Auto complete and autocorrect can be a real nuisance.

@Asylum (47893)

Manchester, England

May 2, 2016 5:59am CST

It is vey rare for me to use my tablet for internet access because I have a laptop. However, the tablet can prove useful on some occasions. Last night I was watching the snooker on television, which was rather slow in some parts, so I spent a little time at Mylot on my tablet as well. This morning I came across several quite blatant and absurd errors in what I had posted. Annoyingly these were caused by the tablet itself, which always wants to auto complete a word for me or correct whatever I have typed. I have seen words change as soon as the curser moves away and have retyped the same word several times on occasions before managing to persuade the tablet to accept what I wrote. Obviously I cannot be the only person to experience this. Do you have the same problem and how do you deal with it?

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@LadyDuck (458091)

• Switzerland

2 May 16

The first thing I did with my tablet is to turn off the auto complete feature, I only had problem using it.

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

2 May 16

It seems to be a mixed blessing, useful at times but a nightmare on other occasions.

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

2 May 16

@LadyDuck The people who set up these systems must think that they can predict exactly what we want to say.

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@LadyDuck (458091)

• Switzerland

2 May 16

@Asylum As it was most a nightmare than a blessing, I have preferred to turn it off.

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ElizabethWallace

@ElizabethWallace (12074)

• United States

2 May 16

Yes, and with humor. My sister and I instant message each evening. We have named the auto-fill and auto-correct feature Otto. We routinely make fun of his errors.

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

3 May 16

@ElizabethWallace The show has an excellent collection of characters, which is the main aspect of it.

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

2 May 16

This reminds me of an episode of NCIS in which they had a completely autonomous vehicle which they named OTTO. In this case OTTO was an acronym but I cannot remember what for.

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@ElizabethWallace (12074)

• United States

3 May 16

@Asylum Gosh I love that show. I will certainly miss Dinozzo. Hope they send him to live with Ziva.

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@Marcyaz (35316)

• United States

2 May 16

Sometimes my iPhone will act like that if I am trying to respond to some discussions.

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

2 May 16

It is bad enough if we notice, but when we miss the fact it becomes far worse.

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

2 May 16

@Marcyaz Which makes it rather embarrassing when it finally comes to light.

@Marcyaz (35316)

• United States

2 May 16

@Asylum I miss a lot at times.

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@crazzydolphin (3636)

• United States

5 May 16

Man I really hate the auto correct!! Mine is turned off because it always tries to have me saying something completely opposite of something that I was trying to say in the beginning! They can get you a good laugh between friends but that is about all it is useful for!

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

5 May 16

I was trying to write Tetricus earlier and it insisted on changing it to terraces.

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

5 May 16

@crazzydolphin I have not checked the options yet, but switching it off is favourite.

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@crazzydolphin (3636)

• United States

5 May 16

@Asylum Have you tried just turning it off by chance? I mean I will admit that it does come in handy when you are writing some important things and not sure how to spell some words but it could really mess you up if you are not paying close attention to what you are doing. When my computer messed up and I was using our Kindle at the time I found to never use my Kindle when I was to tired because the next day I would fine a million and one mistakes

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@Jdaw1985 (3967)

• Harrells, North Carolina

13 May 16

That really gets on my nerves as well. Have you checked to see if you can turn it off. On my phone i have it turned off so that it does not mess me up with things.

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

13 May 16

I considered turning it off, but I rarely use Internet on my mobile, so did not bother.

@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

14 May 16

@Jdaw1985 If it was a common practice of mine then I would certainly turn it off.

@Jdaw1985 (3967)

• Harrells, North Carolina

13 May 16

@Asylum Oh ok i got you yeah if you do not use it that much then no point in turning it off.

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@Lucky15 (37346)

• Philippines

2 May 16

Is that the same thing as the presictive text? I have my phone just on capitalization when i start a new sentence

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

2 May 16

Yes, it does as predictive text, but also corrects words that it does not recognise.

