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Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by spider-mario »

hobo123 wrote: post #736
consumer451 wrote: post #732

Kudos to Apple for still having their latest iOS run on hardware as old as iPhone 11, which was released 7 years ago. How is the Android world faring in this regard? My last Android device was an Android One, but that seems to have been cancelled. edit: holy crap, iOS 27 made an iPhone 11 pro max I just installed it on so much snappier! Absolutely crazy level of improvement.

Well, my Galaxy S22 (from well: 2022), which still works great will no longer receive _any_ updates after February 27, so I'll have to get new one, or potentially suffer open security holes in the future. Also, even now I only receive security fixed on a quarterly schedule. Still not keen on switching to the walled garden - I like the apps I have, including custom browser engines. I like having F-Droid with open sour…

Still better than my Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact, which I bought in May 2019 (I guess it was my bad to buy it a full year after release) and which received its last ever update in August 2020.

Ditched it for an iPhone SE.

Too bad, I did like the XZ2 Compact in that first year I had it.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by skydhash »

danaris wrote: post #719
y1n0 wrote: post #466

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I wish all this shit would just stop trying to search as I’m fucking typing. It’s like that person we all know that can’t hold their tongue for five fucking seconds and let you finish a sentence before the blurt something out.

Ah, but hitting enter now takes you to the top result! Therefore it has to search as you type, so there's something to activate as soon as you hit enter! /s ...I've been seeing this search style in more and more places recently, and I hate it. Let me type my search, then hit enter, then you can go find what I asked for. Don't slow everything down by searching on every character I type.

It’s called incremental search and it’s useful, but only when there’s some debouncing involved and the search results is presented at once or the items are sorted by the order they are found.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by davidee »

carabiner wrote: post #281
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…

Wait what was so bad about siri before? I've been using it for years on homepod, asking it for weather and setting timers.

I realise this is a joke, but I have to pile on.

Even weather was/is comically bad. Ask it anything specific and it would fall over, repeating the broadest, least helpful version of weather data, even if all that data is clearly available in the ios weather app. Specifics on wind, precipitation hourly, etc.

So no, you can't really ask a homepod for the weather either - Homepod's weather was more like a shitty version of sticking your head outside and looking up at the sky.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by sonar_un »

asaddhamani wrote: post #169
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…

In my experience new Siri has been better only marginally. Still tons of I didn’t understand the query responses

My experience with the new Siri is objectively worse. I am on an Iphone 17 Pro Max and all searches are very slow, accessing utilities has slowed down quite a bit, lagginess when settings timers. Failure to make new notes or reminders. Stuff just not working. I've been using the OS since the RC. I give it a flat 0/10

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by sonar_un »

pants2 wrote: post #601
asaddhamani wrote: post #169

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In my experience new Siri has been better only marginally. Still tons of I didn’t understand the query responses

In my experience the new Siri is marginally worse for everything that I used to use Siri for. It's much slower to respond. It asks for obnoxious classifications. It doesn't know that when I say "call Mike" I mean the Mike I call every day vs the other Mike in my contact I have never called in my life. It defaults back to Apple products for everything, old Siri knew I liked Spotify but now if I ask it to play a song i…

Absolutely the same experience here. Pretty much worse in every way.

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Post by Intermernet »

selcuka wrote: post #516
vladvasiliu wrote: post #251

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Windows does this, too. So I really wonder how come two companies implemented the same borked behavior.

Android keyboard does that too. When I start typing my email address, for example, the keyboard app suggests the correct email after a few characters, but if I keep typing it disappears from the suggestions.

I have to send a daily email that always has the subject starting with "Work Diary". If I type "W", it doesn't come up. If I type "Wo" it comes up as the 3rd auto-complete suggestion. If I type any more characters, I have to type the entire two words. This is on Android, but I have a feeling it's no better on iOS.

I'd love to know the algorithm they're using for this. Fuzzy search seems like it was a mostly solved problem 20 years ago, and it's definitely worse than it was 10 years ago.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by jbverschoor »

ramgine wrote: post #451
mchusma wrote: post #239

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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…

I use Raycast and it’s much better than spotlight imo

Raycast2 has its own index and it's way more reliable and fast. I don't understand how Apple does not care about many of the core services of their OS. Searching in Mail is a coinflip

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by egorfine »

rlam2x51 wrote: post #703
egorfine wrote: post #687

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Oh! How's the text rendering now? In macOS 26 I had to return a new ultrawide because macOS hates non-retina displays and text was blurry af. Worth trying now?

Yes, it fully works for me! Terminal: system_profiler SPDisplaysDataType Output: macOS 26: Displays: LG HDR WQHD+: Resolution: 6400 x 2666 UI Looks like: 3200 x 1333 @ 120.00Hz macOS 27: Displays: LG HDR WQHD+: Resolution: 7680 x 3200 UI Looks like: 3840 x 1600 @ 120.00Hz 144 Hz works as well. I had to undo some of my previous configurations (0: disabled, 2: default) defaults -currentHost write -g AppleFontSmoothing…

Thank you very much!

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by dTal »

pwagland wrote: post #270
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…

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…

Firefox's "awesome bar" behaves the same way. I guess it's either inherent to the problem somehow, or else everyone is sharing a library (unlikely), or else everyone just makes the same mistakes.
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