CNN
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Apple is working to a repair a bug in its newest iOS software program that means the Palestinian flag emoji when some customers seek for the phrase “Jerusalem” within the emoji keyboard.
The corporate informed CNN it’s conscious of a bug inside predictive emoji within the keyboard and is engaged on a repair that will probably be made accessible within the subsequent iOS replace.
Apple’s newest software program, iOS 17.4.1, was launched on March 21, however the current discovery of the bug upset some users on social media. In a single put up on X considered greater than 2.3 million instances, an iPhone person questioned whether or not Apple was conscious of the error – and whether or not it was intentional. Apple mentioned the difficulty was a mistake and never coded into the keyboard deliberately.
However the person, who mentioned she was Jewish, offered an extended listing of different cities that don’t floor a flag when entered into the emoji search field.
It’s potential Apple’s machine-learning expertise decided the instructed emoji primarily based on analyzing texts from tens of millions of its customers. Apple declined to elaborate on the trigger.
The corporate didn’t share when the subsequent replace would develop into accessible.
The historical past of the area is sophisticated, and territorial claims within the historical metropolis aren’t any much less so. In 1967, Israel captured East Jerusalem together with different areas and later annexed that as a part of Jerusalem to unify the town as its capital – though a lot of the worldwide group acknowledges East Jerusalem as Israel-occupied Palestinian territory. For its half, Israel considers Jerusalem as its undivided capital. In 2017, the US administration of President Donald Trump acknowledged Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, reversing a long time of American overseas coverage.
So suggesting a Palestinian flag emoji for the search question “Jerusalem,” significantly when Israel is at struggle with Hamas, is including to tensions amid a long-running dispute.