How to switch off autocorrect

Each app has its own setting. E.g., for TextEdit, it's here:

For Skype, which I don't use, or anything else, contact its developer.

AFAIK, it's not a global setting and I doubt Apple would ever make it so, since each app developer uses different things.

Dude, check the Edit Menu in Skype again..
I had the same problem as you, the spelling and grammar options are there and you can disable the autocorrect!

patrick is right and everybody else is just not listening. Its NOT an application specific issue, it's EVERYWHERE. As and when you set a languag to be default, then it does that ALL THE TIME regardless of what application settings you manipulate.

If you don't have this problem, I wonder what you have in languages...

Yeah it's everywhere, but what's also in every application on OSX is the Edit menu where you have Spelling and Grammar options.

Another suggestion of mine would be to click on the Help menu of the specific App you have the problem in and type in the search bar "auto" or "spelling" or "correct" or something related. Then the option should show up as a menu item.

It's the glory of OSX Help.

We are listening! 🙂

Sorry Soanis, you're not listening... 😟

BUT

thanks to you I think i've found it!!!!

It's actually here:

system preferences>language & region> keyboard preferences>Text and then check/uncheck the radiobutton "correct spelling automatically"

well hid but not impossible to find, thanks to you Soanis, great, thanks!

GJD004 wrote:

I think i've found it!!!!

It's actually here:

system preferences>language & region> keyboard preferences>Text and then check/uncheck the radiobutton "correct spelling automatically"

But Mr_Patrick (and this forum) are talking about 10.6, and you are talking about 10.9, issued 4 years later. They are very different. The 10.9 forum is at

https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os/os_x_mavericks

I'm glad you found your way to the universal setting (if I may call that), the previous suggestions were about the setting in specific applications, because it's common to leave the feature on in apps like Mail, where you actually want to get corrections, especially when writing formal e-mails (for the non-native british/americans, such as myself.) 🙂

soanis wrote:

I'm glad you found your way to the universal setting

But that setting does not in fact exist in 10.6. Your answer is correct, it has to be dealt with for each app. GJD004's answer is wrong and should ideally be deleted here.

Ideally deleted? I signed up just to respond and say thats absurd. Deleting a post like that would have removed the chain of events that lead to a proper answer including the discussion explaining the difference between two major versions of OSx. And this was the most accurate link I found in Google answering my question. Might have been different had I realized there even IS a difference of that type between the two major versions. This type of post documents clearly for the community who may have spent their time trying to find the answer to a 10.9 question on a 10.6 forum out of lack of understanding of the difference. Illustrated by the original poster in question.

Please don't ever delete a logical chain of answers like this. Even when misplaced. You can't convince me you need to save the disk space or something. And the results are just as valuable as anything else related to 10.6.

loggiew wrote:

This type of post documents clearly for the community who may have spent their time trying to find the answer to a 10.9 question on a 10.6 forum out of lack of understanding of the difference. Illustrated by the original poster in question.

The original poster was trying to find the answer to a 10.6 question in a 10.6 forum and got the wrong answer from GJD00, who also disparaged the people giving the right answer. But not to worry, wrong answers are never actually deleted here.