Apple has acknowledged a glitch in its voice-to-text feature that briefly displays the name “Trump” when a user says the word “racist”.
Several iPhone users have reported the bug, sharing videos on social media of the glitch in action.
The issue has sparked outrage among supporters of the US president.
The bug occurs when users activate the iPhone’s voice-to-text feature, which allows people to dictate messages using their voice.
The name “Trump” appears briefly in response to a user saying the word “racist”, before quickly correcting to what was actually said.
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.
The company said the bug had caused “Trump” to be suggested erroneously in response to several words that include an “r” consonant.
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.
In January, Meta was accused of boosting the profiles of Trump and others in his administration following his inauguration.
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.
