I just discovered that if I type "0 deg =" into any Stickies note, macOS will harmfully suggest the text "0 rad" as a completion, and when I press the space bar, that accepts the suggestion. Awful! And very stupid!! Here's a little video demonstrating it: I know that 0 degrees equals 0 radians; I don't care -- I'm not doing geometry, I'm working with temperatures, **and this should _never_ try to guess my intent**. I disabled "Apple Intelligence" the very day they rolled it out, and I never ever use any form of autocomplete _anywhere._ Also, I already disabled "Inline predictive text" in my Keyboard Preferences (I disabled all five features on that screen, including "smart" quotes and spelling correction). I don't know why this is happening, but I need it to stop forever. This doesn't happen when I type in Visual Studio Code, or Numbers.app, or in my web browser. Stickies.app doesn't have any Preferences or other user-configuration as far as I can tell where I might disable it (I've been a heavy Stickies user for 15 years). Why is this happening and what can I do to permanently delete every form of this?

I installed https://git.zx2c4.com/password-store/tree/src/completion/pass.zsh-completion under /opt/homebrew/share/zsh-completions/pass.zsh-completion and enabled compinit in ~/.zshrc:

# define zsh-completion
if type brew &>/dev/null; then
    FPATH=$(brew --prefix)/share/zsh-completions:$FPATH

    autoload -Uz compinit
    compinit
fi

And the pass completion works, but only with top level word. For example I have misc/keycard. When I type pass show m[TAB], I can see misc prompted. But when I type pass show k[TAB], misc/keycard is not showing. Please instruct how to modify this completion file to enable partial regex match. Basically it's impractical to use right now; as I put passwords into dir to ease my memory; I will not remember the whole structure of dir tree.

I complete forms on a particular website regularly. I used to be prompted (I cannot remember when this stopped, but it was after updating Safari - now 15.6) with previous entries in each field via a dropdown box (these were not generated by the site). For eg. If in a particular field I'd previously (on different occasions) entered: 1234, 1235, 1236 & 1237 then as soon as I started typing 1 in that field a dropdown box would open with all these as suggestions to choose from. This would include complete sentences. This no longer occurs. I've spent much time searching for solutions after trying the obvious: turning off autofill/other forms, restarting Safari and turning it back on again to no avail. I cannot even find out where the list of forms that have saved autofill data is kept (so I can delete it in the hope that it gets reinstated)...? Is there a way to force information entered on a web page form to be saved? If anyone can help me, it will save me an incredible amount of time over the rest of my life?

I think in a recent update to Ventura they added an autocomplete feature to Applescript editing. In Script Editor, there's a setting to enable or disable "suggest completions while typing". It's nominally a useless feature and serves to only get in the way (mostly because I can't figure out how to accept or reject a suggestion), so I have it disabled in Script Editor. BUT...when editing Applescript blocks in Automator it tries to do the same thing, albeit it's somehow even more buggy and in the way. It actively interrupts typing (sometimes without even making an actual suggestion) and results in gibberish. Is there a way to tell Automator to stop doing it? Naturally, Automator doesn't have a settings menu, so the assumption is the answer is "no". This is unfortunate because it really makes it impossible to edit Applescript in the Automator environment. Someone on the Apple forums also reported [Why is gibberish being typed into Automator script?](https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254514861) but there was no resolution, only snide remarks that it "couldn't happen" and it's not a bug. Which I guess is technically true, this behavior is in fact the result of an intentional "feature". You can tell in the picture OP posted that autocomplete is interfering because of the shadow "e" in "We". Any thoughts?

How to delete these kinds of auto-fill suggestions from Safari?! I have cleared all in the AutoFill options, but these previously mistyped entries remain?!

My command line autocomplete isn't working with many third party binaries. This started with a macOS Ventura 13.5 dot update. I try to tab to operate a previously working autocomplete for git commands, they fail. How can I fix this?

