Android Tip – Fix your Predictive Text
This has come up in a few conversations so I might as well put it here, although most of the readers of this blog are power-Android users or still on your iPhones.
But, anyway, here goes.
If you’ve tried to write a message using “predictive text” with your Android phone, you’ve probably come across the phone auto-correcting words that you really wanted to write. Most of this in my experience has been short-hand or slang. For example, when I wanted to write “Haha” it would auto-correct to Hathaway (????) and then fill that in. My phone had no concept of LOL or ZOMG, which are essential parts of my 6th grade level vocabulary.
Luckily, instead of suffering through needless revisions for your texts, you can simply “long-press” the word you meant to type and that will save it to your Android dictionary. And viola, next time you type, it will appear as a predicted word! I couldn’t find a YouTube video of this functionality so if someone is really interested, I could make a quick tutorial. And then I can easily type out:
ZOMG, you need to check out http://trololololololololololo.com/. LOL!
Maybe I’ll try this now. Before I found out about this, I shut it off completely because it was annoying. Thanks!