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To: peteypupperdoo; Bob Ireland

How to turn off your auto-correct!

iphone or ipad
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-turn-off-autocorrect

android
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-turn-off-auto-correct-android


1,341 posted on 07/09/2021 9:43:16 AM PDT by 17strings (If you've posted a good meme or cat .gif, chances are I've stolen it!)
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To: 17strings

Thanks, 17. It’s actually a Kindle Fire.. you know, representing book burning?? But I’ll try.

Petey


1,363 posted on 07/09/2021 10:49:55 AM PDT by peteypupperdoo (Petey Pupperdoo (MY VOTE WAS STOLEN!) )
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To: 17strings

thanx a lot for the auto correct correction


1,393 posted on 07/09/2021 12:30:26 PM PDT by thinden ( )
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To: 17strings; peteypupperdoo
***https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-turn-off-auto-correct-android***

Your lead was good; for the Amazon Fire the path in Settings was 'Keyboard and Language' or 'Keyboard' anyway (my short term memory is ragged today) and then 'Current Keyboard Settings'. It appears that all of the autocorrect features are listed with an on/off toggle. Oddly, my autocorrect setting is off - which I must have done when I first got the Fire tablet - and then forgot.

However, there are a number of other features that are convenient such as suggested words which can save a lot of keyboard tapping; obviously it is a trap since a suggested word can be added after I finish typing a sentence, proofread it and move on. Later, when I go back to proofread a section there is the gibberish that I have to try to remember what I originally wrote.

There is auto capitalization and spell checking that I can usually tolerate. There is both 'Show Word Suggestions' and 'Next Word Suggestions' which is a set of unnecessary options and likely a trap. Some of these features are useful but probably open up the AI intrusion that is so maddening.

I will have to experiment and see what I like best. As I say, some of these features are quite useful and can save a lot of keyboard tapping.

Thanks for the lead for instructions. :)

1,544 posted on 07/09/2021 7:50:26 PM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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