iPadOS 18 Notes - How do I turn off spell check for handwriting?

This does NOT work. It is only for preventing automatic handwriting refinement rather than for turning off the spell check as a whole. These are 2 different functionalities and let’s not confuse the two of them.

To reiterate - we are looking to turn OFF the blue squiggles underneath handwritten words (and also underneath drawings/scribbles, erroneously enough). This means we want to turn OFF spell check for anything rendered through the Apple Pencil on Apple Notes.

Found out it's all were Dictionaries settings

Just disable English dictionaries and blue lines disappear

the issue is system wide . you are correct . For example in goodnotes there is a button "check spelling" .With this feature on the blue lines appear .If you turn it off disappear .

that is what notes app need (and again goodnotes will still be better )

probably apple is very busy to fix that

No, they haven’t.

I’ve just installed iPadOS 18.6, and Apple still hasn’t fixed the bug.

This is the second time you’ve posted inaccurate information in this thread. I wish there were a feature to block unhelpful members.

Hi uux. Imagine that magiaros is actually correct - if so, I'm surprised nobody is elaborating and telling you how to enable it... Or perhaps they are, and their posts keep getting removed for some reason? Idk though, just pure speculation!

On an entirely unrelated note, Liquid Glass is very pretty - really looking forward to trying it out in the next version of iPadOS... A great shame that there's just no possible way to try it out sooner. I think the prettiness of Liquid Glass would fix a lot of my problems with the current version of iPadOS. Guess I'll have to wait and see ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

it is a good thing that apple listens

ok this issue was for some time now but finally apple listens and fixed it

this is important to listen to customers

the probability of selling something is far less if a lot o people cannot use it or cannot use it the way they want especially with this kind of competition from other manufacturers

I hate those ugly spell check blue dots too. I have mathematics notes and even if I turn math suggestions off, it still spell checks all math letters and is outright irritating.

Thank you, this is what I came here to disable, I don’t care about the lines, but I don’t like that it fixes my handwriting automatically lol

yes, you are right, after i restarted ipad - they appeared back :(

It is disabled, didn't work for me

General > Dictionary > turn off "Apple Dictionary"

it worked after a restart

thanks!

I have tried this several times and it does not work for me. Even with the restart, the lines come back in a few seconds.

try to delete and turn off all the dictionaries not just apple dictionary

then restart

it worked for an hour then again blue lines

this is very annoying

lets hope a solution from apple

It’s not only in the notes app. It’s system wide. Writing on screenshots, pdfs, photos etc. It might have been wise to read more comments and conduct thorough tests before posting, don’t you think?