Disable UITextField Predictive Text

Question

With the release of iOS 8 I would like to disable the predictive text section of the keyboard when I begin typing in a UITextField. Not sure how this is done, any help would be appreciated!

Distressful

This question is semi-out-of-date; at the time it existed, "Predictive Text" was an ambiguous phrase which often was used loosely to mean auto-correct, but these days that phrase generally refers to the native Predictive Text toolbar that appears above the keyboard. The 8-year-old selected-answer deals with the ambiguous meaning, for those of us in the future, wanting to disable the native predictive text bar the following answer is what you are looking for: https://mcmap.net/q/224006/-disable-uitextfield-predictive-text — OP I encourage you to update your selected answer as well. – Gaw

Answer 1

Setting the autoCorrectionType to UITextAutocorrectionTypeNo did the trick

Objective-C

textField.autocorrectionType = UITextAutocorrectionTypeYes;
textField.autocorrectionType = UITextAutocorrectionTypeNo;

Swift 2

textField.autocorrectionType = .Yes
textField.autocorrectionType = .No

Swift 3

textField.autocorrectionType = .yes
textField.autocorrectionType = .no

SwiftUI

textField.disableAutocorrection(true)
textField.disableAutocorrection(false)

Distressful

Careful: myTextField.autocorrectionType = UITextAutocorrectionTypeNo; has to be placed before [myTextField becoreFirstResponder]; to be effective. – Carlycarlye

Does this not disable Auto Correct? The problem here is "Predictive Keyboard Toolbar" being added, but doesn't setting autoCorrection to UITextAutocorrectionTypeNo turn off Auto Correct as well? – Tashia

My question is the other way: can you disable the autocorrection but keep the word suggestions bar? These are two independent functionalities but seem to be controlled by the same setting, really stupid... – Brevier

Damn! i had the same issue as @Janneman, and i was convinced the functionality of "quick type bar" could be combined with "disabling auto correction", since i was seeing this exact behavior on twitter, ig, etc, but no matter what i coded, it would not work on simulator... until i realized that this is a CUSTOMIZATION IN THE USER KEYBOARD SETTINGS (General > Keyboard > Auto-Correction). Just leave it as textField.autocorrectionType = .default, and whether text gets auto corrected will be up to the user, not you, as it should be – Geriatrician

this much high voted ans, but didn't worked. – Corvese

Answer 2

Swift 2

textField.autocorrectionType = .Yes
textField.autocorrectionType = .No

Swift 3

textField.autocorrectionType = .yes
textField.autocorrectionType = .no

Aleron

Answer 3

The chosen answer is correct, but you also have an option to do the same in storyboard.

All you need is to select your textfield, and under "show the Attributes inspector", set Correction to NO.

Dentelle

Answer 4

For me it worked also setting the spellCheckingType as no (iOS 15, Swift 5+)

        textField.autocorrectionType = .no
        textField.spellCheckingType = .no

Dannadannel

This should be the accepted answer, the others only disable siri auto-correct, they don't disable the predictive text bar like spellCheckingType does. Thanks! – Gaw

Answer 5

like this you on or off UITextAutocorrectionType

myTextView.autocorrectionType = UITextAutocorrectionTypeNo;  
myTextView.autocorrectionType = UITextAutocorrectionTypeYes;

Bitartrate

Is there any way to do this but keep the auto correct functionality? – Photogenic

Answer 6

Setting autocorrectionType to .no allowed my tableview to scroll to the last entry. With predictive text on the last line was blocked from being selected.

Tithable

Answer 7

FIXED for SWIFT-3:

myTextField.autocorrectionType = .no

Bobinette

Answer 8

if you are using storyboard select your Text Field and under the attributes inspector -

Correction = No
Smart Insert = No 

Phrensy

Answer 9

[_textfield setTextContentType:0];

Recover

The textContentType property of UITextField is of type UITextContentType which is an alias for NSString. Assigning a value of 0 is the same as assigning nil (textfield.textContentType = nil). As the documentation for textContentType states, nil is the default value. So setting it to nil would not change the default behavior. – Citreous

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