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.
More importantly, IOS 17 is constantly trying to auto-correct words that are spelled correctly with weird words that don't exist or completely different words. There's nothing wrong with the words I'm texting but they get highlighted and suggestions made to change them.
So nobody has found a solution?? This thing is starting to make me question my ability to spell! I had typed “Definitely” and it got underlined in red and the keyboard suggested “Definetely” which when clicked replaced the correct word and removed the red line making you think it’s correct. It keeps happening with words I definitely know how to spell like “independent” or “bananas”.
And it highlights words blue when you’re trying to make a correction between words. You end up having to delete the highlighted words and retype them to make corrections to sentences. What is going on over at Apple. They have long since peaked and I can’t figure out how they would let these issues persist.
THIS!!! this is driving me insane! I'm getting it automatically changing words like 'absolutely' to 'andolutely' which as far as i'm aware isn't even a word, and i go back and correct it and it goes 'nope. andolutely is the right word'. Is it? Is it really? are you sure about that? 🤦♀️
Did anyone get a fix for this because I’ve been dealing with this since iOS 17 again. And of course you can’t roll back to a previous iOS so it leaves me with a broken spellcheck which consistently keeps trying to correct words that are already spelled correctly with ones that are not even even words.
It’s been happening with me for a while now and I’m getting tired of waiting for it to be fixed but nothing ever happens.Have been thinking of changing to an Android anyway. Apple does not seem to deal with the basics or care about their customers only profit.I don’t know about anyone else but I don’t feel loved. Apart from the spelling nonsense every time I touch the screen cannot see the text as it’s covered with copy paste box which comes up and cannot get rid of it. Have turned it off but it still comes up. It’s like Hotel California in here and there’s no escape.
a i will be the downfall of these major business mark my words i'm haveing manir issues on my iphone ai won't let me contact google support amazon support facebook support calls my iphone an android phone and i never signed up to use a ai genie platform test program ever but support says no issues with my iphone so i'm just stuck i guess have to close down bank ac pints yet again get all new cards for unauthorized payments being taken out yet again🙈
Thank you to all of you. Till I found this I thought that it was just me. I've seen it do things like cost y. No, I didn't type that. That was my iphone's auto correct. It only took about 4 words before I hit one that it would do this with. Usually it seperates the ly.
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.
This beyond frustrating. The unique thing is that there bad spelling balloons always an back-turn arrow after them. PLEASE FIX THIS.
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!
I guess you don't type on your device. Apparently, neither does Apple if they haven't see it already.
This is awful! How did Apple come up with an AI system that suggests words that don’t even exist!
I figured it out. I am bad at typing, so it’s suggesting typos.
Thanks for the suggestion. I made a Bug Report. No improvement and I spell horribly.
Auto-correct providing incorrect suggestions on iOS 17
