Hundreds of iPhone Users Complain About the Word 'It' Autocorrecting to 'I.T' on iOS 11 and Later

[C DM]

No, that's nothing alike. Apple wasn't screwing up almost all of their product lines in one way or another simply by putting out an MP3 player. All of the issues I've mentioned are within the past three years, four max. And it's nowhere near the "let's put out a product people don't expect us to" sort of thing you're pretending it is.

It's alike in the context that at the time when Apple was basically on the verge of being gone and not having much in the way of products that anyone really cared about they decided to suddenly spend a lot of their focus on something like an MP3 player with a lot of people seeing Apple already being a mess prior to that, and only seeing become even more so (in their opinion) for suddenly going for a product like an MP3 player.
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you completely misunderstood me. That is 100 people online only (already a huge number considering most people don't go online to complain). Do we know how many people called Apple support, emailed them, chatted with them, sent feedback from other means? Yeah, this is a big problem if 100 already reported this online.

It's definitely something to look into, but just like it doesn't tell the story of how many people are really affected, it also doesn't tell the story that it is a widespread issue that is affecting the majority, let alone everyone.

 

[Mildredop]

This sort of stuff is great ammo for us Android users.

There's nothing better when a bunch of self-righteous iPhone users sneer at my Android phone and I can say "At least my calculator works." 1+2+3=24 later and they all shut up.

Keep up the good work Apple!

 

[C DM]

This sort of stuff is great ammo for us Android users.

There's nothing better when a bunch of self-righteous iPhone users sneer at my Android phone and I can say "At least my calculator works." 1+2+3=24 later and they all shut up.

Keep up the good work Apple!

Kind of like there was an Android update that omitted the month of December from the calendar?

 

[Mildredop]

Kind of like there was an Android update that omitted the month of December from the calendar?

iPhone sales = declining
Android sales = increasing

My calendar has December in I.T

 

[C DM]

iPhone sales = declining
Android sales = increasing

My calendar has December in I.T

And Apple is still doing better and better. What does any of this have to do with this thread? Who cares if Android or iOS is better? Just use what you want to use.

 

[Scott6666]

I'll start from the beginning on this one, as I have seen it too and fixed it, last night.

Settings/General/Keyboards/

Add a New Keyboard (any language, you must have two actual languages to do the next step)

Delete English Keyboard.

Add English Keyboard back in.

Fixed.


I believe this is an actual virus, it catches from users to user and will get into your Mac messages as well. I didn't think to take screenshots, but my wife's Macbook was doing this yesterday too, and that's when i decided it was time to act or else i might get it. I have a feeling this issue, is due to machine learning the offending characters, maybe someone played a prank on someone with a text swap, and something in iOS 11 is allowing it to jump from phone to phone and to macs as well.

Get ready for the iPhone viruses.

[doublepost=1511879553][/doublepost]AT BEST IT'S ONLY A TEMPORARY FIX: IT CATCHES, YOU COULD CATCH IT AGAIN FROM SOMEONE.

BECAUSE IT'S A COMPUTER VIRUS.

Don’t they know it’s a virus but this seems to have worked on my iPad. See it?

 

[KdParker]

iPhone sales = declining
Android sales = increasing

My calendar has December in I.T

What?....

Are you really comparing ALL android operating system phones to the iPhone in sales?

Come on the discussion has been hashed out before. Must we do this again?

 

[MoJoRo]

I sure as hell am. I recently sent them some feedback and sent em screenshots about bugs I'm enountering.
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Ugh, yeah the problems with Today View and lock screen widgets being nonresponsive/buggy as hell are *slowly* getting better, but they are crazy annoying.

 

[Delgibbons]

Ugh, yeah the problems with Today View and lock screen widgets being nonresponsive/buggy as hell are *slowly* getting better, but they are crazy annoying.

Total bloody mess the widgets, previously run apps, dropdown. Total mess.

 

[baryon]

It's not jus the word "it", but hundreds of other correctly spelt words that get "corrected" — which has always been this way. It's because the built-in keyboard sucks. You gotta stop using it and use something like SiftKey instead. SwiftKey is more likely to only correct words that are misspelt and even then it offers much more useful suggestions.

 

[martinatra]

At least a few hundred iPhone users and counting have complained about the word "it" autocorrecting to "I.T" on iOS 11 and later.

Image: Sean James via Twitter​

When affected users type the word "it" into a text field, the keyboard first shows "I.T" as a QuickType suggestion. After tapping the space key, the word "it" automatically changes to "I.T" without actually tapping the predictive suggestion.

