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Open source keyboard for iOS? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago by reactive_recall@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Does an open source keyboard exist for iOS that respect your privacy?

Does apple get what you type on the keyboard in their servers?

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[–] Coasting0942@reddthat.com 2 points 9 months ago

Apple gets your voice recordings which for various privacy laws they can’t resell. “Yay wiretap laws from the 50s”

As for typing, a quick search, apple support claims that the keyboard cache is only used for autocorrect purposes. How often you use a word and how you like to spell it.

Having it function as a keylogger would give them a headache, from data use, battery life, hackers exploiting it, etc.

And of course the warnings seem targeted at third party keyboards who can add on extra feature beyond IOS barebones.