Annoying Blue Dots Underneath Words

when you see red dots, as you already know that's a miss spelled word. when you see the blue dots, it's a word that has been corrected by "auto correct".

i don't know what the point is either. but, there it is. :) maybe it's a way of helping poor spellers. AFAIK the only way to stop it is to not make any spelling mistakes. (and i have as of yet to ever meet a perfect person)

The original phrased used was to remove the blue dots. That was answered by spelling correctly or turning off the spell check Understand it is an annoyance so suggest putting to Apple to develop this feature further Just be sure to explain to them was you are looking for

inknpaper wrote:

To be honest, what is the point of changing a misspelt word from red underline to blue underline? Once a word has been corrected, it doesn't require anything, lol 🥳

Actually that's not always the case. Some words have more than one correct spelling. The blue dots give one a chance to make sure it's the correct word in context.

I do think there is something wrong with your system. For me, I get the blue dot underline when autocorrect triggers. However, as soon as I type the next word, the blue dot underline goes away.

Here are a couple of things you can try:

1) Go to Edit > Spelling and Grammar and turn off Correct spelling automatically. Then, maybe restart. Go back and turn it back on. Try it.

2) If that doesn't work, try creating a new user account and testing it there. Go to System Preferences > Users & Groups and create a new user account. Try it using text edit in the new account and see how it behaves.

Also, try it in a couple of different places. It looks like you were using a web browser on this site to demonstrate the problem. But you could be using some crazy web browser for all we know. Try it in Safari. Try it in TextEdit. If it works correctly in those apps, then the problem is with whatever 3rd party app you are using.

As @jefferythefrog very correctly pointed out - corrected word by auto-correction built into the OS Check spelling and grammar on Mac