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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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Sep 29, 2024 3:22 PM in response to John Galt

Nope. I just checked this and with the exception of making iOS a little less nanny with curse words ... I've barely anything in that section. I'm still witnessing iOS change words like on to in and other assorted problems with autocorrect. It's making me sound like someone with learning disabilities ... unless I reread what I'm writing every time, multiple times. I would say autocorrect is broken AF.

Oct 4, 2024 3:41 PM in response to BeckyBeckyO

Guys, not to mention the fact that auto correct is what’s causing this debilitating keyboard typing lag. If you turn auto correct and prediction off, the keyboard stops lagging. It lags so bad since iOS 18 so clearly Apple recoded auto correct and broke it, as usual. This happened on iOS 14 if I recall too. And it took them to like 14.5 to fix the typing lag. So we’re in for it.

Oct 14, 2024 4:51 AM in response to wwjbd

I've already commented, but its so bad, i have 2 languages set for iphone and before iOS18, it was working ok for both, not mather what app I was using, but now, it doesnt even correct to a speficif word, it can be just gibberish, as if their AI is still learning. With the keyboard hitbox being small, before I didnt take long to type with autocorrect working, now is just annoying and frustrating sending a message.

iOS 18 Autocorrect is Totally Unusable

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