Content note: this article prints the words uncensored, slurs included, because the whole point is to see what Apple flags. The one exception is the n-word: it is in the list in English and several other languages, and I'm not writing it out.

Nick posted this, I asked where it lives, and he answered. A database that tracks my profanity is not something I can leave alone, so I opened mine.

So the keyboard can know that you say fuck in Messages to one particular friend, but not in Mail to your boss. The unique index is on (app, recipient, word, reading), so that is the granularity.

Mine has zero rows. The properties table holds version = 2 and nothing else. The file was last written in April 2024.