Reset Keyboard Dictionary not working

One day I accidentally selected on my iphone “wel” instead of “well” when typing a text and I am now forever being haunted. I have tried resetting my keyboard dictionary, using text replacement, turning off auto-correction, turning off predictive, but it STILL keeps messing up. And before you ask, yes, I did restart my phone after every time I made a change and NOTHING has worked. For the love of god please help! I never realized how much i use that word, but I need this to not be an issue anymore.


I really don’t want to factory reset my iphone either...

iPhone 11 Pro Max, iOS 14

Posted on Mar 10, 2021 4:23 AM

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Mar 11, 2021 11:15 AM in response to sheilamo727

Hey there sheilamo727,


Thank you for using the Apple Support Communities! We understand your predictive text is not responding to the word 'well' correctly, and we'd like to see how we can help.


You've done fantastic steps so far. Resetting the dictionary should have done the trick for you. After that, you should have been able to correct the word when typing and it should have relearned that new correction after maybe a few times. If that's not happening, you could try to see if you have the option to reinstall iOS to refresh everything. But if you don't get the option to reinstall, you would want to back up your data and restore your device to see if that resolves it.


To try reinstalling iOS, these steps will walk you through it: If you can't update or restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch "When you see the option to Restore or Update, choose Update. Your computer will try to reinstall the software without erasing your data." Now we still recommend backing up your data either way, however: How to back up your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch 


If you can't reinstall or the issue continues after reinstalling, this article includes the steps to restore: Restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod to factory settings


Best regards.

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