iPhone Predictive text error "I" to "A [?]"

[TDOB]

Same as above with what everyone is experiencing. I spend a few hours on the phone with support last night and continued to get escalated to higher levels. I submitted 'crash reports' screenshots, etc. to the senior engineering advisor. I do know that resetting the keyboard does not fix it. If you sign out of your Apple ID and restart your phone, it will disappear, but once you log back in with your Apple ID it shows up again.

 

[C DM]

Same as above with what everyone is experiencing. I spend a few hours on the phone with support last night and continued to get escalated to higher levels. I submitted 'crash reports' screenshots, etc. to the senior engineering advisor. I do know that resetting the keyboard does not fix it. If you sign out of your Apple ID and restart your phone, it will disappear, but once you log back in with your Apple ID it shows up again.

Could it be connected to some iCloud setting? Perhaps (in some weird way) Keychain or Safari or something else of that nature?

 

[Dwalls90]

So it seems like it's a server side/iCloud issue, since it's impacting 11.0.3, 11.1 and 11.2?

 

[Prelate74]

Yes this same thing is happening to me. I am wondering if this will be the case with my iPhone X that's coming?

 

[C DM]

Looks like this made it to the front page: https://www.macrumors.com/2017/11/01/ios-11-predictive-text-bug/

 

[superspud]

lets not let this disappear, there has to be a fix somewhere out there...

I just realized that it does the same A [?] thing while typing emails as well, so thats cool.....

 

[C DM]

lets not let this disappear, there has to be a fix somewhere out there...

I just realized that it does the same A [?] thing while typing emails as well, so thats cool.....

Have you tried disabiling some iCloud settings to see if that might help?

Also, there's a potential workaround for the moment that can help:

I have the issue on my phone. I added “I” as a keyboard short cut, problem solved for the time being.

 

[superspud]

Have you tried disabiling some iCloud settings to see if that might help?

Also, there's a potential workaround for the moment that can help:

neither appear to do anything for me :/



edit - maybe it took a minute or two to take, because now its working. Thanks!

edit again - the one that worked for me is the "work around" where you add the keyboard shortcut

 

[Jma1053]

This has been driving me insane since yesterday, and apple support was no help. However, I did manage to fix it on my phone!! (Hoping it doesn’t come back). What I did was:

I have my phone set to backup to iCloud, but not photos. I made sure my photos were backed up to my Mac, then disconnected from Mac, and then went into my iPhone’s iCloud to confirm it had been backing up recently. Then, yes I know this is scary, but I did an iPhone reset of “erase all content and settings” (this WILL erase everything if you do not have it backed up!!) after resetting, when prompted, sign in with iCloud and choose to restore from a backup. HOWEVER, choose a backup pre weird symbol thing, i.e. it was two days ago for me, so I chose oct 30th backup. Once it finished restoring, keyboard was back to normal! Let’s hope it stays....

 

[C DM]

This has been driving me insane since yesterday, and apple support was no help. However, I did manage to fix it on my phone!! (Hoping it doesn’t come back). What I did was:

I have my phone set to backup to iCloud, but not photos. I made sure my photos were backed up to my Mac, then disconnected from Mac, and then went into my iPhone’s iCloud to confirm it had been backing up recently. Then, yes I know this is scary, but I did an iPhone reset of “erase all content and settings” (this WILL erase everything if you do not have it backed up!!) after resetting, when prompted, sign in with iCloud and choose to restore from a backup. HOWEVER, choose a backup pre weird symbol thing, i.e. it was two days ago for me, so I chose oct 30th backup. Once it finished restoring, keyboard was back to normal! Let’s hope it stays....

Certainly a workaround, but perhaps not the most practical one for many I would think. Might be simpler to try a workaround like creating a keyboard text replacement shortcut.

 

[Gregjburgess]

Wait so we aren't the only ones this is happening to? Thank god

This is really annoying.
I can’t seem to find a fix anywhere.
iOS 11.1 hasn’t fixed it at all.
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This has been driving me insane since yesterday, and apple support was no help. However, I did manage to fix it on my phone!! (Hoping it doesn’t come back). What I did was:

I have my phone set to backup to iCloud, but not photos. I made sure my photos were backed up to my Mac, then disconnected from Mac, and then went into my iPhone’s iCloud to confirm it had been backing up recently. Then, yes I know this is scary, but I did an iPhone reset of “erase all content and settings” (this WILL erase everything if you do not have it backed up!!) after resetting, when prompted, sign in with iCloud and choose to restore from a backup. HOWEVER, choose a backup pre weird symbol thing, i.e. it was two days ago for me, so I chose oct 30th backup. Once it finished restoring, keyboard was back to normal! Let’s hope it stays....

