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iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by dansquizsoft »

friendzis wrote: post #626
eknkc wrote: post #569

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It is still not multi language. I mean I can talk to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, fucking Grok in any language I want and it will understand / respond in given language. Apple being Apple, I have to choose a language in Siri menu and it has to be the phone language for some reason.. Otherwise it downgrades to old Siri. Apple's incompetence in AI / Assistant etc stuff has to be studied.

> Apple's incompetence in AI / Assistant etc stuff has to be studied. Why should Apple focus on technical excellence when the company and their products are touted for literally gimmicks? In the end this is what brings the money and profits through the door, can't blame a company for providing what the market craves.

The market craves good AI experiences... But that doesn't mean Apple is capable of delivering it at this stage.

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Post by Melatonic »

eldenbishop wrote: post #105
DerDerDaIst wrote: post #43

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re keyboard: i don't get how the keyboard on the iphone can be so broken. meanwhile the small keyboard on the ipad works like a charm. or am i the only one experiencing it like this?

I was starting to think I was getting old and senile with how hard typing has become on the iPhone. It's a misery. I have to type so insanely slow to have any chance of getting the right keys now. I don't have this issue on other virtual keyboards, iPad etc.

Turn off Swipe or Slide or whatever they call it now in the keyboard settings

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Post by torginus »

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…

On my incredibly midrange PC that has a midrange SSD in it, the Linux `find` and `grep` commands usually can find stuff much quicker than any 'accelerated' and 'cached' desktop search, even though the only caching they usually get is when the files are in the page cache because I have interacted with them. Even when that's not the case, it's faster AND more accurate that GNOME search or whatever search is in Windows Explorer.

Windows is the same - searching the fs is faster and more accurate than using these 'quick search' tools, which are borderline broken.

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Post by siva7 »

xaksnTMu2 wrote: post #625
jeffrapp wrote: post #250

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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…

> 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 "works" exactly the same on Windows. How is that even possible?

Either same guy got promoted over and over again or someone thought we must copy this genius search bar as is

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Post by bdamm »

LASR wrote: post #513
nomel wrote: post #368

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It's worse than this! You Type C-H-E then you go to press enter, and it changes the results as you're pressing it, opening the wrong thing! I've turned off all the search targets, except for applications and folders.

Changing the results just when you are going to action on them is a fundamental UX sin.

Yes. "UI Speed" should be a configurable thing, so that if the UI changes as you're choosing an item, it acts instead on _what was there_ at a brief moment in the past, e.g. 20-50ms ago.

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Post by microtonal »

drewbeck wrote: post #440
sicktriple wrote: post #339

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For me the big one is whenever I type "sys" to get system settings, it pops up for a half second and then for some reason the top result is like "reset some system setting" and then I invariably get flashbanged because it turns off dark mode and there's no confirmation dialogue lmao. Maddening.

Typing “sound” and end up with some obscure sound setting as top option and the general “sound” control panel nowhere to be found. Every time.

I was trying to see what happens here. It does give the Sound settings panel as the first hit. But when I then press Return, it opens System Settings, but does not actually go to the Sound settings, but General.

Also, search inside the Settings app has been broken for many releases now. I always wonder if anyone inside Apple is actually using macOS or iOS.

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Post by dabinat »

squirreljak wrote: post #298
ksec wrote: post #41

People who are still on Chrome as main browser should seriously try Safari 27. Compatibility greatly improved, super speedy. Although for some reason the AI organise tab option is not showing up on me.

Do tech savvy people actually use chrome on iOS? Why?

Browsers on iOS may be using the same rendering engine under the hood but they make different decisions for UI or how certain features work. They can be useful if you don’t like the decisions Apple made with Safari.

An example of a decision Safari made that I don’t like: if you open too many tabs you reach a limit, but it doesn’t tell you that and just silently overwrites other tabs you have open.

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Post by cheschire »

eisa01 wrote: post #596
cheschire wrote: post #385

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How does CarPlay still not have a brightness control? I leave my CarPlay perpetually in dark mode because light mode is searing in all but directly sunlight.

That would be controlled by the car itself? Surely must be a brightness slider for the infotainment system somewhere?

Not in Hyundai. The brightness controls have no impact when CarPlay starts up.
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