Can I get my iPhone 4 (not S) to forget words it learned from me?

I don't want all of them forgotten, just the misspellings it has learned.


It auto-corrects "something" to "somethig" for example.

iPhone 4, iOS 5.1.1

Posted on Aug 17, 2012 6:13 PM

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Aug 17, 2012 11:59 PM in response to AjaxOfSalamis

Thanks, but as I mentioned I do not want all of the learned words forgotten.


Earlier today I found some old forums saying there used to be a way, but that there no longer is? How could they not let us access the list to delete things???


The old forum said to keep typing the word and X-ing the unwanted suggestion, but it didn't work for me, and I then read that it only works on old phones/iOS.

Aug 18, 2012 7:38 AM in response to modular747

Thanks, but I did that 8 times in a row for correcting the word "something" and it didn't forget it still. :(

It also doesn't work for my phone remembering the word "te", cause it NEVER suggests that I write that, it just doesn't correct to "the" like it should.


Just found a much better solution!

Settings>General>Keyboard>Add new shortcut

Enter "something" as the phrase and "somethig" as the shortcut. Works like a charm and easy-peasy!

I also entered "the" as the phrase and "te" as the shortcut to fix that one.


Yay!

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