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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Oct 31, 2024 11:03 AM in response to wwjbd

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.

Nov 3, 2024 6:31 AM in response to wwjbd

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.

Nov 3, 2024 2:06 PM in response to wwjbd

Me, too. I have had it off for a month and every time i try to turn it back on my phone becomes unusable. Even with it off, my phone is slow and glitchy. I have half of my space open, every accessibility feature off, every graphic feature off, and nothing will completely fix it.


I’ve been a loyalist to iPhone since 2009 and I am strongly considering switching the whole family to Samsung

Nov 25, 2024 12:10 PM in response to wwjbd

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???

Nov 28, 2024 8:46 AM in response to wwjbd

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.

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