Pages-iPad OS-Spell check doesn’t recognize common words.

Out of 32 words in the first para of a writing project, Pages on iPad identified 16 correctly spelled ones as wrong.

Language is set to U.S.English.

I’ve tried toggling spellcheck on and off. No help.

Tried quitting and restarting Pages. No help.

Tried rebooting the iPad. No help.

Thanks in advance for any help.

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iPad Pro (2nd generation)

Posted on Nov 7, 2023 06:27 AM

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4 replies

muguy

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Nov 7, 2023 06:53 AM in response to dashlapak

What are the words?

Tom Gewecke

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Nov 7, 2023 08:02 AM in response to dashlapak

What do you have on the list at settings > general > keyboard > keyboards?

dashlapak Author

Level 1

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Nov 7, 2023 08:13 AM in response to muguy

Thanks. Not going to list them all, but they’re not tricky-“since”, “read”, “now”.

dashlapak Author

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Nov 7, 2023 08:14 AM in response to dashlapak

Just to add a datapoint, it’s working fine on my iPhone.

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