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No Spelling Help From iPhone

Q. Is there a way to turn off the iPhone’s automatic spelling correction? It gets in the way when typing.

A. Early versions of the iPhone’s system software did not include a way to turn off the automatic correction feature that pops up and replaces words it assumes are spelled or typed incorrectly. However, Apple recently added an onscreen switch to disable the automatic correction.

You need to download and install version 2.2 of the iPhone system software at www.apple.com/iphone/softwareupdate if you haven’t done so already.

Once the iPhone is updated, tap the Settings icon on the Home screen. On the next screen, tap General, scroll down and tap Keyboard. At the top of the Keyboard screen is an On-Off button to tap for the Auto Correction feature. Tap the button to Off.

Several other settings for the iPhone’s keyboard can be adjusted here as well. These include a feature that automatically capitalizes the first letter of the next word after a period, as well as a shortcut that inserts a period followed by a space when the keyboard’s space bar is tapped twice.

[Thanks: http://www.nytimes.com]

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