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According to an article I read a while back, the predictive text is not supposed to suggest / correct to a different word if you type fuck, but it is not suppos

According to an article I read a while back, the predictive text is not supposed to suggest / correct to a different word if you type fuck, but it is not supposed to suggest fuck if you mistype it. 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).

vorpalhex 4y ago
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.
- GekkePrutser 4y ago
  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!
  - pdimitar 4y ago
    Even with that setting off, the GBoard keyboard routinely corrects it to "duck". Doesn't seem to work. And it ALWAYS refuses to type "fuck" when you do glide / swipe typing.
skohan 4y ago
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.

vorpalhex 4y ago

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.

GekkePrutser 4y ago
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!
- pdimitar 4y ago
  Even with that setting off, the GBoard keyboard routinely corrects it to "duck". Doesn't seem to work. And it ALWAYS refuses to type "fuck" when you do glide / swipe typing.

skohan 4y ago

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.