### Preflight Checklist - [x] I have searched [existing issues](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3Abug) and this hasn't been reported yet - [x] This is a single bug report (please file separate reports for different bugs) - [x] I am using the latest version of Claude Code ### What's Wrong? Typing in the iOS simulator panel with a French AZERTY physical keyboard produces the characters of the US positions of the keys pressed The panel appear

[BUG] OS simulator panel: physical keyboard input is mapped as if the keyboard were ANSI/QWERTY

Status Open

Reported on v2.1.222

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Activity 0 comments · opened Aug 17, 2026

Preflight Checklist

[x] I have searched existing issues and this hasn't been reported yet
[x] This is a single bug report (please file separate reports for different bugs)
[x] I am using the latest version of Claude Code

What's Wrong?

Typing in the iOS simulator panel with a French AZERTY physical keyboard produces the characters of the US positions of the keys pressed

The panel appears to resolve each key by physical position against a US table, ignoring the host input source (com.apple.keylayout.French).

This is not an iOS-side setting. I set the simulator's hardware-keyboard layout to Automatic, then French, then US (defaults write -g AppleKeyboards … hw=…, device shut down and rebooted between each). Symptoms were strictly identical in all three cases.

Meanwhile the panel's own text injection is affected by that same setting: it sends US positions, so it types correctly with hw=US and is mangled with hw=French (KRAMP4T7 → KRQ?P'Tè). A setting that changes injected input but never physical input shows the two do not share a path — the remapping happens in the panel, upstream of the simulator.

Simulator.app was not running during any of these tests (verified with pgrep -x Simulator). Typing in a Simulator.app window is the standard Apple path and honours the layout; only the panel is affected.

What Should Happen?

The panel honours the host input source, as Simulator.app does. Typing a produces a.

Error Messages/Logs

Steps to Reproduce

Steps to reproduce
macOS host with a non-QWERTY physical keyboard (here: French AZERTY, com.apple.keylayout.French).
Open the iOS simulator panel and launch any app with a text field.
Tap the field and type a, 1, 0 on the physical keyboard.
Observe q, &, à.
Optional: change the simulator's hardware layout and reboot the device — no effect.

Claude Model

Opus

Is this a regression?

I don't know

Last Working Version

_No response_

Claude Code Version

2.1.222

Platform

Anthropic API

Operating System

macOS

Terminal/Shell

Terminal.app (macOS)

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