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Title: Does the text message autopredict program live in your phone or a server?
Post by: Beamin on April 25, 2021, 09:57:24 pm
The auto predict on the iphone 10 is awesome :-// (maybe), or does my phone have nothing to do with it, and its the software update all iphones have, the ios X.XX or what ever its called? Does it live in my phone or on a server?

The reason why it matters is its extremely personal the data collected. I pressed the latter Y on my phone today and then used auto correct to spell out a whole sentence, didnt enter in a single letter, and not "sup bro lol" it had the word doctor and hospital in it. Privacy or convenience? Do I even have a choice anymore?     
Title: Re: Does the text message autopredict program live in your phone or a server?
Post by: I wanted a rude username on April 25, 2021, 10:20:25 pm
It's on the phone, primarily due to latency and the need to function when there isn't an Internet connection (remember that our phones can send messages over this thing called Simple Message Service?). Probably a Markov chain generator or similar, trained on your past messages. I expect Apple stores a copy of that database of messages online, to seed any other phone of theirs you buy.
Title: Re: Does the text message autopredict program live in your phone or a server?
Post by: Beamin on April 26, 2021, 03:55:12 am
It's on the phone, primarily due to latency and the need to function when there isn't an Internet connection (remember that our phones can send messages over this thing called Simple Message Service?). Probably a Markov chain generator or similar, trained on your past messages. I expect Apple stores a copy of that database of messages online, to seed any other phone of theirs you buy.

Any chNCE of getting it exported into windows10? Where on windows does it live? In the register plus a supporting file? I just found out about the register and could have saved myself years of grief if I knew how to copy it.

I ordered all my data from uber on paper and they sent me dozens of pages of just a spread sheet with my GPS coordinates duration time; to where I was down to the 0.1 second for weeks I accidentally left the app on. I wasn't happy.

Anyway to get that info from apple? The "Screen time" app that shows you your week: every sunday would be a great thing not to let anyone else have it, let alone sell on the internet where you can NEVER get it back.
Title: Re: Does the text message autopredict program live in your phone or a server?
Post by: tooki on April 26, 2021, 05:38:44 am
It's on the phone, primarily due to latency and the need to function when there isn't an Internet connection (remember that our phones can send messages over this thing called Simple Message Service?). Probably a Markov chain generator or similar, trained on your past messages. I expect Apple stores a copy of that database of messages online, to seed any other phone of theirs you buy.
Nope, it’s device specific and does not sync over iCloud. Some cache of it might be in an iCloud backup, if one uses iCloud backup.
Title: Re: Does the text message autopredict program live in your phone or a server?
Post by: eti on April 29, 2021, 10:50:16 pm
It lives in space...



... space on your phone.
Title: Re: Does the text message autopredict program live in your phone or a server?
Post by: amyk on April 29, 2021, 11:49:58 pm
You can bet they would rather it be on servers they control...
What you get with an Apple product is merely an approximation of ownership.
Title: Re: Does the text message autopredict program live in your phone or a server?
Post by: JohnnyMalaria on April 30, 2021, 01:35:57 am
It's on the phone, primarily due to latency and the need to function when there isn't an Internet connection (remember that our phones can send messages over this thing called Simple Message Service?). Probably a Markov chain generator or similar, trained on your past messages. I expect Apple stores a copy of that database of messages online, to seed any other phone of theirs you buy.

This is how Apple most likely do it: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20190354580A1
Title: Re: Does the text message autopredict program live in your phone or a server?
Post by: magic on April 30, 2021, 08:01:25 am
Troll question:

Now, what about Google and Android?
 :popcorn: