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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? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

My phone knows my age, my account(s) know my age, the phone maker knows my age, so please for the love of the gods stop removing my cusses. It should damn well know that I have almost never intentionally typed "ducking" and yet I often correct words to "fucking"enough to be able to learn some basic usage patterns. I'm 30 years old, stop "correcting" my text like I'm 5.

Also some really obvious words are constantly "corrected". My phone will not let me start a sentence with "We'll". It will, without fail, change it to "Well" and I have to fix it.

[–] BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.net 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yet if you want to start with well, it’ll always change itself to we’ll. Because of course. (Which I had to go back in and edit twice to make it read how I wanted, because it’s aggressive and will do what it wants even several words later, so be real fucking careful.)

Same with Wed (like Wednesday)/wed and we’d (which I originally wrote in the opposite order but when I wrote the second one it decided I wanted to change the first to match.. so fun!)

But one can’t turn off autocorrect because that’s a disaster too.. impossible to hit the right letters.

[–] KnightontheSun@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[–] ptz@dubvee.org 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I miss T-9 and physical buttons. I could type out War and Peace with maybe one typo without looking at my phone once. The on-screen keyboards we've had the last ~17 years have been a huge downgrade, IMO.

[–] natecox@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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