Predictive text messaging changes the way children's brains work and makes them more likely to make mistakes generally, a study has found. Scientists say the system, which involves pressing one key ...

Typing is one of the most common things we do on our mobile phones. A recent survey suggests that millenials spend 48 minutes each day texting, while boomers spend 30 minutes. Since the advent of ...

A closeup picture of a phone keyboard. The acronym T9 stands for Text on 9 keys. T9 "predictive texting" is a tool used primarily on non-smartphones (those with just a nine-key keyboard similar to a ...

It's a modern marvel of the mobile phone industry. Predictive text has, no doubt, made it quicker and easier to communicate with those around us. However, the very tool designed to help bring us ...

A growing number of iPhone users are finding that a simple adjustment can make typing feel much faster and smoother. The feature at the centre of this viral trend is predictive text, the familiar row ...

A writer has sparked hilarity by suggesting a bizarre predictive text game to help people invent goals for 2019. Alex Zalben asked his Twitter followers to predict the year ahead by typing “In 2019 I ...

Start typing a reply in Google’s Gmail and it might feel like it is reading your mind. Tap out the letters “tha” and up pops the rest of a sentence in greyed out letters. Press tab and your sentence ...