Autocorrect keep highlighting words even if theyre spelled correctly

When attempting to place the cursor for text edit, the word closest to where I want the cursor will highlight for auto-correct, even though it is spelled correctly. Difficult to click off the highlight. Must move cursor elsewhere. I end up just typing the word again because it’s quicker than trying to fight this annoying issue. I can’t believe we’re the only people complaining about this. I would have thought there’d be pages and pages of exasperated Apple users. I’m on iOS 17.3.1. Please fix this!

Having the same issue. Following to see the fix. What I found so far is not what I’m looking for. Not looking to toggle off completely. Looking to go back to the double tap or holding on a word for highlighting. This is very annoying.

It’s really frustrating because if you click on or near a word that has been autocorrected, that word gets highlighted with the option to return it to what you typed. It would be better if it were easier to deselect (maybe offer an option to ignore the “uncorrection”, but I haven’t found a way to deselect other than holding the space bar and moving the cursor to where I want to resume typing.

Agreed! This is very annoying and still not fixed! Why did this even start to happen, Apple hurry and fix this!

I think this would be a lot less annoying if it didn’t happen to words that have already been autocorrected. For example, if I want to add a word to the sentence above, and I tap anywhere near a word that was corrected I’m stuck having to navigate around Apple offering to unfix something.

maybe the answer is to stop offering to undo an autocorrect after a few seconds, or after a sentence was completed (or something - almost anything would be better than current!)

Most of the time, I benefit from autocorrect. I do love it.

but:

99.999% of the time, I do not want to put “an autocorrect” back to “annnnssticrrt” for gods sake.

Is there a solution or only complaints posted here? What’s the point? Where is the fix????

This is driving me around the twist. Someone at Apple must have thought this was a good idea but it’s really, really bad. Does no one at Apple actually monitor this site?

I turned off autocorrection and the problem disappeared.

settings>keyboards

I also have predictive text disabled.

It means i have to manually correct words but thats waaaaaay less stressful.

Brutal feature. Literally highlights every word. Suggestions are equally ridiculous: “say’s” “Sai’s”

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