Any strategies for living with auto correct phone keyboards

In My Humble Opinion
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I am constantly fighting auto suggest/auto correct. Whatever they call this crap.

I’m constantly looking up to see it’s inserted a word I don’t want. Forcing me to backspace multiple letters. Emoticons here don’t work because the damn thing inserts a period at the end of sentences ;). If I fail to notice the period then my emoticon is screwed up.

I waste a lot of time proof reading because this feature sneaks in the wrong words.

Am I doing something wrong? Isn’t this feature supposed to make our typing easier?

Any strategies to keep this feature from frustrating me?

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I’m using Google Keyboard that comes with stock Android.

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If you don’t like auto correct and it’s more trouble than it’s worth, turn it off.

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Settings is probably a gear icon near the bottom. On mine, the setting you would want to toggle off is called ‘Auto replace’

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Looking again, I think this is on Samsung keyboard. Here are the instructions for stock Google keyboard.

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I found the settings option to turn it off.

I thought maybe there’s something I’m doing wrong. So many people use auto correct and seem happy with it.

I guess it’s the way that I misspell words. Auto correct seems to constantly insert a word that I didn’t intend.

Turning it off may be the best solution.

Is that what most of you have done?

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Yep, I hate the autocorrect. Not sure how it helps either as it was always ‘fixing’ what I had typed and making it wrong. It’s the first thing I turn off when I switch phones.

I did have one phone that had a nice autocorrect option though. I could turn off correcting full words but it would still correct for capitalization and contractions. I could type in i and it would come out I, or cant and it would come out can’t. I loved that function, wish I could find another phone with it.

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It’s one of the first things I turn off. Some must find it useful, but like yourself, I find it causes more problems than it solves.

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Yes, it was one of the first things i disabled, too. My phone will still red-underline misspelled words so I can go back and correct them, if I choose.

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I’m getting better at using it. Mine will suggest three words based on context, previous things I’ve typed and the first few letters of the word I am entering. If one of the three suggested words is the correct one, select it. That speeds things up for me. Otherwise, if I keep typing and misspell a word and hit the space or enter, it will pick one of the suggested words.

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I have various settings. I leave on the settings for predictive text, auto capitalize, auto spacing, and auto punctuate, as I find those helpful most of the time. I also prefer ‘swipe’ now to entering individual letters. The auto spacing, capitalization and punctuation is very useful with swipe.

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I’ve had to turn autocorrect off.
Annoying when you’re trying to purposely mis-spell something for obvious emphasis.
My wife asks if I want pizza for dinner.
I reply “yesss”.
She receives “Tess’s”

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I use swipe, too. Much quicker and easier than tapping with the index finger, or even using both thumbs.

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I’ve turned autocorrect off as well. I like the keyboards that offer suggestions to complete a word, but I do not want anything happening automatically. Better to send a typo than a wrong word.

I also refuse to use talk-to-text. If I wanted to talk, I’d make a call, not trust an unreliable translator to take dictation.

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I call it “auto-incorrect”. It’s the bane of my existence

Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

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I kill autocorrect on my smartphone and tablet and on my PC word processing software, as soon as possible after unboxing. I let the spellcheck flag the words it thinks are wrong but it’s up to me to replace them. I learned to write in two languages, damn it, I’m going to practice that skill.

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Seconded.

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I accidentally switched my auto correct to french. Took me two days to figure out why everything was so wrong.

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Are we related?
Got a cat that does that for me sometimes… Talk about frustration… Bawahahahah