With IOS 17, spellcheck constantly suggests words that are misspelled or that don’t exist for basic words that are often spelled properly. It’s completely dysfunctional.
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iPhone 8, iOS 12
To get rid of those silly balloons with misspelled words, turn off “Show Predictions Inline”.
General -> Keyboards -> toggle off “Show Predictions Inline”. This setting is visible only if you have “Predictive Text” active (green). Both these settings should be “turned off” (greyed out).
The last step is to “Reset the Keyboard”: General -> Transfer or Reset iPhone -> Reset -> Reset Keyboard Dictionary -> ENTER PIN -> Reset Dictionary.
You will need to reset the keyboard periodically as Apple, for unknown reasons, maintains all keyboard errors. I believe that is why all these balloons pop-ups occur. It is probably an anomaly that Apple should correct.
I hope these steps help all the persons encountering this issue.
To get rid of those silly balloons with misspelled words, turn off “Show Predictions Inline”.
General -> Keyboards -> toggle off “Show Predictions Inline”. This setting is visible only if you have “Predictive Text” active (green). Both these settings should be “turned off” (greyed out).
The last step is to “Reset the Keyboard”: General -> Transfer or Reset iPhone -> Reset -> Reset Keyboard Dictionary -> ENTER PIN -> Reset Dictionary.
You will need to reset the keyboard periodically as Apple, for unknown reasons, maintains all keyboard errors. I believe that is why all these balloons pop-ups occur. It is probably an anomaly that Apple should correct.
I hope these steps help all the persons encountering this issue.
Mrbeyer1 Said:
"Yes. The answer i was given was a non-answer. I am supposed to hang in there with predictive text until it learns how i type??? i just turned off predictive text and it still is doing it!"
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Update...
Troubleshooting Auto-Correction Update Issue:
It's a bug in the update, and it is catching on in these forums. Question is: "Just how many people have actually reported this to Apple?" Se this Thread: how do i turn off the new auto correction update - Apple Support
Report this to Apple...
Do your Part: Provide Apple with feedback on this, letting them know about this issue. Apple may not get back to you directly, but the more feedback they receive on this, the more they will know what is occurring, and what bug fixes to include in updates to come. Apple will know nothing of this, if you don't report it to them.
Hawkeyed Said:
“Already read this article. It just tells you how to use the features. It does not tell you how to fix a spell check program that makes up words and that gives you misspelled options for correctly spelled words.”
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This is the first report I’ve seen of this. So, most certainly inform Apple of this.
Do your Part: Provide Apple with feedback on this, letting them know about this issue. Apple may not get back to you directly, but the more feedback they receive on this, the more they will know what is occurring, and what bug fixes to include in updates to come. Apple will know nothing of this, if you don't report it to them.
To get rid of those silly balloons with misspelled words, turn off “Show Predictions Inline”.
General -> Keyboards -> toggle off “Show Predictions Inline”.
Try turning off Apple Dictionary. Settings, General, Dictionary. This has been driving me crazy as well!
Hawkeyed Said:
"With IOS 17, spellcheck constantly suggests words that are misspelled or that don’t exist for basic words that are often spelled properly. It’s completely dysfunctional."
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Considered Disabling Spell Features?:
Disable Two Things: How to Use Auto-Correction and Predictive text on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support
I hate that sticky, useless feature as well! And it’s happening right now as I type this. Ouff!
Try going into settings, general, keyboards, and turning off “predictive”.
I just did that and it helped in composing an email, but here in this window it is still manifesting!
aargh Apple!
The mistake many here are making is to suggest it is learning, will get better as it learns or is misconfigured. Even as I’m typing this note, I have reset the keyboard dictionary and disabled predictive yet it still makes terrible suggestions. Let’s be clear it’s not interpreting my inputs and suggesting wrong words, it’s suggesting words that don’t even exist or are atrociously spelled. This is clearly a defect and has been going on for an exceptional amount of time to the point I’m engaging here to find answers. So far the thread above doesn’t suggest resolutions, thus my next step is to open a ticket I suppose.
Hawkeyed Said:
“Thanks. That is helpful. There were complaints on other platforms when I searched on Google. Prior to this release I have never had any issues. Thanks again.”
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You are welcome.
Remember to report this to Apple.
Excellent job troubleshooting!
Mrbeyer1 Said:
“This beyond frustrating. The unique thing is that there bad spelling balloons always a back-turn arrow after them. PLEASE FIX THIS.”
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Thank you for the screenshot.
Turn Off Predictive Text:
This all has to do with predictive text, and learning spelling. As you type more and lose, you — as a user of your device — make spelling corrections. So predictive text is somehow seeing that you frequently correct the work for “back”
for “Bach”.
Overview this Link: How to Use Auto-Correction and Predictive Text on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support
Found this thread and tried that today but (at least on my phone) that is not a toggle option.
I already have the predictive text toggled off, but nothing seems to exist to disable the weird non-sense words in the bubbles with the back arrow.
This whole issue has been happening since the beginning of iOS 17.
I have entered a bug report as well.
Already read this article. It just tells you how to use the features. It does not tell you how to fix a spell check program that makes up words and that gives you misspelled options for correctly spelled words.
Hawkeyed Said:
“Thanks for the suggestion. I made a Bug Report. No improvement and I spell horribly.”
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Type with Effort:
When messaging, note that you’re not typing an essay here. But be careful of what you type along with that character you leave out. Texted my boss the other week about shifts and tapped “losers”, instead of “closers” (left out the “c” in closers). Interesting how leaving out a letter can make the post come me across the wrong way.
My best guess: The AI knows how often we misspell words so it's now recommending them as though they are real. I have not seen any effective way of stopping it other than turning off literally everything aside from a naked keyboard.
This tip helped me (and it wasn’t remembering my misspelled words- crazy goggily-guk suggestions!)
Auto-correct providing incorrect suggestions on iOS 17
