Autocorrect can be a great keyboard feature in any smartphone – if you know how to use it. What’s also true is that it can prove a frustrating affair to type in a small keyboard particularly if you are in a hurry or, ahem, you are a proud bearer of sausage fingers. And this is why autocorrect could be your friend because it was built with such issues in mind.
Autocorrect automatically corrects the words you are typing by giving you suggestions of the closest words. However, if you are having issues with this feature, it’s then best to turn it off. But how do you turn off autocorrect on a device like the Samsung Galaxy S6 or Galaxy S6 Edge, many ask?
Well, here’s a quick guide on how to fix the Galaxy S6 autocorrect keyboard issue:
Turn on your Galaxy device.
Navigate to a screen that displays the keyboard (Create Message, Compose email and any other).
On the left of the Space Bar, select and hold the Dictation Key.
Tap the Settings gear option.
Just below Smart Typing, select Predictive Text and disable it.
Voila! That should turn off autocorrect on your device.
It’s 2015 and the evolution of smartphones continues at a blistering pace. And just when we thought there was a phone that could reign supreme for at least a year, wham! Another joins the fray. Well, the latest mantle of best smartphones in 2015 (and therefore to date), has the likes of Samsung Galaxy Edge+, iPhone 6S Plus, and HTC One M9 jostling for places. Another entrant to that list of smartphones bordering on jewelry is the LG G4.
For a while now, the mobile division of South Korean phone maker LG has been lagging and was stirred back to life when they unleashed the LG G3. Things have not been the same since. Especially after they followed it up with this bad boy, a beast of a phone that will make a statement whenever you whip it out. What’s more, it’s the first LG phone that will be getting the Android Marshmallow update.
But even in all its magnificence, the G4 is not exempt from spelling mistakes when you get down to typing, thanks to you know what. It helps matters to know how to turn off autocorrect on a phone as this. Let’s walk you through, shall we?
Disable Autocorrect on your LG G4
Open any application that displays the keyboard.
Tap and hold the button on the left of your Space Bar (it has an icon resembling a mic – the dictation key).
Head over to Keyboard Settings via the button immediate-left of the spacebar
Select Settings by tapping on the gear option.
You’ll encounter a pane labeled Smart Typing. Choose Predictive Text and disable it.
When they first came out, the so-called phablets were viewed as devices targeted at a particular niche. However, as the times wore on, phablets like the Galaxy Note series have increasingly found themselves in the hands of many, not just the busy professional.
Samsung recently launched the Galaxy Note 5, its fifth generation phablet complete with improved features, including the S-Pen stylus. Now, the more advanced the harder some users struggle to find basic settings affecting their everyday use of their Note which can beat the whole purpose of the efficiency it’s supposed to deliver.
One of these settings is the auto correct feature, a setting meant to help you fix typos and spelling errors you’re bound to make. However, at times it can prove to be an issue on the Note 5, whether you find it useful or not. So, what do you do to disable auto correct when it becomes a headache?
Here’s what…
Open any application that allows keyboard typing (messaging or email, for example).
Immediately to the left of the Space Bar you will notice the Dictation key (with a mic icon).
Long-press it and this will yield several options. Tap on the Settings gear option.
Look out for the section that says Smart typing on this pane. Slide the Predictivetext to the OFF position to disable it.
Let’s admit it, the Asus Zenfone 2 isn’t much of a looker. This massive smartphone courtesy of a team effort by Asus and Intel will appeal to consumers with a mid-range budget though. It has a great screen, remarkable battery life that can extend up to three days in power-saving mode and powered by impressive processors that can accomplish just about anything you’d need of your mobile.
Looking at other mid-range phones in the market that are the main competition – the OnePlus brothers, the Sony M4 Aqua and Alcatel Idol 3 – the Zenfone 2 falls short when it comes to looks, although it holds its own with respect to the impressive specs it boasts.
The phablet runs on Android Lollipop but the company has grafted its ZenUI skin atop it. This makes it a bit of a challenge for some users to know how to disable autocorrect issues on the Zenfone 2.
Disable Autocorect on your Zenfone by following these steps:
Launch Settings and go to Language & input.
Tap on the gear icon of the ‘ASUS Keyboard’ to access its keyboard settings.
Xiaomi seems to be playing the same game as OnePlus: launching phones with high-end specs yet managing to keep the cost at a minimum. And to great effect. Perhaps because they are catering to a market that has remained largely overlooked as top specs have always meant shelling out more.
One such Xiaomi phone is the Xiaomi Mi 4 announced in September and will be fetching at $205 at its most basic. This one runs on the company’s MIUI V5 custom ROM which can be used on a slew of other Android devices, not just those from Xiaomi.
For anyone looking to get a Mi 4 or anyone else with a phone running the MIUI V5 (pronounced Me-You-I), knowing how to disable predictive text will come in handy. Here is how you should go about it:
Find and open the Settings
Open General settings then navigate to Language & input.
