Apple says it’s fixing a technical bug that caused its voice-to-text system to briefly replace the word “racist” with the word “Trump.”

In a statement obtained by NBC News on Tuesday, an Apple spokesperson said, “We are aware of an issue with the speech recognition model that powers Dictation and we are rolling out a fix today."Start the day smarter.

Apple has officially addressed a bizarre voice-to-text issue that has gone viral, where the word “racist” was automatically replaced with “Trump” when using the iPhone’s dictation feature. The glitch,

Apple admits iPhones are replacing ‘Trump’ with the word ‘racist’ - and it hasn’t fixed it yet - Apple says it is rolling out a fix

The company is responding to the controversy after some iPhone owners posted videos on social media this week to detail how the glitch works.