Deleting the entire word suggested by handwriting recognition.

[Android Central Question]

When I use the stylus with handwriting recognition, the inserted word is underlined but no longer deleted in its entirety when I press on the backspace button. Considering how often I have to erase and rewrite words, that's really annoying. Also I'm pretty sure this used to work fine a while ago. It's there a setting I've overlooked which enables this?

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! Which device? What happens if you long-press the unwanted word -- do you see a Remove option?

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[David Rutten]

It's a Samsung galaxy tab s6. The word disappears from the handwriting field but if I long-press the word in the text area I get the usual cut, copy, paste popup. Incidentally words which I enter by tracing them on the on-screen keyboard *do* get deleted all at once when I press backspace. It's just words which were stylus written have to be erased one char at a time.

 

[B. Diddy]

Oh I'm sorry, I misunderstood -- I thought you were trying to have your personal dictionary forget a remembered word.:-\

 

[David Rutten]

Yeah I found plenty of online resources for dealing with dictionaries, but my problem yields zilch. Although I'll happily concede that I don't know what keywords to search for.

 

[mustang7757]

[Moved to Samsung tab s6 forum for specific traffic]

 

[B. Diddy]

What happens if you press and hold backspace for about a half-second? Does it just repeat the backspace multiple times, or does it delete the previous word? (On Gboard, it just backspaces multiple times, but maybe it's different on other keyboard apps.)

 

[David Rutten]

Yeah, it starts repeating the backspace, and a little while later it speeds up so much that it'll delete half my text before I can get my finger off the screen, so I never do that anymore.

 

[B. Diddy]

At this point, I can only suggest long-pressing the word, then hitting Backspace or Cut.