This video was recommended to me on YouTube detailing a problem with the keyboard on iOS26. It shows a slow motion capture of someone clearly selecting a certain button, iOS recognizing the correct selection via the popup character, but ultimately displaying the wrong character on the screen. I'm still on iOS18 so I can't test this but have there indeed been more typing errors on the recent iOS26 versions?
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Is there a keyboard bug in iOS26?
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Without question. I thought my typing was getting worse till I saw this very video yesterday.
I'm the creator of that video.
It seems this bug might not be new to iOS 26. I've experienced increased occurrence of typing errors ever since iOS 16 but always assumed it was due to my own clumsy typing, it was only recently that I decided to record my typing in slow motion to find out what was going on.
This bug isn't consistent, it doesn't always happen when I type the same phrase and it might even affect different phrases for different people, or not affect some people at all. Everyone types differently and has different devices with different settings, I suspect a specific combination of these is allowing the bug to occur but because there are too many variables involved it's difficult to pinpoint what exact combination of conditions can cause this.
I'd say that if you haven't noticed any unusually high incidence of typos while on iOS 18 then you won't notice it get any worse on iOS 26.
It seems this bug might not be new to iOS 26. I've experienced increased occurrence of typing errors ever since iOS 16 but always assumed it was due to my own clumsy typing, it was only recently that I decided to record my typing in slow motion to find out what was going on.
This bug isn't consistent, it doesn't always happen when I type the same phrase and it might even affect different phrases for different people, or not affect some people at all. Everyone types differently and has different devices with different settings, I suspect a specific combination of these is allowing the bug to occur but because there are too many variables involved it's difficult to pinpoint what exact combination of conditions can cause this.
I'd say that if you haven't noticed any unusually high incidence of typos while on iOS 18 then you won't notice it get any worse on iOS 26.
I'm quite bad with typing on phones in general but I tend to have much more issues with Android keyboards like Samsung. I found iOS to be more accurate but it probably depends on other things too.
I actually did notice that my friend, who normally types without any typos at all, did have many typos recently.
Yes! I see this too. I thought I was going mad for a while. I’m so appreciative of the video you made as the slow motion capture of typing gave me a good reason to believe that I hadn’t suddenly lost all coordination!
I also notice this really badly on my iPad Pro. Mostly I use the magic keyboard for typing long text (including this). However, I do quite like to use emojis so often detach the ipad and switch to on screen as it’s so much less painful to do it that way than the top ranked suggestion in google, which is an article from 2017 and wrong (in fact I have recently discovered that you just use control+cmd+space, which is way easier).
It could still be a problem with the touch targets feature, depending on how this is actually implemented.
iOS 26 is actually quite disappointing. I’ve disabled the main feature (liquid glass) as it just looks terrible and makes things hard to read. WhatsApp has a ton of little glitches, including randomly scrolling to a point months ago in the conversation and half the time chopping off the bottom of the last message with the message entry bit and giving a tiny one line text entry (thankfully signal is fine as it’s my primary messaging tool). I get a gut feel that there’s a backwards compatibility layer for the UI manager that’s buggy as hell, and a new UI manager that’s also.. buggy as hell.
Now that I think of it, I did actually have issues on my M2 iPad Pro that I had upgraded to iPadOS 26. I couldn't figure out what was happening. I recently traded that in to buy the M5. I'm going to be more cognizant of this when I get my new iPad to see if the issue still persists.
I'd say it started with iOS 18, or, as stated, maybe even earlier. Really, really annoying. I always turn off auto-correct as it just slows me down and since a few versions back, I make so many more errors it is infuriating. I have actually seen the "bug" without slow-mo but I have always thought I "saw wrong" but this makes it perfectly clear that I was correct.
I can't speak to Samsung's keyboard, but Gboard on Android is top notch typing. (I turn the flick typing off, however, as that causes some typos for my use case.) Super accurate and great haptics.
Gboard on my Pixel 7 Pro was awesome. I'm hoping that the iOS keyboard can just add an option to include a number row and a multi-punctuation button.