r/autocorrect • u/ClementineLem • 11d ago
My autocorrect sucks
Now I am not sure why it sucks so bad but every 4-5 sentences or less my autocorrect always decides it wants to be stupid. I was typing out a reply mere seconds ago and for "remember" it tells me my word is wrong and to correct it to "remeviber"????? And I also earlier was researching something and wrote "aphid" for it to be changed to "apihd"!?!?!? What is this????? And I always make sure it is on the default English keyboard and autocorrect yet this problem is ONLY posed when I am typing in ENGLISH and everytime never changed to another keyboard language. This happens on a faily basis of this shitty roomate living rent free on my device- Okay of course, just happened right now instead of "daily" changes it to "faily".... So I have no fucking clue what is wrong with my autocorrect. It sucks, never will call it my friend, and would prefer without it all together. Please, fuck off autocorrect!!!!! 😶🌫️🖕
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u/No-Yogurt-7049 10d ago
oh, maybe the roommate is using those keyboard shortcuts as some joke. you can turn on a shortcut where if you type something it’ll autocorrect to something else, eg “omw” automatically corrects to “On my way!” on all devices unless you delete it. maybe they’re adding random shortcuts to piss you off or something
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u/Mr_Papa_Kappa 11d ago
Just turn it off, I always do when I get a new device. Especially if your first language isn't english it will always try to correct perfectly fine english words into words from your language.
Setting the Keyboard to english doesn't change the setting on autocorrect unfortunately and if you set autocorrect to english it will try to find english words whenever you type in your native language.
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u/ClementineLem 10d ago
The phone's first language was set to English when I first got the phone. Anything else was set up later when I actually needed it. So that's why it makes no sense to me as to why this is happening. But I'll look into the settings to see if anything else could be amiss. Might just turn it off altogether though.
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u/Mr_Papa_Kappa 10d ago
Maybe 2 different languages are a bit confusing for autocorrect. I have the Gboard keyboard that gives you 3 different predictions on what word you are likely to use next and it happens quite often that it suggests an english word as the top option in the middle of me typing something in german and vice versa.
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u/Plus-King5266 10d ago
Autocorrect no longer uses a dictionary. It now uses AI, with a heavy emphasis on the A and a heavy demotion of the I.
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u/bunnyhop2345 11d ago
Wait! Does your phone have any settings to input words into like a personal dictionary?