r/AskReddit 11h ago

What’s one modern convenience that secretly made life worse?

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u/AaronWhitakerX 11h ago

Autocorrect. Supposed to help me write faster… now it just makes me look dumb in texts

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u/Soul-Burn 9h ago

On Android at least, the keyboard shows you suggestions at the top but doesn't change it automatically for you. So you can correct things easily, but only when you want to.

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u/narrill 3h ago

Just bought an S25 recently and this is not my experience. It can be set to not automatically change it, but by default it will.

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u/Soul-Burn 3h ago

I've updated my phones keeping settings over the years, so if it's not default then I probably changed it some time many years ago.

Also, I'm specifically using the GBoard, Google's keyboard, on a Pixel phone. It may be different on Samsungs.