How to turn off autocorrect on iPhone

What changed: the screenshots are now our own iPhone 17e on iOS 27.0.1, dark mode, and the wording is checked against those screens.

howtosimply.com/guides/how-to-turn-off-autocorrect-on-iphone/ · Checked October 2026 · iPhone 17e · iOS 27.0.1

4 of 4 steps with real screenshots · 1 official source below

Device

iPhone

Shown on

iOS 27.0.1 (iPhone 17e)

App

Settings

Path

Settings › General › Keyboard

Real screenshots

4 of 4 steps

What we did

Performed: we made the change on our device and show the result

Checked

October 2026

Sources

1 official, linked below

Step by step

1. 

   Open Settings and tap General

   Open the grey Settings icon and tap General.

   Watch these steps Done

2. 

   Tap Keyboard

   It is in the group with Fonts, Dictionary and Language & Region. The page that opens is titled Keyboards.

   Done

3. 

   Switch off Auto-Correction

   Scroll to the All Keyboards section. Tap the switch next to Auto-Correction so it turns grey. The picture shows ours after we switched it off.

   Done

4. 

   Decide about the other helpers

   Predictive Text shows word suggestions above the keyboard. Show Predictions Inline writes a grey suggestion ahead of your cursor. Auto-Capitalisation starts sentences with a capital letter. Each has its own switch in the same list. This picture was taken before we switched off Auto-Correction, so its switch is still green here.

   Done

What changed: the screenshots are now our own iPhone 17e on iOS 27.0.1, dark mode, and the wording is checked against those screens.

Watch these steps

If you do not see this option

• Change it from the keyboard. While typing, touch and hold the emoji or globe key and tap Keyboard Settings. On our iPhone 17e the menu listed Keyboard Settings, English (US) and Emoji. Source: Type with the onscreen keyboard on iPhone
• Your iPhone runs iOS 16 or earlier. Apple says the underline on corrected words, which you tap to undo a correction, came with iOS 17. Source: Use Auto-Correction and predictive text on your iPhone
• You use a keyboard app from the App Store. This switch is for the Apple keyboard. A keyboard app such as Gboard has its own autocorrect setting inside that app.

If this does not work

• Spelling mistakes are still underlined. That is Check Spelling and Grammar, a separate switch in the same list. It was on on our iPhone.
• A word is still replaced. Check Text Replacement on the Keyboards page: a shortcut listed there is replaced by its phrase even with Auto-Correction off. Source: Save keystrokes with text replacements on iPhone
• The keyboard keeps suggesting a wrong word. Settings, General, Transfer or Reset iPhone, Reset, Reset Keyboard Dictionary. Apple warns that this deletes all custom words and shortcuts. Source: Save keystrokes with text replacements on iPhone

About this guide

Autocorrect is helpful until it keeps replacing a name, a word in another language or slang with something you did not mean. You can switch it off completely, or keep it and teach it the words it gets wrong.

The screenshots are our own, taken on an iPhone 17e running iOS 27.0.1, in dark mode.

Good to know

To keep autocorrect but stop one wrong correction, add the word as a text replacement: on the Keyboards page tap Text Replacement, tap the plus sign, and type the same word in both Phrase and Shortcut.

When autocorrect changes a word, tap the underlined word to see what you typed and switch back.

In short: Settings, General, Keyboard, switch off Auto-Correction.