How can I turn off autocorrect, which is a constant irritation-can’t get anything from Apple Support. I run OS X Yosemite. I turned it off in Office.
Auto-correct is definitely a source of annoyance for a lot of people on both the Mac and Windows system of the aisle, seeming to turn a slightly misspelled word into something completely random and different as often as it fixes “nad” to “and” and “teh” to “the”. The problem is that real spelling correction needs to take context and grammar into account, understanding the difference between “two”, “to” and “too”, for example, and that’s a tough problem!
Fortunately, one suspects that engineers inside of Apple HQ have similar mixed experiences with autocorrect because they’ve made it quite easy to disable or turn off within the world of Mac OS X, whether you’re running Yosemite or another of the many releases of the popular operating system.
On your Mac, start by going to System Preferences… from the Apple menu on the top left of your screen.
Then look for “Keyboard“:
Click on “Keyboard” to proceed, and you’ll see a surprising number of options and settings:
There’s actually a lot here you can fine tune to improve your experience with Mac OS X, including keyboard brightness if you have an illuminating keyboard (mostly laptops) and the key repeat speed. Note also that if you use emoji while on your Mac you can get an emoji menu to show up on the menu bar just like you would on an iOS device by checking “Show Keyboard, Emoji, & Symbol Views in menu bar.”
I don’t have that checked because I already have too darn many things on my menu bar, but your experience may well be different!
To proceed with disabling autocorrect on my MacBook, click on the “Text” tab near the top.
Now you’ll see a set of options:
They don’t call it “autocorrect” here, but Apple’s got ya covered: Just uncheck “Correct spelling automatically” and you should be good to go, free to make all the typos you’d like!
Notice that if you do want to enable it, there are some great ones to add, like “adn” for “and” and “teh” for “the”. Sloppy fingers and no-one will ever know.
Hope that helps ya out!