The iPhone maker said that sometimes its speech recognition models that power the voice dictation tool may first display words with some phonetic overlap until further analysis of what has been said allows it to land on the correct word the user said.
After some users complained that they had apparently automatically followed the president and Vice President JD Vance’s new pages, the tech giant quickly confirmed that this was because the accounts in question were linked to their political office and not the individual, so changed hands following the presidential transition.
Apple says a bug sparked a glitch which sees “Trump” appear briefly onscreen when a user says the word “racist” when using its voice-to-text feature.
The incident comes at a time of high political tension in the US following Donald Trump’s return to the White House, with social media users accusing platforms of bias towards both Republicans and Democrats in the wake of his election.
A number of iPhone users have spotted the bug, with some posting clips to social media of the glitch in action, which has also sparked outrage among supporters of the US president.
