Is this another iOS 17 bug? Autocorrect used to be quite accurate. Now it’s not nearly as good at guessing what I intended to enter. Also trying to tap to insert the cursor, 90% of the time selects a word and won’t quit, just selects it over and over. I have to go down to the spacebar and situate the cursor that way.
iPhone 11
So many people cannot be wrong. I noticed the issue in iOS 14 and it has gotten progressively worse. 17’s autocorrect almost makes me want to turn it off. It’s as if it has forgotten all previous words I have used. If I get to the point where I have to turn it off. I’m going Android. It’s not any better but they don’t charge a premium price claiming to be better.
So many people cannot be wrong. I noticed the issue in iOS 14 and it has gotten progressively worse. 17’s autocorrect almost makes me want to turn it off. It’s as if it has forgotten all previous words I have used. If I get to the point where I have to turn it off. I’m going Android. It’s not any better but they don’t charge a premium price claiming to be better.
So do you have an actual solution or would you just like the people having the issue to stop discussing it?
Correct. I’m blaming iOS 17 because that’s when autocorrect changed. I did not change settings. It’s just as the ”don’t read—>dinner ready” writer wrote, which you linked to. It didn’t used to randomly make its own story. Now it does.
Are you saying iOS 17 randomly changes settings?
This is definitely an issue which appeared with the latest update. Three reasons 1) issue appeared right after updating , 2) the same issue happened on a family member’s phone around the same time, 3) the issue is happening in different languages. It is so terrible that suggestions are proposing words that don’t even exist or which are grammatically incorrect. Over to you Apple to fix this, otherwise we are all better off turning off autocorrect.
It is happening now at this moment
This is not a solution… we know how to toggle auto-correct and such on and off, what we need is for the auto-correct not to replace one word with a completely different word for no reason. Do you actually have a solution to that problem?
I’ve been seeing a steady decline in autocorrect for about a year but hugely worse in the last month or so. Yesterday my phone autocorrected “12-6 pm” to “5:48pm”. I mean where did that even come from?? It frequently autocorrects legitimate words for zero reason. Previously it would correct spelling errors for the word I was clearly typing, now it changes a word to a different word entirely that has no relevance to the message I’m writing. I’m assuming they threw in AI untested, perhaps? Super annoying
Well no? Considering how many people are complaining about this? As I'm typing right now it is horrible
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This seems purely coincidental so please check the Setting on your device. How to use Auto-Correction and predictive text on your ...
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You are blaming iOS 17 without checking the settings on your device similar to people with lower iOS version, a few links here where people did the same as you.
iOS 16
iOS 15
Typical “it’s user error” response. If there is a common thread of user error than it is bad design
Apple autocorrect
1) insert "n" between any words your AI wants. and connect the words....
2) insert a "." When you are in the mood to do so.
3) never allow "you" - correct it with "tou" everytime! RULE!!
4) never allow a user not to use autocorrect ot the texts will be scrambled to oblivion!
Apple auto correct is not learning it’s getting worse . I’m an electrician and it hasn’t learned anything electrical since the original iPhone. Now I have to put a disclaimer fat thumbs cause it totally changes words . I’d rather have misspelled words than word that change the entire meaning of the message
I am seeing a similar issue. I get random letters added to the end of correctly spelled words. (“Running” became “running gxg”).
the cursor select feature has also fallen off the map. It selects entire words or incorrect words and won’t let me do the precise cursor select every time.
At least by finding this thread, it makes me feel less crazy.
Autocorrect has gone sloppy
