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Has anyone else noticed that autocorrect/swipe has been getting worse lately?

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Anti Weeb Penguin@lemmy.world
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People use autocorrect?

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Hot Saucerman@lemmy.ml
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I cant stand that shit and fix my typos the old way.

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Micromot@feddit.de
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I just hate that it automatically changes a word to something it thinks I wanted to type instead of just suggesting a spelling

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LeylaLove@lemmy.fmhy.net
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I use swipe typing, so yes.

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perviouslyiner@lemm.ee
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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.

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Sombyr@lemmy.one
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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.

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Coreidan@lemmy.world
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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.

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applejacks@lemmy.world
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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.

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twistedtxb@lemmy.ca
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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.

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wizenheimer@lemmy.worldOP
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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

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Hikiru@lemmy.world
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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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NewNewAccount@lemmy.world
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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.

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Zebov@lemmy.world
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That’s you assuming they show you what YOU want and not what THEY want you to see.

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zipzoopaboop@lemmy.world
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Something gets good, but the team needs to justify continued pay so they keep developing what doesn’t need development.

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Erk@cdda.social
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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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Ashu@lemmy.zip
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Definitely been noticing that. I thought it was only me…

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bad_alloc@feddit.de
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Along with search and many other things. Probably most of theur devs are optimizing user distraction and ad click rate, instead of… basic functionality 😐

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BarqsHasBite@lemmy.ca
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Glad it’s not just me thinking that.

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