The internet has been rumbling about autocorrect for years – and now AI is changing how the technology works
Don’t worry, you’re not going mad.
If you feel the autocorrect on your iPhone has gone haywire recently – inexplicably correcting words such as “come” to “coke” and “winter” to “w Inter” – then you are not the only one.
Judging by comments online, hundreds of internet sleuths feel the same way, with some fearing it will never be solved.
Apple released its latest operating system, iOS 26, in September. About a month later, conspiracy theories abound, and a video purporting to show an iPhone keyboard changing a user’s spelling of the word “thumb” to “thjmb” has racked up more than 9m views.
