iOS 11 Predictive Text Bug Automatically Changes 'I' to 'A[?]' for Some Users [Updated]

[Appl3FTW]

Seems the quality control team has been fired since Cook took over. At least when it comes to iOS.

Test I

 

[kccamp1]

iOS 11 pretty much bricked my iPhone 6 (unresponsive screen), I am waiting for my new iPhone X...

Yesterday, two of my friends also experienced a crash (simultaneously!) and are waiting on new phones. I wondered if it had to do with this! We were communicating on FB Messenger when it happened and I was asking if they were having THIS problem! I’m pretty put out that I can’t just TYPE on my new iPhone 8Plus without having to override autocorrect!
[doublepost=1509708843][/doublepost]Does updating to iOS 11.1 fix this?

 

[noleli]

I bet this started because someone was trolling the predictive text engine. Change “I” to “A+uFE0F” a few times and hope that it takes off. And thanks to differential privacy Apple can’t figure out who it is

 

[RHA]

Yesterday, two of my friends also experienced a crash (simultaneously!) and are waiting on new phones. I wondered if it had to do with this! We were communicating on FB Messenger when it happened and I was asking if they were having THIS problem! I’m pretty put out that I can’t just TYPE on my new iPhone 8Plus without having to override autocorrect!
[doublepost=1509708843][/doublepost]Does updating to iOS 11.1 fix this?

[doublepost=1509718232][/doublepost] The update to 11.1 DOES NOT

 

[cmiller3116]

I think I may have found a solution. I disabled the emoji board (so that the only keyboard is English), turned off predictive and auto-correction, did a hard restart, turned the two back on, and re-added the emoji keyboard. I still see the "I" in my frequently used emojis, but now longer see it in the corrective text and no longer having an issue with it. Let me know if this works for you!

 

[jonaaronc]

I️ started having this problem after I️ used the twitter app

 

[jarman92]

Omg I thought I was the only one...so weird! There is definitely an I emoji on the keyboard but for me it’s a capital. I just got the iPhone X and did a fresh install of iOS, so maybe that has something to do with it? My old 7 Plus is unaffected.

 

[djrobx]

Just wanted to add a "me too" and am happy finally see a post about it.

It almost seems "viral" in nature. A friend of mine had the bug. It seems my phone then picked it up when he messaged me on Facebook Messenger. After resetting the phone it stops happening for a short while, until I pulled up those conversations again.

"I bet this started because someone was trolling the predictive text engine. Change “I” to “A+uFE0F” a few times and hope that it takes off. And thanks to differential privacy Apple can’t figure out who it is

I bet this started because someone was trolling the predictive text engine. Change “I” to “A+uFE0F” a few times and hope that it takes off. And thanks to differential privacy Apple can’t figure out who it is

I think you are onto something. On my phone that was "infected" by this, the "I"s in my iMessage appear OK, but you can see they're actually corrupt on my mac.

 

[CMFitz]

Omg I thought I was the only one...so weird! There is definitely an I emoji on the keyboard but for me it’s a capital. I just got the iPhone X and did a fresh install of iOS, so maybe that has something to do with it? My old 7 Plus is unaffected.

My 7 Plus is affected. It's a relief to know that lots of people have this. My husband kept asking me why I was texting him a capital A and the weird box with bars, instead of a capital "I". Good question!

 

[MLS287]

I had this issue but, my new X doesn’t seem to have the same hiccup. Anyone else experience resolution after upgrading to the X?

 

[lssmit02]

I found that the fix suggested in the updated first post worked for me. See: I

However, it is unacceptable that I had to make this change. What the hell!

UPDATE: I spoke too soon. It does not work in the email program. Again, what the hell!

 

[SFjustin]

There is a better solution than this. The problem is in the loading of the language in iOS. Go to Settings > General > Language & Region > iPhone Language.

Change the language from english to any other option. After it changes, immediately change it back. The language loads again and the glitch is resolved. Hope this helps.

 

[Bala0509]

There is a better solution than this. The problem is in the loading of the language in iOS. Go to Settings > General > Language & Region > iPhone Language.

Change the language from english to any other option. After it changes, immediately change it back. The language loads again and the glitch is resolved. Hope this helps.

nope. didnt work

 

[Bekkbe]

Another bug that is happening on my iPhone is every time I hit three dashes after a sentence “—” nothing else I typed after those dashes sends in iMessage, only the characters prior to the dashes. Anybody else having this problem?

 

[C DM]

Another bug that is happening on my iPhone is every time I hit three dashes after a sentence “—” nothing else I typed after those dashes sends in iMessage, only the characters prior to the dashes. Anybody else having this problem?

See if disabling smart punctuation in keyboard settings will help with that.

 

[Bekkbe]

See if disabling smart punctuation in keyboard settings will help with that.

Yep! Took care of it! Thanks!

 

[Marshall73]

I don’t get this on any of my Apple kit. Is it only happening on the English dictionary as I use English UK.

 

[Phonephreak]

You're making it sound as if iOS is a compete failure. They have the best operating platform of any smart phone. We know it's not perfect and has glitches, it's nothing Apple can't rectify through patches.

I love my Apple devices but you have to admit that by the time Apple kills most of the bugs. They release a new os with lots of new ones. Repeat cycle every year.
They should slow down and release products with basic features working the way they are supposed to work.

 

[C DM]

Looks like the fix is potentially out in this week's beta releases: https://www.macrumors.com/2017/11/07/fix-autocorrect-bug-developer-beta/