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@Lucky15 (37346)

• Philippines

2 May 16

@Asylum will check my settings

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@rona07 (1641)

• Philippines

2 May 16

@Asylum yep you can always turn it off.. I off mine

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@MGjhaud (23171)

• Philippines

2 May 16

i dont like those activated. it takes time for me rereading and correcting the whole thing..

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@MGjhaud (23171)

• Philippines

2 May 16

very true. ive had misunderstandings via text messages before and it wasnt funny at all.

@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

2 May 16

It is even worse when we do not notice it and leave a meaningless comment.

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@allknowing (130066)

• India

2 May 16

Can you not disable them just as we do in our PCs You must be having settings to go to.

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

2 May 16

According to many of the responses that is an option.

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

2 May 16

@allknowing This is certainly true for me with Android because I am more accustomed to Windows or Linux.

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@allknowing (130066)

• India

2 May 16

@Asylum Most of us do not optimise the features that are there in our gadgets.

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@toniganzon (72285)

• Philippines

2 May 16

No i don't have the same problem. My phone and iPad seems to know what's on my mind and they do type exactly what I have in mind. These gadgets adjust to the users.

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

2 May 16

In many ways it can be handy, but not always. Last night I was writing about Bugibba, which it kept changing to Bugbear.

@toniganzon (72285)

• Philippines

2 May 16

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@rona07 (1641)

• Philippines

2 May 16

@Asylum ahaha it does that when its not familiar with the word... I hate it too sometimes.

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@changjiangzhibin89 (16534)

• China

3 May 16

I have no tablet,so don't know what to make of the errors.Sometime I use smartphone to be online,It goes well except words being too minute to read .

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

3 May 16

So,does your smartphone never produce words that you did not type?

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

4 May 16

@changjiangzhibin89 Maybe the system does not apply to whichever model you have.

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@changjiangzhibin89 (16534)

• China

4 May 16

@Asylum Oh,I haven't come across such a thing .

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@marlina (154166)

• Canada

2 May 16

I hate those "auto complete" things. With a vengeance.

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

2 May 16

That opis something that we have in common.

@amadeo (111948)

• United States

2 May 16

Depend on what type of tablet?My I pad

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

2 May 16

I cannot say whether that is the case or not.

@gudheart (12659)

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3 May 16

I have the same issue on my auto correct spelling on my phone. Sometimes it is great and enables me to text messages faster, other times it ends up be highly embarrassing it auto corrects spell out a completely different word!!

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

3 May 16

This is precisely my experience. When it behaves it can be very useful, but once it starts playing games it is a nightmare.

@euphie (573)

• Ballymena, Northern Ireland

2 May 16

I've done the same with my iPhone - what it thinks I want to say and what I want to say are often quite different!

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

2 May 16

It really irritates me when I retype it and it changes back again.

@thesids (22180)

• Bhubaneswar, India

2 May 16

I feel happy that I do not use that android device for Internet beyond reading and playing games

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

2 May 16

It is rare for me to use it in that respect, which made the issue quite a surprise to me.

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@pgntwo (22408)

• Derry, Northern Ireland

2 May 16

The curser is usually right, but the cursor dumbly selects... Even worse when txt'ing on a phone, embarrassing even!

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

2 May 16

I have seen some ridiculous results in text messages.

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@garymarsh6 (23393)

• United Kingdom

2 May 16

I mainly write on my computer but on occasion write on the tablet and it is very annoying. As for predictive texting my friend insists on using it much to my horror. Some of the messages are just gobbledygook.

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

2 May 16

Yes, I have seen the same. Of course I prefer that to the annoying text speech.

@JudyEv (325759)

• Rockingham, Australia

2 May 16

Sorry but I can't help. My sister is very new to tablets and computers in general and I know this drives her silly.

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

2 May 16

Fortunately I was already silly before using a tablet and therefore cannot have that problem, but it is still annoying.

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