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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Sep 27, 2024 8:07 PM in response to wwjbd

OMG. Im having the same issue is I same. For the same of leaving this comment, I left all the autocorrect my I phone for so they know what Im talking about. Please for this and soon a a possible.


OMG. I’m having the same issue. For the sake of leaving this comment, I left all the autocorrect my iPhone did for me so they know what I’m talking about. Please fix this as soon as possible.


Sep 30, 2024 9:02 AM in response to wwjbd

It’s driving me insane! The bilingual keyboards do not work. No matter if I use the “normal” or the “bilingual” keyboards, it’s incapable of recognising the language I’m typing. This wouldn’t be such a big deal if it didn’t automatically correct every single word to replace it with either the most random word or a word that doesn’t exist?? The autocorrect function is honestly terrible at the moment.

Oct 5, 2024 6:36 PM in response to wwjbd

I’m still using 17.7 and autocorrect is maddening. Every time I type the word “in” it is changed to “John”. I have many of the same additional problems mentioned by others. Text Replacement does absolutely nothing. It’s making me crazy. Sometimes I just want to throw this phone in the river. When I just typed the word “want”, it was changed to “was ant”! WTF.

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.

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