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

Can’t say Haagen Dazs, only Hagen with one A is allowed. Can’t talk about a handful of coins because everything is Pennie’s, it belongs to her! No pennies allowed! Had to fight it desperately about 16 times just there to get it to allow me to talk about the piece of currency. Don’t forget everything needs to be pluralized, everything has to have an r added on to change the word entirely (you isn’t allowed, only your!), and everything must be changed into a conjunction so your isn’t allowed to be your when you want it, it has to be you’re. All jokes aside it really baffles me how it loves to sabotage names. Like it genuinely thinks it knows how someone’s name is spelled better than they, the owner of the name, do. So bizarre since names are personal and essentially made up, so they’re allowed to be spelled in any manner of variation one likes. Like… what? I miss the simple days when the biggest autocorrect fail I had to deal with was the mildly annoying “ducking” situation lol. Not to mention apple’s greedy obsessive eagerness to capitalize commonplace words and phrases if they also double as the name of an Apple feature. Can’t talk about a show with a time machine in it without Apple trying to make the sentence bizarre and grammatically unsound. Heck I can’t even talk about Apple pie most of the time without that capital A just there. Keyboard also seems to get jumpy sometimes, when I’m like halfway through typing a word if I’m going a little fast. So you end up with the first three letters of a word, with some like “oo bcn m” random gibberish chopped in instead of the rest of the word. Or accidentally clicking a predictive text word instead of a letter in the top row. Granted that’s my own sloppiness but it’s just frustrating and I wish there were a way for it to detect that you’re typing fast and just want to finish the word yourself instead of slower hesitant typing where you might want to pick a suggestion to help you complete it. As a bonus since I have a 15 pro I’m also not being allowed to post this. The “post” button has been deemed the designated area of my screen that will not respond. If I scroll and tap something else that’s moved into the spot it’s totally fine! If I go to my home screen and click something else in that exact spot it’s fine! That area of screen can respond! It’s just that I’m not allowed to specifically press that one button that says post because my dictator phone says no.

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?

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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.

most auto .orrect (autocorrect) text comes out with some other different combination of words and letters!

i (i.e., capitalization of the first letter in a sentence doesn’t always work—and yes, it is still enabled in settings.

also (see there is another in capitalized letter) the letter i in the middle of a sentence no longer works! i (see again) can no longer use the text properly.

finally, (again) many words and phrases i use when dictating are not cor .etc either!

driving me crazy!

Apple's recent software 'upgrades' have been generally bad. On my Mac it is now much more time consuming and difficult to delete all the junk email I get. I have no idea why they decided to make it hard to delete email!

Also the iPhone constantly inserts '.' in my text in places it makes no sense, autocorrect spells like a drunk 14 year old, Photos no longer let me sync albums with my Mac and see them on the phone, syncing my iPad require about 15 steps for each sync even if I haven't unplugged it in between, and ... just generally user unfriendly!

It RUINED MY PHONE because of this text message issue after IOS 18! I’ve had iPhone for 20 years and have never been so stressed out & angry over a phone because after this update you’re constantly having to correct autocorrect and it’s nothing but a stressful, time consuming, chore to text people now. I’ve never been so livid with a phone & Apple. Why TF did they do that to us & NOT FIX IT?! APPLE FIX THIS ASAP!!

ShesTinaMarie81 wrote:

APPLE FIX THIS ASAP!!

Apple doesn't read here in this user-to-user forum for feedback or suggestions. Shouting at us, your fellow users accomplishes nothing.

You can let Apple know your thoughts here:

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iOS 18 has been a complete nightmare

It is adding extra letters onto words, it is autocorrecting real words into nonsensical words. It is splitting words up and then I’m left with a word plus letters from that word after the word.

Between apple wallet/pay, battery not even lasting half the day, not charging at times because it gets too hot, apps not reacting properly, phone calls not ringing through, horrible watch interface all of the sudden and this autocorrect nonsense - I’m almost over it. I’ve been a loyal, extremely integrated customer of apple products since day 1 of iPhone - and I’m seriously contemplating an android. I shouldn’t have to spend hours with tech because the last several updates have made my phone completely useless.

i cannot recreate your issue. I’d try restarting your device.

I’m experiencing the same thing. It is horrifically bad.

Every time I type “of” it autocorrects to ”𝑜𝑓” in italics… can’t work out how to get this to stop!

this never happened before, only started happing since updating to iOS 18

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.

Ive turned off Auto Correct until they send put a revision.

What is happening with my keyboard after the update to iOS 18. Everything it corrects is wrong. The simplest things

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