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Re: Bugs Apple loves

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Post by zapzupnz »

refulgentis wrote: post #98
tomasphan wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you want to be that pedantic it does state "This site is satire. Not affiliated with Apple Inc. The bugs are real. The math is not. All estimates are made up. Your frustration, however, is valid." at the bottom.

The bugs are not real (inter alia, Mail app search does, in fact, work). Your being pedantic is my being reality-based.

All of the things on this website have affected my experience of macOS and iOS for a long, long time.

I definitely go straight to the Gmail website when I need to search for anything on my work account. Yes, I've got it set up to cache all the emails locally indefinitely. Have done for years. Even did so when my workplace used Office 365 instead of Google.

On Hacker News, of all websites, giving yourself the "Works on My Machine" badge is not a worthy contribution. It's dismissive of any experience other than your own.

Re: Bugs Apple loves

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Post by VerifiedReports »

Good list.

WTF happened to iOS text selection? It's a shitshow now. First Apple decided that the cursor shouldn't snap to the space between characters. WHY? Why would I want to start a selection in the middle of a character? Oh yeah: I never would, and can't anyway. So why does the cursor go there?

Then there's the fact that if you press and hold and release, the "select all" option (and others) doesn't appear anymore. Try again. Try again. And then after the fifth? Seventh? try, suddenly you get the floating menu.

And then there's the now-often-useless magnifying glass, which frequently appears offscreen or behind the stupid notch.

And the window resizing. Ugh. It wasn't until what, the mid-2000s that you could resize an Apple window by anything other than THE LOWER-RIGHT CORNER. No other corners, and no edges. The sheer stupidity of this was galling.

When Apple finally "fixed" that, they did so in typical Apple fashion: grudgingly. They refuse to put frames on windows, so there's no clear area in which the cursor should become the resizing cursor. Is it any wonder that the resizing behavior is flaky as hell? And now it's even worse.

Re: Bugs Apple loves

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Post by seec »

meroes wrote: post #124
AnonC wrote: post #68

With the latest Google Gemini deal to be the backend for Apple’s AI, I wish Apple could also do a deal for search (even though Google seems to be struggling more as time passes). Apple’s search being broken in Settings on iOS, macOS and iPadOS seem intentional — it can’t search in a relatively small and fixed list of items! Is it any wonder that Mail search doesn’t work with external data? The AirDrop and Hotspot iss…

My god I cancelled my isp because I’m moving. Thought hot spot would be fine for a few months. Every single day I have to restart my MacBook Air for hot spot to work. Multiple times every day I have to turn hot spot off and on even though it’s in discoverable but won’t connect. Multiple times every day hot spot is just off and can’t be turned on in control center. And this is with iPhone 17 and m2 on most recent upda…

With older hardware the trick is to not upgrade the OS.

Apple's strategy is actually to make people auto-upgrade to make their work of maintaining older OS/software cheaper and make people who don't have recent enough hardware suffer.

It's funny that one argument for Apple was that you got updates for free. But in practice, Android doesn't need to upgrade the OS to access recent apps and ship security updates for old versions of Android. You just lose access to new OS functionalities, but it has been a while since there was much to care about.

Re: Bugs Apple loves

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Post by VerifiedReports »

Someone wrote: post #183
VerifiedReports wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And yet Apple CREATED the multiple-accounts problem for millions of people by implementing their idiotic "Apple ID must be an E-mail address" policy. So of course people thought that when they changed jobs, cable companies, or whatever... they needed to create a new Apple ID with their new E-mail address. This was reinforced when Apple further stupidified their policy by requiring your ID to be a WORKING E-mail addre…

> Apple finally publicly and huffily declared that they weren't going to fix the problem they created by letting people consolidate accounts. They somewhat changed that. It now is possible to move purchases between accounts. See https://support.apple.com/en-us/117294 . Looks quite cumbersome to do, and will not apply to everybody (“If an Apple Account is only used for making purchases, those purchases can be migrated…

Interesting. But WTF is a "primary" Apple account? My original Apple ID isn't an E-mail address, so they forced me (and others in that situation) to create another one for iCloud because that one inexplicably has to be an E-mail address.

