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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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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!


Apr 29, 2020 1:40 PM in response to DrTarek

I agree with the comment above 👆🏽. It’s annoying that this happens, and Apple should definitely do something about this. But if you turn the slide text option off, it stops adding weird letters into your texts. It’d be great if everyone would try this because I keep getting emails every time someone posts and now I don’t know how to opt out of them 😅. First world problems 🤷🏻‍♀️

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.

CB appears everywhere when I text

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