A growing number of iPhone users have voiced their frustrations about the issue on the MacRumors discussion forums, Twitter, and other discussion platforms on the web since shortly after iOS 11 was released in late September.

MacRumors reader Tim shared a video that appears to indicate the issue can cause the word "is" to be autocorrected to "I.S" as well.

Many users claim the apparent autocorrect bug persists even after rebooting the device and performing other basic troubleshooting.

A temporary workaround is to tap Settings > General > Keyboard > Text Replacement and enter "it" as both the phrase and shortcut, but some users insist this solution does not solve the problem.

A less ideal workaround is to toggle off auto-correction and/or predictive suggestions completely under Settings > General > Keyboard.

The issue is notable given Apple just recently addressed a similar bug that caused the letter "i" to autocorrect to "A[?]" on iOS 11 and later. The fix was included in iOS 11.1.1, publicly released in early November.

This similar "it" to "I.T" issue does not appear to be fixed in iOS 11.1.1 and later. It's unclear if a future software update will be required to address the problem, which MacRumors hasn't been able to reproduce. Apple did not respond to multiple requests for comment about this particular issue.

Article Link: Hundreds of iPhone Users Complain About the Word 'It' Autocorrecting to 'I.T' on iOS 11 and Later

[doublepost=1512706104][/doublepost]This started happening to me yesterday out of nowhere, and no matter what I try, it won’t stop. I’m very frustrated right now.

 

[Abazigal]

It's not jus the word "it", but hundreds of other correctly spelt words that get "corrected" — which has always been this way. It's because the built-in keyboard sucks. You gotta stop using it and use something like SiftKey instead. SwiftKey is more likely to only correct words that are misspelt and even then it offers much more useful suggestions.

I have used Swiftkey before and I will admit their autocorrect feels better, but recently, I have gotten a little leery of allowing my personal data to proliferate across so many different platforms, and have a desire to start consolidating them. Given the recent news of user data being leaked by companies of 3rd party keyboard software, I think the safest place to store my data is still with Apple.

 

[C DM]

[doublepost=1512706104][/doublepost]This started happening to me yesterday out of nowhere, and no matter what I try, it won’t stop. I’m very frustrated right now.

Are you running iOS 11.2?

 

[Claywilliums]

At least a few hundred iPhone users and counting have complained about the word "it" autocorrecting to "I.T" on iOS 11 and later.

Image: Sean James via Twitter​

When affected users type the word "it" into a text field, the keyboard first shows "I.T" as a QuickType suggestion. After tapping the space key, the word "it" automatically changes to "I.T" without actually tapping the predictive suggestion.

A growing number of iPhone users have voiced their frustrations about the issue on the MacRumors discussion forums, Twitter, and other discussion platforms on the web since shortly after iOS 11 was released in late September.

MacRumors reader Tim shared a video that appears to indicate the issue can cause the word "is" to be autocorrected to "I.S" as well.

Many users claim the apparent autocorrect bug persists even after rebooting the device and performing other basic troubleshooting.

A temporary workaround is to tap Settings > General > Keyboard > Text Replacement and enter "it" as both the phrase and shortcut, but some users insist this solution does not solve the problem.

A less ideal workaround is to toggle off auto-correction and/or predictive suggestions completely under Settings > General > Keyboard.

The issue is notable given Apple just recently addressed a similar bug that caused the letter "i" to autocorrect to "A[?]" on iOS 11 and later. The fix was included in iOS 11.1.1, publicly released in early November.

This similar "it" to "I.T" issue does not appear to be fixed in iOS 11.1.1 and later. It's unclear if a future software update will be required to address the problem, which MacRumors hasn't been able to reproduce. Apple did not respond to multiple requests for comment about this particular issue.

Article Link: Hundreds of iPhone Users Complain About the Word 'It' Autocorrecting to 'I.T' on iOS 11 and Later

[doublepost=1513296606][/doublepost]New to this forum, sorry if I messed up the reply but wanted to help out.
If you have this problem you CAN fix it by creating a text replacement shortcut but you can’t create a rule to replace “it” with “it” so make the phrase “it “ with a space and make the shortcut “it” with no space.

 

[benthewraith]

This sort of stuff is great ammo for us Android users.

There's nothing better when a bunch of self-righteous iPhone users sneer at my Android phone and I can say "At least my calculator works." 1+2+3=24 later and they all shut up.

Keep up the good work Apple!

I've seen that happen before, but now it's working the opposite for me. Instead of 1+2+3=24 or 1+2+3=6, it's 1+2+3=5.