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

Unfortunately didn't work for me :/ I thought it did for a min but it went right back to autocorrecting stuff. Apple really needs to get their **** together. Predictive text is not and should mot be the same thing as autocorrect because i NEVER like autocorrect and will never use it and now I cant even have the predictive text feature that I actually liked.

I am having the same problem. I HATE the inline predictive text, but I want to keep the regular three word suggestions at the top of the keyboard. I just updated my iOS this morning and it’s been driving me crazy and slowing down all of my texts because I have to keep going back and correcting things. Apple needs to have an options to turn just the inline texts off. I came here hoping for a solution, but the answer they provided does not help.

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

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.

I saw something online about the next ios update, 17.2, having a separate option to turn off just the inline predictions without turning off the word suggestions in the grey bar above the keyboard, so hopefully that is true.

IT WORKED!! thank you, @bchuras! at first i accidentally turned “Switch Control” on will also disabling “Extended Predictions.” DON’T DO THAT, Y’ALL! Only uncheck the “Extended Predictions” button and go back and turn on General>Keyboard>Predictive.

Problem solved 💞…

We cannot use the backspace button while the inline predictive text is predicting text. If you mis-spell a word, it makes you select the wrong word first, and THEN erase it. This doesn’t work when the predicted work is beyond the character limit of the text field we are typing in, you just get stuck with a typo.

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!

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.

On my XR, after I downloaded 17.2.1, I found the fix. Try this:

Settings

General

Keyboards

Show Predictions Inline -- toggle this OFF

Regular predictive text will still work, assuming it is ON

Good luck!

So, I’m not sure if this is because of the update, but a few days after using this solution, inline predictions returned to my keyboard. But now there’s a more obvious way to turn them off that I don’t think was there before.

Try going to Settings. Click General. Then Keyboards. Scroll to the bottom. In the second to last section under English there’s and option to toggle on/off “Show Predictions Inline.”

I have an iPhone 13 updated to 17.2.1.

I hope this helps!

I did both changes to Settings 1. go to Settings > General > Keyboard > under All Keyboards turn OFF Show Predictions Inline

I also did 2. Settings > Accessibility > Physical and Motor > Switch Control (I have it off) > Keyboard: Turn OFF Extended Predictions

This worked for me. I still have suggestions showing above the keyboard. But the back arrow inline to change a word is gone.

After trying different suggestion i managed to resolve mine. Went to Accessibility > Voice Control and switched to Off.

Obviously the iPhone was tuping other conversation it over hears. My TV was on and iphone picked up the words on a selective basis. But now of course I cannot dictate text on messages.

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 think update 17.3.1 solves this.

Edit: It’s not as aggressive as before but still there. Also letting everybody know that “show inline ..” option is not going to appear if the keyboard is in another language BUT WILL STILL REPLACE TEXT IN ENGLISH. doesnt make any sense!!!!!