Apple’s next big update, iOS 26.4, is nearly here. While it won’t include the company’s long-awaited AI Siri upgrade, you will find new emojis, AI-generated playlists in Apple Music, and support for end-to-end encryption for RCS. But perhaps most welcome of all, to at least some iOS users, is one key patch: Apple is finally fixing the iPhone’s buggy keyboard.
iOS 26.4 patches this iPhone keyboard glitch
In the release notes for iOS 26.4’s Release Candidate, Apple lists many of the new additions we’ve already seen in previous beta updates. But buried at the bottom of Apple’s list of “enhancements” is the following: “Improved keyboard accuracy when typing quickly.” That’s…pretty underwhelming sounding, at least by itself. But this marks the first time since iOS 26’s release that Apple has directly addressed a widespread issue with the iPhone’s keyboard.
Across the internet, users have been complaining about inaccurate typing since that update launched back in September. That negative feedback has persisted with Apple’s subsequent updates, and, in fact, may have only gotten louder. When Apple dropped iOS 26.3, one Redditor posted the following to r/iPhone: “iOS 26.3 keyboard completely unusable—anyone else?” Another commenter concurs, writing, “Literally as of today it’s becoming completely unusable for me. Like it’s been bad for about [two-to-three] months and now it’s [truly] unusable.” In the same vein, there’s currently a lot of attention on r/Apple over the news of the keyboard patch. The top comment on this post reads: “I’ll beliebe it when insee it.” (The typos are presumably a joke, but not unusual for anyone typing too fast on a buggy iPhone keyboard.)
Whether the fix will satisfy these Redditors or not, it is likely not going to be the cure-all that every iOS user is looking for. This bug patch likely only addresses the specific bug that causes missed characters when a user types too fast—even though the key displays an animation when pressed. Hopefully, that issue is totally resolved here, but the iPhone’s keyboard was a source of contention before iOS 26 was even announced.
This is all up in the air until iOS 26.4 comes out, of course. Apple doesn’t have a release date yet, but now that the Release Candidate is here, the update could arrive imminently. In the meantime, there are some steps you can take to make your keyboard work a bit better for you—but if your issues are baked into the software, only Apple can really fix it.
