I have an iPad mini – one of the earliest ones. It has worked well for the past four years, but recently I did a reset – and the predictive text appeared. Not only do I not want it – it is actually making typing impossible because most of my mail messages are in a language that Apple clearly has NO concept of.

I remember having turned this feature off (from the keyboard itself) when I first got the device. Now, after the reset, suddenly there is no such option. In General> Accessibilty > Keyboard there is only the “show lower case keys” button (and then three options for “hardware keyboards”, none of which is applicable). In short, there is no “shortcuts” button (or any of the options listed in your article). There is also no such key on the keyboard itself.

Does anyone have any idea of how to disable it?
Thanks.

Thank you, KO

I can’t use predictive text while using ANY search, whether it’s Google, YouTube, Spotlight (app) Search, Settings Search, Yahoo, the URL bar, Twitter Search, FanFiction Search, and the option is off and greyed out whenever any of those searches, and many more searches, are being used, so I cannot turn it on, yet it is turned on in Settings! This is also glitching/breaking Dictation (I assume because of Siri’s Autocorrect) and it is EXTREMELY annoying!

And now it is there again!

Disable Predictive Text iOS 8

To turn it off, head to Settings > General > Keyboard and flip the Predictive switch to Off. That’s all there is to it. Now the keyboard will operate just like it did in previous versions of iOS, without the predictive text bugging you.

Yes! Help!!! Her voice is making me nuts!!!

I tried to turn Siri off to stop the voice from speaking my words that I was typing. I found that if I type very quickly the words she try’s to say get cut off mid-word. But even now she is saying words I’m not even typing..
I thought this was meant to be smart. It just sounds like its having a breakdown… Or it’s got torettes syndrome…

Please fix this problem, who ever is out there, and please I don’t want Siri to help. The voice is so annoying after the constant interruptions when I’m writing a message or typing anything.

Yes I also want to know how to take the speaking predictive person/computer voice off.is very very annoying.
Also the keyboard is slightly higher than where it’s supposed to be, and when I’m typing in some apps and social media sites I can’t see what I am typing, I have to keep tapping the keyboard down button in the bottom right hand corner of the keyboard. Please help. Is there anyway I can reset without loosing all my data and other settings? I just want to be able to reset my touch keyboard that pops up whenever I need to type something.

Hi Juliette – it’s even easier now that we have the solution posted by ‘O K’ above! I’m sure I was accidentally swiping the bar to lose it but always tried to ‘click and drag’ it to restore, when I should have been ‘swiping’!

Its a known software bug

you might be accidentally swiping the quicktext box up and down. If you tap and swipe the grey quicktext box down, it will be hidden. Swipe up to make it show up again.

you might be accidentally swiping the quicktext box up and down. If you tap and swipe the grey quicktext box down, it will be hidden. Swipe up to make it show up again.

Thanks Eric, I was searching for a solution to this very problem of predictive text option disappearing, now I know what to do when that happens. Cheers.

Today, she found, on investigating, that click and hold on the emoticon icon, at the bottom of the keyboard, produces a ‘fly-out menu’ giving the option to switch predictive text on or off!

Sorted!