From ‘Dictator Trump’ to ‘bad boy’: Inside Apple’s secret list of 100,000 words your iPhone won't autofill
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The list, described as a digital 'grey list', reportedly contains nearly 100,000 words and their variations, although it does not prevent users from manually typing them in messages, emails or other applications.
Apple maintains an undisclosed multilingual list of tens of thousands of words and phrases that its iPhone keyboard avoids suggesting through predictive text, autocorrect and swipe-typing features, according to a Reuters report citing an independent researcher.
The list, described as a digital 'grey list', reportedly contains nearly 100,000 words and their variations, although it does not prevent users from manually typing them in messages, emails or other applications.
The discovery has raised questions about how Apple decides which words should appear in keyboard suggestions and how the technology balances preventing offensive language with accurately predicting what users intend to type.