Emoji never used showing up in frequently used

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Emoji never used showing up in frequently used

I noticed a few minutes ago that the genie emoji was in my frequently used emoji keyboard. Normally, I wouldn’t think much of this, but a few minutes earlier I told my friend a joke over snapchat that involved a magic lamp. I never actually said the word genie in the joke so my keyboard didn’t autofill the emoji for me, and I hadn’t used any emojis since then. I am positive that I did not click it while scrolling by accident since I pretty much stick to my frequently used. To summarize, I am positive I did not click this emoji, but had a conversation relating to something similar to the emoji in question but it still popped up on my frequently used. Why? Is Apple monitoring my texts like that?

Posted on Jan 10, 2018 9:01 PM

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Mr. Unko

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Jan 11, 2018 11:40 AM in response to madiri

Apple doesn't monitor your conversations.

Siri, on the other hand, does. To some extend at least.

Siri is responsible for a lot of things on your iPhone simply by guessing what you might want to do at a certain time, on a certain spot, in a certain situation, conversation and so on.

In your case, Siri probably "thought" that it might be useful to add the genie emoji to your Recently Used page in the emoji keyboard because you used a word that is related to it. That happens all the time, to everyone.

Or maybe it was just added by default to fill up the whole page.

I, for example, just reset my iPhone completely without restoring any backup but still my Recently Used page is fulled to the top with emojis I never used before or after reseting the device.

Hopefully that answers your question.

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