iOS Keyboard Bugs ⇥ youtube.com

This short video demonstrating what appears to be a buggy iOS keyboard has been getting passed around a lot, but I am not sure what to make of it.

The video creator is clearly typing certain characters — “u” and “m” — but iOS is inserting adjacent characters like “j” and “n”, in a context where those substitutions make no sense. There is no word in the English language that begins or even contains the character string “thj”. Perhaps this is a bug in the keyboard animation more than it is a text insertion issue, and it is unclear whether this is a new problem in iOS 26.

Regardless, I cannot reproduce it today on an iPhone running iOS 26.1; perhaps it has been fixed, or it is intermittent. However, I have noticed entry lags in iOS 26 immediately after the keyboard becomes visible. It nearly always misses the first one or two characters I type.