I dont, because I dont feel like getting correxted by a fucjing program. So whay if I make a lotvof typos?
I have the spell check toggled on, but not autocorrect. I hate having my text changed when it is what I actually want, but having the mistakes underlined so I can fix them manually can be useful
On mobile I definitely do because I like to type really fast and sometimes I don’t have the patience to hit every key with 100% accuracy.
I don’t because most of the time, it’s correcting words that are already spelled correctly into a slightly different word that doesn’t fit the context and ends up taking more time to type something than just manually correcting any errors.
Like its to it’s and vice versa. Or fuck to duck.
I feel like it’d erode my abilities over time like others say, but primarily I just find autocorrect worse than useless for efficiency. I keep disabling it every time I try on new devices.
What abilities would it erode? Your ability to spell? But the only difference is whether you take the 10 seconds to google the spelling or let autocorrect do it for you. That’s not a meaningful difference.
It’s a meaningful difference for me personally.
No. Because I don’t want to rewrite everything it got wrong, and when you regularly write in three different languages that happens constantly.
Also, it makes the onscreen keyboard bigger.
No, never! They are more painful than useful.
I used to be so much better at spelling than all these spell checker things.
Recently, they have improved and I am getting old 😉 but I still see them making so many mistakes with new/modern words, and when I use terms from different languages… still no good.
I did, but I just turned it off two seconds ago. I had been fed up for a while with all the “ducking” and other stupid autocorrects that I did not intend. I can type well enough and if not, that’s on me. But autocorrect makes worse errors than I do. I usually proof read my texts anyways, so that should catch 99% of all preventable errors.
Add those words to your dictionary to stop them from autocorrecting. You can also add them as a contact and it will autocorrect towards that word, so I can get my phone to want to correct to “fucking”.
I’ve been doing that for half a year or so. It’s still shit, so I’m giving up on autocorrect.
Of corse
Yes. Disabled, faster.
i disabled auto correct and predictive text. do i make more typos, yes, but it is better than having my sentences change as i type. i got so frustrated with words changing as i typed
This, especially if you switch between languages and forget to change the keyboard.
Duck auto carrot.
Jokes aside, I prefer to have errors be marked with an angry red squiggly line and suggestions. No automation beyond an upper case letter at the beginning of a sentence. Even that is too much on a computer.
I’ve been using swipe to type on my phone, but I do wonder if I spend more time correcting it than I save by using it. If I have a physical keyboard keyboard, hell no. All spelling errors are entirely my own.
Swipe is really bad on iPhone. I remember some frustration at times on Android but on iPhone it’s infuriating. I use it anyway.
Red squigglies, yes.
Auto-correction, fuck no. Not on anything except maybe in visual studio for snippets because it actually matters.
Anywhere else, though, just get better at typing and have fun embracing imperfections and silly typos.
Literally, to err is human.
… To fix errors, divine.
I turned everything off about 2 years ago after getting annoyed by autocorrect making more mistakes than me. I like that the keyboard takes up less space and my typing has improved dramatically since then. I can type whole paragraphs now without making a single typo. I regret nothing.
yes, but I turn off autocomplete and autocapitalization and grammar correction
