Help No longer being prompted to add words to dictionary

[Mike_Square]

Hi everyone. As the subject of this posts would suggest, my Galaxy S3 is not prompting me to add unfamiliar words to the dictionary as I type them out in any application. The back story here is that I just received (two days ago) a new phone as a replacement to my first S3, which had a sudden and terrible battery drain issue, which luckily Samsung replaced for free as it was still under warranty.

As I am slowly setting up this new phone, I am noticing that unlike with the original phone, this new one does not prompt me to add unfamiliar words to the internal device dictionary. For example, if on my previous phone I were to type the word "Grundle," the instant I hit the space bar the phone would have given me the option to add the word "grundle" to the dictionary. Now with this new phone, I type out "grundle," and no prompt.

I have tried exploring and varying all the setting I can find, but still no luck. If anyone can offer any help, it would be most appreciated.

Thank you.

 

[SebaKL]

I suppose you are using different keyboard, as this is a keyboard specific feature.

Given it's a new phone, I would strongly recommend getting a SwiftKey. You can try demo prior to purchase. It's a hands down best prediction keyboard out there, comes with swipe feature if you prefer that type of typing, and comes with cloud service. Syncing your custom dictionary across multiple devices, or while migrating to new one, in the future. The prediction is amazing, it learns very fast based on your typing, and sometimes it takes just one letter to predict next word. After months of using it, I barely type words anymore. The moment I start, all the appropriate following word suggestions are very accurate. Making typing super fast.

Give it a try.

 

[nuttynat84]

Hi everyone. As the subject of this posts would suggest, my Galaxy S3 is not prompting me to add unfamiliar words to the dictionary as I type them out in any application. The back story here is that I just received (two days ago) a new phone as a replacement to my first S3, which had a sudden and terrible battery drain issue, which luckily Samsung replaced for free as it was still under warranty.

As I am slowly setting up this new phone, I am noticing that unlike with the original phone, this new one does not prompt me to add unfamiliar words to the internal device dictionary. For example, if on my previous phone I were to type the word "Grundle," the instant I hit the space bar the phone would have given me the option to add the word "grundle" to the dictionary. Now with this new phone, I type out "grundle," and no prompt.

I have tried exploring and varying all the setting I can find, but still no luck. If anyone can offer any help, it would be most appreciated.

Thank you.

My S3 never did this (i9300 purchased in December 2012)...downloaded SwiftKey to it (had it on my old S2) and never looked back...I use the swype feature...love it!

 

[neelie60]

Click on the text tool icon, click on predictive text tick the personalisation data box and from then on all words you type should be remembered in your predictive text dictionary xx