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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 stavros »

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.

I switched to iPhone for 2-3 months but the keyboard was so back I switched back to Android. If Apple can't get a keyboard (any keyboard!) to work in a decade, I'm going to an OS that works.

It's crazy that SwiftKey was terrible too, even though it's the one I use exclusively on Android.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by ngcazz »

bdamm wrote: post #646
LASR wrote: post #513

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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.

I'm hit by this problem often. I wonder why UI updates which could well be incremental instead just replace the whole results from under your fingers!

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by torginus »

jonhohle wrote: post #382
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…

It’s really sad, because they mostly aped search from BeOS and had best in class search for a decade or so. Now indexing frequently breaks or works when an external disk is not attached, but won’t find local files after it’s connected.

Why do filesystem indices get stale? The OS can track what files get accessed, isn't inotify watertight?

I know that Windows has some equivalent stuff, that the antivirus uses to disallow opening files before they got scanned, so I'd wager that API is functionally required to not miss any changes.

Yet Windows indexing is one of the worst pieces of software in existence and frequently gets out of sync.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by Melatonic »

teekert wrote: post #162
Hamuko wrote: post #146

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Unfortunately the slider does not fix Liquid Glass. Notifications are still unreadable even when you go full opaque. You need to also toggle Reduce Transparency to actually get the UI to be opaque enough to be readable.

Jeez, it's an accessibility feature and they just turned it off! I don't mind liquid glass and can handle the transparency mostly, but the notifications are just god-awful and difficult to read (white on light glass, using dark mode, who comes up with this stuff?). But reducing transparency is a much harder setting now (should be "removing transparency"), I don't like it anymore, it also messes with the wallpaper. Th…

Your saying the "reduce transparency" setting changed between 26 and 27?

I've been running it since 18 (first thing I do is go into accessibility and turn off any animations and screen effects that take GPU cycles)

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by edstarch »

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 :)

Sequoia is still supported and very solid right now. I'll probably skip Tahoe and update around 27.5.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by DaanDL »

pppnfnnqmrmntn wrote: post #418
eclipticplane wrote: post #266

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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.

The solution is obviously to switch partner.

You're obviously holding your partner the wrong way.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by lostlogin »

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…

> Apple's search is so comically bad.

There needs to be more rage at search in Mail.app.

It’s quicker to rollback through them all than it is to use search, but when you get tens or hundreds a day it’s excruciating.

Please Apple, fix email search.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by stavros »

__patchbit__ wrote: post #47
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.

macOS has the prior keycombo for 'home' and 'end' occupied for other uses. command + up/down arrow I don't know how to read to the bottom of a webpage and jump immediately to the top of page. Plus, the global key at bottom left fails for keyboard shortcut input when defining new binding for managing windowing rearrangement.

Command + up/down is pg up/pg dn. Command + left/right is home/end.
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