Hi, I have a huge problem after the latest Android update. The new predictive text/spelling suggestions have turned my smartphone basically, um, stupid.
Pre-update, I had the phone well trained to the way I write. There were some things that didn't seem to delete when I repeatedly told the phone to delete them, but I had a lot of abbreviations and purposeful misspellings (plus timely proper names) I often use in various specialized groups and with certain people (not to mention four letter words I sometimes use). Those are now gone. And no matter how hard I work at retraining it, the phone doesn't learn. (On the subject of four letter words it's gone from drunken sailor level to prim and proper schoolmarm. Every time.) Once in a great while it will suggest a word I've used repeatedly within a particular conversation, but most of the time it offers stupidly nonsensical matches. Which can sometimes be hilarious, but very annoying. It slows down my posting and texting to have to Spell. Out. Every. Word. Isn't that the point of spelling suggestions and predictive text, to help one write instead of needing to fight with it every time?
Sadly, it's even forgotten my cat's name, and she's a constant topic of conversation. Now, not only do I have to spell out her name, it no longer understands it should automatically capitalize it. One or two lowercase letters were previously all I needed for her name to appear - properly capitalized - as a suggestion.
Why did this update change everything? And more importantly, are my previous predictive text words/spellings still stored on my phone? If so, is there a way to restore them? If not, how do I (can't believe I'm asking this) make the phone understand it's being trained and properly respond by being attuned to the way I write instead of remaining so uselessly, horrifically stupid?
I've searched in vain for any conversation about this particular issue, but the only matches I found thus far involved foreign dictionaries. I have no other languages installed on my phone.
Thanks in advance!
Pre-update, I had the phone well trained to the way I write. There were some things that didn't seem to delete when I repeatedly told the phone to delete them, but I had a lot of abbreviations and purposeful misspellings (plus timely proper names) I often use in various specialized groups and with certain people (not to mention four letter words I sometimes use). Those are now gone. And no matter how hard I work at retraining it, the phone doesn't learn. (On the subject of four letter words it's gone from drunken sailor level to prim and proper schoolmarm. Every time.) Once in a great while it will suggest a word I've used repeatedly within a particular conversation, but most of the time it offers stupidly nonsensical matches. Which can sometimes be hilarious, but very annoying. It slows down my posting and texting to have to Spell. Out. Every. Word. Isn't that the point of spelling suggestions and predictive text, to help one write instead of needing to fight with it every time?
Sadly, it's even forgotten my cat's name, and she's a constant topic of conversation. Now, not only do I have to spell out her name, it no longer understands it should automatically capitalize it. One or two lowercase letters were previously all I needed for her name to appear - properly capitalized - as a suggestion.
Why did this update change everything? And more importantly, are my previous predictive text words/spellings still stored on my phone? If so, is there a way to restore them? If not, how do I (can't believe I'm asking this) make the phone understand it's being trained and properly respond by being attuned to the way I write instead of remaining so uselessly, horrifically stupid?
I've searched in vain for any conversation about this particular issue, but the only matches I found thus far involved foreign dictionaries. I have no other languages installed on my phone.
Thanks in advance!
