I used to be able to always tap in the black areas of a text box to make the cursor jump to the end and tap between words to make the cursor jump there. Now, often when I do that, OS17 selects the entire word and shows me suggestions for replacements of the closest word to where the cursor would jump instead. How do I disable that?

  • notfromhere
    2·
    1 year ago

    I recently updated to 17 as well and was able to disable it by turning off “Auto-Correction” and “Predictive” from General->Keyboard. A lot to give up for that new “feature” to stop getting in the way. You could also tap and hold then move the cursor to the end; I think that still works.

    Apple just wants to keep making the text input experience worse and worse it seems.

    • BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      10 months ago

      Thanks! That really helped! It’s way better to type again. I switched from SwiftKey but that app seemed kind of better at learning how you write.