Shocked iPhone users have revealed how the name '' now appears when they enter the word 'racist'.

Social media has been flooded with footage of the glitch, which sparked amusement but also outrage among supporters of the president. The bug appears when users activate the's voice-to-text feature, which allows people to dictate messages using their voice. It briefly shows the name "Trump" in response to a user saying the word "racist", before quickly correcting to what was said.

However, some videos posted online show the bug does not appear every time the word racist is said. has said it was aware of the issue and was rolling out a fix.

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The manufacturer said that sometimes its speech recognition models may first display words which sounds similar, until further analysis of what has been said allows it to select the correct word. It said the bug had caused "Trump" to be suggested erroneously in response to several words that include an "r" consonant.

But some conservative commentators online - including conspiracy theorist Alex Jones - accused the tech giant of political bias. The incident comes after tech giants have faced new accusations of bias towards both Republicans and Democrats in the wake of Donald Trump's election.

Last month, Meta was accused of boosting the profiles of Mr Trump and others in his administration following his inauguration. After some users complained that they had apparently automatically followed the president and Vice President JD Vance's new pages, the tech giant quickly confirmed that this was because the accounts in question were linked to their political office and not the individual, so changed hands following the presidential transition. This meant that if users had followed them during the previous administration, they were still following them after the transition.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Tesla billionaire Elon Musk, Meta boss , CEO Sundar Pichai and Apple's Tim Cook werein Washington DC last month - sparking concern among some political commentators. Despite previously backing the Democrats or taking an anti-Trump stance, many believe the men have thrown their support behind Trump to prevent any regulation of the industry that was proposed during the Biden administration. According to current estimates, the five men have a combined worth of £1.7 trillion.