Re:Apple Keyboard has a blacklist of phrases you can't swipe
by aucisson_masque on Saturday November 07, 2026 @05:59PM
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I swipe United, it gets it right the first time.
I swipe Ireland, it gets it right the first time.
I swipe “united ireland” a hundred times, it never work.
It’s not probability.
Re:Apple Keyboard has a blacklist of phrases you can't swipe
by scosman on Sunday November 08, 2026 @07:43AM
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You swipe “grocery lost”, you get “grocery list”. It is probabilistic.
Re:Apple Keyboard has a blacklist of phrases you can't swipe
by ShinyLeftPad on Sunday November 08, 2026 @08:12AM
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if you backspace and swipe again, you get "grocery lost". with "left wing propaganda" you can backspace and swipe 100 times, it never appears.
ask yourself, since you insist it's probabilistic: what is statistically more probable, "left wing propaganda" or "left wring propaganda"?
Try swiping "grocery lost" and it will predict "grocery list", even you swiped over "o" and not "i". "put", "pit" and "pot" are all exactly the same swipe, and it always has to guess which you want.
It really is always guessing, and never completely sure. Every good consumer predictive system has some guardrails. Not guessing "free tibet" for someone in China could keep them out of serious trouble.
Could then tune the confidence thresholds instead of block list? Probably. Are they censoring you? No, just tap the letters.