Tap on the arrow-like button () next to the keyboard you are using.
If you are using Google keyboard, select Show correction suggestions then proceed to tap Always hide.
If you’re using Chinese Pinyin keyboard, go to Input and uncheck Auto completion.
The shortcoming for anyone using the SwiftKey keyboard is that there is no option to disable predictive text (unless that changes in upcoming versions).
The iPhone autocorrect function is one of the standout features in the iPhone keyboard. Unfortunately, it seems to create more problems for some users than it solves. This is why knowing how to turn off iPhone autocorrect should be on your fingertips so that when it becomes a headache for you, you know where to go in an instant.
Ever since the launch of iOS 8, a new feature called QuickType was introduced. This is predictive typing which is context-sensitive to not just the message you’re writing but also the intended recipient. For example, it can differentiate between words you could use with your significant other and those that would be politically correct when addressing your mum. And it is this function that confuses some iPhone 6 Plus users even more.
Turn off Autocorrect and Predictive Word in iPhone 6 Plus
Go to Settings.
Tap the General button.
Scroll down and find the Keyboard option.
iPhone autocorrect and predictive word are located in the same pane but they are two different entities: Auto-Correction (some upgrades of iOS 8 may list it as Check Spelling) and Predictive. If either of them is turned to green, then know it is active. To turn off, just drag the slider to off (the toggle button should now have no green shading around it).
For some people like me, the autocorrect on the smartphone serves to be a constant source of headache than a route to efficiency. You are in a hurry to rush somewhere or at the end of a long day, trying to text some important stuff to a colleague, or someone else for that matter. Then autocorrect decides to step in and make its best guess on your intentions, and wham! You get hit by a ‘damn you autocorrect’ moment.
It’s not what you want. No one does.
In such instances, you are far more efficient with autocorrect turned to off. For anyone who owns the magnificent Motorola Moto X, how then do you disable autocorrect? It may be an Android device, but it slightly differs from most. Here’s how…
Say what you want about BlackBerry but the phone changed the phone landscape in more ways than you care to imagine. It so much as spawned the CrackBerry culture, a name given to those who became addicted to this marvelous gadget. To date, BlackBerry still commands an army of diehards and as they would tell you, you never know what you missing until you own one.
As with Android and Apple devices though, the BlackBerry too isn’t exempt from functions such as text auto correct. It can come in handy when correcting misspelt words, but it can attack a user’s vocabulary – and word choice – mercilessly especially if none of that is contained in the built-in dictionary.
Knowing how to turn off predictive text on the BlackBerry has been found to be challenging by some users, but that challenge ends here.
Enter the Menu and navigate to Options (some devices will ask you to select SMS Text or Text Messaging before selecting Options).
Scroll to and choose Disable Auto Text. Some BlackBerries will allow you to Turn off Auto-correct with Spacebar and while you’re at it, you can also Disable Word Substitution.
Select Menu hit (if the device provides the option to) and hit Save.
Alternatively:
Swipe down from top of the screen if you own a device like the Z10.
Look up the best smartphones on the market today and HTC One M8 has got to be up there with the best of them. I mean, if the most recent release dates are none of your concern, then this bad boy is every bit worth to be slid in your pocket. Few phones in the market today can be spoken of in the same breath as the One M8 – it’s a darling of a metallic smartphone of ridiculous power. In fact, only the iPhone 5S rivaled it in its heyday. Little wonder then that many still prefer it to its successor, the One M9.
The HTC One M8
That aside, some users are yet to get acquainted with a host of features, among them, how to turn off predictive text. Although meant to ease the process of typing, auto correct doesn’t always play nice. And it can be really annoying if you don’t know how to turn off predictive text because you type text and the feature turns it to something else we don’t want to use.
To turn off this auto-help on your One M8, here’s what you need to do:
Head over to Settings.
Select Language & keyboard.
Under Language & keyboard, tap HTC Sense Input (Keyboard Options).
You will be taken to the HTC Sense Input settings Find and tap Advanced.
With the recent launch of the OnePlus 2, Chinese company OnePlus has managed to vanquish the ever-precarious sophomore attempt with this stunning mid-range phone. In case you’ve purchased the OP2 without knowing what you actually bought, just know that for that kind of money, you got the best value for your buck.
The rivals to this gem include the likes of high-end culprits iPhone 6, Samsung Galaxy 6 and HTC One M9, the top smartphones on the market right now. In short, the specs are tempting yet the price remains half that of its competition.
However, daily use is likely to be fraught with the usual challenges you’ll face with any other phone. This includes the turning off auto correct and it is for this reason we are here in the first place.
How to Disable Auto Correct
Follow these steps and you will be able to resolve auto correct issues on your OP2:
Launch Settings in the menu app.
Look for Language & input and open it.
You will find a sub-heading titled Keyboard & input methods which allows you to check the keyboard you’re using. Select the keyboard you are using.
To disable auto correct, turn off Auto-correction.
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