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Autocomplete failures

In the last few weeks, I started getting failures when using autocomplete on mobile. Often, the keyboard suggests the right word, but when I click on the suggestion, the word gets replaced by gibberish. In the video, I try to insert the word January, but on the second attempt, a different word results.

 

Happens all the time! Is this a problem with the keyboard or does the editor interfere somehow?

 

 

 

 

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In another scenario, I might notice a misspelled word in earlier text (red underlined), so I place the cursor on it and immediately get the right suggestion. Again, clicking on the suggestion replaces the word with gibberish instead. This is slowing me down! Takes effort to clean it all up. 😞

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Hi Christian,

 

I am not seeing any such issues in Chrome on iOS. Are you using the Google Keyboard or some other keyboard on your device?

Do you see the same type of problem on other websites?

 

Thanks,

Lili

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I really don't post much on other web sites so I would not really know, but this is definitely a new problem here that has driven me crazy over the last few weeks. I have never seen this in the past.

 

It does not happen in e.g. the gmail app.

 

Using chrome and stock android keyboard on Moto g5 plus. Android 7.

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Lili, I don't think we need to do anything yet unless others also see the same problem and post their observations here.

 

Of course this might ring a bell with somebody at lithium...

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In particular, I am using the default google keyboard (gboard). No other keyboard installed, no vendor skin.

 

I went to the app and cleared the cache and all data and tried again. same problem.

 

(note that it worked correctly for the first two tries)

 

 

 

 

 

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I tested in Chrome on a Samsung Galaxy S8 using the standard keyboard -- I did not run into any issues. There is definitely a component of learned behavior with the keyboard. Have you tried clearing the memory for that (if possible on your device)?
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Yes, in the last test above I first cleared all data of the app.

 

The latest gboard update was in mid December (Dec 14), so that could actually coincide with the appearance of the problem.

 

Samsung uses their own skin, so they might use their own (standard) keyboard. See if you have gboard installed. You could get it and temporarily change the input preferences for testing.

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I tested with gboard as well, and I did not run into any problems.
Have you tried reinstalling the gboard app?
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Reinstalling is not an option because it came with the system. All I can do is "uninstall updates", so it will probably auto-update again soon afterwards. .... I'll try over the weekend.

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