Macbook Autocorrect and/or AI alterations - add your problems here

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Macbook Autocorrect and/or AI alterations - add your problems here

This is in 2 parts.

First - the problem. I type the correct words I wish to use, and the AI/Autocorrect amends to something totally wrong. Not just the last word, could be the last couple of words, and it does so SILENTLY, so I don't know until much later.

Is there a sensible way to change this behaviour, whilst allowing the common typos to be corrected ?

Second - if other people are experiencing this/these issues, would you care to add a comment/ example to this thread so we can suggest that Apple Pay attention to this issue.

applies to Mail and to Pages main use cases, and probably other text too

MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 15.0

Posted on Feb 1, 2025 08:22 AM

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Answer 1

VikingOSX

Level 10

122,136 points

Feb 1, 2025 12:16 PM in response to Old_Yorkshireman

No posts here will be read by Apple as no Apple employees participate here. These are just fellow Mac users volunteering their time to help other users.

If you want to communicate directly with the Pages product team, the Application menu has a Provide Pages Feedback menu item. That is the only content that the Pages product team will see.

In Pages for Mac, visit the Edit menu > Spelling and Grammar > Show Spelling and Grammar panel. Make certain that the language choice is not Automatic by Language, but by your specific language. In System Settings > General > Language & Region, ensure your language is the first Preferred language, and you have the correct Region set.

The last paragraph may not fix all of the Pages Spelling & Grammar issues, but it is a start in the right direction. If you are certain that you have spelled a word correctly, you can right-click on that word and select Learn from the secondary menu.

Check spelling in Pages on Mac - Apple Support

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Answer 2

Feb 1, 2025 02:41 PM in response to Old_Yorkshireman

Thanks for suggestions, to be clear. 'Autocorrect' is(was) helpful in correcting the spelling of words. The setting as it exists in Sequoia 15.0.1 is clear 'Correct spelling'

It does NOT say that it will invent new words for a context existing only in the OS's imagination. When I mistype a sequence of lettres I would like it to, say, flash something, and correct lettres to letters. no more. I can use the substitute feature to expand out shortcuts, and add my frequent mistypes of, say teh instead of the.

Unless invited, I don't wish any system to make changes to what I'm writing.

The more so as I frequently write about archaic skills and artefacts, about which no AI has a clue, let alone Apple intelligence - and why should they?

Sounds a bit ranty doesn't it, but there is real functionality available if only the implementation were better, and a quick straw poll amongst other users, with use cases, from the real world may help to formulate a rational case to put to Apple via the usual channels.

I used to design interfaces and systems, I know how they should work, and notice when they are sub standard.

R

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Answer 3

VikingOSX

Level 10

122,136 points

Feb 2, 2025 06:49 AM in response to Old_Yorkshireman

Apple has not put the effort into Pages so-called auto-correction process that Microsoft has spent 38 years incorporating into the paid MS Word. There is a litany of third-party word processing choices available to you that may have improved auto-correction capability over the free Pages application.

Historically, some have disabled auto-correct until they are done with the document and then asked Pages to check spelling and grammar on the whole document. That may give back some productivity and perhaps, only delay angst.

I happen to use the free Grammarly for Mac with Pages and keep Pages auto-correction off.

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Answer 4

Zurarczurx

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Feb 1, 2025 12:22 PM in response to Old_Yorkshireman

You can turn autocorrect off. I have.

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