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Bugs Apple loves

• montag 8mo ago
  This is cute and I hate stubborn Apple bugs as much as anyone. But these $100 billion figures should be weighed against the hypothetical trillions that Apple has contributed to humanity.
• brap 8mo ago
  They really should start using better models for autocorrect and autocomplete. My autocomplete is total bs
• jwoods19 8mo ago
  This is another level of petty, I love it Maybe it will inspire them to hire more engineers and we can kill two birds with one stone.
  • esprehn 8mo ago
    This is never an issue with number of engineers, it's an issue of business priorities. Large tech companies have plenty of engineers to fix bugs, but most of them are on projects trying to 10X things instead of paying down debt. Apple used to be unique in it's immunity to it, they even shipped an OS update claiming it was only big fixes and not features which is unthinkable these days. Over time there's much less focus on polish from them though.
  • mvkel 8mo ago
    More engineers aren't the solution. Less engineers are. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%27s_law
  • eclipticplane 8mo ago
    > Maybe it will inspire them to hire more engineers Given Apple's recent software quality, this would likely just let them ship more bugs.
  • anonymars 8mo ago
    Will maintenance and bugfixes get them promoted? "Show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome"
  • Edwardcalleja 8mo ago
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• OGEnthusiast 8mo ago
  This is obvious AI-generated web design style.
  • zapzupnz 8mo ago
    I suspect the point was never to win awards for web design, just to put some content on a page.
  • tptacek 8mo ago
    Is it? Looks good to me.
    • Retr0id 8mo ago
      At this point AI-generated doesn't really mean "bad", it's just a distinctive style.
  • nhod 8mo ago
    You're not wrong — but actually the prompt I gave it was "invert Apple's design style." I think it did a reasonable job?
    • refulgentis 8mo ago
      It’s just Claude code house style, it’s as identifiable as Bootstrap. It didn’t invert Apple anything. Speaking of AI-induced delusions, why did you submit this to HN? It made me cringe to see its AI prose in AI code with completely made up bugs (really, the Mail search bar doesn’t work?), with made up numbers based on made up things as the spine of the content.
      • tempaccsoz5 8mo ago
        They're real bugs all right - have you ever tried to search a gmail account via apple mail?
        • refulgentis 8mo ago
• ggoo 8mo ago
  Site looks to be by https://github.com/polymath-ventures/ https://github.com/polymath-ventures/
  • flexagoon 8mo ago
    Not sure what you mean by "looks to be by"? Their GitHub is linked at the bottom of the page
• malshe 8mo ago
  This is spot on! I have experienced all these issues at one point or other and my spotlight search is frozen as I type this on a Mac mini.
• magnio 8mo ago
  Had the pleasure of making an Apple account to join our company's developer team. I filled out the form on the website 7 times: Edge on Windows, Edge on macOS, Safari on macOS, using 2 different phone numbers. No matter what, Apple just refused to send the verification code to me. It only worked after I remember Apple is a dick to the web platform, then I managed to create one from the popup in the App Store.
  • HexDecOctBin 8mo ago
    I had a similar issue when I first brought my iPad. Turns out, Apple doesn't like custom domains for emails. So, I had to make an Apple account with a Gmail account, then remove the Gmail account and add my email address with the custom domain. Why? Who knows. Still remember my first experience after buying an iPad.
    • cosmic_cheese 8mo ago
      Might've had something to do with the state of the various email security measures on the domain. I have an Apple account on a custom domain with Fastmail and it's never been a problem.
      • HexDecOctBin 8mo ago
        Mine was also managed by Fastmail. And no one else has ever had a problem with it (including Apple when I added it after signing up).
    • k12sosse 8mo ago
      You have to reach a human to make a Flickr account in 2025 if you use a custom domain. It wasn't too difficult, they gave me some reason about abuse. Whatever.
      • afandian 8mo ago
        What does custom domain mean? Just an email provider other than the mainstream ones?
• aaronbrethorst 8mo ago
  I actually keep the Gmail app installed on my iPhone specifically for searching my mail. It's infuriating.
• JKCalhoun 8mo ago
  Yeah, these are funny. There's a strange logic (that I understand is not just at Apple) where if you ship a known bug, it becomes harder next release to fix it… because we already shipped the bug once (twice, etc.). Apple engineers care though. If they were allowed to (given time, priority), they would love to knock out some of their oldest and most annoying bugs. And I understand that from time to time a bug-fix-only OS release is planned… but things always come up. New hardware, "AI"… who knows. Maybe someday we'll get another Snow Leopard (bug-fix-only OS release).
  • bandrami 8mo ago
    ob https://xkcd.com/1172/ https://xkcd.com/1172/
    • BitsAndObjects 8mo ago
      Ironically Apple’s annoying “select text in an image” feature made it hard to press-and-hold to get the alt text to show (on an iPhone…)
      • simonra 8mo ago
        For xkcd the alt text is much easier to access on mobile at the m.xkcd.com variant of the URLs (even without the text selection shenanigans)
  • ninkendo 8mo ago
    It feels like Apple lacks the institutional vocabulary to even think about fixing old bugs. The way the releases are structured, there’s a “zero bugs” day where all bugs are ceremonially kicked out of the current release, and the level of quality is deemed to be “what we’re shipping with”. On that day, it’s not like the bugs are fixed, they’re just bulk-modified to target “future os release” and that’s that. Then the planning is made for next years release and they plan for X features, which require Y time and Z engineers, and some mild hand-waving later a schedule is made, and gee would you look at that, there’s no time anywhere for fixing existing bugs. But that’s ok because big rewrite of subsystem is gonna ship next release and it’ll probably make all the bugs invalid, right? Right? Well, it certainly won’t have more bugs, right? Right? Oops…
• emeril 8mo ago
  I'm still waiting for apple to fix ringtones on siri generated alarms
• dburkland 8mo ago
  Solid list. I’d like to add the following: - All: Contact syncing with Office 365 results in stored birthdays getting moved forward by one day. - macOS: Bluetooth audio stuttering when going in and out of full screen view in a given app such as PowerPoint. - macOS: Unlock using Apple Watch will randomly stop working - macOS: Safari suddenly going out to lunch and taking 30+ seconds to load a page (fixed by force quitting the entire browser).
