Try typing dangerously. Then look up. You probably got dangerous ly. Or type the plural of a word. Auto correct will add a space between the word and the S. It thinks you’re starting a new word.
I lose a lot of time backspacing and correcting those errors.
Is there a keyboard shortcut to keep autocorrect from doing this?
It is helpful that autocorrect tries to separate two words jammed together.
I need a way of telling it when adding ly or S that it’s not the beginning of a new word.
OK, I have an iPhone, but that does not sound like normal behavior to me. I can’t believe any platform’s autocorrect would automatically add a space before the “s” in a plural or “ly” in an adverb. Something else must be going on here.
I’ve been putting up with this headache ever since I bought my first smart phone in 2016.
It’s a major nuisance.
Not to mention GBoard has the worst spell check I’ve ever encountered.
I’m constantly having to look up words on Google to get them spelled correctly. GBoard doesn’t reliably offer spelling suggestions. It underlines the word, but doesn’t say how it should be spelled.
I used a PC for decades and never had these problems. My documents didn’t have spelling errors because the software worked.
I’ve got a Samsung Android, have never heard of GBoard, and have never had the problem you describe.
One thing I have done is switched off the autocorrect feature. It still autochecks everything. And makes autosuggestions that I can tap to accept or not.
My problem with autocorrect was that every time I typo-ed, AND it didn’t make a correction AND I didn’t notice, it helpfully thought I had taught it a new valid word. Soon it was adding mistakes, not removing them.
You definitely want to also learn how to remove mis-learned words from its dictionary. In my case it’s press-and-hold on a defective suggestion. That will, after a pause, pop up a
dialog box. I’m still clearing out stupid learned typos from my first month with this device 8 months ago.
Should we read anything into the fact your (aceplace’s) autocorrect has apparently learned that “Ho” is a perfectly cromulent word?
I just went into GBoard and cleared the cache and data. Hopefully that eliminated any personalized words. I checked my personal dictionary and there are no custom words saved there.
It is disconcerting to see a misspelled word offered as a “suggestion”.
It’s not a good idea for any application to learn spelling from me. I’ve always been a notoriously bad speller. I recognize misspelled words. It’s very frustrating and time consuming to look them up. Google is faster than a dictionary.
gboard on my Android phone doesn’t seem to act anything like you describe.
First, regarding suggestions, do you have the suggestion strip enabled? That’s where suggested words will appear. I’ve never seen it suggest a misspelled word there. Perhaps if you turn off Personalized suggestions it will help.
Regarding adding extra spaces, I don’t know why that’s happening. It certainly doesn’t happen for me. I tried changing a variety of settings under Text Correction (Show suggestion strip on/off, Auto-correction on/off, Auto capitalization on/off) but none of the produce the extra space behavior you describe after I type the word “dangerous”. Does it still happen if you turn Auto-correction off?
The way you describe what’s happening, I wonder if you’re causing the problem.
When you enter enough of a word for the completion system to recognize, are you selecting it even if it’s not the entire word you mean, and then expecting the keyboard to allow you to add the rest of the word you intended without the space?
Like, you type or swipe the beginning of “accept” because it’s the beginning of “accepting”. the keyboard shows “accept” and you select it from the autocomplete list. And then there’s a space in the way of adding “ing”.
If you select a word from the autocomplete list, you’re telling the keyboard “that’s’ the word I meant, so I’m going on to a new word now.” If it’s only a partial word as far as you’re concerned, the keyboard doesn’t know that. If the keyboard is configured to add a space after a word, the word you select is the entire word. If it’s not the entire word, don’t select it. Swipe or type the entire word, or at least enough that the entire word you meant is on the auto-complete list, and then select that.
type out the complete word the way you want it spelled, letter by letter (don’t swipe, swiping makes system try to guess at your word) then tap that word in the autocomplete/suggestions list, and tell it yes you do want to add that word to the dictionary.
I’m typing this on GBoard now with autocorrect off, and it’s typing contractions properly. Something must be off about your settings. The only reason I don’t use GBoard on a regular basis is it doesn’t have a clipboard for some insane reason.
Edit - try swiping your words instead of touching keys one at a time, and it will automatically format contractions.
I use SwiftKey. And it’s easy to switch between keyboard apps, at least on my phone. Swiping takes a bit of practice, but once you get the hang of it, it’s much faster. You can’t move the cursor with the spacebar, but SwiftKey has a clipboard and Gboard doesn’t, so that makes up for it, IMO.
I’ve always been a notoriously bad speller. I recognize misspelled words. It’s very frustrating and time consuming to look them up. Google is faster than a dictionary.