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

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.

Same. Bilingual autocorrect is terrible. I usually have my iPhone set to Spanish but text in both English and Spanish. The new update is so bad it autocorrects literally every English word I type to Spanish. I set my iPhone back to English but that didn't solve it either. This wasn't even an issue before the update. I can't imagine how bad it is for people using drastically different language keyboards.

Ahhhh, but go to text replacement and nothing has changed. Yet autocorrect still does not work. It is quite literally a software issue for so many to be having the same problem. Also, went to the Apple Store and even they couldn’t figure it out. Told me to use a Mac and reset and restore my phone to TRY to fix the issue. Thanks. I don’t have a Mac. I have the phone, watch and iPad. Now I am being told only a Mac can POSSIBLY help.

I am so frustrated with the newest update. AutoCorrect is now impossible. I had to look up how to turn AutoCorrect off completely. It is wasting so much of my time. I dictate a lot. I do a lot of my work on my phone. And it is taking me almost twice as long to do my work on my phone now. I’m frustrated. Apple needs to go back and fix that. There’s no way that they’re getting it wrong to this extent. I’ll be typing words correctly. Correct words. And they are being changed to multiple words, random words, things that don’t make sense at all. And it’s almost every other word. I typed the word there, it changes it to the and the letter a. I typed something as simple as and, and it will change it to anteater. It’s the weirdest thing. The fact that something that has been so reliable for so long has now become impossible to use is making me reconsider. What kind of phone I’m getting next year. I don’t think I’ll be getting an iPhone. And it looks like I’m one of thousands and thousands of customers saying the same thing. Fix it. Now. It’s been almost 5 months. There’s no reason it should still be an issue. Fix it

Another Fly wrote:

I don’t see the point. It’s not like Apple will ever acknowledge wide spread bugs

Apple corrects bugs all the time. Why do you think they release updates? If they didn't fix bugs, you'd go from iOS 18 to iOS 19 without anything in between. There have already been six updates to iOS 18.

i posted here so that others can see that they’re not alone in their experience of various iOS 18 bugs.

With what you think are iOS bugs. Generally, in a thread this long, there are multiple issues going on that happen to look somewhat similar but which have different causes and solutions. In most cases, just posting "I have the same problem" is pointless.

Submitting feedback gets things done.

KSam13 wrote:

Apple please fix this. I have the hardest time texting on iPhone now. It makes me want an android. This is terrible!

Apple doesn't read here in this user-to-user forum for feedback or suggestions. You can, however, let them know your thoughts here:

Product Feedback - Apple

AutoCorrect is not just unusable, is mostly inaccurate especially when using speech to text. It creates words that are not even in the dictionary. At least not common language words. This has been happening over the last 2 to 3 years. I used to rely 100% on speech to text for iMessage, especially or other chat apps. No longer.

I tried to replace the keyboard with Google’s, which would include Google speech to text, however, Apple doesn’t really allow you to replace that function cleanly. When using Google it has to go to another screen to capture it and then bringing it back as a pain in the butt.

if Apple is not going to fix it, then at least allow us to replace it with a third-party seamlessly.

it is truly amazing that with the increased accuracy of machine, learning and AI chat, bots, the Apple and Siri are decreasing exponentially in accuracy and usability.

apple. Please help!!!

BTW. Excuse some of my typos above and misplacement of commas, after all, I was using Apple‘s speech to text. I caught most of the problems, including sentence structure, however, not easy. 😕

hmmm that explains a lot. my phone has been set to spanish for years as i slowly learn it but english is certainly my first and only fluent language. i’ve had trouble in the past with spanish keyboard not recognizing english words, however previously i’ve just switched back to the english keyboard with no problem.

ememerk0206 wrote:

It’s just that I’m not allowed to specifically press that one button that says post because my dictator phone says no.

Wow, that sounds really rough! Have you told Apple how you feel?

Product Feedback - Apple

Yeap, worse. It used to be that if a word in a text messaging thread had been used recently, Apple wouldn't try to correct it. Afaict, that's no longer the case. I had typed in 'blacktip reef shark' in a previous text, but when I tried to type 'reef' a few minutes later, it kept correcting it to 'reed' or 'red' or anything but what I had typed. And it keeps putting a red line under the name of my cat 'Lunk'--admittedly an odd name, but so is the cat. Lunk is now 22 years old, so Apple should have had time to learn his name.

You could try to correct it your self.

In Settings>Keyboard>Text Replacement enter the word that you want Autocorrect to use when your texting or whatever.

Perhaps we should type on macOS and then copy and paste the text into the iPhone!

Yes! The most recent update (18.1.1) has turned it into something completely unusable.

This is an ongoing issue for years. I use 3 keyboards and the autocorrect I have shut them all off. Apple, assign autocorrect task those whom are familiar with the language.

This widespread issue started with iOS 17. Apple knows.