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An Apple bug means iPhone users could be charged more... for being grammatically...
'If you're a punctuation pedant when it comes to texting, beware. A bug in Apple's iOS 11 operating system means if you include an apostrophe in an SMS message, your character count will be slashed from 160 to just 70...'
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I went into Settings on my iPhone 5, and Smart Punctuation wasn't there. I guess this means that it is only available on iOS11, in which case anyone who like me has an iPhone 5 or earlier, and is therefore still running iOS10, is not affected by this Apple bug.0
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The story does say "a bug in iOS 11".0
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Welcome to last September, MSE on the ball as usual.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apostrophe-reduces-sms-limit-to-70-characters.2073906/0
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