How to Stop iPhone from Suggesting Words While Typing

Stopping iPhone keyboard word suggestions and autocorrect: Settings > General > Keyboard > disable specific features individually. Cannot disable all suggestions at once without disabling Predictive entirely.

Settings Path

Settings > General > Keyboard:

• Auto-Correction: turns off automatic correction of misspellings.
• Check Spelling: turns off red underlines under unrecognized words.
• Predictive Text: turns off the word suggestion bar above the keyboard.
• Enable Caps Lock: separate toggle.
• Smart Punctuation: turns off automatic curly quotes and dashes.

Resetting the Keyboard Dictionary

If autocorrect keeps correcting specific words incorrectly: Settings > General > Transfer or Reset iPhone > Reset > Reset Keyboard Dictionary. Clears all learned corrections and custom words. The keyboard relearns from your typing going forward.

Adding Words to Keyboard Dictionary

For words that keep getting autocorrected: Settings > General > Keyboard > Text Replacement > + > add the word as both Phrase and Shortcut (leave Shortcut blank). This tells the keyboard the word is intentional.

For Technical and Domain-Specific Terms

If you frequently type technical terms, product names, or proper nouns that get autocorrected: add each as a Text Replacement with identical phrase and shortcut. Or disable Auto-Correction entirely for a period and accept manual corrections.

For Note-Takers

When dictating to Nemos: transcription uses Apple Foundation Models, not the keyboard, so autocorrect settings do not affect voice transcription accuracy. Settings affect typed input only.

Custom Vocabulary Persistence

Disabling autocorrect solves the wrong problem for most users. The real issue: iPhone's keyboard doesn't know your domain vocabulary — technical terms, proper nouns, industry jargon.

Better approach: teach it. When you type a word and accept the "Add to Dictionary" prompt, it stops correcting that word. Nemos's voice transcription handles this differently — it uses on-device speech recognition that adapts to your vocabulary patterns over time without needing manual dictionary management.

For technical writers, developers, and professionals with specialized vocabulary: voice capture in Nemos is often more accurate than keyboard typing for domain-specific terms. Transcription accuracy improves with use as the model adapts to your speech patterns.

How to delete a word your iPhone has learned

Turning predictive text off hides the suggestions. It does not remove the word the keyboard learned, so it comes back the moment you switch suggestions on again.

There is no list you can open and edit one word at a time. iOS keeps the learned dictionary as a single store, and the only supported way to remove something from it is to reset the whole thing:

Settings → General → Transfer or Reset iPhone → Reset → Reset Keyboard Dictionary.

You will be asked for your passcode. It takes a second and needs no restart.

Reset the keyboard dictionary, and what it wipes

Resetting clears every word your keyboard has picked up from you: names, slang, deliberate misspellings, the company acronym you type forty times a day, and whatever autocorrect learned from a typo you repeated often enough.

What it does not touch: your text replacements (Settings → General → Keyboard → Text Replacement), your contacts, or anything you have typed and saved elsewhere. Those are separate stores.

The keyboard starts learning again from your next message, so a word you genuinely use will return within a few days.

Turning autocomplete off inside Apple Notes only

Predictive text is a keyboard setting, not an app setting, so switching it off in Settings switches it off everywhere — Messages, Mail, Safari and Notes alike.

If it is only Notes that bothers you, the lever is different: with a note open, tap the keyboard's globe or emoji key and hold it to reach Keyboard Settings, or use a different keyboard for that app. Apple does not expose a per-app predictive-text switch, and any guide that promises one is describing something else.