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Turn Off Auto Correct in WhatsApp for Android

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Messaging apps these days have developed a technology to make messy typing less of a common occurrence. For those who want to type more quickly without having to double-check your spelling, or for those who need help finding the right words, autocorrect is a feature that can help form sentences and messages for you. WhatsApp is a popular messaging app that has this feature and it automatically corrects any seemingly misspelled words that appear in messages.

However, a major downside to autocorrect is that it is not always accurate. There are times when uncommon words or even slang that you want to use is corrected, even when there is nothing to correct. Though it can sometimes be funny, autocorrect mishaps can become more of a burden than a blessing. In this article, we’ll be teaching you how to disable autocorrect on WhatsApp.

Disable Auto-correct in WhatsApp for Android

One thing people may not know about is that autocorrect is not a feature on WhatsApp itself. Autocorrect is enabled and can be disabled on your Android smartphone through its settings. Once your phone’s autocorrect setting is turned off, this will automatically be disabled on your other apps, including WhatsApp.

Each Android phone is different, so the steps and directions we’ll be talking about in this guide might not be accurate to your phone. For this example, we’ll be fixing the autocorrect issue on a phone with Google’s Gboard keyboard. Here’s how to disable autocorrect on your phone:

➊  Long-press the comma character (,) on the keyboard, then select the gear icon that pops up. This will redirect you to your keyboard settings in your phone’s Settings app. You can also manually go to this page by accessing ‘Settings’ ⇨ ‘Language & input’ and select the keyboard you’re using to open the same page.

➋ In here, simply touch the ‘Text correction’ option.

➌ Turn the toggle off next to ‘Auto-correction’.

Once you’ve turned the feature off, WhatsApp will no longer automatically correct your typing.

Turn Off Autocorrect in WhatsApp on Samsung Devices

Samsung Galaxy devices are quite different because of their user interface. Samsung phones use a user interface known as One UI, which is different from other standard Android phones. To disable autocorrect on Samsung devices, follow these steps.

Open the Settings app. Go to ‘General management’ > ‘Samsung Keyboard Settings’. In the ‘Smart typing’ section, turn the ‘Predictive text’ toggle off.

Once you turn off the predictive text on Samsung Keyboard settings, WhatsApp will no longer automatically correct your spelling errors while typing.

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The rise of smartphones has fundamentally changed the way we communicate. From our obsession with emoji to text talk (TTYL, FML, WTH), it is now easier than ever to contact friends and family. Maybe a little too easy.

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It's a mistake that's become all the more common – switching through different messages, you can confuse one chat bubble for another. Suddenly you've hit send and that hilariously relevant GIF just went to that person you spoke to once three years ago.

The green line is racing across the top of your phone, nearly lost to the mainframe. What do you do?

Thankfully, there are a number of options to protect yourself from the damage done by ducking autocorrect and sending messages by mistake. WIRED looks at the Before, During and After options for rescuing yourself from texting disaster.

Before

How to turn off autocorrect on iPhone and Android

Autocorrect. The root of many texting misunderstandings. Software that's supposed to help you can, in fact, hinder you. The solution? Reclaim your control.

The autocorrect feature lurks in Settings on iOS. In Settings, go to Keyboard and change autocorrect to OFF. This is different from the predictive text feature, which can also be turned off in this same menu. On Android, go to Settings, scroll down to Language & Input, and tap the Google keyboard. Text correction allows you to disable autocorrect with a simple toggle feature.

Switch to a different messaging app

Another option is to abandon your phone's inbuilt messaging service for other apps dedicated to deleting messages before they've been delivered.

Privates, for instance, lets users recall a text or picture message before it's been opened by the recipient. A message can be retrieved simply by tapping the "Recall" button, and the message will promptly be deleted from Privates' server. While this only works if the message hasn't been opened, it allows for a window of time after the delivery of your text to delete it.

During

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Turn on Airplane Mode before a message is sent

The green or blue bar is racing across your screen. Time is of the essence. If you have an iPhone, the Control Centre is your new best friend.

Open the Control Centre by swiping up from the bottom edge of the screen and switch Airplane Mode on (depicted by a plane icon). If you're fast enough, your message will display as undelivered and you can prevent it from sending before re-enabling your data connection by deleting it from the drop-down menu.

This option works better the faster you can pull up the drop screen, and for phones with slightly slower data networks. By cancelling the message before it's sent, not only will it never be delivered but you won't have to try to retrieve it. So whatever your OS, make sure you know this shortcut well. If you're fast enough, Airplane Mode can save your social life.

After

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How to delete WhatsApp messages before they're read

Luckily, we've reached peak social anxiety about autocorrect. Messaging firms such as Whatsapp have heard your cries for a message alteration or delete option.

The Facebook-owned messaging firm is said to be working on a new feature that could let you unsend and edit your messages. Beta tests suggest that, as part of an upcoming update, you will be able to press and hold a sent message within the iOS version of WhatsApp and see two new options. Pressing 'Edit' will let you change the content of the message, while 'Unsend' lets you pull the text from the conversation – magically vanishing from your chat history.

This feature is not widely available yet but is expected to launch soon.

However, the unsend feature will only work during a five-minute window and when the recipient hasn't already seen the text. Once a message has been opened and read, we're afraid you're simply left with old school coping mechanisms: laugh it off or apologise.

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