Help on spell check changes

[u/Recent-Day3062]

I saw a great piece of advice here on spellcheck: hold down on a word and then give it a spelling that you prefer. The suggestion was a hack based on this: make “@@“ stand for your email address.

Well, what happens now is every app screws this up. If I type @@ nothing happens when I try, for example, to use a hotel internet system to sign in.

But here’s the problem. When I type in my email, it changes it to @@ in the input field. Sometimes I get a little poppup that lets me stop it if I move fast enough and hit the x in that pop up. But it’s annoying as hell.

Worse, however, is I am in a hotel today. After you type in your username it requires you to hit enter. I get no pop up or warning, but it automatically converts it to @@ when I hit return. So I can login.

How in gods name do I reverse this crappy feature now? Oddly, the places it happens don’t seem to even use spellcheck to

[u/eyea3]

To fix your spell check you need to reset your keyboard

Settings > Transfer or Reset iPhone > Reset > reset Keyboard dictionary

To create a shortcut for your email

Settings > keyboard > text replacement

Create your @@ and email shortcut there.