Question :
Recently I have encountered some extremely frustrating behavior of Safari :
whenever I need to typ my eMail-address in any online form, Safari screws up my eMail-address even though I’m 100% sure I’ve typed correctly !
I’ve figured out that this is because the automatic spelling corrector in Safari doesn’t recognize my name when I typ it without any capitals, and then thinks I’ve made a typo (even before I have typed the @ in my eMail-address) and then instantly autocorrects it to some similar word from the dictionary…
How can I stop Safari from such idiotic and frustrating behavior ?
Answer :
The spelling corrector in Safari isn’t a separate spelling corrector, but it’s OSX’s system-wide spelling corrector. So the simplest option is to either shut off OSX’s built-in spelling corrector alltogether, or to learn it to recognize your eMail-address.
Here’s how to do that :
– go to the Apple-icon top-left in the main menu bar
– in the pulldown menu that appears, click on “System Preferences”
– in the “System Preferences”-window that opens, click on “Keyboard” [in OSX 10.11 El_Capitan and OSX 10.10 Yosemite] or “Language & Text” [in OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion and MacOSX 10.6 Snow Leopard] (for other versions of OSX and MacOSX, you might need to click on one of the other icons)
– in the “Keyboard”-window (or “Language & Text”-window) that opens, click on the “Text”-tab
– then click on the “+”-button below the “Replace/With”-table
– then, at “Replace” typ the part of your eMail-address that is on the left of the @-sign (normally, that would be your name without capitals, sometimes with a dot or an underscore between your first and your last name), and at “With” typ exactly the same (so, the left part of your eMail-address)
Note : to shut of OSX’s automatic spelling corrector entirely, you could remove the checkmark in front of “Correct spelling automatically”, but I would suggest the method mentioned above as the better option
…that’s it !
enjoy 😉
MacManus.nl 
I hope this works. I misspelled my email address once and now it autocorrects me every time. It especially likes to correct me when I hit send or enter, so it changes right when I don’t have a chance to notice or change it back!
@Spencer Douglas :
good luck & enjoy 😉
Freud was at work when you wrote about autocorrect: “you cloud remove the checkmark”
@Nope :
just had a good laugh… and corrected the original text 😉
Thanks for your suggestion !
enjoy !
Thank you so much for your solution! I was going insane trying to type my email and having autocorrect incorrectly “correct” my address. You were the only solution I found and you explained it perfectly. Again, thanks for taking the time to post this:)
@cl :
Thanks for the compliment !
Great to hear !
Good Luck & enjoy !
😉
Thanks! This was driving me nuts. I misspelled my email address once. (Hit a key too lightly and it it didn’t type the letter). Ever since it autocorrects my email address to the wrong version. I searched everywhere for a solution. This worked. But apple really need to think of a way to enable undoing mistakes easily. Thanks
@David Breen :
Thanks for your feedback !
Good to hear I was able to help.
Good Luck !
enjoy 😉
Thanks so much for posting this! I’ve been having the same issue and it’s been driving me mad!
@Emily :
You’re welcome !
enjoy 😉
Another satisfied user having had the same issue. Great help. Thanks
@Brian :
You’re welcome !
enjoy 😉
GENIUS! THANK YOU!
@bigkidsdodgeball :
Thanks for the compliment !
enjoy 😉
Best advice ever. Thanks so much!!!
@Mandy :
You’re welcome !
Thanks for the feedback
enjoy 😉
Thank you! It worked!
@Sherry :
You’re welcome !
Thanks for the feedback
enjoy 😉
Oh. My. God. Thank you SOOOOO much. I have tried so many other “solutions” and none of them worked until now. Thanks a MILLION.
@Kim :
Great to hear !
You’re welcome 😉
Thanks for the feedback
enjoy !
This has been annoying me for a while. Thanks so much!!!
@TC :
Great to hear !
Thanks for the feedback
enjoy 😉
Hi. WHY did u write that to uncheck the entire “automatic spelling corrector” is worse option? (I did uncheck)
Thank you.
@Magdalena :
Thank you for your feedback 😉
Since an automatic spelling corrector is a welcome extension even for people with excellent grammatical skills, I would generally suggest to leave the automatic spelling corrector on, even if it isn’t error free.
Enjoy 😉
Awesome article I need to do this.
@rodgerviget :
Thanks for the feedback – enjoy 😉