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How can I turn off text replacement in MacOS, without turning it off in iOS? I am using iCloud. I do want text replacement on my iPhone, but I don't want it on my Mac computer (Catalina 10.15.3). Any ideas?
MacBook Pro 16", macOS 10.15
Hi, Suzanne.
I'm glad you decided to reach out on Apple Support Communities. If I understand correctly, you don't want to disable text replacements altogether because you still use them on your iPhone, but you don't want them on your Mac.
There isn't a place on your Mac where you can stop text replacements altogether when you're using the same iCloud account and have iCloud Drive enabled; however, you can disable text replacements on a case-by-case basis.
When you're in a program and typing a message, go to the menu bar and choose "Edit > Substitutions > Show Substitutions > Text Replacement" and deselect Text Replacement. This will stop that program from using the feature.
You'll need to do it for every program on your Mac where you want to opt out.
Best Regards.
Hi, Suzanne.
I'm glad you decided to reach out on Apple Support Communities. If I understand correctly, you don't want to disable text replacements altogether because you still use them on your iPhone, but you don't want them on your Mac.
There isn't a place on your Mac where you can stop text replacements altogether when you're using the same iCloud account and have iCloud Drive enabled; however, you can disable text replacements on a case-by-case basis.
When you're in a program and typing a message, go to the menu bar and choose "Edit > Substitutions > Show Substitutions > Text Replacement" and deselect Text Replacement. This will stop that program from using the feature.
You'll need to do it for every program on your Mac where you want to opt out.
Best Regards.
Hi, cp from OH. This sounded like a perfect solution, but it's not working on Pages and Siri. It did work on Google Chrome. Siri, in fact, won't let me turn off the options, because they are "grayed out" and non-selectable. Pages, interestingly, did not have Text Replacement checked, and yet it is the worst offender.
The heart of the problem is that, on my Mac, simply typing in the letters of the Text Replacement causes the replacement to happen, even though I keep typing. That doesn't happen on my iPhone, on which I can easily override the Text Replacement.
For example, I have "ho" programmed to automatically give me the option of "However," – a very useful replacement. On my iPhone, typing anything will override the replacement. On my Mac, however (see, I use that word a lot), if I type "hope" and look at my screen, I see that it has typed "Howeverpe"!
In other words, the text replacement happens no matter what on the Mac. This would be irritating enough, but I just recently heard from someone that my home address (!) had accidentally shown up in an online-published document. How? Because of this annoying bug in Text Replacement in Pages on the Mac! It inserted itself into something else!
Thank you for your suggestion. It looks like the "Edit > Substitutions > Show Substitutions > Text Replacement" function was designed to fix exactly this problem. It's simply not doing what it is supposed to do on Apple programs. (It's ironic that it did solve the problem on Google Chrome. Hah!)
So, I wonder if this is a bug with Catalina, since your solution should be working. Any ideas of what to do? I did change the letters/numbers that triggered my address to show up, and other items I thought might be a security risk, but I can't possibly do that for everything. And I use a ton of text replacements to make my iMessaging super fast, so I don't want to delete all of them.
If I could just turn it off on my Mac! Please let me know any ideas you have, so I won't keep seeing things like "Howeverpe."
Thanks!
Text Replacement, How to Turn It Off on Just One Device when Using iCloud
