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Well, duck it: The Apple keyboard will finally let you curse

For all those moments you just want to type a ducking word.
By Tim Marcin  on 
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Apple's new keyboard should let you curse far more easily. Credit: Apple

Apple wants to let you drop F-bombs.

The company showed off its new AI-powered keyboard for iOS on Monday during WWDC 2023, its annual showcase focused on developers. Basically, this keyboard should learn that you want to curse and not say "duck" or "ducking."

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"And in those moments where you just want to type a ducking word, well, the keyboard will learn it, too," Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of software engineering, and resident Daddy, said slyly during the presentation.

The internet picked up on the joke and got jazzed to type out their favorite curse words without being immediately autocorrected.

With new and improved autocorrect, we should finally be able to drop F-bombs on our iPhones without giving a duck. What a time to be alive.

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Tim Marcin is a culture reporter at Mashable, where he writes about food, fitness, weird stuff on the internet, and, well, just about anything else. You can find him posting endlessly about Buffalo wings on Twitter at @timmarcin(opens in a new tab).


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