With the advent of the modern macOS and iOS and their myriad of time saving features, none have been as frustrating, infuriating — and funny — as auto correct; or in Apple lingo — text replacement. Entire websites have been devoted to posting hilarious auto corrections. But for those who may want to forgo these oft embarrassing missives, this How-To is for you. This How-To will cover ways to help you stop either you Mac or iDevice from usurping your preferred words with ones that may not be anywhere near what you intended. We will see the interfaces may be slightly different in macOS vs iOS, but the outcome will be the same once completed.

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To search for the Find text, press Enter, or click Next; to find the previous occurrence, click Previous. To replace all occurrences of the Find text, click Replace All. Note: To undo an operation performed in the Find and Replace window, click in the Canvas to make it active, then choose Edit Undo Text Replace (or press Command-Z). Using Text Replacement Text Replacement is a built-in function on your Mac that allows you to automatically replace one sequence of characters with another. You can use them to fix common typos, make it easier to type long phases, or even allows you to insert longer passages you commonly use when writing.

There are a few ways that both macOS and iOS change or suggest words you may be typing. One way is what Apple calls “Predictive Text”.

Predictive text is an input technology that facilitates typing on a mobile device by suggesting words the end user may wish to insert in a text field. Predictions are based on the context of other words in the message and the first letters typed. How to download spintires plus. Because the end user simply taps on a word instead of typing it it out on a soft keyboard, predictive text can significantly speed up the input process.

Another method is Auto Correct.

Auto-correct is a type of software program that identifies misspelled words, uses algorithms to identify the words most likely to have been intended, and edits the text accordingly. Auto-correct is commonly a feature included in word processors and messaging platforms of various types. Apple, Google and Microsoft products all have their own versions of auto-correct programs.

Now that we know what we are dealing with, how can we tame those funny and infuriating mishaps? In both macOS and iOS there are system level preferences that reside in each OS’s Keyboard Preferences. Though the Keyboard Prefs interface for each OS is different, they will both be able to share any “Text Replacement” shortcuts or definitions you add, on any of your iCloud connected devices.

macOSOn your Mac go to the Apple menu > System Preferences …1: Select Keyboard prefs icon.

2: Select the Text tab.

The function of this text replacement preference is to allow you to add words that you frequently use, and always get auto corrected to a word you don’t want. This is fairly simple. The same word you never want corrected goes in both fields of a new entry. I often use this feature, especialy if I’m trying to type only the begining of someone’s eMail address. So if I don’t want autocorrect to correct “bking” I’d create a shortcut with “bking” in both “Replace & With” fields. You can do this for ANY word you never want autocorrcted — especially for explicatives — for those who might use them. And this can be done on both macOS and iOS.

3: Click the plus button in the Text preference window.

4: Type shortcut text into “Replace” field.

5: Type replacement text into “With” field.

I tend to use easily remembered shortcuts, and also use the same “prefix” for shortcuts that are actual words; i.e.: I use “aazip” when i want to add my zipcode to a field or line of text. I could use any prefix characters, though I try to use “aa” because it can be more easily typed on an iOS keyboard. On a Mac it doesn’t matter much. But to have to go to a second screen on an iOS devise, can be annoying, when you’re trying to cut time using a shortcut. You can also use any prefix you’d like; or none at all. It’s all about personal preference.

The only issue with not using a prefix, is on the Mac if I type the word “zip” I get a Mac text replacement menu pop-up
showing me the zip code replacement text. If I hit the space bar, to type the next word, zip is replaced by 07712; my zip code. But I have to be conscious to hit the Escape Key if I DON’T want that to happen and just type the word zip. Yes … welcome to the quirks, oddities, and annoyances of text replacement.

Once you have at least one text replacement set up, you can turn it on or off in any program by selecting Edit > Substitutions > Text Replacement, if the app supports it.Shortcuts & Text ReplacementsOnce you get use to the concept and ease of use, you can go text replacement crazy — or not. I use text replacement for multiple eMail addresses. Typing the “@” more than once will step through my eMail addresses in the order I have set them up: personal, eMac, etc. Huge time saver. I also use shortcuts for typing characters like “©”, “”, “⌘”. et.al. I use the “##” for my cell number, and ### for home. You get the idea. The possibilities are endless.

How to play hindi songs on flute. There is no character limit on the size of a text replacement, it can be a single character, or several paragraphs/pages of boilerplate text you use frequently, email signatures, full addresses, ad infinitum. The biggest thing is devising a system that works best for you, and that is easy to remember and perform on both macOS and iOS devices.

