Swipeblocked: The phrases your iPhone won't suggest

Swipeblocked documents phrases that Apple’s iPhone keyboard will not suggest and, in many cases, will not produce through swipe typing. Its creator decoded the list from keyboard data for iOS 27.0, identifying 4,513 English phrases and similar lists in 27 other languages. The rules generally target exact word sequences, including related word forms: changing the wording can make a phrase available, and typing it letter by letter always works. Swipe typing may replace a preceding word to avoid producing a blocked phrase. Some phrases are excluded from suggestions but remain swipeable, while Apple separately labels individual words as offensive, vulgar, or sensitive.

The examples extend well beyond slurs, sex, drugs, and insults to political slogans, disputed territories, public figures, terrorist attacks, and contested beliefs. They include conspiracy claims, immigration-related phrases, nationalist slogans, and references to events such as the Tiananmen crackdown. The lists can be uneven: some phrases are blocked while apparent counterparts are not, and one exact wording may be restricted while a near-identical version is allowed. Other languages show distinct behaviors; in Chinese, a blocked term may appear as a candidate, but the keyboard then stops suggesting what follows. Apple does not explain how entries are selected, so their presence does not establish the reason for inclusion. The decoded lists are also incomplete where the underlying data could not be matched.