Air Drop .... just generally doesn't work, often.
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#382This is missing the most annoying one for me: when I type a search term into safari and it randomly interprets it as an address that it can’t resolve. E.g. “how to bake cookies” gets resolved to how%20to%20bake%20cookies (which safari tries to resolve via DNS or whatever instead of piping it to the search provider). Even better, it’s entirely nondeterministic, though it does seem to be due to some race condition with…
Browsers never should have gotten rid of the separate and dedicated search bar. I don't want my browser guessing whether what I'm typing is a search or a URL. It should be easy to guess, but they frequently get it wrong for doubtless stupid reasons. If you can't even reliably classify a URL vs. a search, just have two separate text inputs, like the old days!
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#383I’m using native mail app of iOS/macos and search bar works for me. However, iOS has a persistent issue of not fetching new mails, even from iCloud, which has support for push updates. I inadvertently build a habit of opening mail app and refreshing.
I find it often won't even refresh when you click the little envelope "get mail" icon. That thing is like the "push button to walk" at crosswalks. A button connected to nothing, to make you feel like you have agency.
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#384Earlier quoted context omitted.
My god I cancelled my isp because I’m moving. Thought hot spot would be fine for a few months. Every single day I have to restart my MacBook Air for hot spot to work. Multiple times every day I have to turn hot spot off and on even though it’s in discoverable but won’t connect. Multiple times every day hot spot is just off and can’t be turned on in control center. And this is with iPhone 17 and m2 on most recent upda…
With older hardware the trick is to not upgrade the OS. Apple's strategy is actually to make people auto-upgrade to make their work of maintaining older OS/software cheaper and make people who don't have recent enough hardware suffer. It's funny that one argument for Apple was that you got updates for free. But in practice, Android doesn't need to upgrade the OS to access recent apps and ship security updates for old…
iOS 26 has been really hard on my 13 mini. Most menus lag, you have to wait sometimes 5 seconds for the control center menu to pop up sometimes. I dug my old Samsung S20 FE out of the drawer, applied the last few security patches, and it still runs more smoothly than the newer iPhone.
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#385I've got one. When iPhone alarm goes off, the screen doesn't wake up, so I press the power button. Which snoozes the alarm. Not only did I not want to snooze the alarm, I hoped that the alarm would wake the phone up so I can click 'stop'. I assume that's a bug rather than a holding-it-wrong?
This one has always confused me as well. Tapping the screen, as the other commenter suggested, dismisses the whole thing too, so I have to fish for the stop button in the notifications every time. Maybe there’s “the Apple way” that we’ve yet to discover.
The problem is there is only one little button on the screen that actually stops the alarm. Everything else you can tap or do to the phone while the alarm is sounding will "snooze" it. It's infuriating.
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#386Earlier quoted context omitted.
What the heck is a spatial file manager
Each folder has a remembered display state. If in large icon mode, you can drag icons around into the positions you want and they'll stay that way the next time you visit the folder. The idea is that it's not directories that are just bags of files, but files occupy spatial locations in folder windows.
Ah, this makes sense. Am I hallucinating that columns widths used to be remembered many years back? In other words, in column view, if you resized a column for a given folder, close Finder, and reopen to that folder—it would remain the same width.
Finder is mostly unusable for any directory containing long filenames since it doesn’t remember this. But I swear it used to. Am I misremembering?
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#387Please add to the list "Launching Apple Music without you wanting to, at the worst possible moment", which is every moment, really.
There is even an app called noTunes to automatically close it. I've seen it get into a loop where it opens every single time it's closed. Of course Apple music is selling a subscription service when the app opens so no surprise why they open it.
So many of these cases on Mac where an entire app exists just to fix a bug Apple refuses to fix itself.
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#388Most of these are fully on Apple, but for the Gmail and Google Contacts bugs, I'd say Google is at least partly to blame for positioning the open standards versions of their APIs (IMAP and CardDAV in this case) as secondary to their own proprietary APIs and not implementing them particularly well.
Yeah, Gmail's "implementation" of IMAP is essentially unusable. They basically force consumers to use their proprietary API.
We're building a cross-provider, cross-platform email client, and literally had to build special cases for all Gmail actions:
The upside is that it's fast... The downside is that it's NOT IMAP!
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#389I simultaneously love this collection and hate that it exists
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#390I’m not sure it it’s a bug but I can’t believe more people aren’t talking about it: When you use apple maps and your phone is locked and you want to unlock your phone, for some reason it takes like 5 seconds or something to unlock the phone which feels like forever. The ui feeling insanely unresponsive and weird, you have to swipe further than usual and it takes way longer. It feels like the phone is fighting you! Ho…
Yeah this is a good one. I’ll add it. It really is so bizarre, it takes like three unlocks.
As the list of bugs grows, it would be helpful to have some sort of floating table of contents / quick navigation component to quickly navigate between bugs - just an idea :)