Automatic correction has made writing on smartphones and tablets much easier than normal, helping us not to make spelling mistakes in messages and emails. The problem is that, often, the automatic correction fails and makes mistakes by changing the words into others, making us sometimes send incomprehensible messages that make us laugh or have a meaning opposite to what we wanted to say.
You can do a google search to find some of the funniest cases of wrong auto fix.
Just to try to avoid the frustrations of the wrong automatic correction, let's see what can be done to use it advantageously or disable it when necessary.
The guide is based on the Google keyboard for Android, but it is applicable, option plus option minus, also on other Android keyboards such as Swifkey .
The easiest and most effective way to avoid making mistakes when writing to your mobile phone is to disable automatic correction .
You give up on its comfort, but at least you don't risk sending messages written in a hurry with different words than we wanted.
The method is more or less the same on all keyboards and on all Android smartphones, going to Settings -> Language and input> Google keyboard -> Text correction .
A long list of options will follow, all useful for modifying the behavior of the automatic correction.
You can then block the offensive words, receive suggestions on corrections and personalized suggestions based on the use of the Google apps, suggestions of the names of the contacts in the address book and suggestions for the next word to be written.
In addition, there is an option to disable automatic correction that acts when writing after writing a space or point.
To improve the prediction of the words and the quality of the corrections, especially if you often write words in dialect or cut, you have to use dictionaries .
Meanwhile, always in the text correction options of the Google keyboard in Language and input, you can install, in addition to the Italian dictionary, also the English one.
Also, if the phone continues to suggest misspelled words, it is possible that they were accidentally saved in the personal dictionary .
Personal dictionary options are in settings -> Language and input and apply to all installed keyboard apps.
There is a personal dictionary for each installed writing language as well as a global dictionary.
Tap on Italian to view the saved words, delete them, edit them or even add others to your personal dictionary.
This menu allows you to add words to the dictionary, such as an unusual nickname, the name of an unfamiliar city or our email address.
It is also possible to assign a quick shortcut to each word so that, for example, writing "abc" automatically writes the email address or writing "123" the telephone number is written in the automatic correction.
If you are using a default keyboard, perhaps the one pre-installed by Asus, Samsung or HTC or another that does not have a good optimization of the automatic correction and you are not satisfied even with the Google keyboard, remember that you can install an app different and change keyboard for free on every Android phone .
