Auto-Correction is changing my words incorrectly after iOS 18 update on iPhone

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!!!




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iPhone 14 Pro Max, iOS 18

Posted on Sep 23, 2024 10:52 AM

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Posted on Nov 4, 2024 5:39 AM

@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

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Mar 2, 2025 11:28 AM in response to wwjbd

Yeah this is insane. I was hoping I wasn’t the only one but the only fix to this is really really really slowing down the speed of the thumb movement and inner voice when you type by a fair amount.


The speed of each thumb click is maybe slower than the sound you hear (first thing that I came up with) is your natural gas stove clicking sound. Keep it at that tempo or a bit slower and this whole time typing this actually I havnt had any issues.


there’s moments you want to speed up the thumb taps because it’s natural at this point but that’s where I see the little mis hits and then words get completely wrong.


before I wrote all of this I was experiencing so many wrong words, and what made me want to find this thread was when I was trying to type the word “version” and it kept changing it to bersion. Bersion isn’t a ****** word



Oct 25, 2024 6:14 AM in response to wwjbd

Omg I thought it was just me until I put post online and everyone said the same exact thing! I realized that common words that the keyboard should know how to spell are being put in parentheses and you have to click it so that way it saves it for in the future! It’s gotten so bad that I had to download the Google keyboard today because I couldn’t take it anymore!


Apple, please fix this issue!!!!!!

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


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

Mar 30, 2025 1:22 PM in response to wwjbd

Can’t say Haagen Dazs, only Hagen with one A is allowed. Can’t talk about a handful of coins because everything is Pennie’s, it belongs to her! No pennies allowed! Had to fight it desperately about 16 times just there to get it to allow me to talk about the piece of currency. Don’t forget everything needs to be pluralized, everything has to have an r added on to change the word entirely (you isn’t allowed, only your!), and everything must be changed into a conjunction so your isn’t allowed to be your when you want it, it has to be you’re. All jokes aside it really baffles me how it loves to sabotage names. Like it genuinely thinks it knows how someone’s name is spelled better than they, the owner of the name, do. So bizarre since names are personal and essentially made up, so they’re allowed to be spelled in any manner of variation one likes. Like… what? I miss the simple days when the biggest autocorrect fail I had to deal with was the mildly annoying “ducking” situation lol. Not to mention apple’s greedy obsessive eagerness to capitalize commonplace words and phrases if they also double as the name of an Apple feature. Can’t talk about a show with a time machine in it without Apple trying to make the sentence bizarre and grammatically unsound. Heck I can’t even talk about Apple pie most of the time without that capital A just there. Keyboard also seems to get jumpy sometimes, when I’m like halfway through typing a word if I’m going a little fast. So you end up with the first three letters of a word, with some like “oo bcn m” random gibberish chopped in instead of the rest of the word. Or accidentally clicking a predictive text word instead of a letter in the top row. Granted that’s my own sloppiness but it’s just frustrating and I wish there were a way for it to detect that you’re typing fast and just want to finish the word yourself instead of slower hesitant typing where you might want to pick a suggestion to help you complete it. As a bonus since I have a 15 pro I’m also not being allowed to post this. The “post” button has been deemed the designated area of my screen that will not respond. If I scroll and tap something else that’s moved into the spot it’s totally fine! If I go to my home screen and click something else in that exact spot it’s fine! That area of screen can respond! It’s just that I’m not allowed to specifically press that one button that says post because my dictator phone says no.

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