Jerusalem Flag autoprediction bug is fixed in iOS 17.5 developer beta

Oh man, if ever there were an article that AppleInsider should lock down comments on for political reasons, its this one.

ferdinandcc said:

Oh man, if ever there were an article that AppleInsider should lock down comments on for political reasons, its this one.

The editorial team does a good job with such things. The previous article on the subject was open for comment and several people posted very informed and informative comments, noting the likely cause of the "bug" (more logical and far less nefarious than the hair-on-fire crowd crying "bias!"). 

It affects English with Ireland as the Region, too. Not something I would have ever expected, to be honest. I’ve noticed flag emojis offered with countries many times but never with any city. I tried dozens of capital cities just now but didn’t get any flag emojis (e.g. Dublin, London, Rome, Paris, Beijing, Canberra, Wellington, Amman, Ramallah, Cairo, Brasilia, Naypyidaw, Kyiv, Moscow, Port Moresby)

Curiouser and curiouser. 

😎🇮🇪☘️ 

sidrictheviking said:

It affects English with Ireland as the Region, too. Not something I would have ever expected, to be honest. I’ve noticed flag emojis offered with countries many times but never with any city. I tried dozens of capital cities just now but didn’t get any flag emojis (e.g. Dublin, London, Rome, Paris, Beijing, Canberra, Wellington, Amman, Ramallah, Cairo, Brasilia, Naypyidaw, Kyiv, Moscow, Port Moresby)

Curiouser and curiouser. 

😎🇮🇪☘️ 

I don't know about "Curiouser and curiouser". Most people don't type a capital city and then a flag together. They usually consider it to be obvious to just say Dublin, or London, etc. as you list. Jerusalem is unique in my mind in being a city claimed by two cultures. The flag appearing in sentences enough to be picked up by predictive text is understandable.

That's especially true in places like Ireland (presumably also including Northern Ireland) where there is a great deal of sympathy for the cause of Palestinian independence.

I also get a little offended when the PRoChina flag 🇨🇳 pops up any time I write China 🇹🇼 I guess that's just American politics though, they are happy cast aside the principles of democracy and freedom to please dictatorships whenever they can gain a profit from them so most Americans are used to hearing the PRoC 🇨🇳 by the name "China" and just call China 🇹🇼 by the island name of Taiwan 🤷‍♂️