I’ve been using Obsidian for years and this has been the only constant issue throughout that time. It’s amazing how spoiled we are by other OSX apps when we accidentally type something like “teh,” and it corrects it for us!
I, too, would love to use Obsidian exclusively. But for now, Typora, etc, have their place.
I came here to say I have the same problem and it is incredibly frustrating. I make a lot of typos and the lack of autocorrect really slows me down.
I opened a similar forum post on this a few months back - spellcheck issues in Mac OS - but I suspect my issue has the same root cause of this Electron spell checker.
On iOS however, the autocorrect and spellcheck are both very good - Obsidian seems to use the system level functions there. If only that were the case on MacOS too.
I’m confused by this seeming to work for some and not for others?
It doesn’t work for me at all either. Typing the example exactly as shown results in no auto-correction at all, just as for other posters.
The native macOS autocorrect still doesn’t seem to be working even with the latest installer. Also in the changelog for Obsidian 1.7.0 nothing is being mentioned.
Keeping this thread alive in the hope that Mac autocorrect will be enable in obsidian soon. like others, this limits how much I use the app, though I love everything else about it
Please give this issue some attention! How wood one now how too rite properly w/o autocorrect? 
In the latest Obsidian is updated to use Electron v31.6.0. If it is still a bug in Electron, how can we file a bug report? GitHub - electron/electron: :electron: Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
I’d love to see macOS built-in autocorrect! Despite the problems with Electron (it is a bug, isn’t?), it would be a very good start indeed!
really missing this as well – MacOS native autocorrect speeds up my typing quite a lot. That said, my understand is that Obsidian is built on Electron, and so support for autocorrect would probably have to come from there.
See also: OS-level autocorrect in macOS
Also see @Synchronicity’s assumption. I have the same experience in VS Code as well …
Does anybody has an idea to efficiently file this upstream Electron bug at the Electron GitHub repo?
There are many both open and closed issues in the repo. But most of them rotate back to general spellcheck features (that seem to be implanted years ago) and don’t specifically address the autocorrect bug in MacOS. If there is a pointer to that bug, most of the time these repo issues seem to be closed or solved.
In Obsidian 1.5.8, the installer has been updated to Electron v28.2.3 which is good news.
Though, as confirmed by others, native autocorrect in macOS doesn’t work either with this installer …
Obsidian (1.7.4) is yesterday updated to use Electron v31.6.0. If it is still a bug apparent in Electron, how can we file a bug report? GitHub - electron/electron: :electron: Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
Or is it that simple to add spellcheck: true (see: electron/docs/tutorial/spellchecker.md at main · electron/electron · GitHub)
The upstream developers of electron/chrome are already aware of it.
That’s good news! Thanks, @WhiteNoise! It’s quite recent, actually, on July 8th. So, I’m keeping my fingers crossed that the team will get on it soon!
Checking on the status of fixing the autocorrect feature on macOS. Any updates?
It maybe helps if you +1 the issue on the chromium issue tracker and eventually write a post on it as well: Chromium
Does anyone know a timeline for this being resolved?