{"id":51738,"date":"2026-04-28T17:27:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T21:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=51738"},"modified":"2026-04-28T17:27:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T21:27:18","slug":"fix-iphone-autocoreet-pleaese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/28\/fix-iphone-autocoreet-pleaese\/","title":{"rendered":"Fix iPhone Autocoreet Pleaese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thenewthings.com\/p\/fix-iphone-autocoreet-pleaese\">Joanna Stern<\/a> chose to use the first post-<a href=\"https:\/\/thenewthings.com\/p\/meet-my-new-thing\">announcement<\/a> post on her new site to return to a familiar issue that remains unresolved:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/thenewthings.com\/p\/fix-iphone-autocoreet-pleaese\">\n<p>Here&rsquo;s my main question: John Ternus, can you <em>turn-us <\/em>the iPhone autocorrect around?<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Over the last few months, I&rsquo;ve noticed more autocorrect mishaps on my iPhone 17 Pro. And I&rsquo;m not alone. (I&rsquo;ve also had some nasty battery drain after recent iOS 26 updates, but that&rsquo;s another story for another time.) Plenty of people have complained to me about autocorrect problems. And I see the folks I&rsquo;m texting with quickly correcting messages because their iPhone mangled the message.<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, Apple addressed part of the problem in iOS 26.4. I&rsquo;ll get to that below. But to suggest iPhone autocorrect is now fixed&mdash;or works as well as it once did&mdash;is like suggesting Siri is a genius.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Alas, <a href=\"https:\/\/thenewthings.com\">New Things<\/a> has no RSS feed.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/21\/john-ternus-replaces-tim-cook\/\">John Ternus Replaces Tim Cook<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/25\/ios-26-4-and-ipados-26-4\/\">iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/03\/ios-18-and-ios-26-autocorrect\/\">iOS 18 and iOS 26 Autocorrect<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/29\/autocorrect-explained\/\">Autocorrect Explained: Why Your iPhone Adds Annoying Typos While Fixing Others<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joanna Stern chose to use the first post-announcement post on her new site to return to a familiar issue that remains unresolved: Here&rsquo;s my main question: John Ternus, can you turn-us the iPhone autocorrect around? [&#8230;] Over the last few months, I&rsquo;ve noticed more autocorrect mishaps on my iPhone 17 Pro. And I&rsquo;m not alone. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2026-04-28T21:27:21Z","apple_news_api_id":"616c698d-ceb1-42fd-a040-864b2395e1f7","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-04-28T21:27:22Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AYWxpjc6xQv2gQIZLI5Xh9w","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1623,31,2741,52],"class_list":["post-51738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-auto-correction","tag-ios","tag-ios-26","tag-rss"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51739,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51738\/revisions\/51739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}