Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right
by skohan on Monday June 20, 2022 @01:28PM
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But the undeniable experience of many many iPhone users is that you have probably seen the soft keyboard autocorrect to "duck" many times when you intended to write "fuck".
The soft keyboard is always using some heuristics to identify which characters you intended to type. In most cases it's quite accurate, but in this case it seems like it's over-counting the probability you would have typed "duck" or "ducking" by a fairly wide margin.
Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right
by vorpalhex on Monday June 20, 2022 @01:01PM
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For comparison, Google keyboard will allow you to have autocorrect fix to fuck, shit, etc but you must opt in.
You can of course install any keyboard you want with basically any behavior you want here.
Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right
by GekkePrutser on Monday June 20, 2022 @02:22PM
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Where is that setting? I've never seen that?
Edit: Never mind, it's "Block offensive words" under "Text Correction". Easy to find, strange I never noticed it. Thanks!
That seems eminently reasonable to me, without being "safety standards".
Yes, modern English is certainly saltier than what people pretended it was for the last century or so, but the line that Apple took seems to be the right line (allow offence without correction, do not suggest offence by default).
There are many things on which I disagree with Apple’s stance (I think that Apple should allow pornographic apps in the store, but that those apps should have tighter controls on them to prevent some of the scammiest behaviours reported against pornographic sites; I also think that Apple should be doing a lot more to prevent abuse of the pricing tools that it does have).