Let’s admit it, the Asus Zenfone 2 isn’t much of a looker. This massive smartphone courtesy of a team effort by Asus and Intel will appeal to consumers with a mid-range budget though. It has a great screen, remarkable battery life that can extend up to three days in power-saving mode and powered by impressive processors that can accomplish just about anything you’d need of your mobile.
Looking at other mid-range phones in the market that are the main competition – the OnePlus brothers, the Sony M4 Aqua and Alcatel Idol 3 – the Zenfone 2 falls short when it comes to looks, although it holds its own with respect to the impressive specs it boasts.
The phablet runs on Android Lollipop but the company has grafted its ZenUI skin atop it. This makes it a bit of a challenge for some users to know how to disable autocorrect issues on the Zenfone 2.
Disable Autocorect on your Zenfone by following these steps:
Launch Settings and go to Language & input.
Tap on the gear icon of the ‘ASUS Keyboard’ to access its keyboard settings.
Xiaomi seems to be playing the same game as OnePlus: launching phones with high-end specs yet managing to keep the cost at a minimum. And to great effect. Perhaps because they are catering to a market that has remained largely overlooked as top specs have always meant shelling out more.
One such Xiaomi phone is the Xiaomi Mi 4 announced in September and will be fetching at $205 at its most basic. This one runs on the company’s MIUI V5 custom ROM which can be used on a slew of other Android devices, not just those from Xiaomi.
For anyone looking to get a Mi 4 or anyone else with a phone running the MIUI V5 (pronounced Me-You-I), knowing how to disable predictive text will come in handy. Here is how you should go about it:
Find and open the Settings
Open General settings then navigate to Language & input.
Tap on the arrow-like button () next to the keyboard you are using.
If you are using Google keyboard, select Show correction suggestions then proceed to tap Always hide.
If you’re using Chinese Pinyin keyboard, go to Input and uncheck Auto completion.
The shortcoming for anyone using the SwiftKey keyboard is that there is no option to disable predictive text (unless that changes in upcoming versions).
The iPhone autocorrect function is one of the standout features in the iPhone keyboard. Unfortunately, it seems to create more problems for some users than it solves. This is why knowing how to turn off iPhone autocorrect should be on your fingertips so that when it becomes a headache for you, you know where to go in an instant.
Ever since the launch of iOS 8, a new feature called QuickType was introduced. This is predictive typing which is context-sensitive to not just the message you’re writing but also the intended recipient. For example, it can differentiate between words you could use with your significant other and those that would be politically correct when addressing your mum. And it is this function that confuses some iPhone 6 Plus users even more.
Turn off Autocorrect and Predictive Word in iPhone 6 Plus
Go to Settings.
Tap the General button.
Scroll down and find the Keyboard option.
iPhone autocorrect and predictive word are located in the same pane but they are two different entities: Auto-Correction (some upgrades of iOS 8 may list it as Check Spelling) and Predictive. If either of them is turned to green, then know it is active. To turn off, just drag the slider to off (the toggle button should now have no green shading around it).
The first tablet to feature Android 4.1 Jellybean, the Nexus 7 tablet is a tag-team effort by Google and Taiwan heavyweight, Asus. (Yes, it’s upgradeable to Marshmallow too). This tablet was, for a long time, the business when it came to tablets. The build was great (although looking at the silver plastic around the bezel now makes it feel a little medieval), the price was friendly, and Google served us speedy software updates directly.
The Autocorrect functionality can be a pain
Ask many today and you will hear them admit that this, this was the ultimate Android experience the world had so longed for. It was a blessing, the Nexus 7. The good news is that it got a makeover with the release of the Nexus 7 (2013) which allows it to hold its own to date. It’s a tablet you can never go wrong with.
But I’m not here to wax lyrical about some of the greatest tablets ever made, but rather, on one functionality that many find obstructive: autocorrect.
How to turn off autocorrect on the Nexus 7
Go to Settings.
Select Language & input.
One of the options that come up is Personal option. Under it, find and select the Quick Settings.
Under Text Correction, find and tap on Auto-Correction.
Choose the Off option and that is how to turn off autocorrect on your device.
Starting September 30, 2015, Mac users are being treated to a free update of the latest OS X operating system, the El Capitan. It’s an experience every Mac owner should afford a try, because it spruces up a couple of existing tools without veering far from the fundamental OS X experience.
One of the enhancements that have been made on the El Capitan has to do with the autocorrect feature. If this isn’t your thing, rest assured you are headed for the rocks particularly if you don’t know how to turn it off. This is because it has become more aggressive regardless of the language you have opted for.
Autocorrect works within Apple applications like Notes, email or Safari, and can be quite an annoyance. The worst thing (or good to some) about it in this OS version is that the words you add to the dictionary will reflect on your iPhone or iPad in case you are using the same Apple ID. In such a case, you need to turn it off from your computer which isn’t really hard to do.
