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When using the iPhone's dictation in a text message, it inserts random comma punctuations into my sentences even if I did not state for a comma to be inserted. The commas being inserted are not grammatically correct, so this does not appear to be as a result of an auto correct function. This began after I upgraded to IO 16. Does anyone know why this is happening?
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iPhone 12 Pro Max
When I use dictation, I spend several minutes undoing all the random commas because I don’t want to look like a fool. I’ve heard that the new version is oversensitive to pauses. I would much rather ask for a comma than be given seven I didn’t ask for please. Apple please sort this out.
Hey there Bazooka1967,
We'd like to continue ruling out some other possible causes, along with more details to better understand the issue:
Cheers!
So what other benefits and features will no longer be abailable by turning off Smart Punctuation and Auto Puncuatrion? Always annoys me that something that had not been an issue before now is causing users to turn off features to stop the comma issua.
This was annoying me significantly as well, but I just realized you can thankfully manually turn it off by going to settings, general, keyboard and dictation and turning off auto-punctuation. I’m so glad, because it was getting on my last nerve since I used dictation so often and had to “fix” virtually everything I ever dictated.
These problems are occurring with iOS 16.1.1 but I cannot recall if I started with a different version of iOS 16 or not.
These problems occur with all apps/features in which I use the dictation function - text messages, notes, email messages (Gmail and others), etc.
Re-starting my iPhone did not resolve this issue.
Hello Bazooka1967,
If you use the Voice Memos app to record a short memo, does your voice sound clear when you play the memo back?
How about if you record a video using both your front-facing and rear-facing cameras?
Those steps will help us verify that this behavior isn't related to a complication with one of your microphones: If the microphones on your iPhone aren't working - Apple Support
Let us know your results, and we'll keep moving forward from there.
Did you try turning off Smart Punctuation in settings?
Kimmie312 wrote:
Did you ever receive a reply for your question? The comma thing is driving me nuts!
Have you turned off Settings>General>Keyboards>Smart Punctuation?
I’m having the same issue and found this thread by googling “iPhone voice text random commas”. It’s super annoying but glad I’m not the only one experiencing this. Were you able to resolve the issue?
I watched WWDC23 and with IOS 17 it auto punctuates when dictating.
You need to specifically disable Settings>General>Keyboard>Keyboards>Smart Punctuation.
Did you also scroll down further and turn off Auto-Punctuation?
That worked! I didn't scroll down far enough to see the second one. @IdrisSeabright thank you for reading my response and helping me fix it.
Like others, I didn't notice that Apple's dreadful keyboard settings screen hides this option so well.
I have exactly the same problem described above. I keep my iPhone, and iPad updated, and this problem only started happening after I updated recently. It seems to happen across apps— for example, see that comma above after the word “iPhone.” I sure didn’t put that in.
Duly noted. I just updated to the latest iOS version 16.2 and I don't see what you're seeing. HOWEVER, I turned off the Smart Punctuation under All Keyboards and I no longer have random commas inserted into my sentences. YAY! Thanks!
iPhone dictation adding random commas after update
