It is time to clear the keyboard history on iPhone, when you find your device frequently coming up with incorrect, misspelled or unwanted word and phrase suggestions, while you are typing.
As you must have guessed it, the words and phrases (including misspelled words) that your iPhone is suggesting are based on your own keyboard history.
Hence, it is a good idea to get into the habit of refreshing the keyboard history on your iPhone by clearing its Keyboard history on a regular basis.
Clear Keyboard History on iPhone
The default Setting on iPhone is to allow the keyboard to learn from your typing style, so that it can automatically come up with the same/similar words and phrases that you are likely to use in your conversation.
While this feature can helpful, it often goes wrong and hinders typing by suggesting incorrect or misspelled words and unnecessarily replacing typed words with incorrect or unwanted words.
The solution for this problem is to clear the keyboard history on iPhone and a long lasting solution is to disable the Predictive Text feature.
1. Clear Keyboard History on iPhone
You can follow the steps below to clear the Keyboard History on your iPhone.
1. Go to Settings > General > Transfer or Reset iPhone > Reset.
2. On the Reset screen, select Reset Keyboard Dictionary option.
This will erase all the words that iPhone has learnt from your typing, including all misspelled words, pet names or code words stored in the Keyboard Dictionary.
2. Disable Auto-Correction
Another solution is to disable the Auto-Correction feature, which still allows iPhone to suggest words, but prevents it from automatically correcting your typed words.
1. Go to Settings > General > Keyboard.
2. On the next screen, move the toggle next to Auto-Correction to OFF position.
After this, you should no longer find your iPhone automatically correcting words that you type in iMessage and other Apps.
3. Permanently Disable Keyboard History on iPhone
If you do not want the hassle of clearing keyboard history from time to time, you can prevent iPhone from monitoring your typing and adding words to keyboard history by disabling Predictive Text.
1. Go to Settings > General > Keyboard.
2. On the next screen, move the toggle next to Predictive Text to OFF position.
After this, you will no longer find your iPhone bothering you with word suggestions and replacing typed words.