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As you pull, you need to be actively keeping the bar as close to your legs as possible without dragging, because without that effort, the bar will swing away from you.
 
But you also need let the bar to hang from your shoulders—not lift it with your upper body.
 
The common mistake is to actually pull the bar up into the hips.
 
Try thinking of this action as pushing the bar back instead of pulling it in.
 
That will help you keep your arms more relaxed and allow the bar to hang as you extend, while keeping it where it needs to be all the way up.
 
That combination is what lets you put maximal acceleration on the bar with your body in the best position to get under it.
 
Ideas, cues and instructions in weightlifting can be easily misunderstood, especially with their most common source of distribution these days being social media with its many inherent problems and limitations.
 
Critical details are changed or absent, transforming a necessary action into something problematic.
 
A lifter believes that they’re doing what they’re supposed to and doesn’t realize it’s actually harming the execution of the lift.
 
This is one of those things I see very often, so hopefully this helps clear it up.