Turn off in-line predictive text but keep predictive suggestions.

No, the “solution” provided by the representative does not work.

Please separate the in-line predictive text from the three predictive suggestions provided above the keyboard. It’s very jarring for neurodivergent. It’s not helpful. If I want the word, I. Will. Pick. It. From. The. List.

I don’t need or want predictive text in my typing field. It’s distracting, annoying to fix, and a waste of time fixing ‘auto filled’ words that didn’t need to be autofilled.

I really hope you add an option to turn off just the in-line predictive text feature and leave the list alone.

There was another solution that was listed that wasn’t from your ‘customer service representative’. It didn’t work but it was a much better answer as they understood what the person above was asking.

This doesn't help at all. I literally made an account to beg for Apple to give us an option to turn off the inline predictive text without removing the predictive text boxes that we've had historically. I've already submitted an inquiry through the product feedback link provided by bruno75

This is [d]ucking ridiculous and it should be the opposite: tap to accept inline prediction and space bar to type a space in a [d]ucking sentence.

It completely fumbles my typing flow to have predictive text off and thus be unable to use the predictive text panel.

The space bar is to add a space to a sentence, not type a [d]ucking word. If you want to use inline predictions, then they should be tapped just the same as the text panel is to accept a predicted text.

Who thought this was a good idea?

bchuras' "solution" doesn't really fix the problem. It just makes it seem to happen less as it reduces the length of the inline predictions. It will still inline-suggest shorter words so it makes it slightly less frustrating to go back and delete less characters but we shouldn't let this be the solution.

I cannot bear the forced in-line autocomplete & should not be attached to the existing predictive options. Why complicate what was a very user friendly feature. The forced in-line autocomplete is slowly ruining my love & enjoyment of my iPhone. Does anyone have some advice on how to turn off the forced in-line autocomplete but keep the predictive text option underneath on an iPhone 10r? I would be so grateful.

Solution suggested doesn't work. This new feature is annoying so much that at one point I just decided to turn off the predictive thing completely but it's such a hassle to not have the suggested predictions above the keyboard gone as well. Who came up with this ineffective idea????? Jeez!

bchuras, I have never created a post on this website, nor did I ever expect to, but I need to reply with the biggest, most meaningful "THANK YOU!!" I've ever felt like giving. This by far is the most annoying Apple feature that's come to play, and not knowing how to turn it off but keep the 3 recommendations was quite literally driving me insane. I'd give you a gift card if I knew you in person. Thank you so much

here’s my issue:

1. i have predictive text off. but sometimes it will still pop up with the grey bar above my keyboard and give me suggestions. how do i turn that off?
2. as for autocorrect, i have that on because i type too fast and misspell things sometimes. however, when i’m typing something that i want to type and it suggests something incorrect and i click the “x” to deny the correction, when i hit space it corrects the word anyway, even though i hit the “x”. i can’t afford to turn autocorrect off, i rely on it, but how do i stop it from correcting words i don’t want corrected?

I’ve gone through every suggestion on here! None of these options appear to turn off the inline words when typing. If you turn off predictive, you lose the suggested words. This is crap!

If it weren’t for us just replacing our phones, I’d quit using iPhone. You have to accept the stupid ideas people come up with and no option to turn them off! Someone, please fix this!

Not only does it want to put in words, but if you try to click beside it to enter something else, it highlights the word and doesn’t let you even insert punctuation!

As I was typing this, funny how it doesn’t have inline predictive words I don’t want, but I still have the three word option above the keyboard! Guess whomever runs the discussion pages, thought it was a bad idea! Yet, we are to just accept it on regular messages.

Please just fix this! Obviously, there are many people unhappy about it! At least give us the option to turn off just that part of predictive words.

Fittsy! What you suggested did it! Thank you so much! I tried all other suggestions and they weren’t applicable to my phone or maybe the newest version. Latest update on my phone is 17.3. I started hating my phone! But this worked. Thank you!

I have tried everyone's suggestions including accessibility switch control off for extended predictions - force quit settings, restarted iPhone 13 pro max and STILL get the inline predictions with the back arrow to change typing - SOOOOOOOOO annoying. Nothing Works!

I'd like to get rid of the predictive text next to the text AND the text above the keyboard. I don't have the predictive text next to what I'm typing. But the irritating as **** text thing keeps popping up above the keyboard.

id like to get rid of it all.

I think what's even more irritating is that it will go away and pop up every new sentence when I'm on message only.

anyone got ideas how to get rid of all of it?

Thank you so much!!!

Your suggested change fixed this problem I had experienced.

if I mark an existing word in notepad or while textin, et al; I intend to copy it, and I don’t need any suggestions about a similar word. If I accidentally touch the suggestion (just hovering above the marked word) it would replace the stored word and that is dangerous — especially if you don’t notice what you did.

”on my ipad pro, when I mark a piece of text for copying, it offers a corrected (different word) version, how can I turn off this dangerous feature?”

thnx!!!

I’m SO glad they give you the option now to separate this: “in line predictive text” versus just the suggestions above the keyboard. Anytime I wrote “the” my phone corrected it to “Theresa”!!! Obviously I wasn’t typing Theresa in ANY of these situations haha. I don’t even know her!

bchuras, you are my hero for figuring this out!