So I can get around that by actually tapping there with the quotes around it and that will then say accept this word even though it's not in the dictionary and you really want to autocorrect it or change it in some way. Because if I type space it's going to either mark it as spelled wrong or it's going to try to autocorrect to something. That's a really handy way to get around autocorrect. But I wanted to actually use this particular word, even though it's not a real word, notice I've got the word with quotes around it to the left. Maybe if I go and you know erase some there it's hard to predict. Notice if I start typing something and I'm typing like a difficult word, I'm just going to type a bunch of just random things here, and you can see it doesn't have any predictive text. But in general apps, like the Mail app and Notes and such, are going to have this. Also certain apps will have keyboards that are specific to that app. If you're using Custom Keyboard then this might not be available. Now, of course, it also depends upon what type of keyboard you're using. That's what you need to have on in order to see this. You can see there's the switch for Predictive. But you can get to it also by going to Settings, and then General, and then Keyboard. You can see I go right to keyboard settings. It has a smiley face now at the bottom of the keyboard. You can go to the Settings app but you can also tap and hold the little keyboard button. Now if you don't see that stuff at the top of the keyboards, if you don't see those words there, then you want to go to Settings. Now it takes some practice to get used to this. You can see I saved quite a few taps there. You, I'll type t and then h and then a and I might as well finish typing the word that and then space and then i, but it actually before I typed i it had information up there. I want to type send so I hit the s and it predicts that. I and start typing will and with just the w I get will.
I'm going to his period now or I can just do two spaces and it does period and a space. So nice to, and see, have, be, no I want to say talk. So I can save myself taps by hitting nice.
I want to say nice and as soon as I type the n the word nice appears.
So I'm actually going to tap the word was rather than the two taps for a and s. Notice as I started typing the word was and I typed w it kind of predicts that maybe one of the things I want to say is was. So as I start to type something like this it will change those words. It's trying to predict what I might want to type now. I'm in the Mail app and I'm just going to type a message and you can see the words at the top of the keyboard. This used to be called Quick Type but Apple seems to only refer to it as Predictive Text right now. Video Transcript: So one of the ways that the iPhone and iPad make it easier for you to type text is something called Predictive Text.
Ipad magic keyboard predictive text how to#
How to insert special characters and symbols on your iPhone or iPad