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iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by alex_suzuki »

jhickok wrote: post #128
Agingcoder wrote: post #59

I don’t want a new screen time experience , I just want it to work. Much to my surprise, it’s extraordinarily brittle, to such an extent that it’s virtually useless.

As a parent of kids with iThings, the parental controls/screen time experience is incredibly bad. I have no idea why they are not interested in having it work.

100% agree. We had to turn it off because it was too frustrating for everyone involve. Now we’re at “trust, but verify” where “verify” is looking at Screen Time stats at the end of each week.

My only plausible explanation is that no one who works at Apple has kids.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by lynndotpy »

GeekyBear wrote: post #106
wastedpotencial wrote: post #33

Not updating from Sequoia until the Liquid Glass era is over.

They literally give you a new slider to increase or reduce the Liquid Glass effect to align with your personal preferences.

Just anecdotally, increasing the blur seems to have an associated performance cost, especially in Springboard ("the home screen".) It's probably only ~100ms for each interaction, so it probably won't impact latency-insensitive users.

As others have said, it helps with the legibility but Liquid Glass is still distracting and illegible. I share the wish that Apple eventually returns to a more sensible, legible UI.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by robrain »

dgellow wrote: post #11

Reminder to wait a couple of months before upgrading macOS! Every single time issues are found after a new macOS version, give it a little bit of time before jumping right away on your work machine :)

You do you. I backup and install once the RC goes live. Have done for years. Only problem I recall was a few years ago Homebrew got in a tizzy for a day.

One exception maybe is for music producers. For some reason AU/VST/DAW developers don't seem to take part in the beta programs and their software can take a while to get updated. But I've happily been playing with Bitwig (with some Arturia VSTs) over the weekend on Golden Gate without issue.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by tom_ »

devindotcom wrote: post #50
swinglock wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is the keyboard broken? Maybe I'm so used to whatever it is that I'm blind to it.

I personally use the swiping keyboard on ios and it seems to detect the wrong word with an almost malicious frequency. It also randomly Capitalizes things.

It's intriguing. Danny! Infuriating.

I think it's slightly worded if you swore. No. Slightly worded. No. Slightly worse if you swipe left handed. Yes. At last.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by dd8601fn »

maelito wrote: post #175

How depressing this first demo video about mum, grandma and the fruits. These are basic things of our lives that make us humans : caring about others, remembering what they say, knowing how to recognize a fruit, enjoying colors of the fruits with your eyes, not through your retina display, thinking about the food recipes that we know. I don't know if this is because I'm european and the gap keeps getting larger acros…

You’re mad that Siri was asked to find a recipe in an email and add its items to a grocery list?

That doesn’t sound like a cultural divide issue.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by teekert »

Agingcoder wrote: post #69
swinglock wrote: post #21

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How is the keyboard broken? Maybe I'm so used to whatever it is that I'm blind to it.

Try an android keyboard and go back to an iphone. Having switched back and forth between both systems it’s quite remarkable how bad the iphone keyboard is. In practice , typing on an iphone means constant typos, bad autofix, and bad suggestions.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45662685

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by teekert »

laweijfmvo wrote: post #158
GreekPete wrote: post #111

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Ah, so that’s why that happens? I was gaslighting myself.

someone posted high speed videos a few months ago where the keyboard will popup the key you thought you pressed (therefore did press, as far as the UI is concerned) but iOS will insert a different character anyway.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45662685

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by GeekyBear »

ForceBru wrote: post #84

So, is it better (faster, stronger, etc) than iOS 18? Everyone says iOS 26 was not good at all and iOS 27 is much better, but it seems like it's fairly simple to make something that's better than iOS 26. A more interesting question is whether it's better than iOS 18? Does anyone have any experience switching from iOS 18 to, say, some beta of iOS 27?

It improves performance on the oldest iOS device that is supported.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by thinkthatover »

petesergeant wrote: post #76
Cockbrand wrote: post #14

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So what's your experience in terms of speed and battery life with iOS 27 on the iPhone 13 so far? I have a 13 mini, and I still haven't gotten over the (perceived) shorter battery life with iOS 26.

Upgrading the battery on my iPhone 12 Pro has been a fucking revelation. I just don't run out of battery any more. I'm sure Apple was telling me it was only 20% degraded or something too, but I would strongly, strongly recommend this if thinking about battery life is currently an issue for you.

I think it's different for mini owners. I upgraded my battery in march of this year and its already at 89%, I blame ios26 frankly.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by jitl »

neutronicus wrote: post #67
swinglock wrote: post #21

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How is the keyboard broken? Maybe I'm so used to whatever it is that I'm blind to it.

It's unclear to me if they're alleging that it's recently broken. I switched to iPhone at my wife's insistence 3-4 years ago and I have pined for Swype the entire time. It's so bad and I was spoiled by Android.

You can install a different keyboard if you want. I used 3rd party swiping keyboards but ended up using the system one for the last few years because it doesn't bother me.
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