G: TL;DR: Your iPhone’s autocorrect is likely picking up from your contacts, recent usage, or text replacement settings. The "Mäks" substitution suggests it's treating "makes" as a name, possibly learned from somewhere in your system. Here's how to fix it:

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🔍 Why This Happens

1. Contacts or Message History: If "Mäks" is in your contacts or has ever been used in a message you sent or received, iOS may "learn" it as a preferred substitution.
2. Text Replacement: You might have an accidental replacement saved (Settings → General → Keyboard → Text Replacement).
3. Keyboard Learning Gone Wrong: iOS's keyboard learns from your typing habits. A weird capitalization or punctuation might have tricked it into thinking "Mäks" is intentional.

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✅ Fix It

1. Remove Learned Word

• Open Settings → General → Transfer or Reset iPhone → Reset → Reset Keyboard Dictionary
  (⚠️ This deletes all learned words—not just "Mäks".)

2. Delete Text Replacement

• Go to Settings → General → Keyboard → Text Replacement
• Look for anything resembling “makes” or “Mäks” and delete it.

3. Manually Correct iOS

• Type "makes" a few times and tap it deliberately when autocorrect tries to change it. That helps iOS relearn the correct form.

4. Check Contacts

• Search your contacts for "Mäks" or similar. If it’s in there, iOS may prioritize it over the normal word.

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Let me know if you want a faster way to override it per-app or on a specific keyboard layout.

G: Got it—this is a voice-to-text (dictation) issue, and yeah, iOS dictation has a maddening habit of prioritizing names from your contacts over common words, even when that makes no linguistic sense.

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⚠️ Why It's Happening

Apple's dictation engine aggressively prioritizes proper nouns from your contacts, assuming you’re more likely to say a contact's name than a regular word—even when that assumption is clearly wrong.

If you have a contact like "Mäks" (even just a similar name), iOS will sometimes insert it in place of similar-sounding words, including simple ones like "makes," "Bill" for "build," "Mark" for "mock," etc.

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🛠️ Workarounds

1. Disable Contact Integration in Dictation

Apple doesn't officially give a toggle for this, but you can nuke its ability to pull from Contacts:

• Settings → Siri & Search → Contacts
  → Toggle off “Learn from this App”

That reduces Siri and dictation access to your contact names.

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2. Use a Different Keyboard App

Voice-to-text on Gboard or Grammarly (free on iOS) won’t draw from your Contacts. Gboard especially has better common-word recognition.

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3. Delete or Rename the Offending Contact Temporarily

If you find the exact contact causing the problem, you can:

• Temporarily rename it to something less intrusive
• Delete and re-add later
• Add a custom pronunciation field to the contact that won’t match "makes" phonetically

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4. Report It (Because Apple Doesn't Learn Otherwise)

You can shake the phone after the mistake, tap "Report a Problem," and say "Dictation prioritized contact names over common words." It won't fix things immediately, but enough reports help train the system.

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🧨 Reality Check

Apple's voice-to-text AI is still not context-aware enough to realize that you almost certainly meant "makes" in a sentence like “it makes no sense.” It’s a systemic problem, not your error.

You’re not crazy. It’s just Apple being arrogant with its assumptions again.