Comment on My phone's dictionary thinks the word "expanse" only exists as a show title
breakingcups@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Long press on the wrong suggestion usually gives you an option to delete it from the dictionary.
Comment on My phone's dictionary thinks the word "expanse" only exists as a show title
breakingcups@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Long press on the wrong suggestion usually gives you an option to delete it from the dictionary.
LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
True, but it’s not like lower-case “expanse” is an unusual word. Any decent dictionary would know this.
breakingcups@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s more that your phone has one accidentally registered you typing it capitalized and remembered it as a “name”, deleting that suggestion allows it to reverts to the non-capitalized version.
LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
This is just one of many examples. If it’s remembering a common English word like “expanse” as a name, then that’s crappy design. If you check my other comments in this thread, you will find more examples of autocorrect fucking up.
Either way, it fits here. It’s definitely infuriating when trying to express yourself in text, and perfectly normal words keep changing. And it’s gotten noticeably worse, the “smarter” these apps try to be. Autocorrect on my Motorola Droid from a decade ago worked much better than the one on the Samsung phone I’m using now, because it didn’t try to do the thinking part for me.