"A[?]"OS 11 Glitch

Earlier this week, it was reported the new iPhone iOS 11 update has a glitch that is causing a capital “A” or an exclamation followed by a square box with a question mark inside instead of the letter “i”. It is messing with people’s texts and tweets and are angering Apple users everywhere. It is not only affecting newly purchased phones, but all with the new iOS 11 update from iPhone 6 and up. However, this glitch is only viewable by fellow iPhone users. Those with Androids or other smartphones view this text as normal.

As this glitch has continued over what many view as way too long, people have now been forced to be creative and when typing “i”, they have spelled out “eye” or used the eye emoji. Others have avoided the issue if their autocorrect changes it to an uppercase “I”. Apple has addressed this issue by saying that it will be fixed in a future software update, which has strongly angered longtime Apple users. Instead, they are prompted to go to Settings – General – Keyboard – Text Replacement and add an autocorrect replacement for the lowercase “i” with an uppercase one.

While they did say it would be resolved with a future software update, it has yet to be determined when exactly that will be. Apple users are growing tired of the waiting and with a company as technologically advanced as Apple, you would think they would be faster at resolving this issue. It will be interesting to see just how long this takes or if people will ultimately give up and switch to the technologically better, but far less popular Android.