Teach iPhone AutoCorrect New Words By Repetition
If you’re annoyed the iPhone autocorrect dictionary still doesn’t know a word you use constantly, or you are constantly suggested the wrong word (what the duck?), you can teach iOS autocorrect new words by repeating them a few times in an app like Notes:
- Launch Notes app and create a new blank note
- Type the new word you want autocorrect to learn over and over again
Yup, repetition is how the iOS autocorrect dictionary works, and by about the 5th or 6th consecutive time a new word is typed you’ll start getting that word suggested by autocorrect.
Repeat as necessary for other words, street names, unique names or spellings, acronyms, or whatever else you want suggested while typing.
Don’t worry if you decide to change your mind later, or if things are totally messed, because up you can always reset the autocorrect dictionary and start anew.
This works the same on iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.
Unfortunately this doesn’t work with the name Peta. I have three friends of that name, one is my boss. I write it a lot and tried the technique above. After 30 times, still it corrected as PETA. I hope none I them own an iPhone…
it doesn’t work for many German words either. for example the German word “ah” (meaning something like hmmm) is always autocorrected to “äh” (meaning: i didn’t understand)
or dufte (=cute”) to düfte (“smells”)
i typed it in a 100 times and pressed the x. it’s still autocorrected.
The best way I found to hack around the auto correct is the built in keyboard shortcuts feature.
For example I always use the word ‘aight’ but it always corrected to ‘sight’ so I went into keyboard shortcuts and made one ai = aight. not only is it more efficient to type now but it also recognizes aight as a word.
Or you can use Shortcuts so every time you star writing Kuro it will suggest Kurosawa.
Preferences, general, keyboard, shortcuts
Sorry, didn’t see Adams note before submitting.
I’m Afrikaans and I use the word “moet” (must) every day. Every time I type “moet” iOS gives me Moët… I’m so sick of seeing Moët that I think I’ll get nauseous when someone has to pour me a glass of Moët. I have just tried this little trick by typing “moet” TWENTY times and I still get Moët.
So far the only thing that worked for me was to create an keyboard shortcut to convert “miet” (mites) to “moet”. God forbid I ever have to type something about mites in future. *sigh*
I wish there was a way that we could edit the dictionary and take out silly words like Moët (unless you want to add it of course.
Yeah but what about it’s annoying habit of changing perfectly valid words into other perfectly valid words – do / to / so / no and is / if are particularly irritating.
It does do that. I thought I was going mad.
This does not work with dictation or correction of names. No matter how many times you correct one spelling to the other, the system does not recognize the corrected spelling as the default.