Well there’s you’re answer. Swiping is imprecise, andriod/iOS use predictive models to guess which word you’re trying to type… and it’s usually (but not always,) awful at it.
Especially with worlds that have duplicate letters like hello and lemmy.
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Lafari@lemmy.world 11 months agoCorrected Lemmy to Lemur. Leaving it because it’s relevant to the post. I use the keyboard swiping/path-drawing function on Samsung keyboard
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Lafari@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I always wondered how it handled duplicate letters. If you stay hovering over one key it doesn’t work as well. Thanks for answer (TFA)
theKalash@feddit.ch 11 months ago
Try making a little circle or wiggle over the double letters instead of just hovering.
Lafari@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I thought maybe there was a way to stop diverting and learn what I want it to do
otter@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
So I assume the issue here is that your keyboard is suggesting weird junk.
I’m not familiar with Samsung Keyboard, but I googled your problem, and it looks like a lot of people complain about bad autocorrect suggestions. As a quick fix, could you try installing an alternative keyboard like Swiftkey or Google’s GBoard from the Playstore?
If you want to fix it in Samsung you might need to play with the settings. Or when you are typing a word and it suggests “help”, tap and hold the word to see if you can delete it