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

Turning predictions off fixed correct words being changed to something else! Don’t know if that helps anyone else. Typing in general has been a lot easier since turning it off.

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

Also turned off auto correct but left predictive text on.

ios 18.1.1 autocorrect still messed up. Was spending too much time trying to fix all the autocorrect mistakes that I just turned it off and to make my life easier!

It doesn’t. No change.

what made it better for me was disabling dual lingo. Use one language for each keyboard. It’s still terrible, just a little less so.

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!!!!!!

J-Bar332 wrote:

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.

See if this helps at all to manage your keyboards:

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I’m experiencing the same thing. My examples have been:

- “if” to “in”

-“word” to “work”

-“up” to “you”

-“why” to “what”

-“has” to “hats”

-“so” to “do”

-“as” to “and”

-“wish” to “with”

-“It” to “I my”

-“Money” to “a money”

-“on” to “in”

-words with S’s at the end getting split up into the word and and S

It literally is happening while I’m writing this message. It’s ridiculous. Why has it gotten so horrendous as a result of the iOS 18 update? I wish I could to back to iOS 17. It changed immediately after my phone updated.

APPLE PLEASE FIX THIS

Sincerely,

The Millions of People Who Have Spent Hard-Earned Money on Your Phones

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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.

ShesTinaMarie81 wrote:

APPLE FIX THIS ASAP!!

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

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Nope. I just checked this and with the exception of making iOS a little less nanny with curse words ... I've barely anything in that section. I'm still witnessing iOS change words like on to in and other assorted problems with autocorrect. It's making me sound like someone with learning disabilities ... unless I reread what I'm writing every time, multiple times. I would say autocorrect is broken AF.

I've already commented, but its so bad, i have 2 languages set for iphone and before iOS18, it was working ok for both, not mather what app I was using, but now, it doesnt even correct to a speficif word, it can be just gibberish, as if their AI is still learning. With the keyboard hitbox being small, before I didnt take long to type with autocorrect working, now is just annoying and frustrating sending a message.