I worked at Apple, and my understanding is that this hasn't been true since very, very early versions of the keyboard. Specifically because it made it actually impossible to type certain words (I remember "flickr" could not be typed). Nowadays the hit targets are not modified at all, but there is a statistical model based on dictionaries and grammar that's going to include the possibility that you missed.

This is still true, even today. One can reproduce the dynamic hit targets demo today, on the latest iOS 27.2.

I reproduced the example in the video in the Xcode simulator to verify it before I posted my comment. T, I, M, then with my cursor on the rightmost edge of W, registers as E instead.

Here is a video of reproduction in Xcode, just now: http://lynndotpy.xyz/its_iphone_timw.mov

One can also reproduce similar behavior, using an Apple Pencil on an iPad.

(I am almost certain one can also reproduce this with some certainty with a capacitive stylus, but I don't have one with a fine point on hand at the moment to verify.)

> Nowadays the hit targets are not modified at all, but there is a statistical model based on dictionaries and grammar that's going to include the possibility that you missed.

Is that functionally different?

Right. It seems like a very 2008 solution, whereas now in 2026 instead we have advanced ML algorithms to frustrate you instead.