ScribblesUK wrote:
I have recently started noticing that my Apple products now autocorrect, not only when the word is typed, but several words later. I correctly typed "With my recent experience", definitely noticed the word correctly as "recent" but after completing the email, at some point it had been changed to "release" as in "With my release experience". It is happening often. My Mac is gaslighting me. Anyone else getting similar experiences? It used to work fine. I guess that is progress :)
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Original Title: Words changing randomly
This is part of Apple’s “inline predictive text” and “contextual autocorrect” features, which are meant to feel smarter but can sometimes be too confident.
Option 1 — Turn off Autocorrect:
- Go to System Settings → Keyboard → Text Input
- Under Input Sources, click Edit… next to your keyboard.
- Toggle Auto-Correction off.
Option 2 — Keep basic correction but disable predictions:
- Same menu: System Settings → Keyboard → Text Input
- Turn off Predictive Text but leave Auto-Correction on.
- This stops the system from making after-the-fact context corrections.
You can also in System Settings >> Keyboard >> Text Input >> Text Replacements
Manually input >> release << and, add >> recent <<
Illustration, as my typing is really only a 2 finger typer
