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

Summary

A security researcher discovered a massive restricted list within iOS that prevents certain controversial terms from appearing in predictive text and swipe typing. Users can still manually type these blocked phrases letter by letter on their devices.

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 still type the words on the blocklist one letter at a time. But they won't pop up as predictive text suggestions and iOS's keyboard may automatically alter them when swipe-typing,…

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