Help Stop Predictive text from suggesting emails.

[Quantum Taoist]

Not sure when this started but I know my phone has not always did this. While texting the predictive texts keeps suggesting people's email addresses, not just from my contacts but also from my company's global directory, I keep seeings email addresses of people i have never emailed or heard of from my company.

How do i prevent predective text from suggesting emails?

(I have a samsung galaxy s6 edge)

 

[girolez]

Have you gone to
settings
language and input
click the cog next to samsung keyboard
select "predictive text" (press the words, not the toggle switch)
try altering the options there

NB I dont have your phone so it may be slightly different

 

[Quantum Taoist]

Thank you for the response, I did try this, unfortunately clicking the text only toggle the on/off .

This is a crazy feature, at first it was suggesting my own email, which was convenient when I am filling out forms, however it just started populating random emails, like if I type 'th' it suggests 'Thomas.soandso@mycompany.net' (example of course)

never emailed the person, didn't even know them, in fact a lot of the suggestions are for employees from our offices in different states.

 

[AZgl1500]

it is using the contacts email lists somehow?

I rarely, ever, store email addresses in my Contacts list... simply to keep that kind of thing from happening.

 

[Quantum Taoist]

it is using the contacts email lists somehow?

I rarely, ever, store email addresses in my Contacts list... simply to keep that kind of thing from happening.

None from my contacts, these are people I have never emailed before, random addresses from my company's global email directory that pop up if what I am typing happens to match some letters in their name.

 

[Brian706]

I'm ASSuming that it is related to your exchange email account for work and that the settings are set to sync contacts. You can check your sync preferences in settings>accounts>exchange.

I'm not sure if disabling the contacts sync will eliminate what's already been synced or not. You may have to get rid of those contacts another way after disabling the syncing. Either by deleting the contacts it created, or possibly deleting the account and adding it again, then setting the sync preferences while setting up the account.

 

[AZgl1500]

When I activated my very first smartphone, I miscued and entered in all of my "other email" accounts when I got quizzed for each of those hosts....

The end result of that cluster f*ck was a horrible mess of merged accounts sync'd back and forth...
It took me days, even weeks to clear up the terrible mess that resulted, because I had to go to each of the other accounts, and unsync them from the outside world, then I had to edit that list of contacts to see if they even belonged in that list....

My cellphone has over 500 contacts in it..... and there are no emails attached to any of those contacts, period.

for me, it was a night mare, I have separate accounts for a reason, I keep my different worlds separate, period. None know the other exist, and that is the way it is going to stay.

Business accounts should never, ever, be merged with the shit that goes on in social media.... not if you want to keep your job. When that all happened to me, I had to immediately leave the house, drive to work, and login to my Workstation there, and straighten that mess up "right now" at 3 AM..... our IT department was death on wheels about "outside" contacts in "their email contacts lists". I made it a point right then and there, to go into Profiles and set every single account I have to NO SYNC with any outside accounts.

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[Dajer]

I had this problem once. I ended up un-installing the keyboard app, then reinstalling it. I was very careful about what options I enabled, especially regarding "predictive text". Problem disappeared.
I never figured out which option caused it.

 

[chanchan05]

Depends on the keyboard app probably. I use swiftkey and it only suggests my own email, not other addresses. Try switching keyboards?

 

[Pembo]

Not sure when this started but I know my phone has not always did this. While texting the predictive texts keeps suggesting people's email addresses, not just from my contacts but also from my company's global directory, I keep seeings email addresses of people i have never emailed or heard of from my company.

How do i prevent predective text from suggesting emails?

(I have a samsung galaxy s6 edge)

To be clear, I have a Galaxy S6 Edge and I know several people with S6 or S7, none of us have connections to corporate servers. We all suffer exactly the same problem. It's intensely annoying! One of my most frequent is getting abdullahk@hotmail.com in place of the very simple 'and'! I have no idea who he is, don't recall ever using the address, have searched my emails to see uf he appears, but doesmt, so suspect he's simply been another recipient in an email to a full distribution list. Sure, n is next to b on the keyboard but surely any worthwhile predictive text algorithm should be able to recognise that typing abd is more likely to be intended as 'and' than abdullahk@hotmail.com?! Like everyone else I don't want to disable predictive text. Surely it's time this was fixed, either by totally disabling use of contact details in predictive text or providing an option to not enable the use of contact details. Its clearly Android truing to be too clever for its own good and clearly came in one of the Android updates as it never used to do it - as others have ever also commented. Come on Google, get this fixed and do so quickly!

