Recent update for Samsung flagships breaks auto-correct feature, introduces battery drain issue

Recently, Google received a lot of bad press about the plethora of bugs plaguing their flagship devices. And now it looks like it is tech giant Samsung’s turn. After some recently uncovered issues, now it has come to light that a recent update has broken auto-correction feature on Samsung’s high-end phones. Not only that, it also appears to have triggered battery drainage issues.

Let’s start off with the auto-correction problem. A lot of Samsung Galaxy users have been chiming – both on Twitter and Samsung Community – that the latest update has goofed up the auto-correct feature. While some report that the feature is not working properly or as intended, for others it has disappeared completely.

https://twitter.com/deemoe069/status/932823212618117121
https://twitter.com/ahh_gigi/status/930195883294994434
https://twitter.com/ThtGuyNate/status/934938582183182341
https://twitter.com/LikeAir_iRise/status/934576698133114880
https://twitter.com/tutugroovy/status/931162462564507648

This morning, a Samsung moderator on the company’s official help forum acknowledged the issue, saying that a recent update may have done this. Here’s the complete statement:

I spoke with an colleague of mine who’s device pushed the same update and their keyboard app erased all of their personal dictionary and autocorrect too. It may be something that happens after an update and as far as I know, there’s no way to recover words you may have added previously

Sadly, there’s no information on if and when the problem will be fixed.

Moving on, another issue which is being widely reported by users of Samsung’s flagship smartphones – mainly Galaxy S6, S7/S7 Edge, and S8/S8+ owners – is related to excessive battery drainage, that they say is also happening after a recent update.

Here are some tweets from those encountering the aforementioned battery drainage problem (more tweets at the bottom of the story):

https://twitter.com/xShadowPro/status/935653122621493248
https://twitter.com/KeMeixner/status/932443466575024129
https://twitter.com/Augustine_hui/status/930613417643315200
https://twitter.com/HaiderMohmand/status/932998290098057216

A Samsung moderator effectively acknowledged the battery problem on a forum thread discussing Galaxy S8 battery drainage issue. Here’s what they said:

I know there have been some recent problems with battery life. Until we can bust out with an update to help I do encourage running Wifi, Bluetooth, account syncing, and/or GPS only when necessary

Lastly, we also came across some recent reports where users are reporting device reboots and crashes.

https://twitter.com/Knitberg/status/933937409032630272
https://twitter.com/joeyk_15/status/933540605099200513
https://twitter.com/KneppColton/status/929500134022541312

Not sure how widespread this reboot/crash problem is, as well as whether or not this behavior was also introduced by the same update that caused the problems we discussed above. Also, there’s no word from Samsung on these reports.

To sum up, the sheer number of complaints does suggest a recent update has indeed broken features and affected battery performance across Samsung flagships. We hope the company will look into the problems, and fix them sooner than later.

For the record, here’s a long list of complains flooding Twitter about battery drainage glitch:

https://twitter.com/mccloskey1456/status/928985178416041984
https://twitter.com/robsonbean/status/928730300435324928
https://twitter.com/jackiewlofton/status/925899003262373888
https://twitter.com/JGM721/status/928737132809736195
https://twitter.com/slumdog5000/status/932499827996446721
https://twitter.com/akashpurohit8/status/935104579871694850
https://twitter.com/bristow_man/status/934031734609534976
https://twitter.com/rtchris7/status/930238654764613633
https://twitter.com/rachel_rebellio/status/932843980269559809
https://twitter.com/rtchris7/status/930238654764613633
https://twitter.com/jpwilson117/status/932396977744211971
https://twitter.com/BigJeezie/status/935501732439662593
https://twitter.com/kitemett/status/929210431641567232

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