Messages with three dashes get cut off My wife sent me a video of my son saying something, to which I responded:

What's he saying? Mommy read --- book?


A few seconds after I sent the message, the text "book?" (and possibly the last dash) disappeared from my sent message. My wife says that she originally saw the word "book", but when she went back and looked, it had been removed for her too.

Does this happen for anyone else? Is this intended, or a bug?
This is a known bug with Apple's Smart Punctuation, as explained here. To avoid this issue in the future, go to Settings -> General -> Keyboard -> switch off Smart Punctuation. This will also remove the "press space twice to make a period" functionality, unfortunately.

From using the iOS 11.1 beta, it appears that this issue will be fixed in the 11.1 update.