Autocorrect is really terrible now

[Yaboze]

This is specific to iMessage for me.

I don't know what's going on the past few years or iOS releases, but it's just terrible now. It changes perfectly fine words into completely different words and adds punctuation, it's just horrible. I typed the word "funky" and it changed it to "dinky" It also changes errors into completely different words that don't even have the same characters. Is this AI? lol. It worked so much better like 3-4 releases ago.

I don't know what's going on or what Apple changed, almost all of my simple typo errors turn into something so bad, I have to edit the line or retype it.

 

[StumpyBloke]

This exact issue has been pointed out many times of late. You are absolutely right.

God only knows what is going on with Apple and their punctuation, changing of words, random capitalisation of words but it is no longer fit for purpose. And people are putting stock in AI specifically Apple’s version… LOL they can’t get the basics right! It truly is pathetic and inexcusable!

 

[Mr_Knightley]

Absolutely agree. Underlining words that could be improved, you click on the word and some ridiculous replacement is dropped in and / or the word just vanishes.

And it can't remember the simplest of things. I always sign off with 'John' but it will suggest anything but - 'Jokes', 'Jog', 'Join' ...WTF?

 

[A.R.E.A.M.]

This is specific to iMessage for me.

I don't know what's going on the past few years or iOS releases, but it's just terrible now. It changes perfectly fine words into completely different words and adds punctuation, it's just horrible. I typed the word "funky" and it changed it to "dinky" It also changes errors into completely different words that don't even have the same characters. Is this AI? lol. It worked so much better like 3-4 releases ago.

I don't know what's going on or what Apple changed, almost all of my simple typo errors turn into something so bad, I have to edit the line or retype it.

quoting you because i've experienced this in the same time frame as you. one update and bam! weird words, it will auto select a word for no reason, the gibberish words it recommends to auto correct... resetting the dictionary does nothing. ive been noticing this since the 14 pm.

 

[Pagemakers]

Totally agree. Autocorrect is pants at the moment.

 

[StumpyBloke]

Totally agree. Autocorrect is pants at the moment.

It’s unequivocably worse year after year.

 

[dronee]

It used to be brilliant. I do wonder what they have changed and why.

 

[simnew]

It is universally atrocious but mostly on normal searches (where it is disabled it seems and the keyboard seems to have no understanding of the language you mode you are in ) and in Social media apps, where sometimes it seems to works acceptably and other times seems to choose words that don't exist at all in say English. For me this is the worst aspect of using Apple products at the moment and I started in 2007 with my first iMac.

 

[BigMcGuire]

As someone who has used Apple Products since 2011 … the auto correct is one of my bigger complaints. Like others have already stated - the auto-correct to non-English words, absolute mangling of what I’m trying to type, and for me - whenever I go to tap the letter n on the phone it hits the space bar despite my thumb being on the n key.

I avoid typing on the iPhone as much as I can. To type this I’ve got a Bluetooth keyboard via my iPad and even auto-correct can sometimes mangle that.

I’ve got high hopes for 27…

 

[Pagemakers]

And dictation is equally as bad.

I could speak something like “it was a cold dark night” and it would write “it’s was a cold dark knight”.

It also incorrectly capitalises the Odd word within A sentence.

 

[ElPaso]

I typed in "iPhone" and it wrote "eyefoam". Just kidding there hahahahee - but (seriously) if autocorrect is that messed up, can't it just be disabled from the keyboard menu in Settings? Might end a headache or two . . .