I can't use the word "*****", but adverts for prostitutes are OK?

Dear Apple,

I know that content moderation is difficult, but surely you can do better than this. You seem to have a very crude profanity filter that ****s out words with perfectly normal dual uses, but you can't stop the constant stream of adverts for c all girls in D ubai. Come on, sort it out!

(And amazingly, this message is rejected as "You have included content that is not permitted" when I wrote "c all girls in D ubai", until I added the spaces!)

(The word in the title is a small metal item used to join pieces of wood together, which can also be used as a euphemism for something couples do.)

  • Submit a bug report for this, as others did.

  • @Claude31, poor as this forum is my experience is still that posts here get more attention than bug reports and more useful answers than technical support incidents. YMMV.

  • I've had mixed results with bug reports, but typically 1 over 2 get a useful answer. You found yourself the trick spammers have found: use various fonts, insert social characters, to fool the automatic filter. However, I noticed that posts are removed in the few hours after reporting the issue.

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Hi @endecotp, we appreciate you providing this feedback. This has been flagged for the Forums team. As Claude31 mentions, you can also file this as a bug report and track progress as available.