Apple just released iOS 26.4 for iPhones (along with 26.4 versions for iPadOS, macOS Tahoe, watchOS, visionOS, and tvOS) with eight new emoji (orca, ballet dancer, distorted face, treasure chest, trombone, Sasquatch, landslide, and fight cloud) and Apple Intelligence features you may never use, such as “Playlist Playground,” which turns any prompt into a generated playlist in Apple Music. But buried at the bottom of the software update’s changelog is the “fix” that we’ve all been waiting for: “Improved keyboard accuracy when typing quickly.”
That’s right, if you’ve noticed yourself making more typos compared to before iOS 26, you should stop what you’re doing immediately and open your Settings app, tap General, then Software Update and download and install iOS 26.4 ASAP. (Back up your iPhone first, of course, just in case anything goes wrong.)
iOS 26.4 is now out with the most important “fix”: Improved keyboard accuracy when typing quickly
Installing now to see if it’s true pic.twitter.com/FUgpzjecda
— Ray Wong (@raywongy) March 24, 2026
Does the software update actually fix your keyboard typos? I installed the update on my iPhone 16 Pro and the iOS keyboard does seem more confident. I’m seeing less lag between letter taps when typing at a rapid speed, which is something that has been driving me crazy recently. The autocorrect software also seems to be more accurate, too, displaying fewer word suggestions for completely unrelated words.
Gizmodo consumer tech reporter Kyle Barr also installed the iOS 26.4 update on his iPhone 14 Pro and said he “tried typing in some words that would have the phone reinvent it, and it seemed to be obtuse.” He concluded that texting now “felt better.”
The iPhone’s broken software keyboard has been well-documented. YouTuber Michi NekoMichi filmed a video back in October demonstrating the iOS keyboard failing to enter the correct letter after trying to type it multiple times. To prove it wasn’t all in his head, he recorded him entering text in slow motion at 120 frames per second, slowing down the footage to show that even when he had tapped on the correct letter, the software would enter an incorrect one. See the video below for yourself.
This fix is a very welcome bug squash. And for Apple’s billions of users, we hope it’s the first of many to come in iOS 27, which is expected to be announced at WWDC 2026 on June 8.
Source: gizmodo.com
