Honestly I’ve done mostly forgot, and with the proliferation of AI technologies and all the typos AI has read from in the training models, I bet AI isn’t always right about this either.

I usually just don’t care anymore, whether the autocorrect puts the apostrophe in or not.

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    While it may seem like “it” and “it’s” are different forms of the same word, in reality they are completely different words

    he / his

    her / hers

    It / its

    The above are all different forms of the same words.

    “it’s” however is merely a shortening of “it is” and on that basis is a totally different word that (very misleadingly!) happens to sound exactly the same as “its”

    EDIT:

    Another way of looking at this :)

    his & he’s (shortening of “he is”) are different words in the same way, but nobody makes the mistake of writing or saying “he’s car” instead of “his car” - it’s obviously wrong because the words sound different - ‘hiz’ and ‘heez’

    The same is exactly and identically true of “its” and “it’s’” but those words sound the same, so the mistake comes easily.