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Post by redman25 »

appplication wrote: post #101

This is missing the most annoying one for me: when I type a search term into safari and it randomly interprets it as an address that it can’t resolve. E.g. “how to bake cookies” gets resolved to how%20to%20bake%20cookies (which safari tries to resolve via DNS or whatever instead of piping it to the search provider). Even better, it’s entirely nondeterministic, though it does seem to be due to some race condition with…

Not to mention not resolving local domains (and attempting to search instead) unless they specifically contain the `http://`.

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Post by srge »

halapro wrote: post #301

Connection-related bugs are the worst. Here I am, wishing that after 15 years of hotspot software and WiFi/BT enhancements I'd get painless hotspot, airdrop and general WiFi connectivity. My bad, still not possible. But yeah Liquid Ass surely is lickable. Apple software, especially Mac software, tanked ages ago.

And in the WiFi/BT department, they almost own all the stack. Guess Airdrop and hotspot would work all the time! Oops.

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Post by srge »

leokennis wrote: post #221

Some of these bugs are more well known but for some like AirDrop not working or hotspot not connecting I always thought “well it’s probably because some power setting / DNS config / ad blocker / whatever” that I accidentally changed from the default years ago. Nostalgia is real but I do remember a not so distant past (around iPhone 4S or so) where AirDrop worked, autocorrect worked, text selection was flawed but pred…

AirDrop and hotspot work 50% of the time for me. It’s a shame since they must own all of the stack for those technologies

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Post by MBCook »

coob wrote: post #342
MBCook wrote: post #36

> Apple Pay: Card Icon Changes Address This has been driving me nuts. The old design was perfect. Who could possibly think this made sense?

It's even done the right way on Mac OS! Infuriating.

Done the right way?

Or they forgot to “fix” it?

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Post by refulgentis »

zapzupnz wrote: post #191
refulgentis wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 o…

He had it down as Mail search never works at the time of my comment. Never.

Don’t appreciate the drive by “that’s okay because it doesn’t work for me, btw, works for me is bad”. It’s fallacious. I’m not ignoring your lived experience. I’m calling out slop.

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Post by srge »

makingstuffs wrote: post #131

The hotspot issue is my absolute pet peeve. It is so bad for me that I just had to accept that I have two options for hotspotting: 1. Go to settings and change my phones name then connect. Every. Damn. Time. 2. Use a cable and hope the MacBook Pro picks it up. Honestly the quality of iPhones has deteriorated to a point where my next phone will just be something like an oppo or xiomi. I’m done paying £500+ for a phone…

The hotspot errors drive me insane. You’re basically connecting two device from the same company that happens to make both software and hardware on those two devices. I can’t understand this.

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Post by srge »

ant6n wrote: post #148

Mine “favorite” bug is the auto-replace of I->O on iOs. O think that’s a real strange one, and really wonder whether anybody ever uses “O think” in English.

My iPhone always replaces « wow » by « WoW ». So annoying

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Post by ninkendo »

concinds wrote: post #343
ninkendo wrote: post #335

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People look at the backlog of issues, see all the things they don't like about $subsystem, and think to themselves "we ought to rewrite this". The incentives are all aligned to make this common. Project managers get a nice chunk of work to manage, engineers get to write things their way, managers get a nice thing to add to their accomplishments, everyone feels like progress is happening. Heck, sometimes there may act…

Why not have a "rewrite policy", criteria for when a rewrite makes sense or doesn't? Surely a random engineer can't decide to rewrite things on his own.

There’s too many people with incentives to rewrite. It keeps all the gears turning, keeps everyone employed. You certainly need to justify any rewrites, but… people are really good at justifying rewrites.

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Post by GeorgeOldfield »

afandian wrote: post #135

I've got one. When iPhone alarm goes off, the screen doesn't wake up, so I press the power button. Which snoozes the alarm. Not only did I not want to snooze the alarm, I hoped that the alarm would wake the phone up so I can click 'stop'. I assume that's a bug rather than a holding-it-wrong?

double tap the screen

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Post by ulbu »

sotix wrote: post #350
ulbu wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

you can enable cursor control by holding space, and then you can move to selection mode by touching anywhere else on the keyboard.

Yet on Android you can simply tap exactly where you want the cursor to be placed. It's a much superior experience.

um, you do the same on ios.
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