Apple may be preparing a much smarter keyboard for iPhone in iOS 27, with autocorrect that does more than quietly fix your typos after you hit send. A new Bloomberg report says Apple has explored a system that can suggest alternative words, which sounds a lot closer to Grammarly than the blunt autocorrect most people love to blame for ruined messages.
The timing fits Apple’s bigger push into AI across the next iPhone software cycle. iOS 26.4 already brought keyboard changes aimed at improving accuracy, but this appears to be the more ambitious follow-up: a keyboard that actively offers replacements instead of just correcting obvious mistakes. That would be a welcome shift if Apple gets the suggestions right, because nothing kills momentum like a keyboard that confidently chooses the wrong word twice in a row.
What the iOS 27 keyboard could do
According to Bloomberg, Apple has explored an updated system keyboard that expands autocorrect by offering alternative words. A final decision still hasn’t been made, so this is not a done deal yet. But the idea is simple enough: rather than merely swapping in a guessed correction, the keyboard would surface options the way writing assistants do now.
- Alternative word suggestions as part of autocorrect
- An approach similar to Grammarly-style writing tools
- Potentially tied to Apple Intelligence, which could limit it to AI-capable iPhone models
Apple’s keyboard needs more than a cleanup pass
This is the kind of upgrade Apple should have been pushing years ago. The iPhone keyboard has improved, sure, but rivals have had more room to experiment with predictive text, rewrite suggestions, and AI-assisted editing. If Apple wants iOS 27 to feel like a genuine AI release rather than a bundle of demos, the keyboard is a sensible place to show it.
The report also lines up with the broader Siri work expected in iOS 27, including handling multiple requests in a single query. Apple will fully unveil iOS 27 on June 8 at WWDC, and the pattern is becoming obvious: the company seems to be lining up a software update built around AI features that are practical rather than flashy. The open question is whether Apple keeps these tools exclusive to newer devices or makes the keyboard smarter for as many iPhones as it can.