Autocorrect is awesome at turning your garbled typing into coherent messages, notes, and more.
Except when it's not.
Here's how to make the awesomeness of autocorrect work for you:
Override autocorrect's suggestions by tapping the suggestion bubble that appears above the word autocorrect thinks you have misspelled. autocorrect will then learn your preferred spelling.
Type a space, punctuation, or Enter to accept the suggestion.
If you accidentally accept an autocorrect suggestion, tap delete and retype the last letter of your word and the suggestion will go away. Sometimes autocorrect offers additional suggestions. If you accept too many erroneous corrections,autocorrect may start correcting words you don't want changed. If this happens you can reset autocorrect by going to Settings>General>Reset>Reset Keyboard Dictionary.
Add to Contacts. If the name of a person or company is in your contacts, autocorrect will no longer try to change the correct spelling of that name and will even catch it if you mistype the name.
Use the Word in the Safari search field. Once you search the word in Safari, autocorrect will learn the correct spelling.
Create a shortcut. Create a new shortcut for the word that autocorrect does not recognize by going to Settings>General>Keyboard>Add New Shortcut. Type the word you want in the Phrase field but leave the Shortcut field blank. autocorrect will no longer think the word is misspelled. If you commonly misspell a word that autocorrect doesn't catch, use the misspelling as the shortcut for the correctly spelled word.
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