Today I finally got motivated to hunt down and disable the last of the Enhanced Butt-Dialing-Like Catastrophes That Can Only Happen On a Smartphone functions on my Android: “Smart Replies” in the Messages app.
A slip of the finger caused the phone to respond to a long, nuanced text from a friend sharing both good and bad news with the word “Wow” (message composed and sent immediately, with no option to review.)
I long ago disabled unilateral autocorrect / autocomplete, limiting the keyboard to redlining spelling errors and offering a menu of suggested corrections, but I should have realised that this other booby trap was just as dangerous.
Greg Egan
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2025-01-26 03:42:32 UTC
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