The Palestine flag emoji storm has been resolved: more than a week ago we first reported that the Palestine flag appeared when typing the word Jerusalem on iPhone screens. As you know, it is possible to receive emoji suggestions for texts transmitted in chats by typing words that match the keywords of the emoji. Following the complaints of surfers, Apple fixed the problem.
The affair began when one of the users who were shocked to discover the green-red flag was the Jewish TV presenter Richie Reilly who noticed that the Palestinian flag appeared as an automatic suggestion on her iPhone when she typed the word "Jerusalem". "This double standard is a form of anti-Semitism," grumbled the waitress. Apple responded to the error and claimed at the time that it was a software update that was performed unintentionally and that the disruption would be fixed in the next software update.
We are now reporting that the glitch has been resolved, and was eliminated in the latest software update. This is not the first time that a technology company has become involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Last year competitor Meta was forced to apologize following a bug that added the word "terrorist" to the biographies of some Instagram users who identified themselves as Palestinians.
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