Apple says it is working to fix its speech-to-text tool after some social media users found that when they spoke the word "racist" into their iPhones it typed it out as "Trump." The tech giant has suggested the issue with its Dictation service has been caused by a problem it has distinguishing between words with an "r" in them.

Apple is working to address a problem raised by users on social media, in which saying the word “racist” while using the iPhone’s voice-to-text tool briefly shows “Trump.” Users online shared footage of themselves using the voice-to-text feature to write out words.

We are aware of an issue with the speech recognition model that powers dictation and we are rolling out a fix today,” Apple said on Tuesday. The company said the bug was caused by its speech recognition models displaying words that have some level of ‘phonetic overlap’: in this case,