iPhone users will no longer have to contend with annoying auto-correct when typing out swear words thanks to a new Apple update.
The tech giant announced its new operating system, iOS 17, features an upgrade which will go down a storm with four-letter texters everywhere.
Using artificial intelligence, the iPhone will predict words the user repeats, including swear words. The old auto-correct feature could end up changing the meaning of messages by cleaning up their language – including using “duck” and “ducking” to replace a common rhyming swear word.
Craig Federighi, Apple’s software chief, told the company’s annual Worldwide Developers’ Conference: “In those moments where you just want to type a ducking word… well, the keyboard will learn it, too.”
Users have always had the option to turn off the auto-correct feature, letting them be as profane as they wanted.
Apple also unveiled a mixed-reality headset and new desktop and laptop computers. Shares in the tech giant which began life in a Californian garage in 1976, hit an all-time high on the US stock market this week.
It took its valuation to three trillion US dollars – the first firm to hit that milestone.
Its gains of 280% over the past five years were said to demonstrate the power of the iPhone’s market share.
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