On my Linux machine I have autocomplete _for branches_ with Git. [Note we are talking about git branch completion, *not* bash completion (e.g. commands, files, etc). Thus NOT [Lane's answer](https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/92637/145449) at all] For example I can type git checkout+TAB and get a list of branches. Or I can type git checkout feb*+TAB to get all branches that begin with "feb". How can I get this functionality on a Mac? I tried downloading and running bash-completion/bash_completion and bash-completion/bash_completion.sh.in but no joy. The first gave error messages about declare: -A invalid_option. The second gave no errors. When I git checkout+TAB though I am still getting a list of files in the directory, not branches. I am in the project root. Auto-complete for directories and bash commands are working ok, so it's specific to Git.

I don't have self-confidence in using term "completion". I just want to make zsh behavior like bash. (See uploaded gif) As this gif image shows, bash can *complete* path of the file by pressing tab key, but zsh can't... Is it possible to make zsh tab completion like bash?

I know it is possible to create custom keyboard shortcuts with the default keyboard (General > Keyboard > Text Replacement). Can the same thing be done on GBoard for iOS? For example, per [this tip](https://www.reddit.com/r/lifehacks/comments/clm491/set_an_autocorrect_shortcut_for_as_your_email/) , I would like to set @@ to autocorrect to my email address.

This issue affects all native text apps (Notes, TextEdit, and Mail). It does **not** affect Safari. Nor does it affect Notes and Mail on iPadOS (17.1) (that's still in the UK). Only autocorrect works in Pages (I can't recall whether autocomplete is supposed to as I've not had a reason to use it since autocomplete was added to macOS). I can't recall when I first noticed it, but it's doing my head in now. Like I said, I'm in the UK; everywhere in Settings which needs to be set to British/UK English is set to British/UK English. So words we spell with an 's' it autocompletes with the 'z' spelling; words which end -our in UK English. Autocomplete will complete with the '-or' American suffix. I have to spellcheck them back to the correct spelling and this is getting a little old now (autocorrect is still using the correct version of English). When you're as active in political circles as I am, having to constantly recorrect the spelling of 'Labour', for example, is somewhat tedious (I'm not in Australia - but I often wish I was). I've not, wittingly, done anything that would cause this - it's just too bizarre (see explanatory screenshots) I can't post to Apple's forum as I had the phone I used for 2FA stolen. Apple support is useless; wants me to call them - even if I did have a phone, I only ever used it for texts/WhatsApp as I struggle with speaking and Apple has no means, apparently, to escalate a chat-box 'call'. If I want any further assistance, I have to speak). I'm on the verge of reinstalling macOS, but that seems like a sledgehammer. I have tried creating a new account and using that account in safe mode but, obviously, it's still broken. Is this a bug...? I'm just trying to recall if I had an issue with autocomplete prior to 14.1. It seems so bizarre, that I can only think that it is. Can anyone suggest any workarounds...? I would rather **not** have to turn autocomplete off. If you're in a country that uses UK/Commonwealth English (which, as far as I know, are (virtually) identical) or have a Mac that you're using with UK English - are you having a similar issue...? I'm autistic and this is beginning to **really** stress me out now (as is that fact that Finder find appears to be disabled, but I'll save that for another post) ![Screenshot of text showing autocorrect according to UK English ][1] ![Screenshot of text after autocorrect showing US English spelling ][2]

I'm really annoyed with automatic capitalization in Freeform, for example here I tried to type "yes" 4 times before I finally got "Yes": Clicking that cross with mouse require you to move hand from keyboard which takes valuable seconds while editing.

I'm new in macOS and I'm using macOS Sierra, In my Ubuntu and other Linux-based system, terminal has an auto-complete that helps to complete commands and their options. For example for wget and other commands, in additional to command completion, after pressing Tab 2 times, it lists all command options (if any), or in sudo w it list all commands start with **w** But on my Mac, it just complete first commands and don't help for options or second part of command like **whoami** in sudo whoami, I mean it don't show a list of all command that start with who after pressing Tab 2 times in sudo who [!] I found some Scripts for git options at https://github.com/git/git/tree/master/contrib/completion/ , but I want something that do this for all commands and applications. Is there any solution for that?

If I type something like "Helko" and press the "Hello" button that shows up on the bar above my keyboard, it will add a space, leaving me with "Hello ". If I wanted to type "Hello." then this is frustrating, because now I have to delete the space before adding the period. As another example, say I wanted to send my friend just the word Hello, but instead I typed Helko. *Is there a single button I can press* to go from Helko to Hello? (Without an intermediate Hello ?) Is there any way to stop the autocorrect bar from adding a space after I choose to correct a word?

