Apple fixes iPhone bug that suggested Palestinian flag when some people typed ‘Jerusalem’
Apple fixes iPhone bug that suggested Palestinian flag when some people typed ‘Jerusalem’
Apple has fixed a bug that suggested the Palestinian flag emoji when some users searched for the word “Jerusalem” in the emoji keyboard.
Can we get the Israel flag to come up when we type 'genocide'?
88Well, the genocide flag does seem to get suggested when typing "Israel"!
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People pretending east Jerusalem does not exist now? Illegal settlements are still illegal ...
Honestly either flag makes sense given the divide. Which state is Kansas city in?
22As far as I'm concerned, the Kansas side might as well not exist! (There is no subtext, I really don't like Kansas)
2Out of all the occupying Israel is doing, I find that of former East Jerusalem most harmless. To my understanding, the Palestinians there are entitled to Israeli citizenship, there is no apartheid system like in the remaining West Bank, there is no blockade like in Gaza. If Gaza or the remaining West Bank were ruled like former East Jerusalem, I would find Israel a lot easier to defend.
2Which side has the better tax benefits?
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Would be nice if software in general would just stop suggesting things altogether and let the user decide what they want to say / do.
[Types X]
"Did you mean Y?"
Did I ducking type "Y"? No. I typed X.
Granted, this case seems more like the emoji metadata being mislabeled.
18Well thankfully there’s both settings to turn those features off and settings to customize your own text replacement built right into the OS. So yeah, the users can indeed decide what they want to say/do.
16Yeah, but when the default isn't tailored specifically to me and no one else, it's clearly bad design.
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I’m sure this will be a nice thread with civil conversations
10big news
9Newsworthy info, thx!
9Thats not a bug that's a feature.
9This is the best summary I could come up with:
On Tuesday, the company addressed the bug with the latest beta software release of iOS 17.5, just a few days after it said it was working on a fix.
Apple’s previous update was introduced on March 21, but the recent discovery of the bug upset some users on social media.
In one April 9 post on X viewed more than 2.3 million times, an iPhone user questioned whether Apple was aware of the error – and whether it was intentional.
But the user, who said she was Jewish, provided a long list of other cities that don’t surface a flag when entered into the emoji search box.
In 2017, the US administration of President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, reversing decades of American foreign policy.
So suggesting a Palestinian flag emoji for the search query “Jerusalem,” particularly when Israel is at war with Hamas, added tensions amid a long-running dispute.
The original article contains 278 words, the summary contains 152 words. Saved 45%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!
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Because I’m sure someone will misinterpret: the truth is generally not considered a “bug” by rational people.
0Android - 🇮🇱
-2Whoever snuck that in, should be looking for work today. Regardless of your views on politics, injecting them into your work product is problematic at best.
-26This UI component is heavily informed by ML. It likely suggested that flag because users are frequently combining that word and emoji in sentences.
15The Iranian bots have been working overtime lately. That would be logical however. Disappointing it is to see technology manipulated in this way.
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Except Jerusalem was part of Palestine at one point. It makes sense that it happened. If I had to guess, it's still part of Palestine's legal internationally recognized borders. I'm nit sure on that last but though because it's all kinds of weird.
5And before before the Arab conquest Jerusalem was in the hands of the Jews. It also shouldn't be lost that Jews have lived there even under the brutal Arab regimes for over 3,000 years....
The entire point of decolonization is giving the land back to the people who are indigenous to it. Arabs are not indigenous to Judea. They come from the Arabian Peninsula.
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Not sure why you think it was intentional. The error could have been around since the 1st iphone and they just discovered it due to current political tensions, for all we know.
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