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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 ForceBru »

GeekyBear wrote: post #211
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?

You can always read a review: > The promise of iOS 27 is that it’ll not only unlock new capabilities but also make your existing workflows smoother and quicker. https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/09/ios-27-review-little-thin... An update that improves performance on even the oldest supported device is a win.

That's a nice overview, but it seems to compare iOS 27 to iOS 26. Isn't iOS 26 known to be terrible, though? I'd like a comparison to a "known-good" iOS version. Basically I skipped iOS 26 (so I have zero experience with it) and am now wondering whether iOS 27 is any good

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by ValentineC »

gekoxyz wrote: post #12
moralestapia wrote: post #4

I'll stay w/ Sequoia as long as I can.

I am currently on Sonoma and I was considering to upgrade to get the things that I missed in these years. I think and hope that macOS 27 will be faster wrt Sonoma...

I jumped from Ventura to Sequoia when 26 was first released, and I can safely say it's been around the same.

I'd probably make a similar leap to 27 when 28 gets released.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by MobileVet »

ArtificialAI wrote: post #205
throw0101d wrote: post #5

At the bottom of the press release they have links to individual OS pages: * iOS 27: https://www.apple.com/os/ios/ * iPadOS 27: https://www.apple.com/os/ipados/ * macOS: https://www.apple.com/os/macos/ * watchOS: https://www.apple.com/os/watchos/ * visionOS: https://www.apple.com/os/visionos/ * tvOS 27: no link. * Overview: https://www.apple.com/os/?version=no-hero

Poor tvOS :(

I was at WWDC for the Vision Pro launch and asked someone a technical question about tvOS. He said, 'ah, [Jim] could answer that, but he isn't here today'. When I asked if anyone else from tvOS was here the reply was, '[Jim] is the only person on tvOS' and I am pretty sure he was serious.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by dabeeeenster »

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.

The state of parental controls on apple devices is absolutely appalling.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by dash2 »

devilbunny wrote: post #93
devindotcom wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

For some reason, the one word that it just will not let me swipe is “and”. Which is, you know, somewhat common. I get all kinds of random things instead.

I can't do "is". I get "OSS" instead. I'm not even that into open source.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by eclipticplane »

nicbou wrote: post #94

That's all I want! A not-completely-useless Siri, and performance/quality of life improvements. MacOS is fine. For the most part it gets out of my way. However I have a laundry list of small issues that have been there since my first Mac in 2012. I wish there was a Department of Details to fix those little snags in the user experience.

I just want a Siri that doesn't trigger when my partner says "Siri set a timer for 20 minutes" on a completely different floor of the house.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by la_oveja »

thatmf wrote: post #195

I would typically never install a .0 release, but as an 18 holdout who begrudgingly had to finally "upgrade" to 26, I have to say 27 really is an improvement. The egregious bugs are gone. Safari is usable again. You can pretty much disable liquid glass. It feels faster. This is all I really wanted.

> You can pretty much disable liquid glass.

the semaphore too? i am hating it.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by innagadadavida »

mchusma wrote: post #239
Someone1234 wrote: post #17

I've been using it for several months since the developer beta came out; overall I'm extremely positive on it. One of their better releases that seemingly focused more on quality and refinements than new-features. Siri is definitely worth using now, even if it remains still a work-in-progress/needs continued refinement. It can surprise you in good ways, but it isn't consistently good yet. The keyboard remains unfixed…

Apple's search is so comically bad. For example, I can click on my applications, and I have an app called Chess. I can often type letters C-H-E-S-S and have it not show the Chess app. This is inside the applications folder! Many people have complained before. Honestly I ONLY search for app names in spotlight search or application window, it should be trivial to make it actually work. Maybe i just need to vibecode som…

Turn off all the web search and other domains that the index uses. Apple took a really brain dead decision to include web search in the results, and they are the worst. It is completely useless, and even though the recall has expanded, the precision is abysmal.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by Agingcoder »

alex_suzuki wrote: post #181
jhickok wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

That’s a good idea . So you’re telling me that I can trust the on device numbers enough?

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by pwagland »

jeffrapp wrote: post #250
mchusma wrote: post #239

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple's search is so comically bad. For example, I can click on my applications, and I have an app called Chess. I can often type letters C-H-E-S-S and have it not show the Chess app. This is inside the applications folder! Many people have complained before. Honestly I ONLY search for app names in spotlight search or application window, it should be trivial to make it actually work. Maybe i just need to vibecode som…

It’s so much worse than that. This happens to me on a daily basis with both MacOS and iOS. Say I’m searching for Chess, I’ll get to the C-H and it’ll show the Chess app, but enter that next -E and it’s totally gone. It feels like the system is designed like “Well, I showed them Chess when they entered CH, but they kept typing, so they must not actually want Chess.” This ends up breaking for me like 95% of the time, a…

This, and then, if you notice, and backspace to remove the 'e', it doesn't put chess back into the search results, since it figures that everything that matches 'che' also matches 'ch', and so doesn't update it. Sometimes, if you add the 'e' again, it _will_ find chess, sometimes you need to type the 's', or even the final 's' before it gives you chess back again.

And sometimes, it finds what you want, but before you can select it, it decides that it has found something better, and places that in the place where you wanted to select, causing you to select the wrong thing. And then it thinks that because you selected this, it must be what you want, and starts to push it to the top…

Search is definitely frustrating.

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