Apple addresses predictive emoji controversy

If you weren’t on X/Twitter over the weekend, you missed out on the latest iPhone outrage. As first spotted by British television presenter Rachel Riley, when the word “Jerusalem” was typed using the stock keyboard, one of the suggested emojis was the Palestinian flag, which Riley and others saw as a deliberate provocation. In her post, Riley asked Apple to “explain whether this is an intentional act by your company, or whether you have no control over rogue programmers.”

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