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Auto correct has gotten REALLY BAD

(Topic created on: 11-29-2024 12:50 PM)
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doobydude
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Galaxy Z
Has anyone else noticed that Samsung keyboard, or autocorrect has gotten substantially worse over the years? I just tried fixing the autocorrect words error, it kept adding the wrong 3 or 4 letters at the end of the word. I'd delete what it entered, then it would instantly put it eight back there. I had to erase the entire word and retype the whole word again. 

Is there a way to make auto correct work ANY better than it does? It's gotten even worse since I reset the words it had learned over time with me typing. 
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Helenna
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Hi doobydude,

We are sorry to hear this issue from you. If you recently reset the learned words, the keyboard may need time to adjust to your typing habits again.

Go to Settings > General management > Samsung Keyboard settings > Predictive text. Ensure Predictive text is enabled. Over time, as you use the keyboard and correct mistakes, it will relearn your typing style. Be consistent with corrections to "teach" it the right words.

If the keyboard behaves erratically, clearing its cache can help. Go to Settings > Apps > Samsung Keyboard > Storage. Tap Clear cache (and, if necessary, Clear data to reset it entirely). Re-enable Predictive Text and rebuild your preferences.

Thank you.

Sammysing
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I have the same problem and I've discovered a page on reddit dedicated to this. It's not just 1 guy it's many people hundreds if not thousands. We've had the autocorrect complete changed since a few months, after an update and it's altering typed words by it's own accord. The predictive correction has gotten a lot worse than before. The word suggestions are horrendous and it changes words by itself. Even the ones you typed checked and entered. It changes a word sometimes into it's own suggestions that you did not select. How is this happening?
doobydude
Active Level 7
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Exactly. It even will change the word back even after you went back and fixed the word auto correct changed. Making it the wrong word again. There's been times I've had to re-change the autocorrected word 3 times. Rhe same exact word autocorrect would keep inputting the wrong word and it's even spelled wrong. Autocorrect has gotten absolutely abysmal over the years. Not better. And I've reset the the predicted words autocorrect has learned and then it gets way way waaay worse. Something seriously needs to be done to fix this. Maybe Samsung can't????
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I'm not the worst speller, but I do need a spell checker. Samsungs product has me guessing about the spelling of words I previously spelt correctly. If I mispell a word and neglet to take the spell checker's suggestion, it thinks I may want to spell it that way from then on, and it will then offer both correct and incorrect spellings and prompt me to choose. That's a harmful thing to do to one's customers. Total garbage, and total disinterest in satisfied customers. They replied to my complaint to the CEO, but I'm almost certain they will not do anything about the problem that so many loyal Samsung customers are having. So, I'm gonna try an IPhone with my next phone. 

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Neo1437
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The issue isn't that your old system used to be perfect, literally perfect but once all this ai stuff started coming out it gets progressively worse the more I use it.

 

Ill type "to" and it'll autocorrect it to something stupid like "tondel" which doesn't fit into the sentence anywhere at all. 

What im getting at is it's being ridiculous if it had changed "to" to something like "too" or "two" id be like ok fair you probably didn't know which one i meant but something like "tondel" as the autocorrect is absolutely ridiculous 

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There is no "Samsung Keyboard" in the list of apps on my S24+. And, if I could teach my "Samsung Keyboard" how to spell, what would I need the spell checker for in the first place? As I wrote to your CEO, and this is no joke, "Your spell checker is making me an even more of a poor speller."That should not happen! That should be prohibited by law.  You are doing harm to the general public and making money off such an objectionable product. 

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Dmoney91320
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Samsung could start by fixing where their autocorrect changes a already written word to a proper noun name which 99% of time makes it grammatically incorrect so how is this a correction. As a programmer I would think a autocorrect from such a affluent company could easily fix *** a thing with a couple changes and update. Also, when a word is fixed but say I need to move the word it won't let me click around it because it thinks I didn't accept it's correction and that thats what I'm still trying to edit.its almost like it's a propaganda to make the dumb dumber. This insanely rich company can't put into their autocorrect one line that checks if the correction fits the rest of the sentence cause that's annoying when it changes *** to Penner(cause that's a mean word as grown people we meant someones name instead)even though most people don't know anyone with those names it's autocorrecting to.

doobydude
Active Level 7
Galaxy Z
I thought the exact same thing. About it being done on purpose. I noticed when I'm talking about politics in particular, that's when autocorrect really screws with what you're typing.
Kdusen
Beginner Level 2
Galaxy Z

This is exactly my problem. It captilizes the most random words for no reason. It is so infuriating to me and it makes me almost give up when typing. And it will autocorrect a correct word I've never heard or used before. Sometimes it autocorrects to a wrong word and before I can change it back, the grammar autocorrect overrides the autocorrected word and makes me have to retype it. Even then it does it all over again, which the process repeats at least 2 times. Sometimes the grammar autocorrect is completely and utterly wrong as well. However my biggest gripe is that when I type the singular I, it has a 50/50 chance of not auto capitalizing it. It makes typing very inconsistent if I don't notice I being capitalized in one spot but not another. Another thing my autocorrect won't stop doing is correcting 1-2 letter words into other words. Such as "a" turning into "and" or "as." "In" turning to "into", "on" turning to "onto", "the" to "then / there / them", "then" to "them," "you" to "your", "of" to "or / or" to "of / of" to "off," "it" to "its," "to" into "too," "I'm" to "in / in" to "I'm," the list goes on. How can we fix this? The AI has ruined autocorrect, and I (<--- had to manually captilize by the way) never asked or wanted this update for AI to mess with my autocorrect and make typing a living h___.

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