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A weird iOS bug means some iPhone owners can't use the letter 'i'

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Hollis Johnson

The letter "i" is the fifth-most popular letter in the English language. It's pretty useful. You can imagine how frustrating it must be if you're not allowed to use it.

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But some iPhone users are currently experiencing exactly that: A bug in iOS means that the letter "i" is sometimes being corrected to an exclamation mark and a question mark in a box.

Frustrated users are taking to Twitter to voice their displeasure at the bug.

As Emojipedia points out, the issue is caused by a bug in iOS 11.1's autocorrect software.

Apple did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment, but on Twitter is directing users towards instructions for a temporary fix for the problem.

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The bug will eventually be permanently fixed in a software update, Apple said. But in the mean time, perhaps afflicted Apple customers could get creative and take inspiration from the author Ernst Vincent Wright — the novelist who wrote the novel "Gadsby," published in 1939, without using the letter "e" once.

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