Polish what you typed

Dictation is hold Option and talk. This is the other way around. You type first, anywhere, without worrying about the shape of it. Then you select that text and hold ⌃ Control. JuTalk tidies it right where it is.

The home screen calls it Polish what you typed. In settings the switch is Polish selected text, under AI writing, in the section Text you typed. The release note calls it Polish text you typed. They are the same thing.

A tidy pass fixes typos, punctuation and self-corrections, and it rewrites a muddled note into clearer sentences. It keeps the line breaks, lists, code, links and formatting you put in. It doesn't answer the text. Holding Shift is what turns the selection into a prompt instead.

By default the hold is 0.3 seconds, the same delay as dictation. Dictation → Start listening after changes it, from 0.15 to 1 second, for Control as well as Option. Another key or a click also calls it off. Control shortcuts you tap, such as Control-click, still work, because a short hold never starts.

Add ⇧ Shift while Control is down. The pill says "Writing prompt…", and the selection becomes a prompt for an AI. The home screen calls this Make it a prompt. You don't talk, and the microphone isn't used.

Shift follows the Prompt mode setting. Hold means prompt mode stays on while Shift is down. Press to toggle means each Shift press switches it. Changing Shift while JuTalk is still working starts the request over. The prompt mode guide covers the spoken version, which is Option and Shift.

This is the example in JuTalk's AI writing settings.

Any app where you can select text. JuTalk reads the selection through Accessibility. Google Docs and some terminals don't report it, so JuTalk copies the selection and then puts your clipboard back.

If you switch to another app while it's working, the result goes to the clipboard instead. Paste it with ⌘V. Apps and websites you turned JuTalk off in, from the menu bar or under Apps & websites, are off for Control as well as Option.

You need Accessibility permission, the same one dictation uses. You don't need the microphone for this.

• More than 20,000 characters is too much for one go. Select a shorter part. The text stays as it was.
• If polishing fails, the text is left unchanged. That is different from dictation, which still inserts what you said.
• Polish what you typed is free for the first 100 times each day. After that, each one that succeeds uses 5 seconds of your hours, plus 1 second per 150 characters. A polish that fails doesn't use hours. The first 100 times that UTC day still work if your dictation hours are used up. After that it pauses if you don't have hours left for it.
• It's included on the free trial and on Starter ($3 a month) and Pro ($9 a month). You need to be signed in. If the free trial has ended and you don't have a plan, JuTalk asks you to choose one before it will polish.
• The switch is on by default: AI writing → Text you typed → Polish selected text. Turning off Clean up my writing does not turn this off. The switch stays on this Mac. It isn't copied to your other Macs with the rest of your settings.

Cleanup and spoken prompt mode are covered on the prompt mode guide and the homepage.

The names, shortcuts and limits on this page are the ones in the Mac app: the home shortcuts Polish what you typed and Make it a prompt, the AI writing setting Polish selected text, and the release note Polish text you typed. Checked on November 13, 2026. The homepage and the prompt mode guide use the same shortcuts.