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>Lots of really weird pain points like predictive text not capitalizing the lone "i" no matter what mode I was in.

My modern Android phone is like this now; it pretty much never capitalizes lone 'i's. In fact, the whole way auto-correct works is completely brain-dead; it's constantly trying to force me to use wrong words and wrong spellings, even when I try to back up and correct it. It's extremely frustrating. And judging by all the errors I see in other peoples' texts, it's not just me.

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I've just about given up on autocorrect on phones. iOS, Android, doesn't matter: every single one I've tried is absolute garbage. Much easier and faster to just type everything manually than to rely on autocorrect shortcuts that seem to go out of their way to ignore everything that should be corrected while "correcting" everything that shouldn't be corrected.

My Note 10 has corrected "you" to "U" - I'd seen the word switch before my eyes. Nevermind that it corrects "i" to "U" sometimes as well. And I've never written a text ever with that lazy contraction of "you". It's like the stupid is being forced upon us.

I'm of the opposite mindset. I don't want any text correction to apply any form of capitalization because it indicates to the reader that I am on a mobile device. I type all in lower case on desktop and I want to be able to do the same on phones. Sadly my OnePlus disregards the Android setting to do this (which you may have inadvertently set).

Are you posting from mobile or desktop right now?

Same here - Samsung or Google keyboards same, they must have secretly agreed on doing this crap. I disabled correction and by looking at the word suggestions I'm positive I will never reenable it. Any usable Android keyboards out there which do also swiping and don't suck all your data?

I'm debating whether I should give up and disable all auto-correction. It does save me time when I fat-finger words, hitting the letters directly adjacent to the ones I intended, but then it wastes me time when it does what I described before.

Honestly, it's been decades now. How hard can it be to make auto-correct not suck? There's so many utterly stupid things it does which should be fixable with a few lines of code. For one, how about not auto-correcting proper names (which you can tell because they're in the middle of a sentence and start with a capital)? And how about making a lone 'i' capital? And how about not auto-correcting at all if the user has backspaced over the auto-correction and fixed it?

You'd think the eXTra sMarT kEYboArD would have learned in all these years at least how to spell my own name correctly but guess what...

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.menny.android.anysoftkey...

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