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.

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.

When writing on the phone, most people seldom use literary language as you are likely to encounter in the good ol’ dictionary. It is partly for this reason that text autocorrecting can cause a lot of headache since it often makes corrections where we don’t need them.

This problem is common, and often the case you are likely to find your text input option set to autocorrect whenever you purchase a new phone. However, not many know how to turn off autocorrect, and for anyone who owns an HTC Sensation, we will detail what it takes to disable this option that can sometimes be annoying.

If you own an HTC Sensation device, you will find autocorrect hidden inside the Input settings. You can change this setting by following the below steps:

• Go to Menu and open the Settings
• Scroll down and find Language and keyboard.
• Tapping on Language and keyboard will give you the list of available keyboards listed as Keyboard types. These are three and include Standard (Qwerty), Phone and Compact (Qwerty). Standard is the default keyboard.

Autocorrect text, also known as multi-tap mode on the Sensation, is available in the first two keyboards and once you get here, continue the above steps as follows:

• On the selected keyboard, tap the XT9 ABC key until the ‘ABC’ is highlighted in green.

There you have it!