CB appears everywhere when I text

My iPhone X updated itself a few days ago. Now when I’m texting or using the keyboard, initials keep appearing throughout my text, mostly CB, vm, FB. CB is constantly there. I have to edit my texts CB before sending. I left that last CB in as an example.

Help! How CB do I make it go away?

iPhone X, iOS 13

Posted on Oct 24, 2019 3:34 PM

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Posted on Nov 4, 2019 2:02 PM

If you go to settings> keyboard and toggle the “slide to type” function to off, should fix it.


when pressing the space bar, if you accidentally slide onto a letter, auto correct tries to change the random letters to a recognisable initial or abbreviation.


hope this helps!

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Oct 31, 2019 4:58 PM in response to i_rina

CB automatically types when I text, when I comment on Facebook, use messenger, or fill in any form. It usually happens after I end a sentence, but also mid sentence. It tends to happen more with some contacts than others. Then there are times it doesn’t occur at all, like now. Very frustrating. I was sent link to this discussion from friend who is sick m of receiving my jumbled texts. Please reply with a solution.

Apr 10, 2020 11:36 PM in response to haasbronco

I have CB, CCM and a plethora of acronym like characters that appear at random, in a most unpredictable fashion. It is the most frustrating experience I have encountered. It announces itself in a most uninviting fashion. I have spent hours in cues at Apple Centres, waiting to see techs. That long, that the day, drawers to a close at 5pm, only to be told, we'll schedule you in for an appointment tomorrow. Mind you, I'm some 80kms from the nearest centre. I'm at my ends wit, with constantly having to amend each and every 2nd second sentence I type, sometimes up to three corrections are required. It's a nightmare to say the least. It not only happens in one field, but occurs in facebook, text messaging, ebay messaging and every other field which enables text. Not happy. I echo your annoyance at this most menacing imposition.

Apr 27, 2020 12:01 PM in response to wifisummerissues

I’m equally frustrated with the capital letter insertion. I have the added dilemma of the insertion “vin” in my texts! I h avent seen anyone else mention this one. I honestly believe my phone is a Lemmon. In addition to these issues, my screen will suddenly have everything enlarged to the point where I can only see one pixel on one one icon! I had to learn to do a soft reset-but then I couldn’t do the reset with the cover I had!

when I first bought this phone, the life proof cover I initially purchased would click the ringer off when I put it on the phone! I went through 3 covers before I found one that wouldn’t do this!

Apple doesn’t seem to be working on this problem-the letter insertion. And, I can’t seem to figure out what “sliding the thingy” means to resolve this.

what I really wanna do is smash this phone against the wall and tell Apple to shove the shards where the sun don’t shine!


Aug 6, 2020 6:38 AM in response to i_rina

Obviously, and did I say obviously, if this “CB” is happening to lots of people, it has nothing to do with the stinking spell check. I get the exact same thing. The explanation for “it would be helpful for us to know more about where you’re seeing it and when,” is being described as after you hit the space bar, after certain letters etc. What more do you need to know? I’m not a techy and I know, if the same sequence of letters are occurring in EVERYBODY’S text, it is a bug that Apple can fix. Give us something that actually makes sense.

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