How is it possible that autocorrect continues to get worse??

I think auto correct works pretty darn well. I haven't noticed a decrease in performance.

 

Did you restore as new and not from your backup? If you're coming from a backup, consider resetting the keyboard dictionary. You may have to "reteach" your phone some words that you commonly use, but it doesn't sound like it's all that useful for you now anyways.

 

I have to agree with the OP on this. Sometimes ios8 comes up with some goofy words that aren't even in existence.

I figured it's still "learning" my typing input.

 

Works great for me most of the time as well.

A sound suggestion.

 

I have not had an issues like on iOS 6 or 7, I was on a samsung galaxy s3 for a few years so apple adding the predictive word reminded me of my samsung so I liked that they added that.

I also try to avoid using slang in my texts to avoid spell checkers or auto correctors from making me go crazy

 

It is becoming really weird on my Mac.

 

I'm having issues with words that use an apostrophe.
Ie: It' shaving <---- was- it's having.

 

How is it possible that autocorrect continues to get worse??

Yep, that's probably where the nonsense words are coming from. I highly doubt Apple has those words built in to iOS, so that's the only explanation.

As for why you and others may have that problem, I don't know. Maybe making the same typo too many times actually causes autocorrect to assume you meant to type that? Just a shot in the dark, I'm probably wrong.

As for the shortcuts not showing up, are they still listed in the settings app?

 

Reset the user dictionary. It's autocorrecting to your previous misspellings.

For example when I type moron incorrectly like you did it just got changed to the correct spelling. However if I didn't let it autocorrect it would assume I'm trying to type that and eventually albeit annoying change it to the incorrect spelling.

Resetting the user dictionary can help tremendously.

 

I honestly have no idea. Just try to reset the dictionary settings and see if that fixes it.

 

I did have issues with iOS 7, but since I started using iOS 8 on my 6+, autocorrect has been much better. I did not restore from backup, so that's probably why.