I did the same thing, but didn’t choose a restore from far enough back.

It’s takes forever for everything to redownload. It’s such a pain to do it all over again.

 

[CoriG]

Is anyone getting a weird symbol when they type a capital I on their phone? This just started happening this morning.

 

[IndianBird]

I

 

[CoriG]

I️ (this is what I️ am getting when I️ type I️)
[doublepost=1509639387][/doublepost]It is showing up different on my iphone..

 

[applesince1991]

This has been happening to me, suddenly, today. I tried a software update and a reset with no luck. I do not have predictive text on, so I ended up turning off autocorrect to fix, which is so annoying as autocorrect is super necessary. Also, though, autocorrect has been super weird out of nowhere as well—recently changing "talk" to "y'all" (a word I never have used)

 

[TMG357]

This is happening to me too. "I" is turning into A [?] ever since I completed the latest update. It shows up like this in text and FB messenger. When will this be resolved?

 

[C DM]

This is happening to me too. "I" is turning into A [?] ever since I completed the latest update. It shows up like this in text and FB messenger. When will this be resolved?

As mentioned in the quoted post below, it seems like creating and using a keyboard text replacement shortcut for this is the best workaround for the moment (short of perhaps disabling auto-correct and predictive features, or doing something even more impactful like singing out of iCloud or resetting settings if not even reinstalling).

If you create a text replacement for “I” and make it replace it with “I “ (notice the space) it works around the issue.

 

[bribri99]

Same issue here. The weird thing is if someone write "I" from their iphone to my imessage on my computer, it looks all wrong though my iphone looks fine

 

[mwojno]

Settings > General > Keyboard > Text Replacement

Shortcut: copy and paste the weird symbolizing (A ? with box around it).

Phrase: Type an i or I.

This is a work around to swap every occurrence of that weird symbolizing error and replace it with the correct unicode for I. This is strange that it is happening with no one updating even. Hopefully apple can push a solution shortly. Gotta love software sometimes...
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Same issue here. The weird thing is if someone write "I" from their iphone to my imessage on my computer, it looks all wrong though my iphone looks fine

Settings > General > Keyboard > Text Replacement

Shortcut: copy and paste the weird symbolizing (A ? with box around it).

Phrase: Type an i or I.

This is a work around to swap every occurrence of that weird symbolizing error and replace it with the correct unicode for I. This is strange that it is happening with no one updating even. Hopefully apple can push a solution shortly. Gotta love software sometimes...

 

[kojo0513]

Came in to ask the same thing.


I️
I️
I️


Still doing it.

 

[atlchamp]

Mine is doing it on 11.2 beta 1 as well on iPhone 8

 

[venusfly-]

This just started happening for me yesterday! However, it's only happening in some apps that I use, like instagram. Not in iMessage. It'll suggest an autocorrect to change it to those characters, but I just click the 'X' to get rid of it, and then it'll send normally...So weird.

However, one person's i's are coming up that way for me on my Mac's iMessage, but the same messages are coming up normal i's on my phone?...Absolute madness! Apple is not the same as it used to be.

 

[EM2013]

Weird how so many are experiencing this, I’m not having this issue though *knocks on wood*

How does Apple have the silliest of bugs!

 

[Robert1797]

I have an iPhone 7, running 11.0.3

Whenever the keyboard opens up the first recommended word for predictive text is "A [?]" except the bracketed ? is what shows up when you don't have a new emoji and someone sends it to you. I have tried a hard reboot, resetting the keyboard, turning off predictive text/ autocorrect, and have checked to make sure that is isn't in the text replacement menu. When I type the letter "I" it autocorrects to A [?]. I don't know what else to do at this point. I reset all settings and it still isn't resolved. I attached an image for reference. Does anyone have any idea what is going on?

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Apple's support staff is recommending customers affected by this bug use text replacement as a temporary workaround.

To do this, go to Settings > General > Keyboard > Text Replacement. Type in an uppercase "I" for the phrase, and a lowercase "i" as the replacement.

 

[troubleshoot]

I have an iPhone 7, running 11.0.3

Whenever the keyboard opens up the first recommended word for predictive text is "A [?]" except the bracketed ? is what shows up when you don't have a new emoji and someone sends it to you. I have tried a hard reboot, resetting the keyboard, turning off predictive text/ autocorrect, and have checked to make sure that is isn't in the text replacement menu. When I type the letter "I" it autocorrects to A [?]. I don't know what else to do at this point. I reset all settings and it still isn't resolved. I attached an image for reference. Does anyone have any idea what is going on?

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Just spoke to AppleCare and we fixed it by turning off autocorrect