Apple promised Thursday that it will stop a Palestinian flag emoji from being steered to some iPhone customers after they kind “Jerusalem” into messages.
The Silicon Valley tech large blamed a software program bug, prompting accusations that Apple was displaying anti-Israel bias amid the continued battle in Gaza.
Apple instructed AFP that the predictive emoji suggestion within the iPhone keyboard was not intentional and can be mounted within the subsequent replace to its cellular working system.
This oddity was identified on social media by British tv presenter Rachel Riley, who renewed the controversy over whether or not Israel or the Palestinians can legitimately declare Jerusalem as their capital.
“After I kind in Israel’s capital, Jerusalem, I’m offered with the Palestinian flag emoji,” Riley wrote in a put up on X, previously Twitter, calling on Apple to elucidate.
She identified that no flag emojis had been steered when a sequence of different capitals had been typed into iPhone messages.
“Demonstrating double requirements relating to Israel is a type of anti-Semitism, which in itself is a type of racism towards the Jewish folks,” Riley argued within the put up.
She mentioned the Palestinian flag emoji appeared in reference to Jerusalem after a latest replace to the iPhone working system.
Riley signed her put up with “a Jewish girl involved concerning the international rise in anti-Semitism.”
