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iOS 18 Autocorrect is Totally Unusable

I've been an iPhone user for 15 years and I've never had issues with the autocorrect like I've had since upgrading to iOS 18. I'm not exaggerating when I say it's been completely debilitating. I've literally had to resort to dictation because typing a simple message can take me 10 minutes.


Every word I type ending with 's' gets autocorrected wrong. For instance, "jobs" gets changed to "job a." Literally EVERY SINGLE word ending with 's' gets appended with an 'a' for no reason.


I used to type contractions without the apostrophe because I could always count on iOS to add it for me. Now it just changes "whats" to "what a", "wheres" to "where a", "whens" to "when a", etc. And sometimes it's even worse where things like "didnt" somehow become "did my."


Words that aren't incorrect are changed to ones that are:

"our" to "out"

"come" to "coke"

"some" to "dime"

"guy" to "but"

"wise" to "word"

"quicker" to "quick we"

"stronger" to "step get"


And other total chaos:

"ask" to "as k"

"about" to "a out"

"these" to "the we"

"into" to "i to"

"hello" to "**** i"

"today" to "to day"

"maybe" to "may be"

"anyway" to "any way"

"called" to "call ed"


And these are only a handful of examples I've noticed in the last half hour or so.


PLEASE APPLE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD FIX THIS!!!

iPhone 14 Pro Max, iOS 18

Posted on Sep 23, 2024 10:52 AM

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Posted on Sep 27, 2024 8:07 PM

OMG. Im having the same issue is I same. For the same of leaving this comment, I left all the autocorrect my I phone for so they know what Im talking about. Please for this and soon a a possible.


OMG. I’m having the same issue. For the sake of leaving this comment, I left all the autocorrect my iPhone did for me so they know what I’m talking about. Please fix this as soon as possible.


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Nov 4, 2024 5:39 AM in response to Smoore95GAGA

@Smore95GAGA - TYSM! I just tried your suggestion of resetting the keyboard to its factory default, and so far it seems to be better!


Also, this may not have been totally necessary, but when I went checking other settings, I noticed that my system dictionaries included a whole bunch of other dictionaries that I don’t think I ever selected. So I deselected a bunch of them that I didn’t need, including English UK (I’m in US) and a series of other international versions that appear to be related to my multi-language keyboard selection but are in fact totally different. Makes me think that this issue may be exacerbated by having more than one language setup for the keyboard?


Reset keyboard:

(Thanks Smore95GAGA!)

Settings>General>Transfer or Reset iPhone>Reset>Reset Keyboard Dictionary


Clean up dictionaries:

Settings>General>Dictionary

Nov 3, 2024 2:06 PM in response to wwjbd

Me, too. I have had it off for a month and every time i try to turn it back on my phone becomes unusable. Even with it off, my phone is slow and glitchy. I have half of my space open, every accessibility feature off, every graphic feature off, and nothing will completely fix it.


I’ve been a loyalist to iPhone since 2009 and I am strongly considering switching the whole family to Samsung

Nov 5, 2024 5:27 PM in response to J-Bar332

J-Bar332 wrote:

I have multiple keyboards and switch languages all the time. However, it’s gotten even worse. Now it randomly chooses Spanish as my default keyboard for no reason and I have to click the globe when I shouldn’t have to. It’s random. No rhyme or reason.

See if this helps at all to manage your keyboards:


Managing Bilingual Keyboards - Apple Community


Nov 25, 2024 8:50 AM in response to marilin53

marilin53 wrote:

Same issue. I had two dictionaries. The restarting did not work, but I deleted one of my dictionaries and then added it again, this time together (Spanish and english) - new feature “bilingual”. Go to settings> General> keyboard> keyboards > edit.

So do you find that using the new bilingual keyboard made autocorrect work acceptably for both languages?


Managing Bilingual Keyboards - Apple Community


Dec 8, 2024 8:07 AM in response to wwjbd

I’m experiencing the same thing. My examples have been:


- “if” to “in”

-“word” to “work”

-“up” to “you”

-“why” to “what”

-“has” to “hats”

-“so” to “do”

-“as” to “and”

-“wish” to “with”

-“It” to “I my”

-“Money” to “a money”

-“on” to “in”

-words with S’s at the end getting split up into the word and and S


It literally is happening while I’m writing this message. It’s ridiculous. Why has it gotten so horrendous as a result of the iOS 18 update? I wish I could to back to iOS 17. It changed immediately after my phone updated.


APPLE PLEASE FIX THIS


Sincerely,

The Millions of People Who Have Spent Hard-Earned Money on Your Phones

iOS 18 Autocorrect is Totally Unusable

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