

This isn't ideal, but the document does note this is only “until it’s fixed in a future software update”.

Go to Settings > General > Keyboard > Text Replacement.The suggested workaround for this bug is to use the text replacement feature built into iOS: “If you updated your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to iOS 11.1 and find that when you type the letter “i” it autocorrects to the letter “A” with a symbol”Ībove: How this bug looks to affected iOS 11.1 users. In a support document, Apple explains the issue: Joanna Stern at The Wall Street Journal reports that the issue will be resolved in this week’s public and developer beta releases. A 𝄘 (letter A followed by a multiple horizontal lines or an empty box)Īpple Support is currently responding to users at a rate of one per minute on Twitter about this issue.Īpple confirmed to Emojipedia that a fix is on the way, stating:.! ⍰ (exclamation mark followed by a question mark in a box).A ⍰ (letter A followed by a question mark in a box).# ⍰ (number sign followed by a question mark in a box).Other variations of the issue may show the malformed letter “i” as: Go to Settings > General > Software Update and tap Download and Install to update to this version of iOS and stop the letter “i” autocorrecting the wrong way. This update fixes the autocorrect bug for all users. Update: Apple released iOS 11.1.1 on November 9, 2017. This issue is being caused by iOS 11.1 which has an auto-correct bug that inserts this broken string when the user tries to type the letter “i”.

Users across the web are noticing tweets, messages, and other content showing a letter “A” followed by a question mark in a box. Apple has confirmed a bug in iOS which causes "question mark boxes" to appear in place of the letter “i”.
