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Apple’s Hidden Autocomplete Restrictions: What Words Are Off-Limits on Your iPhone?

Apple’s Hidden Autocomplete Restrictions: What Words Are Off-Limits on Your iPhone?

Apple's predictive text restrictions include 'Dictator Trump' and 'Sleepy Joe,' researcher finds
Apple's predictive text restrictions include 'Dictator Trump' and 'Sleepy Joe,' researcher finds

Hundreds of millions of people worldwide use iPhones, so Apple's choices about which words its keyboard suggests could quietly shape how they communicate. Apple has not publicly disclosed the...

Apple's predictive text restrictions include 'Dictator Trump' and 'Sleepy Joe,' researcher finds
Apple's predictive text restrictions include 'Dictator Trump' and 'Sleepy Joe,' researcher finds

Hundreds of millions of people worldwide use iPhones, so Apple's choices about which words its keyboard suggests could quietly shape how they communicate. Apple has not publicly disclosed the...

Apple’s hidden iPhone word list blocks thousands of phrases including ‘Dictator Trump’ and ‘Sleepy Joe’: Report
Apple’s hidden iPhone word list blocks thousands of phrases including ‘Dictator Trump’ and ‘Sleepy Joe’: Report

Apple has an undisclosed multilingual gray list of tens of thousands of words and phrases that its iOS keyboard will not autocomplete or swipe type, a researcher said on Friday.

Apple has a secret list of banned autocomplete phrases including ‘dictator Trump’ and ‘covid is a hoax’
Apple has a secret list of banned autocomplete phrases including ‘dictator Trump’ and ‘covid is a hoax’

A researcher found over 100,000 words and phrases in "every major language" that are blocked from autocomplete and swipe-type in iOS, Reuters reports. The researcher, Derik Kauffman, says you can...

Apple's autocomplete restrictions include 'Dictator Trump' and 'Sleepy Joe,' researcher finds
Apple's autocomplete restrictions include 'Dictator Trump' and 'Sleepy Joe,' researcher finds

Apple has an undisclosed multilingual gray list of tens of thousands of words and phrases that its iOS keyboard will ​not autocomplete or swipe-type, a researcher said on Friday.

Apple’s secret list of banned autocomplete phrases include ‘Dictator Trump,’ ‘Sleepy Joe’Anthropic is making biotech boasts, but scientists are wary of hype around ‘curing cancer’
Apple’s secret list of banned autocomplete phrases include ‘Dictator Trump,’ ‘Sleepy Joe’Anthropic is making biotech boasts, but scientists are wary of hype around ‘curing cancer’

Apple has an undisclosed multilingual gray list of tens of thousands of words and phrases that its iOS keyboard will not autocomplete or swipe-type, a researcher said Friday.The list is not a ban....

Apple's predictive text curbs vulgar, sensitive, drug-related phrases
Apple's predictive text curbs vulgar, sensitive, drug-related phrases

An undisclosed multilingual list restricts iPhone autocomplete and swipe-typing suggestions for thousands of words and phrases, including politically sensitive terms

The secret reason your iPhone will refuse to autocomplete certain political words
The secret reason your iPhone will refuse to autocomplete certain political words

Apple has an undisclosed multilingual gray list of tens of thousands of words and phrases that its iOS keyboard will not autocomplete or swipe-type, a researcher said on Friday

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