Fuck me: iOS’ Notes app censors handwritten swears

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Misleading headline. It’s only censoring the suggested title of the note, not any actual content. Similar to how autocorrect does not suggest swear words either. Imagine the outrage from a false positive swear suggestion when a child is writing a note about ducking.

Nobody in the history of electronics use has ever meant to write ducking except when discussing this very subject.

Why is it bad for a child to see a swear word? Shouldn't they know what that swear word is and why they shouldn't use it?

They probably wouldn’t know what it is or why they shouldn’t use it if they’re being introduced to the word via the Notes app.

US continuous to amaze me. Guns can be bought in supermarkets, but swear words are censored, and nudity until recent years was not displayed in movies. Now this; what’s next, censoring swears when typed?

Because of age appropriateness.

Guns are only sold to adults, and the only media censored in the US is that which is broadcast publicly to audiences of all ages. Nudity has been in US movies for 50+ years.

Many platforms for children do already censor swears that are typed.

Apple Notes can be shared [0].

But I doubt if the trade off is worth it to trouble the user even when it's not shared to anyone.

[0] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206987

You can share literally any file you have in iCloud. Are they going to censor every file I have?

duck yeah

I doubt it's them being puritan, it seems more likely to me that they don't want to cause offense by misreading something as a swear word. Note that iOS's predictive text thing will never suggest swear words.

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