{"id":19351,"date":"2026-11-06T10:57:32","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T17:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=19351"},"modified":"2026-11-06T10:57:32","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T17:57:32","slug":"apple-added-zionist-propaganda-removed-president-trump-from-its-ios-27-keyboard-filter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2026\/11\/06\/apple-added-zionist-propaganda-removed-president-trump-from-its-ios-27-keyboard-filter\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Added \u2018Zionist Propaganda\u2019, Removed \u2018President Trump\u2019 From Its iOS 27 Keyboard Filter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Did you know Apple was using keyboard filters, ultimately to try and dissuade you from using terms and phrases as you have to manually type them. You can switch keyboards in iOS apparently, but not sure about options. On Android I use the opensource Anysoftkeyboard<\/a> (link for use with Obtainium) as the other options are usually spying on you, though the built in LineageOS one is alright).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By ER Velasco<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apple changed its iPhone keyboard\u2019s political phrase filter in different directions across two software releases, according to a researcher\u2019s reconstruction of Apple language files. The iOS 27.0 English list added \u201cZionist propaganda\u201d as its only new phrase, while iOS 26.3 removed \u201cPresident Trump\u201d and \u201cPresident Bush,\u201d which had appeared on the restricted list since 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The comparison<\/a>, published by independent researcher Derik Kauffman, identifies changes that Apple has not individually explained. Apple released iOS 27.0 on September 14, but the filtering system came under wider public scrutiny on November 6 following a Reuters investigation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kauffman\u2019s historical data indicates that the English list expanded from approximately 1,700 phrases in iOS 14.0 in 2020 to 4,513 readable phrases in iOS 27.0. The underlying iOS 27.0 predictive-text table contains 4,525 entries, reflecting a difference between recovered phrases and table slots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other political expressions entered the system at different times. \u201cDictator Trump\u201d was added in iOS 16.1 alongside combinations referencing other dictators. \u201cSleepy Joe\u201d followed in iOS 16.2, while \u201cmake America great again\u201d appeared in a June 2022 language-data update.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The rules operate at the suggestion layer, not at the point of manual text entry. Users can type the expressions letter by letter. Predictive text generally avoids proposing flagged sequences, and swipe-typing may substitute other words or alter a preceding word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The research counts 2,794 entries in the iOS 27.0 English swipe-specific table, compared with 4,525 in the broader predictions table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kauffman extracted the system by analyzing compact hash-based language files rather than finding a readable list of words. His published code<\/a> supports reproducing much of the analysis. The researcher cautions that a phrase\u2019s presence establishes a technical restriction, not Apple\u2019s reason for including it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reuters tested a sample of flagged phrases on an iPhone and reported that the results broadly matched the research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apple told Reuters that its keyboard is designed to avoid inappropriate or offensive suggestions, and that users can still type or override predictions. It did not explain the selection of individual political phrases or confirm the overall list size.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The technical comparison also has a dating limit. Some restrictions arrive through background language downloads, and Kauffman could not retrieve every historical version.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other expressions identified in the filtering system include \u201cright wing conspiracy,\u201d \u201cTibetan independence,\u201d \u201cUnited Ireland,\u201d \u201cwhite man,\u201d \u201cread gay smut,\u201d and \u201cSanta isn\u2019t real.\u201d The restrictions extend beyond English, with \u201coccupied territories\u201d flagged in Hebrew, \u201cimmigration too high\u201d in French, and political insults targeting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and opposition leader Rahul Gandhi in Hindi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Did you know Apple was using keyboard filters, ultimately to try and dissuade you from using terms and phrases as you have to manually type them. You can switch keyboards in iOS apparently, but not sure about options. On Android I use the opensource Anysoftkeyboard (link for use with Obtainium) as the other options are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19352,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19351\/revisions\/19352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}