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Comment by WalterGR | Hacker News Reader

What do you find lacking in iOS’s swipe keyboard implementation?

I can't comment knowledgeably. I just regularly have to try over and over again to get it to produce the word I want, and my memory is that this happened rarely on Android.

Wait! I do have a specific criticism!

There are certain two-word sequences it will not produce ("kill myself", "white women") and I could do without that little bit of editorial oversight thank you very much.

And expletives. If I want to say fuck, that's my business, I don't need my phone refusing to allow it. If not for how embedded I am right now in the ecosystem, this keyboard & vocabulary behavior they force on me might be enough to make me switch.

Swipe keyboard has given up and let’s me type fuck now

Yep, there's a whole set of censored phrases. Kill won't let you type a lot of things after it, including "him" and "her" (well, I haven't tested on iOS 27 yet). I haven't tried the white woman one though, that is cracking me up.

update: Okay I tried and sure enough, I'm laughing even harder now. The closest I could get it to swipe was "womanhood". Lots of Wohan's though.

Can confirm that you can’t swipe type “white women” on iOS 27 lmao

I may be mistaken but I'm pretty sure it's been the case since at least 2022 when I switched from Android

Who’re women

Blank women

Chinese women

Indian women

Jewish women

Black men love Chinese women

Black woken live Ellie men

Kill your

Kill mussels

Lmao I never noticed this. I wonder if this is just risk aversion, since they don’t care if I type “white women make me want to kill myself” normally and even autocorrect half the sentence.

Poor word choices. Backwards "corrections" that are incorrect.

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