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Re: Bugs Apple loves

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Post by port11 »

AnonC wrote: post #68

With the latest Google Gemini deal to be the backend for Apple’s AI, I wish Apple could also do a deal for search (even though Google seems to be struggling more as time passes). Apple’s search being broken in Settings on iOS, macOS and iPadOS seem intentional — it can’t search in a relatively small and fixed list of items! Is it any wonder that Mail search doesn’t work with external data? The AirDrop and Hotspot iss…

Search inside settings is a baffling one because search seems like it’d be a relatively easy thing to tackle. On iOS 18 I can’t really find anything in the settings.

If I go to the applications sub-sunscreen and search for an app, it’s a “no results found” for 5–10 seconds. Sometimes it does find an app, but that unreliability means there’s no point using the search bar.

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Post by wooger »

hunterloftis wrote: post #56
650 wrote: post #45

I used to love Apple because they were so far ahead of the game in terms of UX and hardware. They have dropped the ball so much recently with all these UX mishaps from Apple Glass to most of the bugs in the post that affect me. I am more than willing to switch to Android or some other device regardless of price, but haven't found one that is close to equivalent yet. I worry it'll be a few years before something comes…

In the context of laptops, I would agree (MBP's hardware just outclasses everything else, even if I prefer Fedora over macOS). However, for phones, this just doesn't shake out. The Pixel 10 Pro for instance, has: * A battery that outlasts the iPhone 16 Pro by an hour * A slightly better display (higher brightness for outdoor use, higher PPI, higher color accuracy, same refresh rate) * A better camera for still photog…

We're on the iPhone 17 pro though?

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Post by fragmede »

VerifiedReports wrote: post #427
fragmede wrote: post #333

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Maybe in the 90's before Gmail came about so everyone still used their university or ISP email accounts.

Not sure what this is replying to...

> So of course people thought that when they changed jobs, cable companies, or whatever... they needed to create a new Apple ID with their new E-mail address.

Re: Bugs Apple loves

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Post by jmaker »

prmoustache wrote: post #534
jmaker wrote: post #464

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I’ve been down that road, was fun, but growingly felt to me like too much maintenance that wasn’t worth the effort, distracting from more important things. Like desktop Linux. Now I’m at a point where Android itself, even Pixels feel that way. I really tried to make the Pixel my daily driver. In hindsight, it was just too naive of me.

I don't really see the maintenance issue. My grapheneOS has OTA updates, I can install and update apps using fdroid and aurora and not having contactless payment option via google wallet is the only small limitation I have found and it is not a big loss as I can still pay easily without carrying cash. Carrying a plastic card is not a burden.

What kind of apps do you get from F-Droid that are useful to you that aren’t available on Play? I mean, to me most of the F-Droid apps are WIP with legacy UI and I need to trust the publisher and that their handle isn’t hijacked.

What are all the use cases that let you avoid Play?

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Post by throwerxyz »

zapzupnz wrote: post #189
throwerxyz wrote: post #78

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I couldn't actually get past this websites terrible UI.

The terrible UI of a straight-forward document separated into distinct blocks, paragraphs and charts that are easily read, that scrolls from from top-to-bottom? Yeah, awful.

Yes. It's pretty bad.

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Post by FabHK »

lobsterthief wrote: post #386
crazygringo wrote: post #376

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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?

FWIW, there is a hidden option to automatically resize columns to accommodate the longest (up to a point) visible file name:

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/01/26/hidden-pref-col...

Re: Bugs Apple loves

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Post by FabHK »

throw4r533233 wrote: post #509
VerifiedReports wrote: post #123

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And yet Apple CREATED the multiple-accounts problem for millions of people by implementing their idiotic "Apple ID must be an E-mail address" policy. So of course people thought that when they changed jobs, cable companies, or whatever... they needed to create a new Apple ID with their new E-mail address. This was reinforced when Apple further stupidified their policy by requiring your ID to be a WORKING E-mail addre…

It’s also a huge pain for those of us who might regularly visit or live part of the year in another country. I basically need two Apple IDs because switching the region for your App Store is very inconvenient if you have any subscriptions. In the end, I have separate Apple IDs for each country.

And Apple won't let you add all your "trusted phone numbers" to all those accounts. So, if you are in country A and your country B phone can't receive SMSs, and you get a new device, you can't log into country B account because 2FA via SMS does not work. (And no, you can't just make multiple accounts on a MacBook or other device that supports multiple accounts for non-SMS 2FA; login fails.)

Re: Bugs Apple loves

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Post by rajnathani »

Also, not on the list: iCloud having a hard limit of 50,000 total calendar events and silently not syncing beyond it (and similar to the first iCloud Photos issue mentioned on the website: no indication of syncing state to know what's going on). For perspective, as someone using the Apple ecosystem for 10+ years now, that this comes to 13 events a day for 10 years.

Re: Bugs Apple loves

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Post by iqandjoke »

VerifiedReports wrote: post #123
postalcoder wrote: post #29

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Apple also makes it a biznatch to make a developer account separate from your personal account. In Apple's ideal world, multiple accounts should in no circumstance ever exist. I, in an ideal world, would agree with this. But we live in this world, where Apple bans accounts for redeeming legitimate gift cards.

And yet Apple CREATED the multiple-accounts problem for millions of people by implementing their idiotic "Apple ID must be an E-mail address" policy. So of course people thought that when they changed jobs, cable companies, or whatever... they needed to create a new Apple ID with their new E-mail address. This was reinforced when Apple further stupidified their policy by requiring your ID to be a WORKING E-mail addre…

I help someone to setup Apple ID. His email address is already taken by someone else and user ID with that email cannot be created.
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