Apple’s grey list: Words and phrases your iPhone won’t help you spell

Apple has a 'grey list' of over 100,000 words and phrases restricted from being completed by its predictive text on iPhone keyboards. The list includes phrases related to drugs, sex, and politics, but also seemingly innocuous phrases like 'iMessage isn't working'. The list was discovered by researcher Derik Kauffman, who found a table containing the list encoded in Apple's operating system. The list includes phrases such as 'Dictator Trump', 'NSA spies', and 'Tibetan independence', and will prevent users from swiping to complete these phrases, often causing them to be typed incorrectly. The list also includes phrases in Hebrew, such as 'the occupier' and 'Palestinian state'.