How to disable text tips in UITextField?

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Is there a way to disable useless and annoying pop up text tips in UITextField and UISearchBar like this on the screen?.

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How can I do this?

I couldn't find any property responsible for this.

`Useless and annoying`? You know those are auto corrects right? I certainly find them useful and helpful. Be certain you want to disable them as I hate fields that turn this off unnecessarily. — James Webster, Jan 04 '13 at 16:19

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 04 '13 at 16:15

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If you have created your view in Interface Builder, click on the text field, and then from the Attributes inspector (4th icon of 6), set Correction to No. This seems to work for me.

answered Jan 04 '13 at 16:15

BP.

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score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 04 '13 at 16:16

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I believe you need to set the autocorrectiontype for the text field:

http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/uikit/reference/UITextInputTraits_Protocol/Reference/UITextInputTraits.html#//apple_ref/occ/intfp/UITextInputTraits/autocorrectionType

So to switch it off I would use something along the lines of:

myTextField.autocorrectionType = UITextAutocorrectionTypeNo;

answered Jan 04 '13 at 16:16

Keab42

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As @James Webster says in his comment on the original post, do make sure that you have a specific reason for disabling this functionality, there's a reason it's on by default. – Keab42 Jan 04 '13 at 16:25

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 04 '13 at 16:19

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You can set the setAutoCorrectionType: property of UITextField to UITextAutoCorrectionTypeNo

[yourField setAutoCorrectionType:UITextAutoCorrectionTypeNo];

answered Jan 04 '13 at 16:19

Midhun MP

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@0x7fffffff: I was typing my answer, I saw his answer after posting this. – Midhun MP Jan 04 '13 at 16:20

How to disable text tips in UITextField?

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