iOS 18 Autocorrect is Totally Unusable

kathrin36 wrote:

Me too - just updated it to 18 and it’s crazy. I write in 2 languages on my mobile

Try going to settings > general > keyboard > keyboards and adding German and English and removing the item called "English & German" if there is one.

Same autocorrect issue, thought I was going crazy. Using Siri to text seems to be worse too. She used to get grammar right for the most part but today she spelled accept the offer as except the offer and a few more mistakes but that one really stood out.

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!!!!!!

You are lucky most of the english auto correct options are REAL words. In Spanish it's completely nosense.

Example: "mirando" (looking) replaced by "mirándooslo" (not a word, but close to "Looking at Oslo")

Hi. I manage a large number of mobile devices and just had a user report this issue to me. I figured out the fix on our end, hoping it can resolve your issues. I'm on iOS18.1, my user was on iOS18. Go to Settings, General, Keyboards and Add New Keyboard. Go back again to confirm the keyboard was added. Note: All our settings are ON in the keyboard screen, except One-Handed Keyboard. Languages & Regions: Add Language. Go back in and confirm it was added. Dictionary: tap the language - in my case French - multidictionnaire.... My Primary Language was English, French was added. Go back in and confirm the dictionary is fully loaded. Turn your device off and on(this never hurts). Go into Mail in the native Apple app, on the BOTTOM ON THE LEFT you will see a GLOBE. You need to touch the Globe to switch between keyboards. Before I switched to the French keyboard, I would see the red squiggly line under a french word. Soon as I touched the GLOBE the word SPACE switched to espace(French) and I could type french words without auto correction issues. My user had been having issues on his new device for a few days, with these changes and soon as he switch his keyboard, he was totally fine. Hoping this resolves your issues as I had not seen anyone mention touching the GLOBE in this thread. I remembered the GLOBE from years ago but had not used a multilanguage keyboard in a while.

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.

Well I’m sure glad it’s not just me! Autocorrect has become a JOKE!! Apple needs to step up their game and fix this! It took way too long to even type this out because of having to fix the autocorrect issues!

I’m having the exact same issues. It is so freaking annoying and takes 3xs as long to type the most simple sentences. I have had to go back and manually correct every sentence. Idk what is going on but this ridiculous.

I did that… And I’ts more time consuming than ever

I run a business and this is a real shame cause I avoid typing actually…!

I’ve never been that disappointed about an apple product… shopping a nee brand now since this post is 2 month old and the couldn’t careless

I’m experiencing the same thing, all the different things you mentioned I have the same problems. It’s becoming really unusable. I rely on voice to text because of my disability, but it’s so frustrating. Using it on Apple recently because the auto correct is not good anymore and has all these problems you mentioned.

Sometimes, when I try to type “almost”, I accidentally type “al,ost”, because the m key is right next to the , key (this is on an iPad with a Bluetooth keyboard). You’d think that it’s obvious what I meant, right? Pretty easy to account for? Well, apparently what I ACTUALLY meant to say was “al,ostensibly” because that’s what autocorrect turns it into as soon as I hit the space bar after the t, BUT IF I WAS TRYING TO TYPE OSTENSIBLY WHY WOULD I TYPE A SPACE TO END THE WORD AFTER THE T???

Dame issue here! What dis or autocorrection l’île This? I cant or type anything

Is Apple okay? What Is rhus?

same as the user above I included the above to show What happens. Random accents, capitals etc.

I have never in my 8 years of being an Apple user struggled to type so much. For example I messaged “Happy thanksgiving bob” once, then every single time I wish someone happy thanksgiving it would assume I’m sending to bob!

but interestingly enough it only corrects my messages after I hit send and on some platforms you can’t edit messages or post. I don’t understand why predictive texting is so bad on the iOS 18 update but this is just a sliver of my experience trying to type recently.

OMG !! Me, top!! It an absolutely infuriating & im not when going to made the correction a, be cause THIS is exactly what creator of this post ia taking an out. Do better Apple !! This is such a disappointment