Sometimes I’d type out a correct spelling of a word and it’d correct it to another word that’s totally unrelated to the context of the sentence, like your Quake example.
Infuriating when in a rush.
Infuriating when in a rush.
One thing that could vastly improve the suggestions would be to only insert a proper noun if I've first tapped the shift key. Here again, Android has the infuriating habit of suddenly inserting a person, city or country name into the most prosaic of sentences.
My other major annoyance with this kind of typing on mobile is that; once the fuckwitted algorithm has made a ridiculously wrong choice, when you spot it a word or two later and go back to correct it, all the corrections offered are variations on the wrong word it chose, rather than alternatives for what could have been chosen initially.
And the very nature of typing on mobile means you're looking at the keyboard, not what's appearing on-screen [as people can do, to various degrees, on 'real' keyboards]. So, unless you're looking up at the screen between every single word, to make sure it's correct, a lot of the correcting has to be done belatedly. So the errors tend to pile up.
And usually a misplaced duck is less harmful in a polite/business setting than a misplaced fuck.
“I saw a fuck on the road on the way to work” in work chat is a different type of embarrassment than “what the duck were you thinking you ducking idiot” in a personal text.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-apple-kill-list-what-your-... might be a place to start
Also for a 3 month period it was auto-correcting ’thé’ to ‘teh’ - i had to train it out of it by spending around half an hour just entering and cancelling the auto correct in notepad on both my computer and phone (because they’re linked)
Edit… oh dear, it may have discovered another association I don’t want it to have
I took from all the comments to experiment with turning off auto-complete. So far its going great. You can still manually select words to substitute or complete but the algorithm won’t change any words by itself.
Oh.And this was with my phone set to 'UK English' and Yandex keyboard set to use 'System Language'. If I caught it in time, I could drag the suggested word off the suggestion bar, so it would be removed from future suggestions. But the yanks have mangled the English language so much, it was a Sisyphean task.