Apple Keyboard has a blacklist of phrases you can't swipe
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Apple Keyboard has a blacklist of phrases you can't swipe was first seen on Hacker News · Front page on Nov 7, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 77 checks on 2 different days. Its best position was #4 of 30, reached on Nov 7, 23:39 UTC. It dropped off the list after Nov 8, 13:54 UTC.
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I wonder what the boardroom meeting for this was like. Despite the outcome, I doubt the devs were pitching censorship as the reason for implementing this. To the shocking number of people here who are justifying this or explaining how it only affect swipe input as if that makes it better: soft coercion is still…
And that's just the tip of the iceberg for the iOS Keyboard's issues. They've tried to fix it multiple times, and while it is undeniably better than its lowest point - it is still staggeringly worse than Google's native offering on the Pixel range. Swiping is just so painful, and Microsoft's Swiftkey keyboard is on…
Not predicting to something controversial when doing predictive text isn't censorship. You can still type any of these things. When I swing my finger around wildly it's making a best guess; not jumping to a phrase that makes me look bad or get arrested (in some countries) isn't an awful design choice.
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Not at the moment. It was last on the list on Nov 8, 13:54 UTC, after 2 days of trending.
#4 on Hacker News · Front page, on Nov 7, 23:39 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 15 minutes.
It was first seen on Nov 7, 2026 and has been on the list on 2 days (77 checks) since.
417 points and 270 comments; submitted by user_7832 on Nov 7, 2026.