iPhone bug means keyboards won't let users write 'it', one of the most common words in English
There's an easy, if hidden, workaround
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Your support makes all the difference.Many people are finding their iPhone won't let them write one of the most popular words in the English language.
Fresh from stopping people from writing 'I', Apple's handsets now won't let some of their users write 'it'. This time around, it corrects it to I.T. each time someone tries to write the pronoun.
It's not clear why it's happening, or whether it's related to the previous time that Apple's autocorrect broke. But the same fix works, until Apple presumably updates its operating system to get around it.
Hundreds of people are reporting the problem – and offering a fix – on Twitter. Many more are discussing it on the Macrumors forums, and the site was one of the first to report the irritating bug.
Last time around, the problem appeared to be caused by Apple's autocorrect dictionary, which shares commonly used words across all of its phones so that common mistakes can be corrected. Something similar is presumably happening this time.
The problem can be solved by heading into settings, clicking to general, choosing reset and pressing the option to "reset keyboard dictionary". This will also mean that you'll lose other autocorrect information – if you keep entering a particular word and it's learnt that it's not a mistake, for instance – but it will at least give you the ability to get rid of the strange fix.
And if that doesn't work, you can do a more specific fix. Head to the text replacement settings and add "it" as both the phrase and the shortcut, which will stop the autocorrect happening.
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