Every damn time I type “for”, it auto corrects to “fir”. I’m about to blow a gasket.
I don’t know about you but I regulary text my friend to ask how their fur trees are doing.
I just want my phone to stop changing its to fucking it’s. Goddammit, stop fucking changing a valid word to something else.
Part of a strange, larger trend where things get worse as technology advances.
autocorrect, search engine results, google now -> assistant, voice recognition.
All of those seemed to be much better a few years back.
Swipe on my gboard has definitely gone worse lately. Same for my YT recommendations. I never ever watch shorts, and 90% of my recommendations are 13sec clips.
My gboard has gotten way worse. I also have 2 languages turned on but I have multilingual suggestions turned off and it still tries to suggest words in the wrong language half the time
What’s even more annoying is they’re capable of recommending interesting long videos, they purposefully recommend shorter videos on mobile (like less than a minute), on pc they recommend more long videos and the TV app seems to have the most long videos
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That’s you assuming they show you what YOU want and not what THEY want you to see.
You need to very consistently mark every short video as Not Interested and then avoid watching them like the plague. It worked for me but took about a week of doing it.
Something gets good, but the team needs to justify continued pay so they keep developing what doesn’t need development.
My controversial opinion is that cell phone layout designs (not tech) peaked around 2010 and were killed by the iPhone. Don’t @ me.
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People use autocorrect?
I cant stand that shit and fix my typos the old way.
I just hate that it automatically changes a word to something it thinks I wanted to type instead of just suggesting a spelling
The Android keyboard changed a few years ago - it used to leave your word alone when you pressed space; now it will change your word to whatever the “AI” thinks.
I use swipe typing, so yes.
I have minor coordination issues and can’t type accurately on a keyboard as small as my phone. If I manually corrected every typo it’d take me 3 times as long to type anything. I miss the suggested words with my thumb half the time. I find it easier to just slam out a word looking vaguely similar to what I was trying to type and let my phone figure it out.
I wish they would bring back flip phones that had physical keyboards. Touch screens are fucking garbage and always will be along with the fuck bags that thought making all phones with touch screens was a high IQ play.
ladies and gentlemen, behold the new ai revolution!
Along with search and many other things. Probably most of theur devs are optimizing user distraction and ad click rate, instead of… basic functionality 😐
I wish there was a phone keyboard with the backspace key is higher up. Ive been using touchscreen keyboards for over 15 years and still cannot convince my thumbs thats theres no bezel at the bottom.
I wish i could customize a keyboard for how my thumbs want to type. Itd look weird, but qwerty is weird in todays age anyway.
Even if the numbers could be on the bottom row below the spacebar, that would be a game changer.
You on Android?
I am.
Interesting. Thank you.
For some reason, half the time I try to swipe “because” it comes out as “beefsteak”. No idea why and it’s really annoying but I can’t remove beefsteak from my swiftkey dictionary because I love tomatoes.
I’ve been noticing it for years. Back when I first started using Swype and then Swiftkey you could vaguely swipe the word somewhere close on the keyboard and it would be correct, then I had to keep resetting the predictions every few months when they got bad. Eventually that stopped working and would make weird suggestions even when super careful. I switched to GBoard which was a bit better but the predictions seem to be getting worse there as well.
Yes 100% no matter the keyboard I use swype typing (and heck even regular typing) ha sntoigsbly gotten worse as the years/time goes by and I don’t get it. You’d think they’d get better.
This is on iOS and Android. (iOS swype by far is dog shit, the worst of the bunch)
the machine is creaking
It was better when I turned it off :)
I disabled autocomplete on my iphone a long time ago because it kept replacing valid words with their opposites
Example will to won’t or love to hate. Seriously.
Absolutely. In the past few years Gboard seems to prioritize more generic words rather than the ones I’m typing. Not sure why. I still miss the Swype keyboard.
It still works actually.
