Would be nice if software 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.
Apple fixes iPhone bug that suggested Palestinian flag when some people typed ‘Jerusalem’
Submitted 6 months ago by Wilshire@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/17/tech/apple-bug-fix-jerusalem-palestinian-flag-emoji/index.html
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ptz@dubvee.org 6 months ago
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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 6 months ago
You’re focusing too narrowly. Suggestions in general. Software needs to get out of people’s way.
Dontsendfeetpics@lemm.ee 6 months ago
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 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 6 months ago
Duck duck duck
ptz@dubvee.org 6 months ago
Now I wonder if “Duck Duck Go” was originally going to be named something else 😆
db2@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’ll be nice when actual history is respected instead of stories made up by death cultists and corporations.
tobogganablaze@lemmus.org 6 months ago
So which flag do you think should come up? The Ottoman’s?
db2@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Frankly at this point nobody should get it. If children can’t learn to play nicely with their things you take them away.
smnwcj@fedia.io 6 months ago
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?
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
Out 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.
isles@lemmy.world 6 months ago
As far as I’m concerned, the Kansas side might as well not exist! (There is no subtext, I really don’t like Kansas)
sibannac@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Which side has the better tax benefits?
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I’m sure this will be a nice thread with civil conversations
S_204@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Whoever 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.
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This UI component is heavily informed by ML. It likely suggested that flag because users are frequently combining that word and emoji in sentences.
S_204@lemm.ee 6 months ago
The Iranian bots have been working overtime lately. That would be logical however. Disappointing it is to see technology manipulated in this way.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
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.
S_204@lemm.ee 6 months ago
And 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.
wahming@monyet.cc 6 months ago
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.
Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
That’s not how development works but it most probably has to be an issue with ml.
S_204@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I feel like there’s enough iPhones in Jerusalem that this would have been flagged much earlier. Had it not been a recent introduction…
Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Thats not a bug that’s a feature.
Aopen@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
Newsworthy info, thx!
jenny_ball@lemmy.world 6 months ago
big news
jordanlund@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Android - 🇮🇱
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 6 months ago
This 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!
wahming@monyet.cc 6 months ago
Can we get the Israel flag to come up when we type ‘genocide’?
otp@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Well, the genocide flag does seem to get suggested when typing “Israel”!