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Apple fixes iPhone bug that suggested Palestinian flag when some people typed ‘Jerusalem’ (www.cnn.com)
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[–] ptz@dubvee.org 18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Why? The suggestion bar doesn’t obstruct typing or reading, it expedites access to spell check and emojis, and if you really hate it, you can disable it.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org -4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You're focusing too narrowly. Suggestions in general. Software needs to get out of people's way.

[–] Zorque@kbin.social 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

As another commenter has suggested, you can get it out of your way if you take the time and energy to do so. It just requires that you put in effort rather than have it handed to you on a silver platter.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm not talking about iphones specically. I meant software in general.

[–] Zorque@kbin.social 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Which often have settings if you look for them.

Are you shouldn't have Grandpa Simpson yelling at a cloud as your profile pic? Admiral Patrick sn't anywhere near as much a curmudgeon.

[–] Dontsendfeetpics@lemm.ee 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Well 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.

[–] Zorque@kbin.social 22 points 6 months ago

Yeah, but when the default isn't tailored specifically to me and no one else, it's clearly bad design.

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Duck duck duck

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Now I wonder if "Duck Duck Go" was originally going to be named something else 😆