Glitch in predictive text system making messages illegible for some iPhone, iPad and Mac users, while Apple Watch bug crashes when asking for the weatherA bizarre predictive text error has left some iPhone users unable to type the word “I”. It appears to affect users of iOS 10 and iOS 11, and has also been reported as happening to users of Apple’s Mac computers too. The bug seems to be related to Apple’s cloud-based synchronisation for predictive text – a relatively recent feature that allows users’ dictionaries to be shared using its iCloud service. Apple declined to comment, referring the Guardian to a support article offering a temporary workaround using the iOS text replacement settings to replace all uses of a lowercase i with a capital. In 2010, iPhone alarms failed to update after the clocks changed, resulting in a lot of flustered people arriving late to work.

Source: The Guardian November 06, 2017 11:33 UTC