How to turn off SwiftKey keyboard's overzealous text prediction and corrections

How to turn off SwiftKey keyboard's overzealous text prediction and corrections

Have you ever felt like you want to throw your phone against the wall when SwiftKey always corrects your words into something else you never meant to type? Granted, autocorrect mistakes are one of the great sources of entertainment these days, and SwiftKey prides itself in its prediction algorithms, but this habit of the keyboard is mighty annoying nonetheless.

There is no doubt that SwiftKey deserves its place as one of the most popular and most downloaded Editor's Pick apps in the Play Store. Millions of users swear in its text prediction prowess, which adapts to your style with time, and there's barely a word you key in that would surprise the SwiftKey's algorithms. Until that moment, however, typing "zerg rush" turns into "zero rush" by default, as you can see in the slideshow below, and a bunch of slang transforms into something completely out of whack, so you have to recheck and retype each message before hitting send. 

SwiftKey recently went free, so many people will be getting annoyed by this for the first time. Bear in mind that, since SwiftKey is built around intelligent text prediction, this is not a foolproof method to stop the keyboard from displaying words you never meant to type, but it helps considerably in easing the road rage you get with the default settings. Here's how to turn SwiftKey's text prediction and corrections off until the keyboard has learned its lessons.

How to turn off SwiftKey keyboard's overzealous text prediction and corrections:

1.

Long-press the symbols key at the lower left corner of the keyboard (the one with the SwiftKey sign on it), until a menu popup appears, and tap on the "Settings" cogwheel there.

2.

Tap on the "Advanced" options section towards the bottom of the list.

3.

Tap on the "Spacebar completion mode options" - the first at the top.

4.

It is set to "complete the current word" by default, which is the source for most of your SwiftKey annoyances, as each time you want to move to another word, the one you typed changes to something unpredictable, if it's not logged in the keyboard's dictionary yet.

5.

Tap on the first option - "always insert a space" - instead.

6.

That's all folks, we did away with "zero rush" appearing each time we wanted to type "zerg rush".

7.

Here you go - SwiftKey won't be correcting your "zerg rush" spelling each time to "zero rush" after you hit the space key - have these guys never played StarCraft?