If you’ve found yourself making more typos on your iPhone lately, you’re not alone – and you might not be to blame after all.
A recent video from YouTuber Michi NekoMichi has struck a nerve with users who feel iOS typing accuracy has quietly gone downhill. His slowed-down footage shows that the keyboard sometimes types the wrong letter even when you’ve pressed the right one.
In the viral clip, Michi types simple words and demonstrates iOS correctly highlighting the intended key while inputting something completely different. A tap on U might produce J, or M could come out as N. He’s replicated the glitch across several iPhones running iOS 26, and says it even appeared in older versions.
For me, this discovery felt strangely validating. I’d been convinced I was just getting clumsier with age, but seeing proof that iOS itself is at fault is oddly reassuring. Still, it’s not exactly comforting that such a basic function could be this unreliable.
Michi dismisses the leading theories: it’s not autocorrect, since the problem occurs before autocorrect kicks in, and it’s not due to Apple’s hidden hitbox-adjustment system, because the right letter lights up before the wrong one appears. That likely points to a deeper software issue, one only Apple can fix.
iOS 26.1 landed recently with the usual list of vague bug fixes but no mention of any keyboard-related problems. Hopefully the company is working on a fix for the next update, but for now, at least you know it’s not you. It’s Apple.