When I swipe “don’t” in Gboard, at least 30% of the time it decides I mean “didn’t”. I just tested it, and the accuracy was shockingly bad. I’d understand if the strokes were very similar, but “didn’t” has a whole extra stroke in it compared to “don’t”. WTF, Google?
Gboard used to be flawless for swipe typing, but in the last year or so I’ve noticed the autocorrect become far less reliable and actually prone to replacing the word I wanted with something else. They must have made some change within the last couple of years.
Do it again, but drag the suggestion upwards until a trash icon appears. Maybe one time you used that swipe path and accidentally/deliberately clicked “didn’t” and now it thinks you sometimes want that instead.
I have to do this all the time, I’m considering nuking it’s memory
I don’t see any way to do that with swipe input. The wrong word just appears at the cursor, skipping the suggestion box entirely.
Hell I’m still trying to figure out why the spell checker changes “i’ll” to “i’LLC” every time I type it. Auto-correct on phones is just worthless and I spend far more time correcting it than I do trying to correct actual mistakes.
the most annoying shit is when I type three letters that are almost a word (thw for example) and it decides “ah yes, let me correct this to THW”
or maybe correct it to an actual word?
thank god i can delete stuff from the autocorrect dictionary
Is there a way to do that??? I can’t find anything other than adding new words to a personal dictionary, but I do have an older version of android.
I have felt that the Gboard accuracy decreased drastically a couple years ago. It used to be perfect for me.
I uninstalled gboard yesterday. So frustrating how bad it is. a) My fingers definitely didn’t touch those letters. b) you’re not even giving me suggestions of things I actually could have swiped. c) Those aren’t fucking words.
iOS keyboard isn’t better, but it also isn’t worse.
I hate fucking gboard. I use it, but I hate it. It ballooned from 13MB to more than a hundred now, but I was still using it, with Rethink to block its internet access, but new versions started lagging if they can’t connect. So I had to revert to the version that came with my phone, it’s small and at least works even if it’s cut off from the internet. Fuck you Google for enshittifying a core part of the OS.
