by Autocorrect is a boon from the computer gods for anyone engaged in tiny-screen typing, but it’s also the bane of every iPhone and iPad user’s existence. You can accept the gift and avoid the grief by paying attention to a few details.
Go away!
Mistype a word—or even start typing a word properly—and autocorrect charges into the fray, offering a helpful suggestion to correct the misspelling or to save you the bother of completing the word letter by letter. And there’s the first potential problem: If you’ve actually finished an unrecognized but correctly spelled word and you type a space or a punctuation mark, or tap Return, autocorrect will infer that you’ve accepted the substitution it recommended.
According to Apple’s instructions, the way to dismiss an autocorrect bubble is to tap the tiny X inside the bubble. Fortunately, you don’t have to be that precise: Tap anywhere in the bubble to reject it.
That’s not much help on an iPad when the bubble happens to be far from the keyboard. Fortunately, you can overrule an autocorrect suggestion from the keyboard: Tap the Delete key, retype the last letter, and the suggestion disappears.
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