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Turning off Auto-Complete in iPhone

I just received my iPhone and want to turn off the feature when you type it auto-completes and predicts your word. How can I turn it off completely since I use more than just english to type out SMS and so on.

Kind Regards,
Igor

Macbook 2.16 GHz, Mac OS X (10.5.2)

Posted on Apr 9, 2008 3:14 PM

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Posted on Apr 9, 2008 3:57 PM

You can't turn it off, but you can tap the "x" on the suggestion and it will go away. After 3 rejections it will no longer suggest that word. You can also keep typing the word; the suggestion isn't inserted until you enter a SPACE.
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Apr 13, 2008 5:27 PM in response to Leonhard minutillo

I find that the iPhone adds names on your address book into the dictionary.
I added a description of "(Best Mate!)" at the end of my friend's surname, as I know two people of that name. Thereafter, everytime I write "Hi mate" it always ended up with "Mate!)" I had to use a temporary workaround of adding a space between Mate and !, but now the above suggestions of rejecting the suggestion several times seems to work...

Apr 21, 2008 10:45 AM in response to Lawrence Finch

the automatic number formatting is just as annoying. this is absolutely ridiculous! i teach Human-Computer-Interaction and just today i told my students about Ben Shneiderman’s Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design, which is basic stuff and widely accepted. One of these rules is "Support internal locus of control", which means, that it must always be possible for the user to be in full control of the system and not vice versa. that apple does not adhere to this rule is a shame and if some of my students would that i would not accept their work until they changed it. this is not a matter of taste, it is just wrong. a bug, a mistake, whatever. it must be possible to turn that off. bleah! i've been a strong apple afficionado for 15 years now, but recently apple did it's best to really **** me off, and this one fits nicely into that pattern.

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sebastian mecklenburg

Turning off Auto-Complete in iPhone

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