Seriously, what is going on? Kissing my children, my cats, is imoral, now? The word "kiss" implies hardcore fetish sex instantaneously? And please don't come with "app guidelines" excuse cause all the "kisses" at Webtoons, Originals and Canvas, are strong and mighty.
..is there proof of this happening on Tapas? I'm willing to believe you, but others might not be as convinced 
Yeah, I'm really hoping there's a good explanation for this, like a glitch. The word "Omega" also can't be searched on the app, and it feels a little odd that "Kiss" happens to be a word in the title of some of the most popular BL novels on the site, specifically "Kiss It Better" and "Victory Kiss".
Anyone who wants proof, please open the Tapas app, and try searching the word "Kiss" and observe for yourself that no results are found, then compare doing the same in a browser.
you and whoever is seeing this can go to the app and search any title with "kiss" and see for yourselves. I'm not anyone's dad to print and share it here.
Ikr! It came out of nowhere... they're working really hard to mess the whole platform down. Hope it's just a glitch, or a bad, reversible decision.
I'm not letting this one go quietly under the radar. If the word "Kiss" can be shadowbanned in titles, how can we feel safe putting that word in our comics and novels, or having panels of characters kissing? It's absolutely ridiculous, so I hope they come back like "oopsie! That was an error! It's all fixed now!" soon. It's been several hours of sitting nervously over here in the GMT timezone... 
Kiss is a word that can easily even be used in non-romantic phrasing! And yeah, if it's going for titles most probably will extend to the body of works...
I hope it, too, but tbh I've lost all hope for Tapas. People complain about Webtoon, and they have good reasons, but things here are becoming unbearable.
It's not just the kiss word, apparently there's a search bug on the app that people reported, that their novels and comics don't show up when you search them by title. It's being investigated right now.
I tried searching a bunch of words though, including ones that might be banned, and it's not that all searches aren't working.
Words that don't work: "Sexy", "Kiss", "Omega"
Words that do work: "Screw", "Grind", "Kill", "Rim", "Gay"
Searching "Errant" works just fine, for example.
Looks like a bug similar to the one that replaced the description when you share link with an ad for premium series then...
I wish they would at least provide a list of banned words and would not allow you to use them in the title instead of making you confused by your series being unsearchable
I believe it is due to some ruling by the app stores.
For Tapas itself to impose this would be ridiculous. While all novels are experiencing trouble being searchable in the bar in the app, there are ones being flagged for amendment to this new rule.
I suspect that once the devs sort through everything and the majority of series are searchable again, those that breach the new app store ruling would be in essence shadowbanned from the app. The series would still be available, but not searchable through the app, like any explicit comic.
I don't know how many times it needs to be said.... but seriously, peeps, stop buying Apple products. They haven't had a good innovation since Jobs died and they're just overpriced versions of the same tech in any other laptops or phones in a fancy metal case, and they keep doing this crap to creators.
It might be easy to ignore when they're just coming for LGBTQ+ people, but now they've banned the word "kiss"? Isn't that far enough? For all of us?
I lost interest they removed that DAMN earphone jack. Oh and human right violations overall involving children. I've been using the same cracked Samsung phone for six years now. Thing is a MULE (although I'm not sure if that company is safe from sin).
Anyway just to be safe I'm just gonna be censoring kiss to k*ss. Or maybe make that the only censored word while I refrain from using swear words overall I dunno (@$%$). Would be a funny statement.
Is this real? I mean I had overcome as an artist that people in the world don't have nipples anymore on Tapas or Webtoon or anywhere and now even kissing is gonna be banned? lol That doesn't look good for the artists who are drawing any kind of romance. So instead of kissing they're maybe gonna kick each other on the butt lol Would that be more appropriate?
The act can still be shown, the word just can't be in the title. The search bar won't pull it up.
Maybe apple thinks that anything that with Kiss or Omega in the title will inevitably lead to doing the dirty and oooh can't have minors looking for that with easy search terms 
I guess you can try and go around it by spelling it Kizz or 0mega (with a zero). And test that once the search bar is functioning again.
Recommend swapping out the word "Kiss" in titles for "Grind", "Finger" or "Lick". Definitely no sexual connotations there! 
Wow, what? Even more reason why I'm glad my comic isn't on the app, don't even want to indirectly associate with Apple, but that really sucks for all the poor romance authors on here. As little of a fan as I am of the genre, I can't like that it gets crapped on the most.
New titles to make creators safe, starting from the top search results!:
I does amuse me that popular Tapas novel "Kiss it Better" has a title that isn't acceptable, but hypothetically somebody could make a novel or comic called "I Got Rimmed by Daddy Bear", "Dominance of the Huge Snake", "Screwed to Death", or "Finger-Licking Lesbians" and those titles would apparently be okay. 
Well, now we know what the new community event should be. Come up with the filthiest title that still can't be banned. (Oh damn, "Come Up" is a pretty good one though...).
Uuuhhh Iām gonna need a bit more citation on that āitās an app store thingā statement, considering you can download Radish on the Apple Store, which is a popular app-only erotica platform (and yes thereās queer stuff there too)ā¦ and Alpha/Omega is a predictably popular theme.
Only thing I can think of is you do set the age level your app is appropriate for, so perhaps if you want it to be lower than 17+, the restrictions are a lot more harsh. But considering itās tied to parental controls, Iāmā¦ not surprised?
It was explained to me that apps like Radish get a pass since their content is paid for, so it's easier to gate who can access those titles. It's not as public as free user-generated-content.
Tapas is set as being a 13+ platform tho right so i figure its that coming into play again with app store rulings?
The search is not limited on browser Tapas, only on the app.
....Unfortunately about 90% of all Tapas users primarily use the app.
Radish is set up like tapas, except all creators have immediate control over their monetization options. So they can make it free, paid, or wait-for-free. Iām sure most opt for the $$$ option but itās not paid by default.
ETA: granted I got this info from a Radish writer, so maybe thatās not true?
Actually, the app has always been 17+, but the issue is it's free to download. Kids under the age rating can still download it without any issue, so that's probably why Apple is so stingy.
Edit: Totally why I joined originally, and why they allowed M-rated comics like mine to begin with.
Lol getting some Kill La Kill meets MMO RPG vibes.
Huh, I wonder whoās fault is that. If only the App Store was run and moderated by people with the power to decide what content is available on the store and for whom.
