My iPhone keyboard was becoming infuriating for typing AI prompts— I changed these 3 settings, and ChatGPT is now much easier to use

As I wrote my latest message to ChatGPT today something inside me broke.

I hit Send, then looked back at what I’d written, and noticed that the message was once again littered with typos.

“Sorry, it’s very har ld to type on an iPhone keyboard.” I typed next, as if to prove my point.

Sigh.

At this point I decided that this couldn't go on.

I’d had it with the iPhone keyboard, and I was going to experiment with its settings until I found a way to make it better.

In the end it didn’t take me long to identify the main culprit — Predictive Text.

If your messages to ChatGPT, or even just friends on text, are equally strewn with bizarre mistakes and words, then one of Apple's supposedly helpful keyboard features could be making things worse.

Turning off Predictive Text is a revelation You’ll find the off switch inside Settings > General > Keyboard > Predictive Text .

Just slide it to off.

I noticed the difference almost immediately.

The keyboard suddenly felt calmer, and I stopped finding so many bizarre words in my ChatGPT prompts.

Here’s the thing I hadn’t appreciated: Predictive Text and Auto-Correction aren't the same feature.

You can turn off Apple's attempts to guess what you're going to say next without losing the spelling corrections you actually want.