My iPhone keyboard was becoming infuriating for typing AI prompts I changed these 3 settings, and ChatGPT is now much easier to use

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Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:25:02 +0000

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If you frequently type prompts to ChatGPT your iPhone then you might want to make these changes to your iPhone keyboard for improved accuracy.

FULL STORY ======================================================================Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Threads Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter As I wrote my latest message to ChatGPT today something inside me broke. I hit Send, then looked back at what Id written, and noticed that the message was once again littered with typos.

Sorry, its very har ld to type on an iPhone keyboard. I typed next, as if to prove my point. Sigh. At this point I decided that this couldn't go on. Id
had it with the iPhone keyboard, and I was going to experiment with its settings until I found a way to make it better. In the end it didnt take me long to identify the main culprit Predictive Text. Latest Videos From TechRadar Watch full video here:

If your messages to ChatGPT, or even just friends on text, are equally strewn with bizarre mistakes and words, then one of Apple 's supposedly helpful keyboard features could be making things worse. Turning off Predictive Text
is a revelation Youll find the off switch inside Settings > General >
Keyboard > Predictive Text . Just slide it to off. I noticed the difference almost immediately. The keyboard suddenly felt calmer, and I stopped finding so many bizarre words in my ChatGPT prompts. You may like I found a hidden ChatGPT setting that changes how hard the AI thinks I let ChatGPT organize my scattered thoughts I gave ChatGPT 7 extra words and the answers instantly got better

Heres the thing I hadnt appreciated: Predictive Text and Auto-Correction aren't the same feature. You can turn off Apple's attempts to guess what you're going to say next without losing the spelling corrections you actually want.

Predictive Text uses the words you've already typed, the context of the sentence and patterns it's learned from your writing to suggest the word or phrase it thinks is coming next. The suggestions appear above the text and inline as grey text. Tapping the spacebar will accept the suggestion. Get daily insight, inspiration and deals in your inbox Sign up for breaking news, reviews, opinion, top tech deals, and more. Contact me with news and offers from other Future brands Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over.

The problem is that when youre writing prompts in ChatGPT you're usually writing unusual, specific sentences, not generic text messages, in which it can more accurately predict what words are likely to come next, so the predictions can be less useful.

With Predictive Text enabled, my iPhone is constantly offering words and completions as I type. Auto-Correction is also working in the background, so the overall experience feels like I'm fighting the keyboard: I type
something, hit the spacebar, and suddenly the text isn't quite what I thought I'd written. With Predictive Text turned off, all of that visual noise disappears, while Auto-Correction can continue fixing obvious spelling mistakes.

Try it for a day and see how you get on. There are a couple of other keyboard tricks that are well worth trying too, which I'll share below. What to read next 5 organizational tricks that improve ChatGPT I turned ChatGPT into my personal fancy font generator 5 tips that make ChatGPT Voice more useful
Reset your Keyboard Dictionary (Image credit: Apple) Another thing you can
try is resetting the Keyboard Dictionary. Years of typos, names, jargon and accidentally accepted corrections have polluted your learned dictionary, leading to bad suggestions in Auto-Correction. What you need is a fresh
start.

Go to Settings > General > Transfer or Reset iPhone > Reset > Reset Keyboard Dictionary . This wipes the custom words your keyboard has learned and
returns it to its default state. Just be very careful not to accidentally choose to reset your whole iPhone! Set up Text Replacements for ChatGPT
(Image credit: Apple) If you want another handy tip for using AI on your iPhone, check out the Text Replacement feature. This is for things like omw which turn into On my way! when typed. The full text appears, and you can insert it by tapping the space bar.

If there are things you type a lot of the time in ChatGPT then you can create Text Replacement features for them. For example ;short could expand to Keep your answer concise and don't repeat my question , or ;spoiler could become Don't reveal anything beyond the episode I've told you I've watched.

This is a genuinely useful ChatGPT power-user trick. To enable this feature
go to Settings > General > Keyboard > Text Replacement , then tap the + button. Enter the full instruction in the Phrase box and the short version
you want to type in Shortcut. One bonus trick My last favorite keyboard feature is the spacebar cursor. You probably know this, but if you dont then its another revelation for making text edits to things youve typed on an iPhone. Hold down the spacebar and the entire keyboard becomes a trackpad, so you can precisely reposition the cursor when ChatGPT prompts get long.

Turning Predictive Text off still remains the best thing I've done on my iPhone for a while. I think the original idea behind Predictive Text was
good, and if Im only ever typing a few text messages a day on my iPhone then
I can live with it. But in the age of AI, where Im continually writing long prompts into ChatGPT, I'm better off without it. Let me know how you get on
if you disable it too. Follow TechRadar on Google News and add us as a preferred source to get our expert news, reviews, and opinion in your feeds.



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