Question

By default, if you tap the spacebar twice on the iPhone or iPad, instead of getting ”  ” (two spaces), you get “. ” (a period followed by a space). Is there any way to disable this shortcut in code?

Update: Disabling autocorrection via UITextInputTraits doesn’t work.

Update 2: Got it! See my post below.

Answer 1

OK, I figured it out. In your UITextView delegate, add this:

-(BOOL)textView:(UITextView *)textView shouldChangeTextInRange:(NSRange)range replacementText:(NSString *)text {
    if([text isEqualToString:@". "])
        return NO;
}