It’s also aggravating if you commonly type across two languages. I sometimes forget to change to thé fr_CA keyboard and type a French word with thé en_CA keyboard and vice versa. But now that word is permanently locked in its respective dictionary forever. This is thé reason typing THE takes about 3 tries now. (As you can see…)
The only option is to nuke all thé auto correct dictionaries in settings. Eye-twitchingly aggravating.
As a non native speaker, my phone has both the Italian and English dictionary, when I write its it always auto corrects to it's as soon as I hit space and sometimes it gets unnoticed.
This. However if I do not hit space in between words every time, an autocorrect function replaces at random times the word I’m typing/sliding now plus the word I typed before by some utter nonsense combination. I hate this so much, but I have not found a way to turn it off. Autocorrect is off.
Not just you :) It's even worse if you use more than one language.
I regularly use both Romanian and English, sometimes in the same sentence and definitely in the same chat app to different recipients.
On old versions of iOS the checker eventually caved in and accepted my language mix no matter what language I had set the keyboard to.
These days it's really insane. Yesterday it managed to capitalize 3 words in the middle of an all Romanian sentence with the keyboard set to RO. No idea why, neither RO nor EN capitalize anything in the middle of a sentence and I don't have a German keyboard acivated.
The suggestions seem mostly useless as well. Even when it gets the language right.
The worst thing for me is that I frequently miss the space character and type a period instead, and Gboard can't understand that it's a mistake AND won't autocorrect and suggest words for what I'm typing after that period.
It’s worse that it strips what it thinks are accents. Once I needed to search for ñ and it highlighted every n in the page (ñ and n are completely different letters).
OMG yes, the latest updates to the keyboard are a nightmare. I went so far as to turn off autocorrect as I’d rather have my spelling wrong but the meaning the same. It straight up makes up entirely new phrases I didn’t type.
First thing I do is disabling autocorrect. It introduces more errors than it fixes. Also it's changing a correct word in language A to another correct word in language B. But I need the language A word.
Small tip: looking at the spelling errrors, I bet you're on mobile, and using the standard Google or iOS keyboard set to French. I constantly have to switch between English and my native language as well. But I found out that with Swiftkey (by Microsoft), you don't need to manually switch between two languages; you just configure two language at once and the software does autocorrect for both.
With both French and English enabled, it sometimes randomly "corrects" the English word "the" to the French word "thé" (meaning "tea" in English), despite every other word so far being English and despite the fact it would make no grammatical sense.
Most infuriating of all though is when it lets you think you've got through the gauntlet of perfectly valid words being replaced with nonsensical ones, only for it to swap out the last _two words_ you've typed!
I find that even when I set my country to UK and my language settings say 'British English', I'm still getting various autocorrections to US English to the point where I'm maintaining a list of dictionary overrides for words that us Brits spell differently (or have a distinction for), and there are plenty of words that it claims don't exist when a cursory dictionary search elsewhere proves otherwise.
It's mostly manageable on a laptop because it's easy to go back and edit text and make your computer behave. On a phone it's ducking^Wducking^Wfucking infuriating because you can automatically get the same correction a good two or three times before you can get the word you want, and you are very actively fighting a tool that is trying too hard to help, to the point it will deliberately misinterpret your keypress if it thinks it has a better idea of what you wanted to type.
I use the same, it's mostly okay except when I mistype an English word that happens to be a word in French and the keyboard decides to correct the next few words to French.
Also amusing is that autocorrect, even while in English mode, suggests the bear emoji when I type "ours" or the cat when I type "chat".
Just uncheck Autocorrect. Makes it so much more useful (for Scandinavian languages and multi-language modes), even though it requires a bit more mental presence when typing.
I feel like autocorrect has made me less accurate because it often picks the wrong word and I have to go back and fix it. I can't get used to swipe-to-type.
I do have long press on space bar to switch between EN/FR dictionary. I wonder if that makes things worse.
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