My wife’s iPad (iPadOS 26.2.1), but not her iPhone (iOS 26.2.1) or her iMac (macOS 15.7.3) makes very weird autocorrections. For example “We don’t want” changed to “We Noier”, and “Up to her” became “Up Ethernet”!
I’ve reset the keyboard dictionary. Is there a way to reset a separate autocorrect dictionary?
Edited to add OS versions
Thanks for this Topic @JKBull , I didn’t even know there is a reset keyboard dictionary in iPadOS.
I don’t use autocorrect myself and don’t know how it’s managed-maybe its history/learning is shared among your devices etc. But if it’s just local, my hunch would be the good ol’ turn off autocorrect, shut down the device, wait a bit, start it up and turn on autocorrect again. Maybe also while you’re at it turn off the other auto stuff like Predictive Text, Check Spelling, and so on.
Maybe first type the good old quick brown fox pangram for example, or something you have seen wrongly corrected, then do the steps and try again.
A quick DDG search brought up a 2012 OSX Daily page that said: “This clears out the entire autocorrect and keyboard dictionary letting you start over from scratch.” Don’t know if that is still true…
Macworld also pointed to what you’ve already done as a solution for several iOS versions back.