I know this is the go to example but you can in fact yell "fire" in a crowded theater if the theater is on fire.
Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Apple Tries to Limit Offensive AirTag Engravings... With Mixed Results
- Thread starter MacRumors
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
I know this is the go to example but you can in fact yell "fire" in a crowded theater if the theater is on fire.
Censoring by companies should be illegal.
I guess 98% of prospective AirTag buyers are not interested in engraving anything offensive on their tags and will never encounter this restriction. It's strange that the other 2% are all on these forums... 
2021: The year we finally addressed the problem of people putting offensive emoji combinations on their personal devices.
We may not recognize it now, perhaps we won't live to see it, but this will the a defining moment for mankind. If the scientific method advanced humanity to where we are today, just imagine where we'll be 500 years from now because of this. Thanks Tim! Changing the world can't be easy but you sure make it look like it is.
We may not recognize it now, perhaps we won't live to see it, but this will the a defining moment for mankind. If the scientific method advanced humanity to where we are today, just imagine where we'll be 500 years from now because of this. Thanks Tim! Changing the world can't be easy but you sure make it look like it is.
This one works and you are all very welcome!
So, a swastika would be OK? How about an engraving reading “All lives matter”?
Their house, their rules.
That’s fine on a physical product. But when I get autocorrected in an app to duck instead of you know, that’s complete BS.
And you are in fact free to engrave anything you like on any Airtags you buy. Apple, however, is also free to not engrave for you anything you would like.
This is the real issue for me... I mean really?!?! $29. AirTag + $29. keyring?!?!?!!! I wouldn't spend that to drop a Bluetooth tag in a bag or on keys or whatever!!! I mean if it had a long range gps satellite tracking system, ok $30. If I could stick it to my kid or pet and track them anywhere globally, ok $30. But I'm certainly not going to drop $100. bucks to get a practical maybe useful 4 pack. Just like I had to learn when I was young, keep track of your own 💩. Leave your coat, lose your coat. Leave your backpack, lose your backpack. After a couple losses, you learn to keep track of your stuff!!!! Grow up!
Or perhaps Apple thinks that most people using iPhone in most situations wouldn’t use offensive language and that suggestions of such language could lead to inadvertent errors that your boss or others may not appreciate, but the suggestions in the other direction have much less chance of offending. You can add shortcuts if it bothers you so much.
But let’s get real -The nastiest of us are just gonna order blank and then get third party companies to engrave x-rated Sonic x Princess Peach fanfic novels onto them.
🌀🦔🍆💦👸🍑
Certainly not something I would do. But one certainly could.
🌀🦔🍆💦👸🍑
Certainly not something I would do. But one certainly could.
There is a user with the name 69Mustang in this very thread, so it can be a number people use for things besides sex.Yeah, I'm sure someone putting 69 on their Airtag wants to commemorate their birth year.
I can swipe text swear words lol. And my suggest words also frequently contain swear words. Your iPhone isn’t censoring you, it just hasn’t learnt your vocabulary.
Typing F*** worked fine for me, but swiping almost always tried to correct it. However, once I added it as a text replacement in the keyboard settings it worked when swiping. Since typing profanity works just fine Apple isn't censoring you, but I wonder if word correction is more likely when swiping because it's inherently less precise than typing.
Regardless, just add your swear words to the keyboard settings and teach your phone that you have a potty mouth.
The law handles that already. No need for extra prudish bs.
btw what’s wrong with that engraving example?
Go watch Servant Season 2 and then come back and try to tell me that show has no edge 🙄
I'm just trying to figure out why you thought that Hermes accessories would be inexpensive.
So you want to control a business in the name of not being controlled?
When I type the f word (f or f’ing) it doesn’t autocorrect me. In the suggestions above I see the word I typed in quotation marks on the left and in the centre I see duck(ing) but it’s not highlighted. If I tap space bar to proceed, what I typed remains.
What I’m taking about is that Apple would never want to be seen offering the f word as a suggestion, which was one of the complaints I was responding to. No way would they ever want to be seen as suggesting a “bad word” to anyone, it’s not worth the hassle and I don’t blame them one bit.
Because dumb and dull people are everywhere nowadays. They take the connected charger into the bathtub, put their dogs in the microwave and so on. And because it is Apple. So an AirTag - which can be found in the wild by someone - showing something indecent on it and on the other side an Apple logo might ruin their reputation...
But it mainly about the dumb folks out there...
People with lots of money think this is a deal. What I think of wages for half a week, they think of it as two dollars. Is is nice yes. But it is made of cow not some rare alien creature. We have a large number of people that with a combined income make $300000 a year and they think there are middle class, that is what is wrong with America at the moment. We use to have a single house hold that would make $65000 a year now we have combined household incomes making that and more.
The real middle income for 2021 is around $68000 a year and going downward. I don't like taxes but it is time to level the playing field for people who lost their jobs during the pandemic and ones that held on to their jobs and are making 5 times the average household income.