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One of my favourite unreported MacOS issues comes from how, at some point, they changed the appearance of the window close button to be a particular shade of red with a tiny little X in the center. And if you happen to be using a particular kind of screen and possibly wearing glasses, that little X kind of wanders around in the button, appearing just slightly off center in a maddening way. Made only more maddening by…
One that Apple seems to ignore. You click on something. And the micro second before it changes the hi, causing you to click something else.
On mobile devices, Apple’s Calculator app has always been one of the most frustrating apps I’ve ever used, and I’m surprised it’s a stock app by the company itself. If you press buttons quickly, like you would a normal calculator, many of the key presses simply don’t register at all. I’m not sure if they’re prioritizing some pretty little visual animation over actual functionality, but it’s incredibly surprising from…
The lock screen is even worse. I have to slow down to input my passcode or button pushes don’t register.
macOS on a low dpi screen is mostly full of those kind of issues. I wouldn't recommend using a low dpi screen.
It’s crazy that I had to buy BetterDisplay (great tool btw) just to get fonts from incomprehensible to merely ugly on a 25x16 monitor via a fake 2x scaled one. Windows renders razor sharp even without gfx drivers.
Linux and Windows use actual pixels for their rendering, and even with anti-aliasing, it looks sharp. If you’re stuck with macOS, aim for 4k at least.
On mobile devices, Apple’s Calculator app has always been one of the most frustrating apps I’ve ever used, and I’m surprised it’s a stock app by the company itself. If you press buttons quickly, like you would a normal calculator, many of the key presses simply don’t register at all. I’m not sure if they’re prioritizing some pretty little visual animation over actual functionality, but it’s incredibly surprising from…
The lock screen is even worse. I have to slow down to input my passcode or button pushes don’t register.
> I would contact Apple, if there was a feedback option, but there isn’t There is: https://feedbackassistant.apple.com/ That said, it isn’t very user-friendly, and I find that they don’t seem to pay much attention to it. When they do respond, it tends to be some form of “#wontfix. Please close this.” That looks like a fairly ugly little bug. I suspect they know about it now, thanks to the HN Bug Reporter. It tends to…
Also another reader mentioned to enter Feedback Assistant in Spotlight. It's the first time I see that app.
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Every now and then I think about starting a public bug report tracker for Apple bugs since they keep theirs to themselves. The number of maddening but minuscule bugs I run into makes me wish I was using Linux again, where I can fix them myself, or at the very least report them upstream and hope someone else eventually does so. By not having a public record of bugs Apple conveniently hides the sheer number of them and…
There's https://openradar.appspot.com where you can at least share the bugs you file yourself.
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The lock screen is even worse. I have to slow down to input my passcode or button pushes don’t register.
I’m glad someone else noticed this. I never manage to unlock my iPhone first time.
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The lock screen is even worse. I have to slow down to input my passcode or button pushes don’t register.
Try switching focus mode from the lockscreen (by long pressing somewhere inbetween all notifications, widgets, the clock etc). Always takes me several tries and I end up feeling like something is broken.