If you’ve spent any time texting on the iPhone, then you know all about autocorrect—both its strengths and weaknesses. You know that autocorrect can be an extremely useful tool that fixes common misspellings like “adn” to “and” or “teh” to “the” without any problems. But you also know that sometimes this modern writing technology doesn’t work the way it’s intended.
Sometimes autocorrect capitalizes words in the middle of a sentence, other times it veers into overcorrection territory by changing correct words it thinks are incorrect, and more outrageously autocorrect doesn’t want you to swear.
There are several ways around these issues, such as boycotting texting altogether and using voice memos or turning off autocorrect. But perhaps one of the smartest solutions is through your iPhone’s text replacement feature.
It’s a feature that lets you automatically expand abbreviations like BTW to “by the way” or omy to “on the way,” but it also lets you add words that AutoCorrect might not recognize in your iPhone’s dictionary.
How to use text replacement:
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Open it Settings menu on your iPhone
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Touch General > Keyboard
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Choose Replace text
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Touch + button in the upper right corner
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Enter your word in the first box, phrase.
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Enter the text you want as a shortcut in the second field, Shortcut. You can also type the whole word again.
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Touch Saveand then you are done.
But if you’re completely done with autocorrect, here’s how to turn it off once and for all:
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Open it Settings app.
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Touch General > Keyboard.
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Turn on the switch Automatic correction. By default, autocorrect is turned on.