Android predictive text awful?

D1craig · 13 Dec 2015 at 17:12

Anyone else have problems with the predictive text on Samsung galaxy s6? I find it add like 10 letter words when I type a single letter ie. "a" got changed to "appetite" just recently. I also appetite died appetite died ( won't edit this out as it's an example of what I mean. Suppose to say "added a" ) few shortcuts that only work like 1/5 times ie. Tmoz - Tomorrow.

One of the 2 things I don't like after changing from iPhone. The other being the weather app.

UnworthyBean · 13 Dec 2015 at 17:15

The advantage is you can just install a better keyboard, plenty available. Two favourites I think are Google keyboard and Swiftkey.

Again, better weather apps are available but not too familiar with those.

D1craig said:
I also appetite died appetite died

I completely agree

Orcvader · 13 Dec 2015 at 17:20

As above, just change the keyboard. The stock Samsung keyboard is not really that good anyway. Swiftkey I found the best for predictive text.

You can change the weather app too, there's plenty on the Play store. BBC Weather is a nice one, I'm currently using Eye in Sky for the customisable widget however.

Mattus · 13 Dec 2015 at 17:23

The stock Samsung keyboard is also one of the ugliest pieces of software I've seen this side of the year 2000. Just ditch it and get the Google keyboard..

D1craig · 13 Dec 2015 at 17:30

The problem I have seen with the other weather apps is they dont have as good a widget. The stock one shows on lock screen and everything.

Tbh the only problem i have with it is it doesnt stay on the app when you want more info - the wind strength and direction was great for riding my bike to work in iphone. press the day on Samsung and it loads up chrome.

Mr_Cool · 13 Dec 2015 at 17:30

Get the blackberry keyboard really nice

D1craig · 13 Dec 2015 at 17:32

This by no means is to be taken as me prefering iphone. I am made upni got away from it lol.

D1craig · 13 Dec 2015 at 17:34

Also read up that s6 uses Swiftkey anyway just looks different for Samsung.

Cosimo · 13 Dec 2015 at 17:34

SwiftKey is good. Try WeatherPro and RainToday for weather apps.

koooowweeee · 13 Dec 2015 at 17:37

D1craig said:
This by no means is to be taken as me prefering iphone. I am made upni got away from it lol.

upni? is that a apple term?

Jabbs · 13 Dec 2015 at 17:50

I have to agree with the op, am an Android man through and through and wanted to try a 6s. I can type so fast on it and it spells what I want fine. Never had this yet on any Android phone I have tried, I have tried a fair few of them as well and lots and lots of different keyboards.

Orcvader · 13 Dec 2015 at 17:56

D1craig said:
Also read up that s6 uses Swiftkey anyway just looks different for Samsung.

Go to Settings -> Language & input and check the keyboard settings. Might be worth giving Swiftkey a go anyway, a quick search shows both perform differently from each other.

lmfy2k · 13 Dec 2015 at 18:48

SwiftKey user here, cant use a phone without it

D1craig · 13 Dec 2015 at 19:59

koooowweeee said:
upni? is that a apple term?

"up i" its suppose to say. something the apple predictive text would have corrected as soon as space was hit. happens to me all the time on my phones thats why i have predictive text and auto correct on but since moving to samsung it has only worked just over half the time.

D1craig · 13 Dec 2015 at 20:00

as of now i am using google keyboard for a week or so to see if i notice the difference.

kona786 · 13 Dec 2015 at 20:22

D1craig said:
as of now i am using google keyboard for a week or so to see if i notice the difference.

I find the Google KB pretty terrible. I much prefer SwiftKey.

Zefan · 13 Dec 2015 at 20:27

SwiftKey is good. I have noticed something with chrome though, that sometimes it bugs and autocompletes words regardless of whether I tell it to or not. Chrome needs completely closing or phone restarting for it to return to normal.

Kainz · 13 Dec 2015 at 20:42

lmfy2k said:
SwiftKey user here, cant use a phone without it

I recently tried to go without SwiftKey...I was dying for those new emoji's that came with the 6.01 6P update so I used the google keyboard for a week. It is good but not a patch on SwiftKey and it's double word prediction. No keyboard comes close prediction wise tbh.

Mekrel · 14 Dec 2015 at 00:45

I find I can type much faster with Fleksy keyboard vs SwiftKey, but maybe that's down to how I'm using the two. I find SwiftKey prediction is good, but it seems to take me longer to register if the suggested word is the right one and to either tap it (or tap space to accept predicted word, if enabled in settings) vs just fully on typing with Fleksy.

Am I making any sense? It's like it's more distracting to keep an eye on the prediction bar vs bashing out the words to the sentence I know I want to type. Fleksy seems really forgiving when it comes to typos, it's like you can be one key out on every letter in a word and it knows what you're trying to type.

Rich_L · 14 Dec 2015 at 02:51

Also don't most predictive keyboards, even the inbuilt OS ones, learn as you go? So it stands to reason that if you change to a new OS/keyboard the predictive accuracy will take a little while to get back up to speed.