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Turn off OS17 autocorrect when tapping (kbin.social)
submitted 1 year ago by Aatube@kbin.social to c/apple@kbin.social
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I used to be able to always tap in the black areas of a text box to make the cursor jump to the end and tap between words to make the cursor jump there. Now, often when I do that, OS17 selects the entire word and shows me suggestions for replacements of the closest word to where the cursor would jump instead. How do I disable that?

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[–] notfromhere@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

I recently updated to 17 as well and was able to disable it by turning off “Auto-Correction” and “Predictive” from General->Keyboard. A lot to give up for that new “feature” to stop getting in the way. You could also tap and hold then move the cursor to the end; I think that still works.

Apple just wants to keep making the text input experience worse and worse it seems.