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Re: Bugs Apple loves

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Post by pjmlp »

magnio wrote: post #7

Had the pleasure of making an Apple account to join our company's developer team. I filled out the form on the website 7 times: Edge on Windows, Edge on macOS, Safari on macOS, using 2 different phone numbers. No matter what, Apple just refused to send the verification code to me. It only worked after I remember Apple is a dick to the web platform, then I managed to create one from the popup in the App Store.

Unfortunely Apple skills to write server software is inversely proportional to the fame they enjoyed thus far on client systems, as anyone using their Web APIs or backends can attest for.

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Post by julian_t »

I have a lot of undeletable old photos on my iPhone. The photos are there, but no photo app shows the trash can icon. They aren't on iCloud or any other current device, so I'm thinking that at some time I must have done something like sync an iPhone I no longer have with a Mac I no longer have. I've usually just cloned one phone to the next, but I reckon that next time I may be in for a manual copying job.

Re: Bugs Apple loves

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Post by thewebguyd »

jvandertoorn wrote: post #374

"Autocorrect Won't Take No For An Answer" does have a workaround at Settings > General > Keyboard > Text Replacement. If you add the word as both the phrase and shortcut it won't be autocorrected. Apple should still fix the learning behavior of autocorrect, but this workaround can prevent some frustration. Two other bugs I haven't seen mentioned yet: - The notes field in the Contacts app on iOS is completely broken.…

> Stage Manager

Also, for seemingly no reason, you can't choose to open an app/window on the current stage on macOS but you can on iPad OS. It makes stage manager unusable on macOS for me, which is unfortunate because I actually really like the feature

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Post by tigereyeTO »

julian_t wrote: post #392

I have a lot of undeletable old photos on my iPhone. The photos are there, but no photo app shows the trash can icon. They aren't on iCloud or any other current device, so I'm thinking that at some time I must have done something like sync an iPhone I no longer have with a Mac I no longer have. I've usually just cloned one phone to the next, but I reckon that next time I may be in for a manual copying job.

This is a frustrating result of “syncing” an album of photos from a computer.

Apple decides that—despite you putting your album on your device—you are not allowed to alter the album in any way. You can’t edit photos or delete them…you must do those things on the computer instead.

It’s awful.

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Post by thewebguyd »

nicwolff wrote: post #137
BitsAndObjects wrote: post #33

Trying to type this comment on an iPhone and that very last issue, text selection, is so so real. It’s probably the single biggest thing I hate about this phone that makes me consider switching back to Android (I was on Android for 12 years before trying out an iPhone for 3 years atm, and in general, on average, I can’t tell the difference… they both have strengths and flaws. Text selection is a pretty massive flaw o…

And they had it solved! 3D Touch worked perfectly – you pushed the screen hard to get a cursor, moved it to the start of the selection, and pushed hard again to drag to the end. They killed it because "not all iPhones had the hardware to support it" or something.

3D touch was amazing I'm still upset they canned it.

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Post by MobiusHorizons »

BitsAndObjects wrote: post #33

Trying to type this comment on an iPhone and that very last issue, text selection, is so so real. It’s probably the single biggest thing I hate about this phone that makes me consider switching back to Android (I was on Android for 12 years before trying out an iPhone for 3 years atm, and in general, on average, I can’t tell the difference… they both have strengths and flaws. Text selection is a pretty massive flaw o…

At least for editing text on the iPhone the key to moving the cursor is holding down the space bar: the keyboard transforms into a trackpad for cursor placement. This doesn’t really help for selecting text though, but it makes typing longer responses much more bearable.

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Post by ActorNightly »

BitsAndObjects wrote: post #33

Trying to type this comment on an iPhone and that very last issue, text selection, is so so real. It’s probably the single biggest thing I hate about this phone that makes me consider switching back to Android (I was on Android for 12 years before trying out an iPhone for 3 years atm, and in general, on average, I can’t tell the difference… they both have strengths and flaws. Text selection is a pretty massive flaw o…

Wait till you realize with Samsung Android phones, you can pretty much replace your laptop with a lapdock, or any TV + bluetooth mouse and keyboard.

Android stuff has been ahead of apple since like 2014. Apple is really good at optimizing the one thing that they use in advertising, while the rest of the stuff falls by the wayside. Was the exact same thing with Apple silicon and battery life. Sure, your laptop battery lasts a while when all you do is browse web and watch movies, specifically because of dedicated hardware for that. My phone with a similar capacity battery bank does the same. Once you start actually supersizing the cpu, the battery life drops significantly.

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Post by hannahstrawbrry »

PieUser wrote: post #42

BY FAR #3 is the most annoying UX on iOS 26 - I fall for it every single time when trying to change payment method. Not only does it undo years of muscle memory, it's so unbelievably unintuitive to have the first button change address instead of payment method https://www.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/1mb4lod/is_anyone_else...

I'm so tired of looking like a boomer that doesn't know how to use their phone when I'm paying with Apple Pay irl and I need to change the card, now a classic iOS user humiliation ritual :,)

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Post by radicality »

TomMasz wrote: post #317

Mail search is a joke. HoudahSpot was the best way to search your mail right up until Apple made that stop working.

For email app on Mac, I’ve been using MailMate for a few years now and quite like it. Once you sync the mailbox, search is basically instant.

And for even bigger search tasks, Foxtrot Pro is quite good too. Not cheap, but it is fast, and the tool I reach for when I need to find something and when Finder search don’t find it

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Post by thewebguyd »

hunterloftis wrote: post #56
650 wrote: post #45

I used to love Apple because they were so far ahead of the game in terms of UX and hardware. They have dropped the ball so much recently with all these UX mishaps from Apple Glass to most of the bugs in the post that affect me. I am more than willing to switch to Android or some other device regardless of price, but haven't found one that is close to equivalent yet. I worry it'll be a few years before something comes…

In the context of laptops, I would agree (MBP's hardware just outclasses everything else, even if I prefer Fedora over macOS). However, for phones, this just doesn't shake out. The Pixel 10 Pro for instance, has: * A battery that outlasts the iPhone 16 Pro by an hour * A slightly better display (higher brightness for outdoor use, higher PPI, higher color accuracy, same refresh rate) * A better camera for still photog…

The problem (for me) isn't the hardware. The Pixel 10 Pro is arguably a great phone, and I had a 9 Pro Xl for a short time before going back to iOS and I enjoyed it while I had it.

But what I found was I was just trading Apple's quirks for even worse Android quirks, all while losing all the nice ecosystem integrations with my macbook and iPad.

App quality on Android is still hit and miss. Companies still don't put nearly as much effort into their Android apps as they do their iOS apps. Even my banking app was a laggy, buggy mess on Android compared to the iOS version. Heck, even Google's own apps are better on iOS.

Plus, until Google decides to offer E2EE for their cloud services like Apple with advanced data protection, it's a non-starter for me and I really don't feel like going full self-hosted just so I can run Android.

I want to like Android again, but there's just nothing there right now that definitively makes it a better experience for me despite Apple's flaws.

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