something completely different. Just yesterday it autocorrected the word 'with' in the middle of a sentence to 'WI', as in the acronym for Wisconsin.

what is the point of making your basic functionality shittier? to sell premium keyboard apps? jesus christ

  • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Oh, it's not just me! And it definitely does seem to be a huge reliance on the first letter of the word. Like if I accidentally type 'rhen' it doesn't try 'then' or 'when' it goes straight to 'rhythm' or 'rhyme' or some shit. And it's constantly trying to capitalize the first letter of words in the middle of sentences for no freaking reason. I wonder if there was a patent lawsuit or a licensing expiration or something. I went from a samsung s7 to a cheapo samsung and the s7 was still working great when I switched over. Totally regret it.

    • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Just went and checked, both phones are using Samsung Keyboard. My S7 used 3.0.24.98, the new one uses 5.4.70.16 but has an update available I'm going to try.🤞

      • laziestflagellant [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        Yes please I need to have hope there's a keyboard out there that can translate 'rhen' to 'then' because my current one sure can't either

        • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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          2 years ago

          So far, so good. If you're on Samsung try updating it by going into the keyboard settings and About Samsung keyboard.🤞

          Edit: I guess it doesn't update automatically because it uses the Samsung store...🤔