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iPhone Bug Update: Keyboard on iPhone typing the wrong key

iPhone is equipped with a virtual keyboard that facilitates the typing and users can type pretty fast employing this particular keyboard. Recently, iPhone users have been complaining about a peculiar bug that involves iPhone keyboards. According to many users on different forums and blogs, this particular keyboard bug has enabled iPhone in registering inaccurately the key that you have been tapping. This abnormality then results in wrong letter, symbol or any number showing up on our devices screen.

The bug is an annoying problem particularly for the people who are prone to using their iDevices for all their personal and official tasks. Some of the users have complained that some of the iPhone keyboards go through various periods of registering the wrong keys for a particular span of time. The problem is not that the key you are tapping is giving you the wrong letters instead the main issue is that it is always the key that is diagonal or left of that particular key that comes active.

The issue according to some of users can be easily fixed by leaving the app and starting it again. But if the problem persists then it surely is a software issue and can only be resolved by upgrading to a higher level of firmware. So here is a brief rundown of this bug detail and how it can be avoided or resolved:

Keyboard Bug

• iPhone keyboard registers incorrect key on tapping
• The problem happens intermittently after every 40 keyboard uses

Causes of Bug

• Problem with the firmware version iOS 4.1 or any later version

How to Fix

• Leave that particular app and then return to it
• Upgrade to the firmware 4.2.1
• If already switched to 4.2.1 then you have to wait for an upgrade

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