Why Is Autocorrect So Bad Now? (There's an AI in Your Keyboard)

You typed the right word, and your phone changed it anyway. Here's why: in 2023, Apple rebuilt autocorrect around a transformer language model, the same kind of AI that's inside ChatGPT. It no longer checks your spelling. It predicts what most people would type, and that's why it "fixes" names, slang and words that were already right. In this video: 0:00 Your phone changed the right word 0:35 Autocorrect started as a list 0:51 The iPhone's invisible keyboard 1:30 Why your phone says "ducking" 1:45 The math behind every autocorrect 2:11 2023: the AI swap 2:53 Why it changes the right word 3:52 Why the mistakes feel worse 4:13 The iOS 26 keyboard bug 4:41 How to fix your autocorrect 5:18 The real reason