George Lea
Newbie
First off, I DON'T want to turn off Predictive Programming. I've tried that. I want to reset the words it already knows that I taught it in case I give it away to someone. Any ideas?
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Resetting Android's Vocabulary
- Thread starter George Lea
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unfortunately you cant change just one part of the predictive text. you will have to erase all of its data and start over. all you need to do is going into your phones settings, find apps, find the keyboard you are using and wipe cache and data for the keyboard.
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Predictive text is a feature of the keyboard app, not the operating system, so your options will depend on which keyboard app you use. Hence checking the keyboard app's settings is the best place to start.
As @ocnbrze says, wiping the keyboard app's data is the quickest way to make it forget everything - as long as you aren't using one which backs your data up to "the cloud", in which case you should make sure you wipe anything there too.
But if you are thinking about giving the phone to someone presumably you would factory reset the whole phone first(*)? In which case that will wipe anything it has learned from you and remove any link to your accounts (and delete the keyboard app itself if it isn't the one that comes with the phone). Therefore there would be not need to specifically clear the keyboard data.
Of course if you just mean lend the phone to someone for a few minutes then we're back to wiping the stored vocab. If there are specific words you don't want it to suggest most keyboards allow you to remove specific predictions (try a long press on the word when it comes up as a prediction). If there aren't too many that may be the best solution, since that usually stops it predicting them again, whereas if you just wipe everything many keyboard apps will immediately start learning from what you type once more.
(*) Remember to remove your Google account from the phone before resetting, otherwise the next owner will need your userid and password before they can use it.
As @ocnbrze says, wiping the keyboard app's data is the quickest way to make it forget everything - as long as you aren't using one which backs your data up to "the cloud", in which case you should make sure you wipe anything there too.
But if you are thinking about giving the phone to someone presumably you would factory reset the whole phone first(*)? In which case that will wipe anything it has learned from you and remove any link to your accounts (and delete the keyboard app itself if it isn't the one that comes with the phone). Therefore there would be not need to specifically clear the keyboard data.
Of course if you just mean lend the phone to someone for a few minutes then we're back to wiping the stored vocab. If there are specific words you don't want it to suggest most keyboards allow you to remove specific predictions (try a long press on the word when it comes up as a prediction). If there aren't too many that may be the best solution, since that usually stops it predicting them again, whereas if you just wipe everything many keyboard apps will immediately start learning from what you type once more.
(*) Remember to remove your Google account from the phone before resetting, otherwise the next owner will need your userid and password before they can use it.