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iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by x3n0ph3n3 »

mchusma wrote: post #239
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…

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…

This is why I use Alfred instead of spotlight.

https://www.alfredapp.com/

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by red369 »

Agingcoder wrote: post #269
alex_suzuki wrote: post #181

Earlier quoted context omitted.

100% agree. We had to turn it off because it was too frustrating for everyone involve. Now we’re at “trust, but verify” where “verify” is looking at Screen Time stats at the end of each week. My only plausible explanation is that no one who works at Apple has kids.

That’s a good idea . So you’re telling me that I can trust the on device numbers enough?

I've never been quite clear that the numbers are completely trustworthy, but at least the counting is more solid than the restrictions and the passwords.

One thing I've noticed on my own device, that, counter-intuitively, screentime also seems to include time when the screen is off, e.g. playing music through Safari with the screen turned off.

As an example of the fragility of the screentime passwords, the password on a child's device can often be removed by simply turning off the screentime password - it will not always prompt for the current password. Until recently, I actually thought that it was intentional that a password was not required to disable the screentime password on a child device.

I recently had a crazy experience where many restrictions and a screentime password seemed to suddenly get enabled on a child's device. We had just turned on screentime, but without restrictions or a password. It seems as though a bug caused the restrictions to revert to those used a long time ago during an exam period, with very strict time restrictions. It was almost unusable, and no one knew the screentime password. The crazy part is that I tried dozens of passwords - many on the first day, and then one a day for weeks. I was certainly the only one touching the device from that point. One day, when I tried to turn off the screentime password, it just turned off. Unlike every other day for the past few weeks, it did not prompt for a password at all.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by eviks »

GeekyBear wrote: post #211
ForceBru wrote: post #84

So, is it better (faster, stronger, etc) than iOS 18? Everyone says iOS 26 was not good at all and iOS 27 is much better, but it seems like it's fairly simple to make something that's better than iOS 26. A more interesting question is whether it's better than iOS 18? Does anyone have any experience switching from iOS 18 to, say, some beta of iOS 27?

You can always read a review: > The promise of iOS 27 is that it’ll not only unlock new capabilities but also make your existing workflows smoother and quicker. https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/09/ios-27-review-little-thin... An update that improves performance on even the oldest supported device is a win.

Why would I read reviews for "the promise"? So after reading the review, how much has performance improved over 18?

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by einsteinx2 »

squirreljak wrote: post #298
ksec wrote: post #41

People who are still on Chrome as main browser should seriously try Safari 27. Compatibility greatly improved, super speedy. Although for some reason the AI organise tab option is not showing up on me.

Do tech savvy people actually use chrome on iOS? Why?

For syncing from desktop chrome probably

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by AgenticKeyboard »

saturn8601 wrote: post #141
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…

Any improvements to voice to text? I use iPhone 13 Mini and so keyboard has always been hard to type on. But voice to text..man..it is an absolutly miserable experience that I wish I could swap out for any other competitor. I normally don't complain that iOS/MacOS isn't customizable because the defaults are good enough to work for me but that voice to text man its like they completely forgot about it.

try this: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ghostspeech-agentic-keyboard/i....

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by eviks »

GeekyBear wrote: post #242
Hamuko wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately the slider does not fix Liquid Glass. Notifications are still unreadable even when you go full opaque. You need to also toggle Reduce Transparency to actually get the UI to be opaque enough to be readable.

That's certainly not what the reviews say: > I’ve been happily using the totally frosted look (slider all the way to the right) for a few weeks now. While I didn’t mind Liquid Glass as much as other folks, the frosted setting ensures I can read and see the text, menus and icons properly. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/ive-been-usi...

That's certainty not what the reviews say, the complaint was about notifications, your quote doesn't mention them

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by eviks »

preg_match wrote: post #119
baggy_trough wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The panic is overblown.

The panic was, frankly, underblown at first. The first iterations of Liquid Glass were truly awful. It’s now okay, after a lot of tweaking and a LOT less “glass”. Now we have more frost. But Liquid Glass is still broken at a conceptual level. The only way to fix it is to start all over. Which they basically are, by swapping parts of liquid glass out with every release.

Indeed, such a basic and obvious design fail yet all those "I can't read text, but it's grown on me"

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by jen20 »

nick_ wrote: post #149
gekoxyz wrote: post #7

Usually I wait until december to install the new iOS on my phone, since most of the time I don't care about the upgrades. This time I installed iOS 27 beta on my phone since the public beta was out, and I had 0 new bugs compared to iOS 26, but it hasn't been the big relief that I hoped for. Now I am worried about what the new versions of iOS will bring us, I hope that the "we removed the crap" wasn't just a thing of…

Are you exaggerating? I tried the latest beta about a month ago and experienced multiple bugs within half an hour. Had to downgrade back to 26.

I concur with gekoxyz - I've been using the iOS and macOS 27 developer betas since about beta 3 on my personal devices, and had actually forgotten to a large extent that I was running beta software. It's been excellent - a marked difference to the 26 releases.
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