How to disable in-line text prediction on iPhone

A simple guide to disabling the text prediction feature on iOS 17 iPhones.

For a long time, Apple has been popular for its neat and slick firmware that offers tremendous features and a fun user experience. The OS from the Cupertino giant holds a plethora of noteworthy accessibility features up its sleeve.

These features will help your device work more effectively and efficiently. One of those features is in-line text prediction. However, the in-line text prediction feature has been proving to be an infuriating addition rather than a helpful one.

If you’re having trouble with this feature, then this guide will be helpful. In this guide, you will get to know how to disable in-line text prediction on iPhone.

How to disable in-line text prediction on iPhone?

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For this feature, when you type a word, iOS will suggest the complete word beforehand and you’ll have to hit the spacebar for accepting the suggested word. In some cases, you won’t want to accept the predicted word and instead use the spacebar to have a space between two words.

However, as you have hit the space bar already, you typed this word in the sentence that you didn’t intend to in the first place. This is why you may have to go back, delete the predicted word, type the correct one gain, and proceed ahead. This can be avoided by disabling in-line prediction on iPhone.

The best way to deal with this issue would be to turn off the predictive text feature altogether. However, it’ll also end up disabling the keyboard suggestions, which is a useful feature. Here are the steps you need to follow to disable in-line text prediction on iPhone –

  • Go to Settings -> Accessibility -> Physical and Motor
  • After that, you should select Switch Control
  • Now, you need to go to “Keyboard”
  • After that, you should toggle off “Extended Predictions”
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Aviral Sharma is a talented and passionate writer who has been using words to express his thoughts ever since he learned how to hold a pen. He is passionate about outer space, history, sports, and most importantly, technology. Aviral has been a regular writer for rootmygalaxy for over 6 years and has been covering games and Android guides. He currently owns a Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra, an iPhone 13, and a HP Pavilion laptop.

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