Autocorrect changing the letter “I” to symbols

iOS 11.1.1 did NOT solve this issue! My phone recently starting replacing I with "A" followed by some weird character (three bars stacked vertically). In fact, when this problem started, I already have iOS 11.1.1. I went to settings and reset keyboard dictionary, restarted my iPhone and it worked normally for the very first "I" typed; then on the second "I" it just came back! How can I get rid of this!!??!? A little more info - last week my husband sent me a Facebook message, which I checked via Safari on my Mac since I don't have the FB app installed on my iPhone and the message was filled with all the weird symbols. A few days later, that's when my iPhone started showing the same erroneous replacement of "I" with A and symbol from my husband's FB message. Oddly enough, my Mac has not been affected, only my iPhone (?) and no matter what I do, I can't get rid of it -- HELP! I'm installing iOS 11.1.2 now - I HOPE THIS FIXES IT! I'll post back to let you know.

bakercoalition wrote:

I read in a few other posts that Mac's had been affected. So I think the absolute statement "No Mac has ever..." seems incorrect.

In all of the posts about Mac's that I have seen, the users were referring to messages they received and not to messages they themselves typed. If you find one where the Mac user themselves typed "I" and got bad results, let me know.

Well this is silly, since I have no interest in proving anything. As a courtesy, I'll go ahead and address your question, Tom. Check out jinsonkv's post. He explains when he goes to send an email from his Mac, the letters are replaced. Re: How do I fix my iPhone from turning letters and words into symbols?

Friendly comment ... as a computer engineer with over 20 years experience my path to wisdom started long ago when I first realized how much I really don't know~

bakercoalition wrote:

Check out jinsonkv's post.

Thanks much! Not silly at all. Some of us follow such bug reports closely, and I have read hundreds regarding this one. For MacOS to have this particular bug would definitely be something new which needs confirmation so that Apple can be encouraged to fix it.

Started having the same issue within the last day or so... very frustrating! Seems that the letter “I” is getting auto-corrected to an undeciphered emoji...

I am having this same issue. I had to turn off my auto correct which is super annoying. I also did the text replacement from I to I like someone else mentioned and that did not work either!

I’ve tried to reset my keyboard and then did a back up and reset all settings... at first it worked but later today it came back. Any other suggestions?

This worked for me- thank you!!!

Good fix but to me that’s just a band aid. Apple should do an update to fix this bug. It’s very frustrating.

Very frustrating

Sadly this did not help me

This works but it still flashes code before it changes it.

Same problem here even after downloading an update on 11/5/2017. It’s really frustrating