 

[Pembo]

Meant in an email to me and multiple other recipients

 

[chanchan05]

@Pembo, Google did not make the keyboard on Samsung phones. Samsung replaced Google Keyboard with their own. Google Keyboard is on Play Store if you want to try downloading it.

Alternatively, Microsoft has two keyboards on the Play Store. Swiftkey is a long trusted keyboard app, been available for the past 5 or 6 years. Microsoft bought the company behind it earlier this year. They also have 'Keyboard for Excel', but it also supposedly works well as the default keyboard (haven't tried it).

 

[Quantum Taoist]

@Pembo, Google did not make the keyboard on Samsung phones. Samsung replaced Google Keyboard with their own. Google Keyboard is on Play Store if you want to try downloading it.

Alternatively, Microsoft has two keyboards on the Play Store. Swiftkey is a long trusted keyboard app, been available for the past 5 or 6 years. Microsoft bought the company behind it earlier this year. They also have 'Keyboard for Excel', but it also supposedly works well as the default keyboard (haven't tried it).

You are a genius, combination of switching to the Google keyboard and denying it access to my contacts did the trick!!!

 

[Dajer]

Related question: I am using Google Keyboard on a Xiaomi Note 2. I want predictive suggestions that I can tap & enter but I do not want autocorrect that continually changes words I don't want changed. Sometimes I fail to notice the change and it can make for sometimes embarrassing text. I can not seem to be able to separate the two. If I enable word suggestions, I also get autocorrect. Any suggestions?

 

[chanchan05]

Related question: I am using Google Keyboard on a Xiaomi Note 2. I want predictive suggestions that I can tap & enter but I do not want autocorrect that continually changes words I don't want changed. Sometimes I fail to notice the change and it can make for sometimes embarrassing text. I can not seem to be able to separate the two. If I enable word suggestions, I also get autocorrect. Any suggestions?

I don't use Google Keyboard so wouldn't know exactly. Swiftkey has a function to turn off auto correct. Turning it off does not disable predictions. I would think it's the same with Google Keyboard.

 

[DanCam]

I finally figured this out, and it is so simple. Go to Settings>Application>Application manager>More>Show system apps>Samsung keyboard>Permissions and remove the switch on contacts. Hope this helps

 

[Froz]

Thank you! after disabling the permissions you can go into keyboard settings and clear your personal data which will remove the contacts already learned.

 

[Pbeagle]

Can someone please give correct settings tree for sg5 neo? I don't get a "show systems apps" option and the only places where i can locate the predictive text there isn't a way to change settings on it.

I hate this phone more than i can explain and this email addresses in my predictive text is god awful. I waste so much time correcting the mess it makes.

I finally figured this out, and it is so simple. Go to Settings>Application>Application manager>More>Show system apps>Samsung keyboard>Permissions and remove the switch on contacts. Hope this helps

 

[JP42]

I finally figured this out, and it is so simple. Go to Settings>Application>Application manager>More>Show system apps>Samsung keyboard>Permissions and remove the switch on contacts. Hope this helps

When I get to App Permissions for Samsung Keyboard, it says no permissions. I can hit More >> All Permissions, but I still can't see anything about turning off or denying access to read contacts. It just lists the permissions and offers an explanation when tapped.
Any further help would be appreciated, as I'd prefer to stick with Samsung keyboard of SwiftKey or others.

 

[Toxic Smoggie]

Very easy to sort out

Step 1) Do a search of the email address in contacts and delete them
Step 2 Go to Gmail in a Internet Broswer using a PC or Laptop
Step 3 In Gmail go to Settings > General, Find Create contacts for auto-complete: and select "I'll add contacts myself"
Step 4 Save

As the option "When I send a message to a new person, add them to Other Contacts so that I can auto-complete to them next time." is selecting, this will keep on putting the email address in the predictive test not matter how many times it cleared or removed, the steps above doesn't add them back when they've been deleted

 

[xandriod]

I have been frustrated with this "feature" for a long time. I finally discovered that you can install the Google keyboard by going to the Play Store and searching for GBoard and installing it. Once you do, you will have an option in the settings that solves this problem perfectly.