5 Ways to Clear Keyboard History on iPhone

The native keyboard on iOS learns from your typing habits on iPhone to provide word suggestions as you type and automatically corrects misspelled words to the words you intended. While this is a useful feature at work, it can become quite annoying when the keyboard autocorrects the words you want to type yourself without providing suggestions.

If you find that word predictions on your iPhone keyboard are inaccurate, it may be because Keyboard History has accumulated your typing habits and common vocabulary. To fix this problem, you can clear your keyboard history. In this article, we will introduce you how to disable and clear keyboard history on iPhone. This way, you make room for new words, improving typing accuracy.

What is stored in Keyboard History on iPhone?

Keyboard History for iPhone saves a list of words you type frequently to give you suggestions or auto-corrections when needed. While this can be helpful for typing efficiency, it can also be frustrating at times. Sometimes it will correct the word you typed to the word you wanted, but other times it will automatically suggest or replace some irrelevant words. Therefore, keyboard history can be both a blessing and a curse.

Over use and time, iPhone's Keyboard History may have compiled a list of new words and typing patterns that are saved to the dictionary as you type. This data includes names, nicknames, and even custom words that only you can use. All of this data is then used to provide predictive text and autocorrect every time you type using the built-in keyboard on your iPhone.

iOS does not provide a way for users to access or view words that the phone has learned from typing patterns, so you cannot view or edit keyboard history. Luckily, there are ways to disable or reset keyboard history on your iPhone, which we'll explain in the guide below.

How to Disable Keyboard History on iPhone [5 Methods]

Method 1: Disable Predictive Text

If you don’t want to use it without deleting the history itself iPhone saves keyboard history from the typing experience, and you can temporarily disable keyboard history on your device. This can be done by turning off predictive text on iPhone, which prevents your device from learning new words and making suggestions while typing on the keyboard.

1. To temporarily disable Keyboard History, open the Settings app on your iPhone.
   
2. In Settings, scroll down and select General.
   
3. On the next screen, tap Keyboard.
   
4. In the keyboard screen, turn off the predictive toggle to temporarily disable keyboard history.
   
5. Also, if you don’t want the device to automatically correct your words, you can also turn off the AutoCorrect switch under “All Keyboards.”
   

When you turn these features off, iPhone will no longer learn new words, make related suggestions, or automatically correct words you type on the keyboard. This is a great way to disable Keyboard History if you don't want to completely delete the list of words your iPhone saves in Keyboard History.

Method 2: Reset Keyboard Dictionary

You can clear your iPhone’s keyboard history by resetting its keyboard dictionary in iOS Settings. Doing so will delete any words you've saved while typing on the native iOS keyboard and clear your typing patterns from the device. This process is irreversible; this means your device's dictionary will be restored to the state it was in when you first started using your iPhone.

1. To clear keyboard history on iOS, open the Settings app on your iPhone.
   
2. In Settings, scroll down and select General.
   
3. On the next screen, scroll to the bottom and tap "Transfer" or "Reset iPhone."
   
4. On the "Transfer or Reset iPhone" screen that appears next, tap "Reset" at the bottom.
   
5. You will see a pop-up menu on your screen. On this menu, select Reset Keyboard Dictionary.
   
6. iOS will now prompt you for your device passcode.
   
7. After entering your password, you should see a prompt at the bottom asking you to confirm the action. At this prompt, click "Reset Dictionary" to continue.
   

When you do this, iOS will begin clearing your keyboard history, including learned words and your typing habits. Your iPhone will then restart, and upon restarting, the native keyboard will be restored to the way it was when you first purchased the device.

Method 3: Clear iPhone’s Clipboard

If you plan to clear words or content copied to the clipboard, there is no need to reset the iPhone’s keyboard dictionary. While your phone's clipboard can only hold a message you've copied from somewhere, third-party apps can access those copied texts without your permission. If you have recently copied your account username or password from a screen, you can prevent such applications from reading your clipboard by clearing it beforehand.

iOS does not allow users to clear the iPhone’s clipboard natively. However, since there is only one copied piece of content that needs to be deleted from it, you can clear the clipboard by copying the empty space to the clipboard. This way, the blank space will cover the text you copied earlier.

If you find the above method troublesome, you can use a shortcut to clear the clipboard for you. You can learn how to clear your clipboard using the Shortcuts app by checking out the post in the link below.

▶︎How to Clear Clipboard in iOS

Method 4: Remove Words from Text Replacement

iOS allows you to assign using the Text Replacement feature in Settings Short characters rather than long words or phrases. Here, you can add a bunch of words to the dictionary and have iOS automatically enter them when you type the abbreviation. For example, you can specify "omg" to type "Oh my God" into the text box, and iOS will automatically suggest or replace the abbreviated characters with the actual word or phrase.

If you no longer want your iPhone to correct certain characters, or want to modify them to type something else, you can do so by accessing the Text Replacement tool in iOS Settings. From there, you can delete words or phrases you added to your iPhone so that iOS won't replace those characters with the assigned word in the future.

1. To remove words from Text Replacement, open the Settings app on your iPhone.
   
2. In Settings, scroll down and select General.
   
3. On the next screen, tap Keyboard.
   
4. When the keyboard screen opens, select Text Replacement.
   
5. On this screen, find the word/phrase you want to remove from the text replacement. Once you find the item you want to delete, swipe left to reveal additional options.
   
6. You can now delete the selected word/phrase from your iPhone by tapping "Delete" on the right.
   
   The selected word/phrase will now be removed from the Text Replacement screen.
7. Also, you can delete multiple words from this screen by clicking Edit in the lower left corner.
   
8. When the text replacement screen enters edit mode, tap the red minus sign (-) icon to the left of the word you want to delete.
   
9. To confirm deletion, click Delete on the right.
   
10. You can repeat this action to remove more words or phrases from the Text Replacement screen. When you're done removing unnecessary words or phrases, click "Done" in the lower left corner to save your changes.
    

#The text replacement screen will now only contain words that you have not deleted, from now on your iPhone will not replace certain characters with previously assigned words or phrases.

Method 5: Clear Keyboard History from the Gboard App

The above method should help clear or delete certain aspects of the keyboard history from the native iOS keyboard. If you have Gboard installed on your iPhone, you may need to manually clear its history from within the app. The same applies if you have any other third-party keyboard apps installed on your iPhone.

1. To clear your keyboard history on Gboard, open the Gboard app on your device.
   
2. When the app opens, select Keyboard Settings.
   
3. On the keyboard settings screen, scroll down and tap Clear my dictionary.
   
4. In the prompt that appears, click OK to confirm your decision.
   
5. Gboard will now delete and reset the app’s dictionary on your iPhone. Additionally, you can clear Gboard’s search history and prevent it from searching for contacts while typing. To do this, select Search Settings in the Gboard app.
   
6. In Search settings, turn off the Contact search switch at the top to stop Gboard from suggesting contacts' names on the keyboard.
   
7. On the same screen, click Clear Gboard search history to delete all terms and queries you entered in Gboard search.
   
8. To confirm your action, click OK on the next prompt.
   

You will now successfully clear Gboard’s keyboard history.

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