Apple blocked swipe-typing for 100,000 words and phrases. Among them are ‘Dictator Trump’ and, in Russian, phrases about Putin and deploying troops.
Meduza · 9 Nov 2026

Apple blocked swipe-typing for 100,000 words and phrases. Among them are ‘Dictator Trump’ and, in Russian, phrases about Putin and deploying troops.

Apple’s iOS has an unofficial “gray list” of words and phrases in nearly 30 languages that cannot be entered by swiping or appear during predictive typing. Researcher Derik Kauffman, who published a detailed list on the website swipeblocked.com, said the list contains about 100,000 words and phrases.


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