Dictation not working after iOS 18 and keyboard issues

I've got the new iPhone 16 Pro Max, and I am running the new iOS 18 on it, and I find that while the dictation does work, it seems amazingly slow and sluggish. The screen struggles to keep up with me, and is always lagging far behind what I am saying.

Same exact issue with my 16 Pro. Painfully sluggish. Also, mine does not respond to Siri requests. She’s ignoring me lol.

I have the same problem with dictation. Before I upgraded to iOS 18, the voice dictation on my iPhone 14 was excellent. Now, it’s virtually unusable.

APPLE… THIS NEEDS TO BE FIXED ASAP!

I'm not even using a multi language keyboard… Just simply English and emoji are the only two keyboards I have, and dictation is painfully slow and lagging.

I have the same problem.

Apple, this needs to be fixed immediately

This has been driving me crazy since I upgraded to 16 pro max and ios 18

over the weekend...i use dictation all the time...i even figured out if

i said something like "i'll see you tomorrow" right before I even

pressed the microphone button to listen to me, it would still type that

out! I fixed it for now...go to settings, siri, talk to siri, and

select/check "off"...i leave "press side button for siri" toggled

on...that way I can still use siri if I want but it's not always just

"listening". Totally fixed the lag and is now very accurate again as well.

If you have a bilingual keyboard and don't like the default, you should be able to change that by going to settings > general > keyboard > keyboards and tapping on the bilingual item. Also you should be able to go back to having monolingual keyboards by adding a new English keyboard and adding another keyboard and removing the bilingual version.

I agree I just got an iPhone 16 pro max and feel like it’s not suggesting words and when I hit the space bar it’s not responding the same as it was previously. Hopefully the update is coming soon to fix this issue

Same! I have the new iPhone 16 pro (with iOS 18)and there is a very noticeable difference from my previous phone (iPhone 12 Pro, iOS 17). There is a significant lag between speaking and seeing it on screen, and it is incorrect most of the time. I use dictation all the time and it is slowing me down significantly. Very frustrating.

This has been driving me crazy since I upgraded to 16 pro max and ios 18 over the weekend...i use dictation all the time...i even figured out if i said something like "i'll see you tomorrow" right before I even pressed the microphone button to listen to me, it would still type that out! I fixed it for now...go to settings, siri, talk to siri, and select/check "off"...i leave "press side button for siri" toggled on...that way I can still use siri if I want but it's not always just "listening". Totally fixed the lag.

I have the same problem with my iPhone 14 Pro since I upgraded to iOS 18. I’ve tried different Wi-Fi networks, nothing seems to work. But simply the dictation when it works is slow, and in accurate.

It is virtually unusable. With the older iOS it was very good.

Apple this needs to be fixed

the problem is, i don't see a separate listing for the bilingual keyboard in the settings; only the separate english and german (for example) keyboards.

Believe it or not, I reached out to Apple Support to add another set of eyes on this issue. They had me do a force restart (volume up, volume down, then HOLD for 10 seconds, the holding part is important), and voila, the issue was fixed. Apparently this refreshes the iOS and gets rid of any bugs. I thought I'd be frustrated at having to go through troubleshooting for reporting what should be a widely known issue, but I just couldnt ignore the fact that the problem was fixed. As simple as it sounds, give it a try.

P.S. I did change the Siri language to English (UK) as someone else in the forum had suggested, but the problem persisted until I did the force restart. A combination of both actions may work if one or the other does not work independently.

100% this. I use both English and Spanish, and just typed a text message in English - it marked every word as misspelled and wanted to change them to Spanish. Also autocorrect is correcting things that don't need to be corrected. Also the random capitalization of Words is over the top. Worst update ever.

I finally gave up and returned the 16 Pro. The fix I mentioned previously (performing a reset) was temporary and lasted less than 24 hours. This is a first for me with Apple. Dedicated user since 1989 and this is the first time I ended up returning a product because it simply would not work properly. I rely on dictation and Siri extensively. So back to the 15 Pro until next year.