How do I stop Apple Pages from completing words or sentences as I type (predictive text, AI, How to Turn This Off)
A client of mine noticed recently that as he was typing in Apple’s PAGES program, that it would start to finish the word or phrase as he was typing it (this text is in light grey). It was suggesting or predicting what he was going to type. He found it annoying and disconcerting.
This is way beyond spelling auto correct. It’s is called “predictive text“. I assume part of Apple Intelligence (AI). Apple’s predictive text AI in Pages has added a “feature” that is anticipating or predicting what it thinks you are typing and starts to complete the words in light grey. As you type, macOS attempts to finish words and phrases that it thinks you’re trying to type!
This is way beyond “Auto Correcting” your spelling.
We looked in Settings in Pages if there was some way to turn this off but no – I did not find any kind of “on / off” setting for this in Pages Setting.
I had to search for HOW TO DISABLE this. It was a little trickier than I thought.
Here is HOW TO DISABLE PREDICTIVE TEXT MAC
Go to SYSTEM SETTINGS (Apple Menu)
One the left select KEYBOARD. Next to INPUT SOURCES select EDIT. In the next window, select SHOW INLINE PREDICTIVE TEXT
Toggle it OFF to disable that happening in Pages or other programs.
While you are here you can decide about a few other settings such as Capitalize Words Automatically and Correct Spelling Automatically. That one I tend to keep on. But the Predictive Text might be a bit intrusive and/or annoying.
If you would like a very detailed step by step How To please see this link about How To Disable Predictive Text
https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/how-to-disable-macos-inline-predictive-text
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