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Is the Android 13 screen keyboard a lot worse than Android 7's? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I mean the functionality where it guesses what word you are trying to type, after seeing a few letters, or when you type by sliding your finger over the keyboard instead of pecking individual keys. I have all the custom dictionary and self-training stuff shut off on my old Android 7 phone (didn't want to upload data to Google) and it still worked pretty well. Is it my imagination or is Android 13 a lot worse?

Amusingly, Android 13 seems more willing to use NSFW words. I tried to type "furosemide" (a prescription drug that a family member uses) and the phone sas "fu" and suggested "fucking". Android 7 also had those words but wouldn't use them until it was out of alternatives. I'm not offended but I think that change is funny.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I find that if you type out the whole word, by swiping or individual letters, no matter how inaccurate your presses or swipes are it can guess the correct word with high accuracy. If you instead type out only a little bit of the word its ability to guess is shockingly bad. So it's better to scatter gun the whole word than try and type accurately but only type the word partially, if that makes sense.

What annoys me is that I swear it didn't use to take me trying to type the whole word before it guessed the correct word. So something has changed, yes.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Swiping the whole word works in Android 13 some of the time, but ISTM it was better in Android 7. So I'm posting here basically to ask whether it's just me experiencing that.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

International Society of Travel Medicine ?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

In Such a Tumultuous Manner?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Integrated Stamp Tampering Machine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

It's just you