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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Technology
Andrew Williams

Oh ducking hell: Apple will fix its autocorrect so you can say what you mean

Apple announced iOS 17 during its WWDC keynote address, and one of its key features may have a greater impact on the average iPhone user than the $3,499 Vision Pro VR headset.

It’s the one you’ve been waiting for — iOS 17 is going to let you swear. An update to the iPhone’s software will tweak the autocorrect function, and make it learn when you want to swear rather than write “ducking” and so on. This was the example used on-stage by Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering.

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