So why doesn’t this choice exist when it comes to vocabulary? Why the hangup about naughty words? Presumably the logic here is that as consenting adults, we should have the choice to use our phones to suit our own needs. This level of editorializing is largely absent from Apple’s app store, where you can download dozens of free dating and hookup apps in a matter of seconds, not to mention Snapchat, the longtime standby of the nude-pic-sending era. If, God forbid, we say something too obscene, Apple is there to remind us that we didn’t really want to say it. If Apple has become the moral arbiter of regular usage, then it also assumes for itself the ultimate responsibility of deciding which words are relevant to our conversations. I want profanity and similar words to be recognized by the predictive text algorithm. I’m not even asking that iOS 10 forego the years-old ritual of using updates to cripple operating speeds of older model iPhones. No, not a more accurate step counter for the Health app, or a faster shutter speed for the camera. In 2013, The Daily Beast found 14,000 words that weren’t recognized by Apple’s algorithm, spanning from profanity to everyday words encumbered by outmoded social taboos, like tampon.Īnd so when Apple releases iOS 10 today-a milestone update for one of the most important devices of the last decade-I want only one thing. But the exclusions from Apple’s predictive text algorithm do not end there. We’ll pretend you haven’t done it before. You’ll have to manually input the entire ducking word (unless you are OK with exactly that kind of autocorrect). Go ahead, try typing out a word of profanity. If its phone’s computer is so undeniably more sophisticated than those powering the Apollo-era space shuttles that took men to the moon, why is its sensibility still half a century behind? Apple’s predictions are, for the most part, incredibly accurate–except in the case of profanity.
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