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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Joanna Partridge

Apple to fix iPhone dictation bug that replaces word ‘racist’ with ‘Trump’

Apple iPhone 15 ProMax phones in a US store
Apple’s iPhone glitch caused outrage among some conservative commentators in the US. Photograph: Gene J Puskar/AP

Apple has promised to fix a bug in its iPhone automatic dictation tool after some users reported it had suggested to them “Trump” when they said the word “racist”.

The glitch was first highlighted in a viral post on TikTok, when the speech-to-text tool sometimes briefly flashed up the word “Trump” when they said “racist”, and was later repeated by others on social media.

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