Sci & Tech● Low1h ago · Nov 9, 2026, 10:23 AM
Apple blocked swipe-typing for 100,000 words and phrases. Among them are ‘Dictator Trump’ and, in Russian, phrases about Putin and deploying troops.
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Apple’s iOS has an unofficial “gray list” of words and phrases in nearly 30 languages that cannot be entered by swiping or appear during predictive typing. Researcher Derik Kauffman, who published a detailed list on the website swipeblocked.com, said the list contains about 100,000 words and phrases.
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