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Posted by user_7832 4 hours ago

Apple’s grey list: Words and phrases your iPhone won’t help you spell(www.theguardian.com)
236 points | 152 commentspage 3
mckn1ght 3 hours ago|
> Santa isn’t real

Well I just swyped it into this comment, and double checked in iMessage, although hilariously, it types “isn’t” correctly, but then when I type “real” it “corrects” it by removing the apostrophe.

and all I wanted to do was make a bad joke about how I’m thankful Apple won’t let me ruin my five-year-old’s dreams by sending her an accidental soul crushing text.

On a real note, though, if they could just find a way to fix the issue where every time I type an “i” to say “I“ it instead types an “o” all by itself like I’m some kind of 17th century bard, and then anytime I want to type “a“ as an indefinite article, it will type a single “s” by itself, which almost never makes any grammatical sense in the English language unless you’re talking about the letter “s” itself.

mzajc 4 hours ago||
> Apple’s iPhone will not autocomplete references to drugs, sexual acts and, perhaps in the spirit of corporate protection, “iMessage isn’t working”.

I suppose ditching Apple is "two birds with one stone" :)

cvwright 4 hours ago|
A lot of these are genuinely things that you REALLY don’t want your phone accidentally sending to your boss or work colleagues.

The others are blatant censorship.

lukeschlather 2 hours ago||
> Apple’s iPhone will not autocomplete references to drugs, sexual acts and, perhaps in the spirit of corporate protection, “iMessage isn’t working”.

It will be interesting as corporate predictive text generators take over the world and companies like Apple will literally build the Jobsian reality distortion field into their products to portray their services as working better than they are.

loloquwowndueo 1 hour ago||
Words and phrases your iPhone won’t help you spell: all of them. Lol the autocowreck experience gets worse every day.
drevil-v2 1 hour ago||
None of Apple’s operating systems help autocomplete or spell correct the word “God” either
mauvehaus 1 hour ago||
I don't want a faster iPhone; I just want to be able to ducking swear when I text.
stephbook 1 hour ago||
Why does it automistake its to it's? Even when it's intuition is wrong?
open-listings 1 hour ago||
Author is very opinionated about Australia :o
fantasizr 3 hours ago||
funny to think about the guy who thinks his keyboard is broken because he uses so many slurs day to day. the volume of words seems a touch excessive
deadbabe 1 hour ago|
Censorship like this isn’t really decided to by one particular person or team of people deciding what to censor.

It’s mostly automated, controversial phrases or topics are detected by analyzing various data sources and getting sentiment analysis from interactions that people have in response. Anything that causes overwhelming polarization or negative reactions or meets other criteria gets blocked. There is no agenda.

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