Here is how you can disable autocorrect on the OS X El Capitan:
Open System Preferences from the system dock.
Click on Keyboard option which you will find in the second row of the listed settings.
Following the above, select the Text tab from the window that ensues.
You will find a box that says ‘Correct spelling automatically’.
For some people like me, the autocorrect on the smartphone serves to be a constant source of headache than a route to efficiency. You are in a hurry to rush somewhere or at the end of a long day, trying to text some important stuff to a colleague, or someone else for that matter. Then autocorrect decides to step in and make its best guess on your intentions, and wham! You get hit by a ‘damn you autocorrect’ moment.
It’s not what you want. No one does.
In such instances, you are far more efficient with autocorrect turned to off. For anyone who owns the magnificent Motorola Moto X, how then do you disable autocorrect? It may be an Android device, but it slightly differs from most. Here’s how…
Ever since the launch of the first Kindle, Amazon has cultivated a religious cult of followers through its line of devices. And the good thing about them is that the company has managed to keep the cost low (compared to the likes of competitors like Apple’s iPad and Microsoft Surface lines) but this is not to belittle this ereader which is still the best in the business.
They come in a range of options from the Kindle Fire HD to the Voyage and Paperwhite to the Fire HDX 8.9, the latest baby in its line.
Regardless of whichever device you own, knowing how to turn off auto correct on your Kindle can be handy, particularly if you are one of those who do not view auto correction a useful feature. The worst thing about it is that auto-correct is enabled by default.
Here then is a how-to guide on how to go about fixing it.
Open your device’s home screen.
At the top right corner find and select Settings.
Choose More.
Look for Kindle keyboard in the options pane that comes up. Select it.
Navigate to Quick fixes and drag the slider to the Off position.
Isn’t it just a pain when you get down to type on your fresh Mac or freshly installed copy of OS X 10.10 and the operating system keeps substituting your keystrokes with words it reckons you are trying to type? Nobody wants to find themselves in this irritating mess with Yosemite deeming itself more artificially intelligent than you are. And if you don’t know how to turn off auto correct in OS X, then you’re in for a rough ride.
Worry not though, we got your back – as ever. This simple guide looks to explain the steps you need to turn this around while using Mac OS X Yosemite, the latest version of Apple’s desktop operating system. As such, be warned that the steps you would need to follow in previous version of OS X may differ from one version to the next.
How to Turn off Auto Correct
To disable auto correct on your Mac running Yosemite, do the following:
Launch Spotlight by clicking on the magnifying glass icon located on your desktop’s upper right-hand corner.
Type ‘keyboard’ and open the first result that comes up (this should redirect you to Yosemite’s Keyboard settings located in the system preferences menu).
You will notice four tabs at the top of the window [Keyboard, Text, Shortcuts, InputSources]. Click on ‘Text’ and uncheck the box titled Correct spelling automatically.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you turn off auto correct on Yosemite.
Say what you want about BlackBerry but the phone changed the phone landscape in more ways than you care to imagine. It so much as spawned the CrackBerry culture, a name given to those who became addicted to this marvelous gadget. To date, BlackBerry still commands an army of diehards and as they would tell you, you never know what you missing until you own one.
As with Android and Apple devices though, the BlackBerry too isn’t exempt from functions such as text auto correct. It can come in handy when correcting misspelt words, but it can attack a user’s vocabulary – and word choice – mercilessly especially if none of that is contained in the built-in dictionary.
Knowing how to turn off predictive text on the BlackBerry has been found to be challenging by some users, but that challenge ends here.
Enter the Menu and navigate to Options (some devices will ask you to select SMS Text or Text Messaging before selecting Options).
Scroll to and choose Disable Auto Text. Some BlackBerries will allow you to Turn off Auto-correct with Spacebar and while you’re at it, you can also Disable Word Substitution.
Select Menu hit (if the device provides the option to) and hit Save.
Alternatively:
Swipe down from top of the screen if you own a device like the Z10.
Look up the best smartphones on the market today and HTC One M8 has got to be up there with the best of them. I mean, if the most recent release dates are none of your concern, then this bad boy is every bit worth to be slid in your pocket. Few phones in the market today can be spoken of in the same breath as the One M8 – it’s a darling of a metallic smartphone of ridiculous power. In fact, only the iPhone 5S rivaled it in its heyday. Little wonder then that many still prefer it to its successor, the One M9.
The HTC One M8
That aside, some users are yet to get acquainted with a host of features, among them, how to turn off predictive text. Although meant to ease the process of typing, auto correct doesn’t always play nice. And it can be really annoying if you don’t know how to turn off predictive text because you type text and the feature turns it to something else we don’t want to use.
To turn off this auto-help on your One M8, here’s what you need to do:
Head over to Settings.
Select Language & keyboard.
Under Language & keyboard, tap HTC Sense Input (Keyboard Options).
You will be taken to the HTC Sense Input settings Find and tap Advanced.
Find Word prediction and uncheck the box.
That should be all.
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