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Well @Tom seeing as you have been defending this standpoint since 2014. I’m going to assume you are either correct or bias. Depends on your credentials really at apple as you are a random internet stranger to me. Though I’m not denying your technical language skills are there and are accolade worthy. (💁♂️⭐️🏆)
Indeed, you hit the nail on the head. My response is me trying to justify why I’m discovering this issue in 2020. With the use of patch notes from a very recent update. As the last few years and every rolling day of the year a new piece of information technology equipment is seen as exposing our data, login credentials and clipboard data through third party means such as miscellaneous keyboard applications that provides the functionality of a more emphasized conversation.
Just be glad you’re not the person tasked with solving this user led “error/bug report”. As its at 1,240 “I have this question too” on some threads…
And I’m positive support, design and engineering teams would have at least caught wind of this by now and are tired of seeing the ticket.
Because, one thing I’m not positive of is it would take apple over five years to patch something that appears to their consumer base as a security risk. Especially with their renewed security first marketing campaigns and the current public sentiment towards the reach of large scale tech companies. You know the old adage “bad for brand != good business”.
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Even though… like you I can rationalize this narrative as Apple possibility dealing with figuring out how to operate/fold backups of keyboard data from Chinese & Japanese devices into someones iOS iCloud natively. While keeping their primarily English speaking clients pacified.
It’s an interesting theory that at this point is entering creepy pasta territory. But who am I to say?🤷♂️
All I know is I can speak english good and have only ever really relied on that keyboard setting and am mildly alarmed that a device without analytics enabled is still trying officially to back up data that I don’t want in my iCloud, or provide to apple and officially as a human could not provide. As I do not converse in those languages natively.