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How to trick your phone into letting you curse

Aug 26, 2024, 14:12 IST

It's ducking hard to express emotion when your iPhone plays Mom and auto corrects curse words. It's easy to imagine some priggish programmer in a Cupertino cubicle, smiling at the thought of having saved the world from profanities thanks to this feature.

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Most of us get a forceful auto correct to some iteration of "duck" whenever we try to type out a choice swear word, but it can get irritating to feel like your phone is censoring you.

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Luckily, there is an easy way to get around Apple's built-in censor - just create a new contact in your phone's address book with as many versions of your favorite curse words as you want.

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You'll be able to curse to your heart's content. Just be careful when texting your boss - the auto correct feature is actually there to protect you from any serious texting debacles.

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