{"id":8689,"date":"2016-12-15T00:01:14","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T08:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=8689"},"modified":"2016-12-10T12:40:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T20:40:00","slug":"stop-correcting-my-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=8689","title":{"rendered":"Stop Correcting My Text!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It can tick me off too: I want to type one word, but the phone changes it to another word. Sometimes this change happens because my spelling isn&#8217;t correct, but yet the replacement isn&#8217;t correct either. Other times, the change happens because the word I type is correct, but the dictionary\/autocorrect feature doesn&#8217;t recognize the term. Then it &#8220;helpfully&#8221; replaces it.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nTo stop the madness on your phone or tablet, disable the Text Correction feature. Indeed, the Android operating system, specifically the Google Keyboard, offers a slate of options you can enable or disable depending on your typing preferences.<\/p>\n<p>Review the keyboard settings by following these steps:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Open the Settings app.<br \/>\n2. Choose Languages and Input.<br \/>\n3. Choose the current keyboard.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On a stock Android device, you choose Virtual Keyboard, then Google Keyboard. On Samsung devices, choose Samsung Keyboard (which is really the Google keyboard, but Samsung has an ego).<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Choose Text Correction.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On my Samsung phone, the options appear directly on the Samsung Keyboard screen. Otherwise, on stock Android, you  behold a slate of options, as shown in Figure 1.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8700\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8700\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/1215-fig1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"576\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/1215-fig1.png 450w, https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/1215-fig1-234x300.png 234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8700\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure 1. Various settings to control keyboard correction conundrums.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The specific setting that deals with correcting text is called Auto Correction, or Auto Replace on a Samsung device. Whatever the name, this settings automatically replaces what you type with what the phone believes to be correct or better. When you disable this option, your text isn&#8217;t corrected, which can be just as bad, but not as frustrating because you own the mistake.<\/p>\n<p>While you&#8217;re messing with the keyboard, take a moment to review the other available settings. Some of them can be helpful, which was the intent. But when a &#8220;helpful&#8221; setting bugs you more than it helps, disable it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think that an Android&#8217;s auto-correct feature is a source for great humor, but some people would rather have it disabled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-8689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","tag-android"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8689"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8704,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8689\/revisions\/8704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}