In Linux, I had managed to set up the terminal in such a way that if I type part of a command and press the arrow key 'up', it would auto-complete with the last command that started with what I had typed. I tried to do the same on MacOS following the instructions on [this MacWorld article](http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20031026174236860) , but it doesn't seem to work. Does anyone know how to set this up on a Mac?

Where other than in Safari settings can I delete the browsing history auto-complete function. Clearing browsing history, data, and closing tabs doesn't work. My search engine is set to “duckduckgo”. These website suggestion auto-completes are sometimes old and dead websites that I may have visited 5+ years ago.

i realized that my zsh does not autocomplete the folders of a SSH server when I am in a local terminal and use cd, rsync or any other command. The bash in Ubuntu does this. e.g.:

rsync -avh --progress user@host:/folder1/subfolder/another_subf . -n

the command works so I can connect, its just very uncomfortable when you have to type and know every foldername by heart.

I occasionally use text strings such as ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Unfortunately, I don't have a ¯ or a ツ on my keyboard, so using such strings can be a bit of a pain, usually involving a web search and copy and paste. I'd prefer to have an easier way of typing these. Here's what I've tried so far: 1. Set up a text replacement in System Preferences. - Problem: It does nothing in several apps such as Discord and Firefox. 2. Set up an automator service running this AppleScript:

on run {input, parameters}
	
	    tell application "System Events" to keystroke "¯\\_(ツ)_/¯"
	
    end run

- Problem: It outputs ¯\_(a)_/¯ 3. Set up a different automator service which

lang-none
    1. Get Contents of Clipboard
    2. Set Value of Variable "clipboard"
    3. Get Specified Text "¯\_(ツ)_/¯"
    4. Copy to Clipboard
    5. Run AppleScript tell application "System Events" to keystroke "v" using command down
    6. Get Value of Variable "clipboard"
    7. Copy to Clipboard

- Problem: Sometimes it does nothing, sometimes it pastes the original clipboard contents, sometimes it will actually paste ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Adding 0.2 second pauses both before and after step 5 did not fix the problem. And with that, I've run out of straightforward, reasonably simple ideas that have a chance of having a return on investment somewhere in the vicinity of their cost. Web searches haven't really produced anything other than BetterTouchTool, which is a route I'd prefer not to take at this time. **Is there a reasonably simple, free, reliable, and legal method of doing what I want to do?** I'm running 10.14.6, on a Mac with a Touch Bar. Touch Bar only solutions are generally acceptable, though solutions that can work with or without the Touch Bar are preferable.

In both Firefox and Chrome (latest versions) when I start typing an address of a website I have visited before, it shows a bunch of autocomplete entries. If I want to delete a specific entry, in Firefox I can press up or down to select that particular entry, and press Shift+Fn+Delete and it's gone. Somehow I remember this used to work in Chrome as well, and this is also what I find on various websites. But it doesn't work. At least not in my current version of Chrome (the latest). How do I remove specific autocomplete entries from Chrome, other than just deleting the entire history altogether? (which I'd rather not do) In case it's relevant, I'm running MacOS Mojave 10.14.6.

What applications can add a general autocomplete feature to all text fields in MacOS? There're text expanders, like the built-in one and TextExpander, but they don't suggest things while typing and do not learn from the previous input. iOS has both of these features, but I didn't find similar apps for MacOS.

I recently downloaded GoodNotes and now whenever I try to open Notes via Spotlight, I accidentally open GoodNotes because GoodNotes is strangely the first result when I type "notes"! (A little petty, but can be quite frustrating when I'm trying to work quickly and I repeatedly pull up GoodNotes by accident.) **Is there anyway that I could make GoodNotes always appear as the second result, or simply not appear when I search "notes" and only appear when I search "goodnotes"?** I would rather not remove the app entirely from Spotlight's results ([as in this post](https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/191028/removing-a-specific-app-from-spotlight)) . Rather, I just don't want it to appear when I type "notes" -- I just want the native Notes app to appear when I type that.