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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 pier25 »

sippeangelo wrote: post #86
swinglock wrote: post #21

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How is the keyboard broken? Maybe I'm so used to whatever it is that I'm blind to it.

They have some nasty "dynamic tap zones" algorithm that dynamically resizes the hitbox for keys based on what it predicts you will type in order to reduce miss-taps. Anecdotally, it has just steadily been getting worse with every update. I swear I can be pressing the center of a key and it will select the next one over and immediately autocorrect to a completely different word than what I typed. I had the pleasure of…

JFC I hate this so much. Why can't they simply add a setting to disable this.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by docjay »

qsi wrote: post #398
docjay wrote: post #386

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Weird, the same stupid crap happens with Windows. I’ve had to learn the exact N character search to find the things I use often; any more or less and the result with that name is buried. It’s like Microsoft and Apple are just pip installing same broken search package.

On Windows I use PowerToys' Alt+Space command bar which does a much better job. In fact, it's the only search I use on Windows.

Good info, I’ll check it out. Thanks!

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by LASR »

nomel wrote: post #368
jeffrapp wrote: post #250

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It’s so much worse than that. This happens to me on a daily basis with both MacOS and iOS. Say I’m searching for Chess, I’ll get to the C-H and it’ll show the Chess app, but enter that next -E and it’s totally gone. It feels like the system is designed like “Well, I showed them Chess when they entered CH, but they kept typing, so they must not actually want Chess.” This ends up breaking for me like 95% of the time, a…

It's worse than this! You Type C-H-E then you go to press enter, and it changes the results as you're pressing it, opening the wrong thing! I've turned off all the search targets, except for applications and folders.

Changing the results just when you are going to action on them is a fundamental UX sin.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by ezfe »

yieldcrv wrote: post #64
ezfe wrote: post #51

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> unable to share them What does "unable" mean?

on instagram, tapping the thumbnail has no user feedback and is never selected on whatsapp, tapping the same video thumbnail results in a "preparing media" modal that never ends, until pressing cancel on airdrop, a similar preparing model appears that never makes any progress and only has a cancel button on imessage, tapping the same video thumbnail results in a circular progress bar overlay, as if it was downloading…

Makes sense - definitely an "unable" - I was just curious where the delay was coming, but that iMessage example really sounds like a system issue I agree.

Glad iOS 27 fixed it.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by kstrauser »

ForceBru wrote: post #261
GeekyBear wrote: post #211

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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.

That's a nice overview, but it seems to compare iOS 27 to iOS 26. Isn't iOS 26 known to be terrible, though? I'd like a comparison to a "known-good" iOS version. Basically I skipped iOS 26 (so I have zero experience with it) and am now wondering whether iOS 27 is any good

That's dramatically overstating it. iOS 26 was just... alright. It wasn't great. It also wasn't the devil incarnate in a phone. iOS 27 has been legimately good since the early public betas.

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Post by selcuka »

vladvasiliu wrote: post #251
MeetingsBrowser wrote: post #244

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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.

Windows does this, too. So I really wonder how come two companies implemented the same borked behavior.

Android keyboard does that too. When I start typing my email address, for example, the keyboard app suggests the correct email after a few characters, but if I keep typing it disappears from the suggestions.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by abreis »

herf wrote: post #454

My MacBook has an external 1440p monitor (@1x) which has been adequate for Sequoia, but macOS 26 and 27 look awful for bold text, like the list of users in Messages looks really bad. The AppleFontSmoothing fixes seem to make you pick between "bold text looks ok" or "everything else looks ok" - and macOS 27 doesn't fix it.

A suggestion: try to use BetterDisplay’s HiDPI in reverse, rendering your 1440p monitor as 2880p (macOS Retina), then downsampling it to the native 1440p. There's an entry about it on their GitHub Wiki, look for "HiDPI, LoDPI"

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Post by bschwindHN »

deepspace wrote: post #313
devilbunny wrote: post #93

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For some reason, the one word that it just will not let me swipe is “and”. Which is, you know, somewhat common. I get all kinds of random things instead.

Yes! It will give me Andy, ABE! abs, and's, anything but friggen "and"!

This drives me crazy. Sometimes I'll just put the phone down and move to a proper keyboard to type what I want. It definitely makes me use my phone less, maybe that's a good thing overall.
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