glad that the chief UI guy has left. see if the next iteration is any better :)
Apple, What Have You Done?
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Re: Apple, What Have You Done?
#12I've seen one of these posts for every single one of the ~15 years I've been using apple products, and yet still here we are, and for most it still the least worst OS going.
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#13I hit 355 GB of system data on iOS 26 last week on my 15 pro max.
Factory reset and restore from backup and it accumulates 5GB a day. Will be there again soon.
There is something seriously wrong with system data in iOS 26.
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#14> "My iPhone 14 Pro has 35Gb of "system data" which has basically filled up the entire storage I had left" I occasionally use a macbook pro at £WORK for a few apple specific processes, and it currently has 188.67gb of "system data" that I have no idea how to clean up or remove. It's marked separately from the 11.01gb of macOS in the storage settings, and it constantly complains about the disk almost being full. Updat…
Yes!
You can go to the folder ~/Library and then delete what you want.
To open the folder from a terminal: cd ~/Library open .
In the Finder, you can enable "Calculate all sizes" from "View options," which will calculate folder sizes to understand what to clean first.
This folder contains data from all apps; sometimes it is cache, sometimes persistent data. You will find all your previous apps taking gigabytes...
Re: Apple, What Have You Done?
#15> "My iPhone 14 Pro has 35Gb of "system data" which has basically filled up the entire storage I had left" I occasionally use a macbook pro at £WORK for a few apple specific processes, and it currently has 188.67gb of "system data" that I have no idea how to clean up or remove. It's marked separately from the 11.01gb of macOS in the storage settings, and it constantly complains about the disk almost being full. Updat…
You can use tools like CleanMyMac to show folders and their sizes. All cache and library files are counted under System, e.g. files from vagrant, docker, vms, old jetbrains IDEs, caches from rarely used/uninstalled apps etc.
You don‘t need to buy the full version, you can just use the info and delete it manually in Finder.
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#16I've been with Apple since 1979, but these days I don't even use a small percentage of all the features of the iPhone, and in spite of having bought over 800+ apps I still only use 7 of them. However, I dare not even attempt to clean up my iPhone and understand how it all works these days - I just avoid any thing cloud-related, and try to do my own manual photo backups - which is replete with its own dangers, it has to be said.
It really does seem like nobody at Apple is actually using any of the software they're releasing. Its just such shoddy quality control!
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#17We need a new "snow leopard" release. No new features. Cleaning up the mess. Ethically speaking, there's no excuses for Apple. They're sitting on a huge pile of resources. Don't have the team competent enough to handle stuff? Hire them. Yet I know that's not how capitalism works.
As someone who witnessed a lot of the quality decline at Apple from the inside, hiring more people is decidedly not the answer. All that does is encourages management to engage in more churn, which is the source of these sorts of bugs.
The answer, unfortunately, is that features need to be sunsetted/removed, the engineering org shrunk, and for a smaller group to concentrate on a reliable product core.
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#18I've seen one of these posts for every single one of the ~15 years I've been using apple products, and yet still here we are, and for most it still the least worst OS going.
Talk about lock-in and enshittification.
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#19It's a push to using their cloud services I suppose. I have had to pay for the icloud for a while now because my phone would fill up so quickly.
I am eyeing a few tutorials on building my own cloud.
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#20It takes 1.5 seconds to close a Tab in Safari. If you hold the close tab shortcut for long so that it closes all tabs the entire browser basically freezes.
I run into this daily. I don't understand how this got through QA