{"id":8828,"date":"2024-02-01T13:05:33","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T17:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/?p=10272"},"modified":"2024-02-02T09:52:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T13:52:04","slug":"annoyed-by-inline-predictive-text-suggestions-heres-how-to-turn-them-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/annoyed-by-inline-predictive-text-suggestions-heres-how-to-turn-them-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Annoyed by Inline Predictive Text Suggestions? Here\u2019s How to Turn Them Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a slight nod to the hype surrounding generative AI, Apple added inline text prediction capabilities to the iPhone, iPad, and Mac. They can be helpful, particularly on the iPhone and iPad, where it\u2019s often much easier to tap the Space bar than to finish typing a word or sentence. But that\u2019s less true on the Mac, where a fast typist can be slowed down or derailed by the suggestions, and some people dislike having an AI finish their thoughts. The feature is easily turned off. On the iPhone and iPad running at least iOS\/iPadOS 17.2, go to Settings &gt; General &gt; Keyboard and switch off Show Predictions Inline. (Leave Predictive Text on to continue to get suggestions above the keyboard.) On the Mac running macOS 14.2 Sonoma or later, open System Settings &gt; Keyboard, click Edit under the Text Input header, turn off \u201cShow inline predictive text,\u201d and click Done.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10265\" src=\"https:\/\/macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/annoyed-by-inline-predictive-text-suggestions-heres-how-to-turn-them-off-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"838\" height=\"643\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Featured image based on an original by iStock.com\/Armastas)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a slight nod to the hype surrounding generative AI, Apple added inline text prediction capabilities to the iPhone, iPad, and Mac. They can be helpful, particularly on the iPhone and iPad, where it\u2019s often much easier to tap the Space bar than to finish typing a word or sentence. But that\u2019s less true on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,69,106,880,8,25,112,185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-apple","category-apple-consulting-ct","category-apple-support-ct","category-ipad","category-iphone","category-mac","category-mac-support-ct","category-mactech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8843,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8828\/revisions\/8843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}