A personal cataloguing of the moments where shortcomings are encountered in the ecosystem.
Poor autocorrect experience chock full of typos. Pretty much can't trust a message I type, I need to edit messages constantly especially text that does not fit in a single screen. https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/9mj1si/why_is_autocorrect_so_terrible_are_there_any_ways
Messages lumping all communication with a contact, rather than a contact and the communication channel (mobile, email, etc)
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7447332
history of folks leaving chats and the inability for fine grain deletion of particular settings over the bulk reset all settings or reset wireless settings. Not enough setting granularity exposure. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255769788?answerId=260779025022&sortBy=rank&page=1#260779025022
When messages were sent within the last 7 days it would seem you only see the day of the week. They should expand the date to a long form when you do the time view thing where you slide leftward from the right edge of the screen.
Inability to ingest .ics files downloaded to the Files app from within the iPhone. The file opens in calendar but there's no mechanism to actually add the content as a new appointment, you just get teased looking like you can but you can only click Done and nothing takes effect.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253051477?sortBy=best
On mobile the alert options have no user defined time interval option for an alert. The alert options are too short term focused. The maximum value you can specify is 1 week.
The search in a PDF for the literal (S) just ignored the parenthesis. I was searching a User Manual assembly guide
to identify where a certain bolt size was used in the figures. The search fell short because it merely searched for s which of course has a ton of noise on it.
For edited images (eg a cropped image) they missed the opportunity to suffix the name rather than prefix the name which breaks the sorting in Finder so the files can be side by side, eg
IMG_5936.JPG IMG_E5936.JPG
- accidentally hit copy instead of paste should be a null op or even disabled when you're dealing with an empty selection. This frequently occurs on Safari and text boxes trying to paste something in like a search bar for instance.
Is partial restore possible? No, it's all or nothing. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6838209
I can freely toggle and move about settings in the Settings app, but not experimentally to explore how the UI behaves. This is because to change a setting you need to know what you originally had the setting set at to revert the setting's value back to it's original value. There's no confirmation to persist any changes, it just changes a setting right at the point of change so if you accidentally changed something then you need to manually set it back.
Can I not configure the mute button to do as I wish? It apparently does not silence alarms. It sounds complicated the behavior it manifests, it's app dependent or something. https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/43721/277307
The official documentation for this physical button on the iPhone https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208353
In Ring mode, you hear ringtones and alerts. In Silent mode, you don't, but your iPhone can still play sounds, like when you play music or videos.
So ring mode and silent mode. Ringtones and alerts. What exactly are alarms considered as then?
IOS search nearby is forced in the present not in the future. https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/399063/how-do-you-establish-an-area-in-which-to-search-restaurants-for-example-for-m/399066#comment656900_399063
Searching for a town, county, etc apple maps does not show you the borders as google maps does.
in ipad you are perpetually in edit mode which is dangerous. There is no read mode not even on iphone. but at least in iphone there is a Done button which can put you back to the list of notes.
Folks complaining about a broken and truncated search functionality https://x.com/terronk/status/1902745756777554251
These things are crazy bright and a visual distraction when working in the evening. Apparently this was not tested when this feature was under development, it's not even at the same luminance as the keyboard which has some lights of its own. What would be acceptable I suppose is if it can be modulated equal to the keyboard brightness like controlled from Settings. Another thing perhaps would be to put the light only on one side of the charger so you can orient the light to the ground, but even that may add a subtle point light distraction. Either way who asked for this feature anyways, to put such a light in closs proximity to a primary screen reflects poor thinking for actual usage. https://superuser.com/questions/839652/how-do-i-turn-off-magsafe-light
Finder has no advanced column search in details view to sort by images by their exif metadata. All the options for date criteria are file system oriented not internal file data oriented.
They break stuff, they're drowning in their own feature set and testing it all
AirDrop broke stuck on waiting never succeeds in transferring. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255160349?sortBy=best&page=3
Watch Upgrading iOS the watch can no longer ping or dismiss alarm notifications on the iPhone nor have maps functionality. 17.4.1 iOS vs 9.6.3 watchOS.
- Lock Screen has no customizable message https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/310460/add-a-persistent-message-to-iphone-main-lock-screen
George Hotz 🐀 @realGeorgeHotz · Nov 21 if I just get rid of the pop up I still consider my internship a win. I have a chrome extension on my laptop to block it
reminds me of the guy who got a job at Apple, made Wallet automatically delete your expired boarding passes, and quit the next week https://twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/1594908473875173377?s=20&t=y18nhxbVFWA17YCOU798OQ -- is this accurate or internet lore? That's beyond too simple feature requests demanding more complexity, but going out of your way to secure more complexity yourself.
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Apple on a good day does just enough to get the basics right. Beyond the basics it's a matter of luck whether something will work and continue to work reliably. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34156937