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MY PHONE SAYS WHAT IT WANTS

Shanus — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 16:16:24 GMT

The new phones and IPads are great. I couldn't live w/o them. You'd think if I paid that much money for them, they'd text/type what I choose to say and not second guess me. I spend way too much time going back to delete a word my IPAD decided was BETTER choice. Mistakes in texted messages are usually sent before I catch mistakes & make me look illiterate. Thank God for spellcheck, too. At times I do miss my old typewriter...dating myself? There wasn't anything technical to learn, just where to find the letters. After some practice, I was off and flying w/ no training wheels. When I received my IPAD from my husband, he also purchased the "for dummies" book. After a year with this tiny handful of technology, I still have the book nearby and the APPLE store on speed dial.

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2blonde — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 16:22:40 GMT

Can't you disable that "autofill" feature?

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jaxs mom — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 16:25:32 GMT

You can turn off auto correct.

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Moonchilde — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 16:25:50 GMT

@2blonde wrote:
Can't you disable that "autofill" feature?

Absolutely. Takes a second.

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geezerette — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 16:28:27 GMT

If you go into the "Settings" app, click on "General", then to the right you will see several choices. Scroll down to see "Keyboard". You are now given more choices. Turn off "Auto- Correction". There are several other things there that you may also wish to turn off.

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oceantown — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 16:31:11 GMT

When I am texting on my phone, and my phone does not recognize the word I am typing (such as a name), it lists a few recommended spellings and a check mark. If I click on the check mark, it will keep my spelling. I hope this makes sense.

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Shanus — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 16:33:20 GMT

Auto fill? Mmmm. Wait I see another poster gave instructions how to solve the issue. Thanks, Ladies.

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on the bay — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 16:33:52 GMT

Thank you! Yes its not just me (or you!) So many times I have said -"This phone has a mind of its own!

I'm correcting the phone's interpretation of a few letters I type!

I do like how much faster it is to type but also you can't forward messages like a flip phone (which I had until recently).

And figuring it all out-yes I have called apple, gone to the actual store about 10 times to ask questions, have several website how tos bookmarked.

How can something like this not come with a manual>

And one more thing-whew! So many of the "options" on there, I have no idea what they mean. Then when I search the words, I still don't understand what they mean!

I think some techies designed this phone thinking the more thousands of options, the better as opposed to people (ok former dinosaurs like me! and moms and grandmoms!) just wanted a phone to catch up with some newer technology like facetime, and making a call to someone-what a concept!

The same way websites think the more moving around, the better!-No, that just means we can't read it without getting a headache or trying to quickly click on what we want before the screen moves again.

Oh technology, you have a long way to go to understand the needs of different people.

And the same with tv-the news and other (shopping channels and others!) do not need fast moving music in the background to go along with the fast talking host/newscaster!

Anyone listening out in tech land?!

And Its okay if no one reads this-I feel better!

Thanks too @Shanus!

Oh p.s.-to stop the "interpretations" on the phone, go to settings`general-keyboard and you will see several "auto- " options-you can trun off auto correct and aut-predictive -i'm not sure what Character Pre... means and there is no explanation but I'm going to turn that off and see. You can always turn them back on.

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chrystaltree — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 16:35:31 GMT

You can turn the autofill function off.

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jaxs mom — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 16:37:49 GMT

@2blonde wrote:
Can't you disable that "autofill" feature?

autofill is different than autocorrect though. Autofill, fills in things like people from your contact list, your name and address and websites you've been to recently. Autocorrect changes the spelling of words that it assumes are spelled wrong. IOS learns over time which words you reguarly spell a certain way and stops trying to autocorrect them. For example it will learn that spiralize is a word once I type it enough times.

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Katcat1 — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 16:51:34 GMT

Gosh, I am behind times. I still have a flip up phone - no texting, nothing fancy. I only use it for emergencies, if needed. However, I don't have a need for every new gadget that comes out. I am not knocking it but it's not for me. Happy Holidays!

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Mz iMac — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 17:05:37 GMT

@Katcat1 don't feel bad. I've never owned a cell phone! My landline cordless phones serves me just fine.

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Nonametoday — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 17:10:38 GMT

I so agree with you and albeit I am quite adept at its use, I really have no use for all those expensive features. My children give me "gadgets" that they like so I am supposed to like them. Oh,Dear. One day they will be as old as I am now and realize what is important in life, and it's not gadgets.

I know what I think and I think it is that my chidren travel so much the feel I need all these gadgets so I can get in touch with, or their father can get in touch with, one of them in their travels should either of us die while they are abroad in which case they can text their condolences to the surviving parent and those children who happened to be nearby at the time of his/my demise.

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software — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 17:08:48 GMT

I was forced to go to a smartphone when AT&T would no longer support my analog flip-phone. Otherwise I'd be right there with ya!

@Katcat1 wrote:
Gosh, I am behind times. I still have a flip up phone - no texting, nothing fancy. I only use it for emergencies, if needed. However, I don't have a need for every new gadget that comes out. I am not knocking it but it's not for me. Happy Holidays!

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ChynnaBlue — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 17:09:21 GMT

@geezerette wrote:
If you go into the "Settings" app, click on "General", then to the right you will see several choices. Scroll down to see "Keyboard". You are now given more choices. Turn off "Auto- Correction". There are several other things there that you may also wish to turn off.

You can also turn of the predictive text feature that tries to guess what you're typing and gives you a shortcut button.

Pressing the globe (keyboard change) button on the keyboard has also started turning off auto-correct and predictive text. (This seems to have happened with one of the 10.something updates) and now I do it by mistake several times a week. I was on the phone with Apple customer service several times and they couldn't figure out why it was off when the Settings told me that both were set to On and I figured out the globe button was doing it a week later, after they had me restore my entire phone from a backup and that did not fix the problem.

What turning it off by mistake taught me was that I love autocorrect much more than I thought. Yeah, it can be a pain, but it helps a lot more than it harms.

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dex — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 19:21:05 GMT

@Mz iMac I thought I was the only one left on eart without a cell phone,,gee

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Mz iMac — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 19:33:53 GMT

@dex

Wait till I tell my daughter now there are two of us on planet earth that have no use for cell phones.

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dex — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 19:44:20 GMT

@Mz iMac Please be careful who ya tell cause most people think there is something wrong with us.

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Mz iMac — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 19:48:12 GMT

@dex