Predictive text is disabled in my iPhone and ipad

Did you pull up on the tab? It's right above the "T" and "Y" buttons. You need to swipe up or down to enable or disable.
Is the picture it is disabled. Swipe up to enable.

you could also tap and hold that smiley next to the space bar to toggle predictive, on/off...

Gryfter said:

you could also tap and hold that smiley next to the space bar to toggle predictive, on/off...

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I liked the good old "Skeuomorphic" Apple where you didn't need an instruction manual or psychic powers to know how to work everything... And it really did work as expected, not like all this fragmented iCloud Drive crap.

I'm having the same problem on iPad Mini Retina. The predictive text is greyed out when I long press the globe button, and I can't enable it.

EDIT: it only works in certain places. It suddenly works when in Notability, I try to edit the name of the Subject. the predictive text does NOT work in Safari, Spotlight, and some other places. Why though?

I was having the same problem. I switched the predictive text off, backed out the screen, went back in and turned it back on. For some reason, it worked.

Jimrod said:

I liked the good old "Skeuomorphic" Apple where you didn't need an instruction manual or psychic powers to know how to work everything... And it really did work as expected, not like all this fragmented iCloud Drive crap.

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Apple actually showed this in the Keynote.. I honestly don't know how to turn it on/off any other way.

i'd assume it's in the keyboard settings somewhere though.

Gryfter said:

you could also tap and hold that smiley next to the space bar to toggle predictive, on/off...

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Thanks. Didn't know that was there. Touching the line above the Y does nothing.

TheBacklash said:

Apple actually showed this in the Keynote.. I honestly don't know how to turn it on/off any other way.

i'd assume it's in the keyboard settings somewhere though.

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Settings->general->keyboard predictive text toggle is in keyboard. Or hold down the globe or smiley face.

miamialley said:

Thanks. Didn't know that was there. Touching the line above the Y does nothing.

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You don't touch it, you grab and drag it up.

Gryfter said:

you could also tap and hold that smiley next to the space bar to toggle predictive, on/off...

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Ntombi said:

You don't touch it, you grab and drag it up.

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Believe me I did everything. I'm no noob.

benh911f said:

Did you pull up on the tab? It's right above the "T" and "Y" buttons. You need to swipe up or down to enable or disable.
Is the picture it is disabled. Swipe up to enable.

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Gryfter said:

you could also tap and hold that smiley next to the space bar to toggle predictive, on/off...

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Thank's to both of you. Very useful info.

Predictive Text

Under general>keyboard>predictive text is turned on, however, the predictive text bar does not show above the keyboard and neither does the small white dash. When I tap and hold the emoji key, the predictive text slide bar is turned off and when I try to slide it on, it won't turn on and the pop-up option box disappears. I am stuck on this problem. I have tried powering down, to no avail. Any help is appreciated...

Hi everybody.
Predictive text is only enabled where it can learn from our writing style, so it won't work (i.e. it is greyed out in the "change keyboard" tab and the handle bad above keys doesn't show up) in search boxes, like spotlight or safari URL/search bar.
It is automatically re-enabled when writing emails, text messages or in social network apps (Facebook, Twitter, whatsapp, etc.)

Hope I could shed some light on this

Overg said:

I just installed ios 8 and predictive text is disabled both in my iPhone and my ipad.
I checked in the settings and it is enabled. Any idea why this could happen?
( I have two languages installed, and I get the same old keyboard in English)

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I have found that if you are using Google, Bing, etc. and predictive text is turned ON under settings, yet there is NO white bar to pull up on the keyboard...switch the Google, Bing version to desktop instead of mobile version and the predictive text option reappears.

For me - it is turned on in settings but doesn't show up unless I touch above the Y - then it is on and shows up non-greyed out above emoji - then next time in - not on and greyed out again?????