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Sci & Tech● Low2h ago · Nov 6, 2026, 11:39 AM

The secret reason your iPhone will refuse to autocomplete certain political words

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Apple has an undisclosed multilingual gray list of tens of thousands of words and phrases that its iOS keyboard will not autocomplete or swipe-type, a researcher said on Friday

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