Help Android steals my paswords! Expert help needed!

[silver9]

I was recently shocked when typing an email on my phone, that the suggested next word was one of my passwords! From this experience, I'm pretty sure android scan text documents to learn my writing style and make the keyboard better. The problem is that I use Note Everything to store my passwords in an encrypted note. I'm guessing that when I decrypt this note, android scans it and stores all the passwords in a some file. This is obviously a huge problem

How can I turn this off and purge this file? Thanks.

 

[El Presidente]

No, it's your keyboard app. What keyboard are you using?

Swiftkey has done similar things with me in the past. It learns what I type, so will remember what often follows my email address and shows that as the next suggested word.

 

[Hadron]

I think that storing passwords in Note Everything is the answer. If you type a password into an identified password box (e.g. on a webpage) the keyboard knows that this is a password and not to store it. If you type it into a memo in Note Everything then it's just a text string that you have typed, and it cannot know that you don't want the keyboard to remember it.

If it's Swiftkey then the way to make it forget is to start typing the word, and when the prediction comes up amongst the suggestions press and hold that, then select the option to forget that word from the pop-up menu. If it's a different keyboard it might be worth trying that anyway, otherwise look in the keyboard's settings for a way to edit its user dictionary.

 

[chanchan05]

Yup. It's the Note Everything bit that is the source of your problems. Keyboard apps usually turn off prediction and detection when it detects a password box.

You'd be better off keeping your passwords in a password app so the keyboard won't detect it.

 

[silver9]

I'm using the default keyboard app for Galaxy S5. Any way to wipe the keyboard memory completely, or would i have to do it one at a time? Thanks.

 

[funkylogik]

I think you can find the keyboard app in settings, applications, ALL and clear data

 

[chanchan05]

Go to Application Manager, then under the 'All' tab/column, look for Samsung Keyboard. Open it and then select clear data. That would delete everything the keyboard saved. However, it would also delete and reset it, so all your settings and other words it remembered would also be gone.

The only alternative to that would be going one by one.

 

[silver9]

Great, I clear it all. Thanks!