Post B1c2hPIfu2jWapOYng by simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
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(DIR) Post #B1bPxPJ9kH5F2QG6iW by clacke@libranet.de
2025-12-25T09:20:13Z
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My Samsung phone is so frustrating. Even when I'm using an alternative keyboard, the OS insists on autoincorrecting my typing. I cannot find a place to turn it off.Apart from the annoyance where I need to watch out for it corrupting my words or inserting or moving around periods, it also means that in e.g. Termux the terminal won't receive characters until they form a full word.All autocorrect is turned off in AnySoftKeyboard. On a Huawei, that works as expected. I've turned off all autocorrect in Samsung Keyboard, in case that would help. It doesn't.Help?#fedihelp#Samsung Galaxy A52s 5G, One UI 6.1
(DIR) Post #B1bXS9wRctHk2KFLLE by rewarp@rewarp.com
2025-12-25T10:16:00.764Z
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@clacke@libranet.de Have you tried the Futo Keyboard? Their jam is absolutely no tracking and sending data back to the mothership while being FOSS. If you want text prediction, you have to download a machine learning model and turn it on.
(DIR) Post #B1bXSTdKPfsT6pSMK0 by regendans@todon.eu
2025-12-25T10:30:06Z
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@clacke I had such a problem. When I installed this simple keyboard app it worked fine. But if I remember correctly that simple app had no emojis support so I switched back. Very annoying not being able to turn the auto-correct off like it should. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/rkr.simplekeyboard.inputmethod/
(DIR) Post #B1c2hHKrW1jHtIMC6C by simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2025-12-25T14:08:20Z
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@clacke Ah! I have a samsung phone and have succeeded in turning autocorrect off, so it is possible. I'll try and see whether I can work out how I did it.
(DIR) Post #B1c2hPIfu2jWapOYng by simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2025-12-25T14:18:56Z
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@clacke In 'Manage Keyboards', 'Samsung Keyboard' disabled, 'Samsung voice input' disabled, 'GBoard' enabled.in 'GBoard' -> 'Preferences', 'Suggestion Strip' disabled.'Samsung keyboard' still has spelling correction enabled, but since I've disabled the keyboard this doesn't matter.
(DIR) Post #B1c2hn2BeznyCdrjQu by TheLancashireman@hostux.social
2025-12-25T15:00:04Z
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@clacke #Samsung Galaxy A54, fully up-to-dateI'm pretty sure I managed to turn off autocorrect not long after I got the phone. I got really annoyed one day because I was typing something in German but it changed some of the words to the nearest English word. Plus, it had a habit of "correcting" the last word of the message when I hit send.I'm using Unexpected Keyboard now (available on from F-Droid).#Samsung Galaxy A54, fully up-to-date
(DIR) Post #B1iopNM4yokLcpc2hE by urlyman@mastodon.social
2025-12-28T23:01:40Z
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@clacke I will be pilfering “autoincorrecting” 🫡 Hope you get it banished @Tattooed_Mummy
(DIR) Post #B1lEpIJKikD16ZrzMm by clacke@libranet.de
2025-12-30T03:02:32Z
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@rewarp I've heard of it but didn't try it. Thanks for the suggestion, we'll see if it's more resistant to intrusions from the OS.
(DIR) Post #B1lFB6GwA1cw8f9AKu by clacke@libranet.de
2025-12-30T03:05:13Z
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@TheLancashireman Yeah, I'm writing a mix of English and Swedish, which is part of my problem.I think that can be solved with multilingual dictionary support somewhere in the settings, but that still wouldn't solve unix commands and other weird things I like to type.
(DIR) Post #B1lyvZsmtiQtESO5Sa by TheLancashireman@hostux.social
2025-12-30T11:19:52Z
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@clacke UnexpectedKeyboard allows you to switch layouts by swiping the spacebar.Punctuation characters are on letter keys using a diagonal swipe. Takes a bit of getting used to, but even I (with my fat fingers) can manage it.