When I swipe “don’t” in Gboard, at least 30% of the time it decides I mean “didn’t”. I just tested it, and the accuracy was shockingly bad. I’d understand if the strokes were very similar, but “didn’t” has a whole extra stroke in it compared to “don’t”. WTF, Google?

  • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
    33·
    5 months ago

    Gboard used to be flawless for swipe typing, but in the last year or so I’ve noticed the autocorrect become far less reliable and actually prone to replacing the word I wanted with something else. They must have made some change within the last couple of years.

    • variants@possumpat.ioEnglish
      5·
      5 months ago

      It’s so bad now, like I saw “what” a lot but it takes like 5 tries each time with words I never use

      Erst erst erst Edgar wyse scary what erst

      Ridiculous

    • gothic_lemons@lemmy.world
      2·
      5 months ago

      I’ve noticed a similar decrease in quality. I have no evidence but I’m guessing they threw gen ai in gboard. Do yourself and the planet a favor, try using a non gen ai keyboard. I’m using futoboard and it’s pretty decent

    • Tower@lemm.ee
      2·
      5 months ago

      I’ve experienced similar. I also feel like at the same time the voice to text accuracy has gone down as well.

  • Psaldorn@lemmy.world
    23·
    5 months ago

    Do it again, but drag the suggestion upwards until a trash icon appears. Maybe one time you used that swipe path and accidentally/deliberately clicked “didn’t” and now it thinks you sometimes want that instead.

    I have to do this all the time, I’m considering nuking it’s memory

    • lolcatnip@reddthat.comOPEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      I don’t see any way to do that with swipe input. The wrong word just appears at the cursor, skipping the suggestion box entirely.

      • Psaldorn@lemmy.world
        3·
        5 months ago

        It adds the word to the input box but should also show a “correction” list on top of the keyboard.

        Maybe it’s different if you use floating or split keyboard mode?

    • Roopappy@lemmy.ml
      English
      2·
      5 months ago

      I uninstalled gboard yesterday. So frustrating how bad it is. a) My fingers definitely didn’t touch those letters. b) you’re not even giving me suggestions of things I actually could have swiped. c) Those aren’t fucking words.

      iOS keyboard isn’t better, but it also isn’t worse.

  • Shdwdrgn@mander.xyzEnglish
    13·
    5 months ago

    Hell I’m still trying to figure out why the spell checker changes “i’ll” to “i’LLC” every time I type it. Auto-correct on phones is just worthless and I spend far more time correcting it than I do trying to correct actual mistakes.

      • Shdwdrgn@mander.xyzEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        Oh, the suggestion from above the keyboard? I had no idea those could be worked with like that… Thanks, I’ll give it a shot!

    • strawberry@kbin.run
      51·
      5 months ago

      the most annoying shit is when I type three letters that are almost a word (thw for example) and it decides “ah yes, let me correct this to THW”

      or maybe correct it to an actual word?

      thank god i can delete stuff from the autocorrect dictionary

      • Shdwdrgn@mander.xyzEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        Is there a way to do that??? I can’t find anything other than adding new words to a personal dictionary, but I do have an older version of android.

        • Berttheduck@lemmy.ml
          2·
          5 months ago

          For me just long press on the word suggestion and a bin appears in the middle of the screen.

          • Shdwdrgn@mander.xyzEnglish
            2·
            5 months ago

            Thanks, I’ll try that too. I had another completely off-the-wall one pop up today. Typed the word “good” followed by a period, and when I looked back it had auto-corrected to “Goodwhich” with the capital G. I don’t know if that’s a name brand somebody is trying to sell me on, or what, but don’t change the shit I actually spelled right!

        • strawberry@kbin.run
          2·
          5 months ago

          yeah same as Bert, i justo hold thre word when it shows up abovemy keyboard and a garbage bin shows up

  • zecg@lemmy.world
    12·
    5 months ago

    I hate fucking gboard. I use it, but I hate it. It ballooned from 13MB to more than a hundred now, but I was still using it, with Rethink to block its internet access, but new versions started lagging if they can’t connect. So I had to revert to the version that came with my phone, it’s small and at least works even if it’s cut off from the internet. Fuck you Google for enshittifying a core part of the OS.

  • viking@infosec.pub
    10·
    5 months ago

    Gboard was never really good at picking up strokes. Honestly, nothing ever managed to come close to the accuracy of Swype & Dragon, which is why I’m still using it even 5 years after being discontinued. You can get the apk easily, but unfortunately it won’t survive much longer when google enforces a new API version on Android.

    Though I’ve heard of modded versions that should still work… Here’s to hoping. That app has been with me for 14 years.

  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
    8·
    5 months ago

    Agh Gboard. Sorry I don’t have a better answer but if anybody knows a privacy-friendly android keyboard that’s got quick GIF access and this swipe-typing, that’d make my day and I’d gladly spend the time re-training my thumbs.

  • p0wer@lemmy.zipEnglish
    7·
    5 months ago

    Gboard sucks. I have been using swift key for years. No matters how much keyboard apps I try I always come back to it.

  • stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca
    6·
    5 months ago

    I can’t even get Gboard to capitalize “i” FFS, you expect it to do something even more complicated!? The state of keyboards are so bad today. I remember when you could vaguely type or swipe in Swype or Swiftkey and it would get your word correct most of the time, now they all fucking suck, Swiftkey just happens to suck slightly less than GBoard.

    • Creat@discuss.tchncs.de
      4·
      5 months ago

      For it to do that, “Auto-Correct” in the Gboard settings has to be on. You can also kind of accidentally kill a feature like this by having a single lowercase i added to the dictionary. If you have, just remove it like someone showed above. Note: there is no list of words in the options anywhere where you can see the list, you can do it while typing anywhere though. Just type a single I, press space, then backspace, then drag the single “i” entry from the suggestions to the trash that appears when you hold the i.

      side note: I have typed this comment using Gboard glide, and I had to correct a total of 2 words. Everything else was recognized as intended.

  • strawberry@kbin.run
    4·
    5 months ago

    dont didn’t dont didn’t

    dunno, works fine on heliboard, which is odd, because the glide typing library is extracted from gboard

  • Chozo@fedia.io
    3·
    5 months ago

    I tried it on mine, but couldn’t get it to happen. It’s possible that Gboard might be trying to make a grammatical correction. Not to imply that you don’t know how to write, but something that needs to be asked from a troubleshooting perspective: Are you sure you’re using the correct word for the sentence?

    Also, and this might be an annoying step to take but, does it continue after clearing the Gboard app settings completely? I think Gboard will also make “habitual” corrections based on your usage, so it could also be possible that it thinks you frequently delete “don’t” and replace it with “didn’t”, and is trying to preemptively correct it.

    • mke_geek@lemm.ee
      1·
      5 months ago

      It happens to me as well. If I go slower it recognizes words more accurately.