On your Mac, start by going to System Preferences… from the Apple menu on the top left of your screen.Ĭlick on “Keyboard” to proceed, and you’ll see a surprising number of options and settings: The problem is that real spelling correction needs to take context and grammar into account, understanding the difference between “two”, “to” and “too”, for example, and that’s a tough problem!įortunately, one suspects that engineers inside of Apple HQ have similar mixed experiences with autocorrect because they’ve made it quite easy to disable or turn off within the world of Mac OS X, whether you’re running Yosemite or another of the many releases of the popular operating system. Auto-correct is definitely a source of annoyance for a lot of people on both the Mac and Windows system of the aisle, seeming to turn a slightly misspelled word into something completely random and different as often as it fixes “nad” to “and” and “teh” to “the”.
