iPhones are swapping the word “racist” for “Trump”, Apple has said.
The company said the problem was not intentional but rather a bug that it was working to fix.
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Apple has made a number of apparent concessions to the president, including renaming the Gulf of Mexico and announcing a $500 billion investment that appeared aimed at pleasing Mr Trump.
The new bug occurs when users activate the iPhone’s voice-to-text feature, which allows people to dictate messages using their voice.
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Some videos posted online show the bug does not appear every time the word “racist” is said.
Apple has said it is aware of the issue and is rolling out a fix. The iPhone maker explained that its speech recognition models may initially display words with some phonetic overlap until further analysis identifies the correct word.
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Some conservative commentators online have accused the tech giant of political bias.
The incident comes at a time of high political tension in the US following Donald Trump’s return to the White House.
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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 the political office and not the individual, so changed hands following the presidential transition.
This meant that if users had followed them during the previous administration, they were still following them after the transition.
Additional reporting by agencies
* Original Article:
https://www.the-independent.com/tech/trump-racist-apple-iphone-bug-fix-b2705834.html