The added beauty — for those using iCloud — is your shortcuts and replacements will also be copied and work on any iOS device. If you add new shortcuts on your iDevice it will also be copied to your other iCloud connected devices. It is this iCloud connectivity feature that makes text replacement really shine. Being able to type long phrases with a few keystrokes on any supported device.

iOS

1: Open Settings App, Select General

2: Select Keyboard3: Select Text Replacement

4: Click The + Button

5: Enter Phrase & Shortcut

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6: Click Save

And that’s how to create a text replacement shortcut in iOS. Apple has a tendency to not use the same terminology to describe the same function on macOS and iOS. Sometimes this can be both annoying and confusing — especially confusing to new users. On macOS they use “Replace & With” as their text replacement terms, while on iOS they use “Phrase & Shortcut”. Um … WHY? To make it even more confusing they flip the input fields. In macOS you enter the shortcut first “Replace” in iOS you enter the replacement text first “Phrase”. Apple? Really? I know it confused me when I first encountered it in iOS. Just baffling! It’s not bad enough they don’t use the same nomenclature, but flipping the input? Well done Apple! Not! I say this more to make people aware, and less a rant. Yeah … I’m baffled, bothered, and bewildered.

How To Use Text Replacement In iOS1: Type the shortcut.2: Hit Space Bar to insert text.

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Rx forum. It’s that easy. Type the shortcut into the text field, hit the space bar to insert the text replacement phrase. If you don’t want to insert the text replacement, select the first predictive text button. So if I wanted the insert “@@@” rather than my eMail address, I’d hit the first predictive text button “@@@”. Another “trick” . if you don’t have the predictive bar showing in your app, iOS will use text menu pop-ups, like macOS does.
If you want the text replacement, hit the Space Bar, if you don’t want the replacement text, hit the “X” on the pop-up to close the bubble.

And there you have it: How-To: Get A Handle On macOS & iOS Autocorrect And Text Shortcuts. If you have any question, leave a comment or contact me directly.

Text Replacement is a built-in function on your Mac that allows you to automatically replace one sequence of characters with another. You can use them to fix common typos, make it easier to type long phases, or even allows you to insert longer passages you commonly use when writing. They can also help when trying to type special characters or emoji. Text Replacement works in most apps though some have special settings.

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Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with MacMost.comOn today's episode let's look at using Text Replacement on your Mac.You've probably already seen text replacement in action. For instance, watch what I type carefully. Notice that I typed t e h and it instantly changed it to t h e. This is text replacement in action. How does your Mac know to replace teh with the? Well it is not magic. It is simply pulling from a list.If you go to System Preferences, under Keyboard, click on Text. You get a full list of all the text replacements that your Mac can do. Now your list is going to vary from mine depending upon what you have installed and what you have done in the past. But you basically will see things on the left that when you type them will be replaced with things on the right. Sure enough there is teh replaced with the.Let's look at some of the other ones that are here. You can see a few of them help you with special characters without remembering how to actually access them. Like parentheses surrounding a c will give you the copyright symbol. 1/2 will give you the single character for ½ and you've got things like TM replaced with ™ .Let's look in TextEdit here and try some of these. (c) © you can see that one works; 1/2 ½ that one works; TM ™ and that one works. So a quick and easy way to get to these but they are nothing special because you can go in here and you can remove them by simply hitting the minus after one is selected or you can add some of your.Now let's try adding one of our own. With the plus button here let's try tyvm and change that to thank you very much. Hit return. Now I find it can be a little finicky. I bet you it is not going to work right here. Sure enough it didn't. The beginning of a line sometimes it doesn't seem to work for everything. But you can see it works perfectly fine there if I type it further in the line.So I find this is true for even some of the defaults. Sometimes teh will work and sometimes it won't. Like that.There are some great uses for this. For instance say you have a very long email address. Maybe you have several email addresses and one of them is really long. You can type something like email7 and have that changed to your very long email address. Now when you are typing something like this you can see it inserts it and you don't have to type all those characters, perhaps maybe getting some of them wrong.Here is another thing you can do. You can have a very long piece of text. So I have it replace message-sorry with this very long piece of text right here. So I'm going to go in here and I'm going to do it and you can see it put that whole sentence in there. I can make something a lot longer. This could make responding to some emails very easy because you can have a whole sequence of these things and just remember what they are and it will basically insert this in there kind of acting as kind of a buffer like a clipboard for various things you need to type.Now there are individual settings for this in different apps. So, for instance, in TextEdit if you go to Preferences under New Document you have settings here for Text Replacement. I can turn that off for a new document. Also in each individual document I can to Edit and I can go to Substitutions under Edit and turn on or off Text Replacement for the document that I have currently opened.The same thing is true for Pages. In Pages you can go into Edit, Substitutions, and there is Text Replacement as well.So most apps that you use and type text will have something under Edit, Substitutions especially if it is a recent Apple app. Some may not and just have it automatically turned on and others may not support it at all. But most of the standard Mac apps like Mail and Pages and Textedit will allow you to use the substitutions built into the system.You can also use these to make emoji easier to type. So for instance I can do smile with three exclamation points will translate to a smiley face. I'm going to use Command Control and Space for the shortcut to bring up the little control panel here with all of the emoji on it and I'm going to put this guy in there and now when I type smile!!! it will replace it with the little emoji.

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