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I agree this is infuriating. This was the reason that made me finally ditch autocorrection altogether on my iPhone. I still make mistakes but at least now they'

I agree this is infuriating. This was the reason that made me finally ditch autocorrection altogether on my iPhone. I still make mistakes but at least now they're mostly my own mistakes, and when I correct them they stay corrected.

iroddis 4y ago
This how I operated for a long time as well, but made liberal use of text replacement for frequent things like il -> I’ll. Unfortunately, when I got a Mac laptop, those replacements were synched and for some reason can’t be disabled on just one device. Now I’m back to autocorrect, fighting with the AI to learn technical terms and command line entries for when I need to talk to colleagues over chat.
- nawgz 4y ago
  Why would you use autocorrect on a keyboard?
  - llamaimperative 4y ago
    GP is saying he would like not to but cannot shut it off because they’re not using autocorrect but text replacements. It does make sense in the general case to sync text replacements, just not if you’re using it in place of autocorrect
    - iroddis 4y ago
      You’re correct, sorry for the confusion. Phase 1: iPhone w/o autocorrect but with text replacements. Phase 2: iPhone and macOS, but text replacements are synched without option to disable. I don’t want autocorrect or replacements while typing on a real keyboard. Phase 3 (reluctantly): iPhone with autocorrect, macOS without it, and no text replacements. tl;dr it would be nice if I could disable text replacement on a per-device basis.
bobbylarrybobby 4y ago
One solution is to disable autocorrect, then tap-type when you want no correction and swipe-type when you do (since swiping necessarily uses autocorrect)
tornato7 4y ago
I would recommend switching to GBoard, which doesn't have this infuriating behavior
- cassianoleal 4y ago
  Thanks but I'd rather not use Google's keylogger. Also, if it's anything like Android's keyboard I find Apple's sans auto-correct superior.

iroddis 4y ago

This how I operated for a long time as well, but made liberal use of text replacement for frequent things like il -> I’ll. Unfortunately, when I got a Mac laptop, those replacements were synched and for some reason can’t be disabled on just one device. Now I’m back to autocorrect, fighting with the AI to learn technical terms and command line entries for when I need to talk to colleagues over chat.

nawgz 4y ago
Why would you use autocorrect on a keyboard?
- llamaimperative 4y ago
  GP is saying he would like not to but cannot shut it off because they’re not using autocorrect but text replacements. It does make sense in the general case to sync text replacements, just not if you’re using it in place of autocorrect
  - iroddis 4y ago
    You’re correct, sorry for the confusion. Phase 1: iPhone w/o autocorrect but with text replacements. Phase 2: iPhone and macOS, but text replacements are synched without option to disable. I don’t want autocorrect or replacements while typing on a real keyboard. Phase 3 (reluctantly): iPhone with autocorrect, macOS without it, and no text replacements. tl;dr it would be nice if I could disable text replacement on a per-device basis.

bobbylarrybobby 4y ago

One solution is to disable autocorrect, then tap-type when you want no correction and swipe-type when you do (since swiping necessarily uses autocorrect)

tornato7 4y ago

I would recommend switching to GBoard, which doesn't have this infuriating behavior

cassianoleal 4y ago
Thanks but I'd rather not use Google's keylogger. Also, if it's anything like Android's keyboard I find Apple's sans auto-correct superior.