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Chas Newkey-Burden

Apple eradicates ‘ducking annoying’ autocorrect

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Apple has announced it will upgrade its autocorrect feature that “annoyingly corrects one of the most common expletives to ‘ducking’”, said The Guardian. The paper said the “ducking” substitution is a “longstanding source of mirth or frustration”. Announcing the tweak, Craig Federighi, Apple’s software chief, said that “in those moments where you just want to type a ducking word, well, the keyboard will learn it, too”.

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