Apple launched iOS 17.2 in December, and the replace added new options, together with the long-awaited Journal app, to iPhones. The replace additionally gave you extra management over a few of your iPhone’s options. For instance, iOS 17.2 enables you to disable inline predictive text from exhibiting up in Messages.
When Apple launched iOS 17 in September, one of many new options was inline predictive text. The function predicts what you’ll write as you kind (though not all the time precisely) and if you happen to hit house, you add the recommended textual content routinely. Should you by chance hit house, it’s important to delete the phrase or phrase and begin over. Some people — myself included — discovered the function annoying, and Apple seemingly heard the complaints and allowed folks to show this function off with iOS 17.2.
Here is the best way to flip inline predictive textual content off.
Flip inline predictive textual content off
1. Open Settings
2. Faucet Normal
3. Faucet Keyboards
4. Faucet the change subsequent to Present Predictions Inline
Now, if you kind a message, you will not run the danger of including a phrase you do not intend so as to add. You will nonetheless see predictive textual content, the recommended phrases and emoji, over your keyboard.
Flip all predictive textual content off
Should you discover all predictive textual content annoying, you may simply flip that off, too. Here is how:
1. Open Settings
2. Faucet Normal
3. Faucet Keyboard
4. Faucet the change subsequent to Predictive Textual content
If you kind a message now, you will not see a field over your keyboard with recommended phrases or emojis. Turning predictive textual content off additionally disables inline predictive textual content, so you will not see any recommendations in any respect. You’ll be able to kind with out interruption.
For extra on iOS 17, take a look at all the brand new options in iOS 17.3, options you might have missed in iOS 17.2 our iOS 17 cheat sheet.