Dictation not working after iOS 18 and keyboard issues

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.

I am having the same issue with the voice to text. It is ridiculously slow, makes errors or stops working suddenly. As an attorney who uses this feature to dictate letters, motions, and other legal documents, this is a real problem. I’m hoping that Apple is working on this and there will be a quick fix. Otherwise consider this I may need to consider moving to a different phone/provider which would be unfortunate because I have been an Apple user for 20+ years.

Very frustrating! Thinking about returning my 16 pro and going back to my 14. Apple should really have a disclaimer that these functions that a lot of us use regularly and have gotten very comfortable using are not working on the new device. Siri rarely responds to me, and the dictation when I am texting has too much of a lag to be useful.

I have a new 16 Pro Max with iOS 18. Trying to dictate text messages and emails has been a struggle. It constantly spells names with a lowercase first letter. Sometimes the first name in THERE’S no rhyme or reason to it. Sometimes it will put two words, touching each other without a spaceinbetween. Sometimes it will write a sentence correctly, and as I’m looking at the screen, it will delete and rewrite the sentence incorrectly in front of my eyes. I don’t understand this. If I write an email or a text that’s more than a sentence Long I would say 100% of the time I have to go back and correct words. On my old 14 Pro Max, it was starting to get bad and I thought it might be pocket dust in the speaker. But now with the new phone and the new update it’s even worse. I wish there was ways to modify things as well like when I say steve it shows up with an uppercase S. Also, my boss’s name is Mark. It always come up Marc in dictated emailsSometimes it’ll write it correctly and then delete and rewrite it in front of my eyes incorrectly. I know noone named Marc. I know several people named Mike and it always spells MIKE in all caps. I went through all my contacts just to see if it’s checking my phone and I have no contact MIKE saved all caps, so why is it doing this? I almost always say I’m “gonna” do this. This is a problem with my speech. I wanted to say I’m “going to” do this. But I would like there to be away, so it’s Siri is smart enough to realize this. Is there any way to make these corrections and make talk to text/dictation work? I dictated this text and fixed several mistakes but not all of them.

I got the iPhone pro, every time I go to type a message and someone is talking, the phone automatically types what anyone in the room is saying.

if I turn off dictation, it stops, but then I can’t use the microphone function, which I often use for longer texts when I’m alone.

does anyone have a fix for this one? I just got the phone on Saturday. Wondering if I should return

Yes agree. I don’t deal with multiple languages, but the dictation on Siri with the new update which I use all the time is horrendous and I end up going out of it and just texting to people directly which completely defeats the point ugh Apple

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I was dictating in english and that is what happened…..cannot go back to only single language …which is a torture for people using and speaking multiple languages. The old way and the new way does not work for those speaking multiple languages. Who wants to keep typing those days are over in this era. Why work on AI stuff when global communication is needed constantly.

Me too! Everything was perfect on my IMAX Pro 13 until I got this new 16 Pro Max! Oh my God the dictation is working now at least here! I followed the steps that Google recommended. I couldn’t see security privacy and microphone in the settings, and so I shut it all down and started it back up and maybe that did the trick. Dictation isn’t as accurate as it was before the OS updates either.

It’s brutal. I’ve called and called and recall you got a phone switched out same issue started right away with a new phone. I’ve had it about eight months and man it’s just killing me and crushing me for time I have a disability that makes it painfully slow to type.. I’ve always relied on dictation. Now if I can get through this sentence with without freezing it shuts down on me all the time.

The best I got Apple for a fix keeps saying “yes it’s an own issue they’re working on it hopefully the next update” since November getting the phone that’s the same answer I get every time.

And oh my God the raping of the privacy…. I mean what are we doing on earthlings what are we doing?

you know the answer to everything people and Apple and Google and Facebook and Instagram and everything else is to go back to the year 2011 or even 2010 when privacy laws were in effect and algorithms weren’t ruining our brains and causing all this division.

Unfortunately they and even the people using their devices who were alive enough to remember every single warning that came out about that let alone AI that we all just went along with and here we are now in the whole world is in a sad state of affairs well beyond dictation.

But pretty crazy we can’t even get dictation right and we’re letting lose all this technology

Hardly anybody complains about this. Without algorithmic and destruction of privacy and hate speech being no such thing specifically in a country that used to be number one in everything

You wouldn’t be where you are now you had you heated and protested the warning and that’s a plain plane plane absolute truth of it no matter how much you wanna argue or disagree with it

There’s just no way we’d be in the state of affairs if we could roll up everything back to the way it was social media all that and put back in place the privacy laws that we followed, remove the algorithms, just like everything was in 2011.

it would be problem solved and there would be no grafting and grinding your way to the evil top

simple plain simple… oh and dictation works better then too.

officially this is only my sixth comment on here since owning an iPhone three and all the others that follow up to here.

really I just can’t believe how much more intelligent everything is. Wink

Have you tried removing Norwegian and adding it again? Perhaps you can opt out of the new multilingual feature.

PS I notice now that Norwegian is not on the "multilingual typing" list

iOS and iPadOS - Feature Availability - Apple

so I'm not sure my earlier post about that is relevant.

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.

I have a 15 pro with the same issue. When I tap on the multi language keyboard it jumps to the start screen and does not allow me to remove a language. How should I proceed. Thanks.

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.

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