iPhone 18 Pro dictation auto-punctuation toggle disappeared on iOS 27

The standalone "Auto-Punctuation" toggle has been integrated or replaced under the new on-device AI/Advanced Dictation framework in iOS 27,

Open the Settings app on your iPhone.

Tap General, then select Keyboard.

Scroll down to the Dictation section to see if advanced options or a master toggle are available.

If the toggle is completely absent due to an ongoing software quirk, try performing a standard restart of your device or check for subsequent iOS point updates that restore granular control. 

yeah, this option is just not working anymore. If the "Smart Punctuation" toggle in the all keyboards section is supposed to be controlling this, then it's definitely not doing it for dictation. The only option under the dictation section is to turn off dictation. Tried restarting, obviously. This either broke or Apple made a decision that commas and periods need to be inserted at their discretion. hopefully they fix it in iOS 27.2

I couldn't agree more, iPhone 18 completely removed auto punctuation, now they have smart punctuation, which doesn't do much, I can't stand it putting in commas everywhere without me doing anything, it was so much better before, even dictation isn't so great. It puts words in that I'm not even saying, my previous iPhone worked perfectly. I could talk text just about anything and not have anything corrected, putting in commas everywhere it feels like it is horrible, they need to put back in auto punctuation so you can turn it off completely if you want!

I was so hesitant to update my iPhone. I waited for months, and now I have 100% regret. I don't want things to auto populate. I don't want auto punctuation. I want you to spell words right that I say or type when I have them in my text replacement. But no, you can't even get that to work correctly. But now you're gonna go and mandate that we have the stupid thing like my Tesla where it automatically throws punctuation wherever it wants, and it's also not capitalizing the first word. I've spent two hours trying to fix this. I'm ready just to go and get an android. I am so sick of Apple. If it's not broke, don't fix it

I have the same issue, it's super annoying and keep adding question mark at the end of the sentence. It even didn't fixed in iOS 27.2 I'm so disappointed they've removed this option and did the unnecessary change for us!

i'm getting tired of them having so much control over us