Turn off predictive punctuation for Siri dictation of iMessage

UPDATE: This does not happen when I use dictation within Messages, so it's not a setting within Keyboards. It's definitely a feature in Siri and I think it has to do with Siri detecting a pause and deciding whether to put a period or comma, depending on the word that follows. I haven't found a setting for Siri that controls this, so if anyone knows of how to do that, thanks in advance!

The only app I am using is the Apple Messages app that we all use for texting through Siri. I hope they are doing a better job with the predictive punctuation in iOS 16, because what I'm experiencing is pretty terrible, grammatically speaking.

Thanks Doctor, this is exactly what I'm talking about -- so annoying! Don't know why it is happening to me before installing iOS16, but at least now other will understand my frustration. Nothing worse than when someone take a perfectly good shortcut and tries to "improve" it in a way that causes MORE work and not less!

Do you know if there's a way to turn off predictive punctuation in iOS16? I haven't found a way to do that in earlier operating system.

Hi KiltedTim -

iOS 15.6. About to upgrade to 15.6.1.

If it's not a feature, not sure why random periods are appearing all through my dictated texts recently!

Apparently, there is a way in iOS 16. Haven't tried it yet, since I haven't yet upgraded, but here it is: Dictate text on iPhone - Apple Support (TJ)