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Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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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 :)

Don't worry I am still on Sonoma :)

I'm still on Sequoia and I have zero intention of updating to this AI-saturated slop.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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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 :)

I'm still on Sequoia (which took me ages to jump to from Ventura). :) For anyone jumping versions: remember that Apple messed with the login keychain not being able to be backed up in the most recent Tahoe release [1], which means that issue will be around in Golden Gate. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49651046

I was on Sequoia as well, and just updated ... first thing I noticed is LaunchPad is gone.

The Tahoe Dock "App View" / Spotlight just lists my 30 installed apps intermingled with Apple System Apps, which I hardly ever use. Hard coded categories, no way to re-order as far as I can tell.

Seems like the closest thing to LaunchPad is dragging ~/Applications to the Dock.

The other thing I have noticed is scrolling in Firefox is more choppy, and animations are more Janky than Sequoia on this old MacBook Air M1.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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I tested its general knowledge by asking some simple questions like “how far away is the moon”?

It gave me the verbal answer in miles, but the on-screen pop up showed the answer in kilometres.

Never mind that this is a failure of internationalisation (because I live outside one of the two backwards places that hasn’t yet caught up to metric.)

The inconsistency between verbal and written answers is just… bizarre. I’ve never seen an AI agentic system wired like this!

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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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 :)

I feel pretty good about the 27 series in a way I haven't in the past (I've been running iOS 27 and it's working well), except for one thing, they remove x86 support (no more Rosetta), so just keep that in mind in case that might disrupt anything for you.

People have already replied in part, but to clarify:

macOS 27 itself won't run on Intel chips, just Apple Silicon

but it does still have Rosetta (macOS 28 will drop it completely though)

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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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 :)

This seems to be the consensus viewpoint but outside of a few highly specific and known-in-advance incompatibilities on work laptops, I have been essentially a day-one adopter since Leopard and I cannot recall any issues that rose above a minor annoyance.

There have certainly been changes like Liquid Glass that were for the worse overall (though the degree of which had been highly overblown). But outside of directional disagreement with a release, I can’t say I’ve ever seen an issue where I’ve regretted pulling the trigger on an update.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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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…

A common one I hit is "blu" showing bluetooth settings, but "blue" does not. Very frustrating to see the thing you are hoping for popup, but then go away as you type more if its name.

Just tried this on iOS 27 and both blu and blue showed me bluetooth settings. I saw someone in a different thread of this discussion mention resetting dictionaries helping with autocorrect, I wonder if there is something that would apply to this situation which helps.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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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 :)

yep last time it completely broke Internet but fortunately there was a workaround available via cellular

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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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…

Is Gemini-backed siri active ?
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