iOS 18 Autocorrect is Totally Unusable

Turning predictions off fixed correct words being changed to something else! Don’t know if that helps anyone else. Typing in general has been a lot easier since turning it off.

It won’t even let me reset the keyboard! This update is atrocious.

apple…

FIX THIS! All of it!

the control panel size, the keyboard settings, the emoji size, FIX IT ALL 🤬

Same here. It’s a nightmare!!! I haven’t sworn so much in years!!!

I’m still using 17.7 and autocorrect is maddening. Every time I type the word “in” it is changed to “John”. I have many of the same additional problems mentioned by others. Text Replacement does absolutely nothing. It’s making me crazy. Sometimes I just want to throw this phone in the river. When I just typed the word “want”, it was changed to “was ant”! WTF.

For anyone still experiencing this issue, mine somehow resolved itself sometime last week. No idea how or why, but my texting ease is back to what it was when I was on my 13 pro. No issues. Smooth auto correcting etc.

It’s beyond getting worse as well. I haven’t kept track but autocorrect is not even on the same planet with its “corrections”. It is now constantly misspelling words I spelled correctly. This is absurd. It takes me quite a bit longer to type anything now. Is it really just Apple or is this across the board?

I had the same experience until just now. In Swedish. I realized with the update I hade 2 dictionaries for every keyboard. 2 Swedish, 2 English and two Greek. I disabled the fancy ones. And now it seems normal again. Hope that helps!

This whole text autocorrected as it should.

I have this problem as well after upgrading to 18.1 - it’s driving me INSANE!! It’s forced to use iMessage on desktop as I don’t trust my phone for work convos.

I’ve tried restarting my iphone, turning off predictive text, deleting bilingual keyboards. Nothing works. I was thinking about upgrading my phone until I saw this message board. Adding to convo in case anyone solves it.

I’m experiencing the same thing. I thought this would’ve been corrected in the latest update to 18.1 but it hasn’t. I’m experiencing an identical problem with Hebrew as well. It seems that Apple is relying on AI to guess what you really meant even when you explicitly write something else and it is correct. The whole thing is extremely annoying and I hope Apple will take care of this ASAP.

I was hoping the 18.1 update would fix it but bits still terible

any message of suntan e needs to be fixed

I haven’t tried the wipe

off wet go

yeah that’s not so great either

but it seems better than manual going

almost

left unedited to demonstrate how horrible it is

It is very frustrating! I cannot type shot. I have to copy and paste the word “shot”! I get “short, shoot, shote, *****, sh*t” but never shot. I can’t type “and”! I get Ana or and’s. The same thing goes for the word “to”. I can get “too” but not “to”.

Having to correct autocorrect is frustrating. Apple seems to be going backward with their keyboard. Being able to move the cursor is fine but it’s not fine when I can’t add on to a sentence without being forced to delete the word before it or fix autocorrect.

There’s a long list of keyboard quirks I encounter daily, too many to list. I agree with everyone else. Autocorrect is useless.

If Apple wants to put out the annual iOS update, rather than having suggested words wiggling, fix the keyboard! For the love of all things holy, put numbers on the screen with letters! How hard can that be. Those who are doing the coding for the iPhone’s keyboard might benefit from using some of the AI.

Apple has fallen far behind Samsung and Google and they can’t rest on their laurels forever. Before they throw in AI that doesn’t work, they need to fix what’s broken and leave everything else alone.

A perfect example of an upgrade becoming a downgrade is Apple’s native calendar with its rolling red calendar and grey dots. Their original calendar was good. Most iPhones users have 3rd party apps for email now but they shouldn’t have to with an iPhone. Apple desperately needs an upgrade its calendar of rolling grey dots.

Before anyone considers signing out of iCloud and setting it up as a new phone, don’t do it! It won’t fix the broken autocorrect. I tried and spent hours setting my phone up again. It was a gigantic waste of time.

I still see all the and’s, Ana, *****, sh*t, too………..so I hope I can warn people not to do a full reset.

This is a software glitch that Apple needs to address. With AppleCare and taxes, I’m up to

$1,500. I should be able to type without having to disable autocorrect. Perhaps Apple’s AI can be used to fix its own mess.

There are a lot of people who are experiencing this. If I get bored waiting for an Apple genius, I’ll talk to other people at the store and more often than not, there are a lot of iPhone owners who’ve told me they’re experiencing the same problem.

Hopefully, Apple will fix it, sooner than later.

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.

Autocorrect and predictive text both stopped working. I tried toggling autocorrect and predictive text buttons back and forth, reset keyboard, and restarted iPhone. Nothing is working and it is absolutely maddening. Please help.

*Original autocorrect version at the end*

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ORIGINAL AUTOCORRECTIONS (this is just SO bad)

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This can’t be understated. I spend half my time correcting “autocorrect” since the 18 upgrade. I don’t know why I put up with it. Should probably just disable.

Just in this post:

“up” replaced by “I-“

”by” replaced by “be”

”with” replaced by “when”

”Can’t” replaced by “Can’ t”

”been” replaced by “even”

Can’t make this up. I’m running 18.1.1. Stories of a fix in 18.1 have been greatly exaggerated.