topic Re: Impossible to remove autocorrect from Swiftkey keyboard? in XZ Series

Impossible to remove autocorrect from Swiftkey keyboard?

Sunking1011 — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 12:14:42 GMT

In Whatsapp and messaging my stock keyboard still autocorrects words occasionally and there seems to be typing lag. With alarming regularity the space bar fails to register if I'm typing fast. It has been the same way on both XZs I've used.

Re: Impossible to remove autocorrect from Swiftkey keyboard?

Sailor1 — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 15:11:17 GMT

Yeah same here... It's very irritating... I really loved the Sony stock keyboard... Wonder why they are not using it now

Re: Impossible to remove autocorrect from Swiftkey keyboard?

n13L5 — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 00:18:51 GMT

Agreed. SONY's own keyboard was one of the reasons I liked their UI.

So was the old phone app UI.

The XZ's phone app is awful, I'm still looking through available alternatives...

And the keyboard, I already replaced, cause the default one will turn what you type into whatever it knows and I found no way to disable that.

Re: Impossible to remove autocorrect from Swiftkey keyboard?

Sunking1011 — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 04:15:24 GMT

Does anyone else have typing issues? My keyboard often feels like I'm typing through treacle and the spacebar frequently fails to register unless I'm typing slowly and really bashing the bar. I've tried several different keyboards and they all exhibit the same behaviour. Swiftkey is the worst for it and Flexsy the best, but I can't get used to the ugly keys in Flexsy.

Re: Impossible to remove autocorrect from Swiftkey keyboard?

Rickard — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 09:20:16 GMT

You can disable autocoorrect in SwiftKey from Settings -> Language & input -> SwiftKey Keyboard -> Typing -> Typing & autocorrect.

SwiftKey will however still provide suggestions in a bar above the keyboard as you type. This can't be turned off so if it sometimes writes or corrects what you type, make sure you don't tap any word there by mistake.

I suspect i might not be as fast at typing as you but i haven't been able to replicate any lag or fail to register space bar while typing in our messaging application. Does this happen in all apps you try?

Re: Impossible to remove autocorrect from Swiftkey keyboard?

tomo100brt — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 10:36:09 GMT

Or you can dissable suggestions at all.

Go to Settings --> Language & input --> SwiftKey Keyboard --> Languages and unselect all languages.

Or go to Menu (Apps) --> SwiftKey Keyboard --> Languages and unselect all languages.

No more suggestions.

I don't like SwiftKey Keyboard because I can't dissable Automatic space. On Xperia keyboard we can turn off Automatic space. And word suggestion was better on Xperia keyboard.

Re: Impossible to remove autocorrect from Swiftkey keyboard?

Rickard — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 10:54:13 GMT

@tomo100brt

That's a really good tip. Thanks!

Re: Impossible to remove autocorrect from Swiftkey keyboard?

Sailor1 — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 12:28:18 GMT

Good suggestion but it will stop the swype as well..and we will get no suggestion

@Rickard why Sony decided to remove their own keyboard?

Re: Impossible to remove autocorrect from Swiftkey keyboard?

Sunking1011 — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 12:55:27 GMT

Even with the Google keyboard typing is still slow on the XZ and the spacebar repeatedly fails to register my touch.
I can press the space bar 10 times by itself and it will register every time but if I type words at a reasonable pace the spacebar frequently fails to register my touch. I've cleared the cache, reset and tried loads of different keyboards but this problem remains. I do a load of typing and this is a dealbreaker for me.

Re: Impossible to remove autocorrect from Swiftkey keyboard?

Rickard — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 13:59:53 GMT

@Sailor

I'm afraid i don't know the background for this.

@Sunking101

Sorry to hear that it still doesn't work properly.

Does this happpen in any app you type in? Could you also test if it happens in safe mode?

As this also happens using another keyboard and space works fine when you tap only space fast it sounds like it might be app related.

Re: Impossible to remove autocorrect from Swiftkey keyboard?

Sunking1011 — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 14:32:39 GMT

It does it in every app. Typing is just slow compared to even my girlfriend's Xperia XA and her's doesn't have the annoying spacebar issue.

Re: Impossible to remove autocorrect from Swiftkey keyboard?

Sailor1 — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 17:00:44 GMT

@Rickard

If possible please pass this feedback to Sony to reconsider to use their old keyboard.

Re: Impossible to remove autocorrect from Swiftkey keyboard?

Teja6669 — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 17:45:28 GMT

How to get that xperia stock keyboard in xperia xz......?
Is there any solution.
SwiftKey is really awful to use..... 😅

Re: Impossible to remove autocorrect from Swiftkey keyboard?

mariagi27 — Sun, 30 Oct 2016 17:15:17 GMT

I have Xperia keyboard, not stupid Swiftkey

Re: Impossible to remove autocorrect from Swiftkey keyboard?

azzido — Mon, 31 Oct 2016 07:43:35 GMT

Same for me, how can I get the previous keyboard?
Swiftkey is very bad for me, I want the previous Xperia keyboard

Re: Impossible to remove autocorrect from Swiftkey keyboard?

Sunking1011 — Mon, 31 Oct 2016 23:57:57 GMT

I have finally managed to get the Xperia keyboard onto my XZ and wow, what a breath of fresh air. Swiftkey looks nice but it's awful to type on.

Re: Impossible to remove autocorrect from Swiftkey keyboard?

Sunking1011 — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 00:02:07 GMT

http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/sony-mobile-communications/xperia-keyboard/xperia-keyboard-7-3-a-0-54-release/xperia-keyboard-7-3-0-54-android-apk-download/

Re: Impossible to remove autocorrect from Swiftkey keyboard?

CrisLange — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 11:17:19 GMT

Great! Thank you so much for sharing that info! I installed it too, so amazing to get Xperia keyboard back! :smileysmileythumbsup:

Re: Impossible to remove autocorrect from Swiftkey keyboard?

Phatts — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 20:24:53 GMT

This SwiftKey thing is the worst that ever happen on my phone. Even if I disable all the blah-blah on SwiftKey, I still looks idiot when I found out that my sent msgs were ruined by this SwiftKey.

If I only knew this SwiftKey beforehand, I would have not bought XZ. I miss Z3 with its Sony keyboard..

Re: Impossible to remove autocorrect from Swiftkey keyboard?

SDR1970 — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 20:48:33 GMT

Phatts, look at the link Sunking has provided to install Xperia keyboard