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iOS Question Mark Box ⍰
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About
iOS Question Mark Box ⍰ refers to an iOS autocorrect bug that replaced the letter "i" with the emoji ⍰.
Origin
On October 31st, 2017, Apple released the iOS 11.1 update for iPhone and iPad mobile devices. In the coming days, iOS 11 users began noticing a glitch that would autocorrect the letter "i" to "⍰" while typing on their mobile device.
Spread
On November 5th, Redditor catitobandito submitted a post asking "Why do I keep seeing a ! with a ? and a box around it on certain posts?" to /r/OutOfTheLoop,[1] to which several Redditors responded that it was a bug in iOS 11.1. On November 6th, Apple Support[3] recommended setting up "Text Replacement" to fix the bug. Meanwhile, Twitter user @hot_kommodity_ tweeted a crying reaction GIF in response to the bug, which gathered upwards of 4,700 likes and 3,200 retweets over the next four days (shown below).
When you updated your iPhone but still keep seeing A ⍰ when you type "I". pic.twitter.com/XGf973ifdv
— Tay Wright (@hot_kommodity_) November 6, 2017
On November 7th, the @lady_capulet[3] Instagram feed posted a photograph of singer Whitney Houston with the caption "And A ⍰⍰⍰⍰⍰ will always love you" (shown below, left). That day, Cosmopolitan[5] published a "listicle": titled "18 Funny iPhone Glitch Tweets That Will Make You Want to Throw Your Phone at a Wall." On November 8th, Instagram user @boywithnojob submitted a photo of a person getting a tattoo of the sentence "A ⍰ love you" (shown below, right).
On November 9th, Redditor go_be_viola submitted a post asking "Why are there all these memes about A (question mark in a box) all of a sudden?" to /r/OutOfTheLoop.[2] That day, Apple fixed the bug with the release of iOS 11.1.1 In the coming days, several news sites published articles about the glitch, including NY Mag,[6] ARS Technica,[9] TIME Magazine,[10] Business Insider,[11] Sunday Express[12], Forbes,[13] Mac Rumors,[15] Apple Insider,[14] Telegraph,[16] Emojipedia[7] and Thought Catalog.[8]
Search Interest
External References
[1] Reddit – /r/OutOfTheLoop
[2] Reddit – /r/OutOfTheLoop
[3] Instagram – @lady_capulet
[4] Apple Support – If you type the letter i and it autocorrects to an A with a symbol
[5] Cosmopolitan – 18 Funny iPhone Glitch Tweets That Will Make You Want to Throw Your Phone at a Wall
[6] NY Mag – The Week Apple Broke the Alphabet
[7] Emojipedia – Why Am I Seeing Question Mark Boxes?
[8] Thought Catalog – Keyboard Glitch Is The Worst
[9] ARS Technica – Fix for iOS 'i' autocorrect issue reportedly coming this week
[10] TIME – Apple Has Fixed the Autocorrect Bug That Turns 'i' into "A" on iPhones
[11] Business Insider – Apple just released the fix for the iPhone 'question mark' glitch
[12] Sunday Express – iOS 10.2 emoji update – Why iPhone users are seeing black boxes with question marks
[13] Forbes – Apple Confirms iOS 11.1 Autocorrect Bug And Suggests This Workaround
[14] Apple Insider – Origin of Apple's 'A ?' QuickType bug a mystery, but notoriety grows with spread of memes, tweets
[15] Mac Rumors – Apple Releases iOS 11.1.1 Update With Fix for 'A[?]' Autocorrect Bug
[16] The Telegraph Technology – iPhones are autocorrecting the letter 'i' to an incomprehensible symbol
