iOS 18 Autocorrect is Totally Unusable

I was brought here after googling the same thing that I’m having issues with. It’s horrible! It will “autocorrect” correctly spelled words into misspelled ones even. It’s been like that since I updated it around the time the 15 came out, and then when I got the 15 plus it’s been worse on the plus. It’s aggravating because I have to message a lot of clients for work quickly and it makes my job harder having to constantly go back and correct my texts.

I have the same or similar problems - told them that these new updates are promising too much too fast. And the ai stuff has caused me to remove as much as possible , as fast as I can. You are telling the truth. Marketing is driving the Apple Ship of Quality. Software should be bullet proof and it certainly is not.

so, is anyone having the issue with autocorrect just not correcting any words? I first noticed it when i was trying to text another iphone user, and literally EVERY word was spelt wrong and would not autocorrect (example, i just wrote “example” to give an example of what is going on and i apparently pressed a K instead of the L, spelling exampke (not to mention, almost every word i just typed was mispelled and im spending way too much time going back to correct them, so its at least legible 🤬)).

BUT, when i texted another iPhone user (and a non iPhone user), the autocorrect feature and predictive text feature, was working. For the same contacts that it wasn’t working for initially, it’s still not working.

AND, now, all of a sudden (when I started writing the second paragraph above) both autocorrect and predictive text JUST started working for the second half of this post. I’m so frustrated with this! Has there been any resolutions? I’ve tried the toggle on/off instructions, even restarted the phone, to no avail

SOLUTION:

Settings > General > Transfer or Reset iPhone > Reset > Reset Keyboard Dictionary

I saw someone else post this, & it worked!

The only thing is, some phrases you would normally use that are not in the dictionary will be deleted since you are resetting your keyboard to factory/default settings. For example, I use “lmk” & “bc” instead of “let me know” & “because” so it’ll have to get used to me doing that again & may try to autocorrect those words/phrases, but it definitely helped the issue that we all mentioned throughout this thread

I am having the same issue. Totally unbearable. I usually write in various languages and iOS seem perfectly unable to recognize the one I use. It was never perfect but now it is worse than useless: it is completely unusable.

Add me to the list. I have always had an issue with iOS wanting to make contractions out of everything but there are far more problems than that in this version.

it is my opinion that a word that is spelled correct should never have a correction applied.

The auto correct from the new iso has been driving me crazy, it’s bad when it can’t even autocorrect English correctly, then it’s so much worse when you have two keyboards and it keeps autocorrecting to another language when you try to writing in English. To make it worse, no matter how many times I try to rewrite the word, it still auto corrects to the wrong word. I literally gave up on a trying to a particular word and have to use something else.

The same with the Norwegian autocorrect. As an app developer I buy iOS and Android every second phone. Just got back to iOS now after one year on Android. After three weeks now, I’m seriously considering going back to Android. The other 7 times I’ve gotten back to iOS from

Andro have felt like «yes yes yes finally back». This time it hurts. Non working auto correct is just one of many serious issues.

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Ever since I did the recent update every time I try to type something it spells incorrectly, or it will separate words like they -the y I have to use voice to type without spelling errors. I don’t know what’s going on, but it’s a big issue. I tried to type an email and I had to correct half of it if I didn’t use the voice dictation. Apple, what is going on??

Nah. It's still a nanny state as words. I put entries in for all 3 words it tried to correct me to from stupid. It still will not allow the swiping of stupid.

I‘ve disliked autocorrect since the day it was invented, so I‘m OK with this. Thanks for the fix!

What fix? I can’t see anything in this line of discussion that offers a fix.

You can fix this by turning off predictive text in keyboard settings

I am losing my mind as well. Turned autocorrect off because I simply couldn't text.

that doesn’t work… I tried it.