Keyboard Data (Chinese & Japanese)

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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.

Thanks for the very practical idea. Like you I agree.☝️Hopefully more user complaints would push this issue closer to the top of the stack. Real issue is getting those on other forums such as reddit, twitter, and facebook to respond here as well. Though with the design of apples own forums allowing easy mis categorization of this issue as separate but equal between iPad, iPhone and iCloud there may be a some mild segregation of traffic, even among the iOS community.

Until then I guess the official solution is sit here in limbo till 2025. Waiting with the ever growing pool of endusers that have done that exact sane solution you provided. Some doing that even before posting on these forums mind you. Because, this space… at least for me anyway. Is seen as the last and first point of contact for non-technical users with issues to communicate with an apple approved community but not with any actual apple staff.

This is clearly an iOS + iCloud issue. An even scarier and larger leap. Possibly macOS as well. As your iCloud backups of your iPhone restore points can be parked on that platform as well and its not the first time historically that a bunch of iCloud accounts were compromised on a large scale with nefarious intentions.

Unfortunately you will have to work a bit harder than “I suggest you contact apple” to get my this solution solved my problem sticker. 🙄🤦‍♂️