How to prevent iOS from autocorrecting words?

Updated on September 1, 2017

I thought I’m not that good at messaging with the right spelling and had turned on auto-correct, but felt it even more difficult as it many a times, changed even some correct words! So what can be a solution? Turning off auto-correct? No! Here is the best you can do and its easy too! Just follow the below steps

How to add Shortcut to Keyboard on iOS?

  • Go to Settings and tap on General.
  • Tap on Keyboard section.
  • You will find “Add New Shortcut” button there, adding a word to in-here will instruct the iOS to ignore the word.
  • Specify the word you want auto-correct to ignore
  • Tap Save

And from now-on your iPhone will work as you desire and you will never have to turn auto-correct to off! If at the worse case you prefer to turn of the auto-correct feature, follow the below steps

ios keyboard shortcuts autocorrect

How to turn Auto-correct off on iOS

  • Go to Settings and tap on General.
  • Tap on Keyboard section.
  • You can find the first row to be “Auto-correct”. Turn it off.

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