Clearing input element in mobile safari using javascript does not clear ios auto-correction buffer

Question

I have an <input type="text"> element. The user enters a string and enters an element that clears the element via $('input').val('') . The problem, apparently, is that iOS still has the previous input line in its auto-correction buffer, so when you start typing a new word and hit the space, it sees the last word from the previous line and the first word from the new line as one 'word' and tries to auto-correct it. Example:

message1: hello there

message2: well hi neighbor

iOS sees: therewell for messages2 and auto- wellthere well

another example:

message1: hello moto

message2: boat

autocorrects to boatmotorboat where motorboat is the auto- motoboat version of motoboat (a combination of moto from the first message and boat from the second.

I understand that this might just be a bug in mobile safari, and I should just turn off autocorrect at the input, but maybe there is a better solution?