After updating my iPhone 16 to iOS 27, my first task was reverting to Siri Classic and shutting down as much of the models-generated nonsense as possible. I whack-a-moled most of the unwanted suggestions that popped up, but predictive text has thwarted me. The toggle is greyed out, and I've tried all of the suggestions posted in a thread from March of this year, as well as a few others.
- reset my dictionary
- ensured full keyboard access and accessibility keyboard were off
- use no text replacement or VPN or device management profiles
- disabled Siri entirely
- updated to iOS 27.2
I'm at a loss and hope it's okay to post this question again, given the closed March thread pre-dates the big AI/Siri change of iOS 27. The easy thing is to just ignore the predictive text, but it's hard not to read something right where you're typing. The predictions range from useless to a total dog's breakfast that would damage my relationship with the recipient. That in turn makes me angry that I can't get rid of something so unhelpful and unwanted.
Any ideas?
