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None. Modern smartphones have put periods in automatically for so long that anyone bitching about it is just abusively making shit up.
An ellipsis, on the other hand, is passive aggressive. It ... always... implies that something has been omitted. Such as the profanity in the prior sentence.
I've never had a phone that did that.
It's subtle. In fact, it's a repurposing of a technique that whole generations of typists used to employ. Back to when typewriters were a thing. When monospace fonts made two spaces after each sentence a common thing.
Yeah, I'm old enough that I was taught to double space after a period. I'm still not familiar with phones automatically inserting periods.
It may vary by your smartphone, but even back in the days of T9 texting there were settings to automatically insert the period with two taps of the space bar.
Sorry if I was too obtuse to be clear.