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PrimeReaper955's avatar
7 years ago

Strange Question About Predictive Text

Hello all,

So I have a bizarre question I wanted to ask. While playing the Sims 4, I accidentally uploaded a household onto the gallery. All was fine and I took it down. The issue is more regarding the predictive text on the servers after I uploaded the gallery. I made these characters for fun after some characters that I am actually writing about in a novel, so I put a lot of effort into their names and wanted to keep them private. Unfortunately, two predictive text name options pop up if I put the first few letters of their names when searching the galleries. I'm actually not sure why there is two applicable predictive texts when I uploaded only one gallery. I also made sure there was no other household that was similar which may have been triggering it on the gallery.

So my question is this: will these predictive text options clear after a certain period of time due to the gallery no longer being available, or will these predictive text options be there forever for all people searching the gallery? If so, is there a way to remove them?

I also made sure to clear cache and what not to determine whether or not it was just my own personal cache that was triggering it, but it appears to be stuck on the server cache of the gallery.

Sorry, I know this is a really strange question, but it's been nagging at me and sending my OCD into a frenzy.

Thanks for the help. I appreciate it!

6 Replies

  • jpkarlsen's avatar
    jpkarlsen
    Hero (Retired)
    7 years ago

    The predictive text comes from your browser. It does not have anything to do with the site you currently are on but are determined by the name of the input field. A common example is an input field named "name". these exist on a lot of forms and are generally used to fill in your name so as you start typing the browser immediately suggest your name as the likely text you need to enter cutting down on the typing you need to do. Other examples are "address", Zip" and password plus a lot of other common things.

  • Oh, I actually meant within the Sims 4 game application while browsing through the gallery. I might be misinterpreting what you're saying, sorry. I attached a picture of what I mean.

    Also, thanks for your help. 🙂

  • jpkarlsen's avatar
    jpkarlsen
    Hero (Retired)
    7 years ago

    That is taken from names already present on the site.

  • Yeah. 🙂 So my question is that if I accidentally uploaded a household and immediately thereafter removed it, will my household's name eventually disappear from that list? I was just wondering because it's still showing up in the list of prospective names even after I deleted it. 

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    7 years ago
    Might be just a cache issue of the gallery.

    I would check back in few days if it's still there.

    Don't think anyone here can answer your question for sure as we're users like you.

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