I use both for quite a few things. Which one is "primary?"

Re: Bugs Apple loves

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Post by seec »

can16358p wrote: post #153

The AirDrop randomly not working one is really manifesting at the most inconvenient times. Apple simply won't fix it.

I'm always dumbfounded by people constantly praising AirDrop. It hasn't worked properly more often than it did. And that's not talking about the times when you send something, it gets accepted, and it just ends up in a void, not to be found anywhere.

At the end of the day, in most cases, it would be preferable to just connect the damn thing with a cable and send things that way. If you send a large file, it takes a while, and having to redo the process because of some bug kills any benefit from the convenience of not having to use a cable.

Re: Bugs Apple loves

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Post by seec »

arikrahman wrote: post #70

Sometimes the bugs are features, I.e, natural scrolling different and inconsistent between mouse and mousepad without third party extensions. Thanks Apple!

I recently discovered that for some reason, macOS doesn't want to work with a mouse with a traditional scroll wheel. It just jumps erratically all over the place.

I tried using it because I forgot to charge my dumb magic mouse. I'm sure it can be fixed in some ways, but I really shouldn't have to. The mouse works just fine when plugged into a Windows PC.

Re: Bugs Apple loves

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Post by array_key_first »

bullfightonmars wrote: post #107
MrJohz wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If we're doing "features": password fields with no option to view the plaintext value? I use long passwords, and if I'm in a safe place, I would much rather see what I'm typing and correct any typos I make along the way than have to retype the same password multiple times with long delays between each attempt. Also, once a day my Touch ID stops working and I need to log in with my password again. That's fine, the pas…

Ugh this is the worst. It’s topped by password fields that don’t work with a password manager.

The wombo combo is field that doesn't allow pasting (???) plus app that forgets where you are. So you can't paste, so you type the first few characters, dismiss the app to look at what the field should be, come back and boom - it's cleared out or, worse, you're on the home page. For some reason banks LOVE this.

Re: Bugs Apple loves

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Post by nake89 »

charcircuit wrote: post #161
postalcoder wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple also makes it a biznatch to make a developer account separate from your personal account. In Apple's ideal world, multiple accounts should in no circumstance ever exist. I, in an ideal world, would agree with this. But we live in this world, where Apple bans accounts for redeeming legitimate gift cards.

>where Apple bans accounts for redeeming legitimate gift cards. Is there any evidence of this happening with an actual legitimate gift card and bot one which was stolen or originally purchased via credit card fund.

Slightly off-topic, but stuff like this does not just happen at Apple.

When Cyberpunk 2077 came out, my wife bought it with her credit card and gifted the game to me. It was fine at first. I even managed to play through the game. However when coming back to the game a few months later (to see all the bugfixes), it was gone. I contacted the (gog) and they said it was removed due to automatic fraud detection and that the balance had been paid back to the original credit card (my wife's card, she had obviously not noticed this in her bank statement).

Point being automatic fraud detection systems can wipe out stuff you purchased even months after the fact (or in some cases lock your account)... It feels kafkaesque.

Re: Bugs Apple loves

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Post by zapzupnz »

ildon wrote: post #150

I stopped reading at the very first bug: > Mail Search Doesn't Work For me mail search works very very well. Ironically, it's one of the features that convinced me to use Mail as my primary and only email client. I'm wondering if the author of the rant is using the search input of the single message/thread, instead of the global one, or if they are not aware that the global search is by selected account, so if you wa…

Great, "Works on My Machine" award for you. Well done.

Re: Bugs Apple loves

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Post by gxs »

Ah, you can add to that list messages never showing you your attachments

Have a thread going with someone for years? Yeah good luck seeing more than 20% if anything you’ve ever sent each other

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