But to make everything clear, Auto-Correction won’t auto-correct these 12 words… The Daily Beast recently ran a few low-grade, in-house tests on the feature, and it found that there are at least 12 often-used, ‘hot button’ terms it seems to purposely ignore…
“To find the list of excluded words, we came up with two different misspellings for roughly 250,000 words—including all of the ones in the internal dictionary that ships with its desktop operating system—and wrote an iOS program that would input each misspelled variant into an iOS simulator (a computer program that mimics the behavior of a factory-condition iPhone). We then made a separate program that simulated a user selecting from the menu of suggested corrections and recorded the results. After narrowing down the list to roughly 20,000 words that looked problematic, we tested 12 more different misspelling combinations. Words that did not offer an accurate correction any of the 14 times were added to our list of banned words.â€
Now let’s take a look at the words. “Abortion,†“abort,†“rape,†“bullet,†“ammo,†“drunken,†“drunkard,†“abduct,†“arouse,†“suicide,†“murder,†and “virginity†were all ignored by auto-correct, placing them on what The Daily Beast calls the Apple kill list.
Still don’t believe me ? You can try these 12 words on your iPhone, go to messages app or Email and try to write any of the above words, and you will see the auto-correction isn’t working with them..
So what does all of this mean? Probably nothing. But some folks feel that this is just another way that Apple is dictating what users can and cannot do with blanket censorship. And honestly, even if that was the case, that should come as a surprise to no one.