  • retired 8mo ago
    I gave up congratulation people with their birthday years ago because I don't trust the birthday calendar anymore.
    • rgovostes 8mo ago
      And if you use it long enough you'll get reminders to celebrate grandpa's 113th birthday because the only way to remove entries from that calendar is to delete useful data from your contacts.
      • andrekandre 8mo ago
        yes! same bug with multiple friends who are celebrating their 143rd birdthday and i get hilarious reminders every few weeks (its charming in some strange way and part of me will be sad if the fix it)
      • retired 8mo ago
        Back in the day of when cordless phones started to have displays with integrated address books, about once a year while visiting my grandmother I would help her remove all the dead people from her phone.
• potatowaffle 8mo ago
  A domain name registered one day ago. I think this is the first time I’ve seen a domain on its first/second day, other than my own domains. I did not intentionally look it up. I have an extension installed that tells me domain age whenever I visit a site.
• SLWW 8mo ago
  Last time I made a satirical site I was banned from the registrar (I was "convincing" people that aliens were real apparently)
• deleted 8mo ago
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• cosmic_cheese 8mo ago
  Most 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.
  • kccqzy 8mo ago
    Mail just sometimes refuses to issue a server-side search via IMAP. It insists that it wants to search its offline database of downloaded mails. When it cannot find anything, it will even tell you that “Mail downloads and organizes messages when iPhone is locked, charging, and connect to Wi-Fi.” And my response to that is, it has had eight hours to do exactly that every night.
    • cosmic_cheese 8mo ago
      That's fair then (though I haven't hit it because I have all my mail downloaded). There's other bits in Mail that are flaky with Gmail compared to standard IMAP mail providers, though.
  • isaachinman 8mo ago
    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: https://marcoapp.io https://marcoapp.io The upside is that it's fast... The downside is that it's NOT IMAP!
• airstrike 8mo ago
  Please add to the list "Launching Apple Music without you wanting to, at the worst possible moment", which is every moment, really.
  • brikym 8mo ago
    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.
    • airstrike 8mo ago
      I have that app installed and for some reason it's started failing me recently...
    • ryandrake 8mo ago
      So many of these cases on Mac where an entire app exists just to fix a bug Apple refuses to fix itself.
  • testing22321 8mo ago
    Mail.app too
• refulgentis 8mo ago
  This is a Claude-coded website that invents metrics and data based on bald-faced lies, ex. the first example makes up that the search in Mail does not work 100% of the time and then calculates fantastical millions of hours wasted. I can report it works fine, needed it to pull up 13 year old emails for me a couple months ago. I absolutely abhor Apple’s software QC since 2010 but I don’t think a vibe-coded, vibes-based, fantasy, written by AI, with the sheen of numbers and reality is the way to do it, or a net-positive outlet for my frustration. At least on HN.
  • tptacek 8mo ago
    I mean, it reports FOUR HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS in losses due to Apple Mail.app search not working. Give them credit for... something.
  • nhod 8mo ago
    Huh. How else would you get a massive company that has let certain bugs sit for decades to address them? This method is probably just as ineffective as reporting another bug into the Black Hole of Bug Reports that is Apple, but this one is at least mildly funnier? YMMV of course.
    • vachina 8mo ago
      But the bugs never existed in the first place? I hate HN is rife with inflammatory complain pieces like this.
      • ripley12 8mo ago
        The search bugs in Mail are absolutely real. They might not affect every user but I've had major issues on both macOS and iOS mail, and eventually gave up and switched to Gmail.
        • alephnerd 8mo ago
          As I used to ask field teams and PMs back when I was a SWE - provide the steps to reproduce the bug as I can't seem to recreate it.
• skrrtww 8mo ago
  I have a lot of pet Apple bugs. Top of mind at the moment: Why can't we adjust the order of photos in a Shared Photos album?
• alephnerd 8mo ago
  I can't seem to reproduce the mail search bug.
• cebert 8mo ago
  I’m not sure if it’s a bug, but I find it frustrating that there isn’t a more efficient way to organize the grid of apps on your iOS home screen.
• BitsAndObjects 8mo ago
  Trying to type this comment on an iPhone and that very last issue, text selection, is so so real. It’s probably the single biggest thing I hate about this phone that makes me consider switching back to Android (I was on Android for 12 years before trying out an iPhone for 3 years atm, and in general, on average, I can’t tell the difference… they both have strengths and flaws. Text selection is a pretty massive flaw on iPhone.)
  • culebron21 8mo ago
    Android isn't any better, every new version every year, it's becoming a buggier and buggier Tamagotchi that demands attention every half an hour, and has a gazillion contradictory settings that never work. My phone, model 2023, has night mode that turns on automatically. You can turn it off for 30 minutes, or permanently. There are clocks that work independently. I wanted a better one, because this one would reset all its widgets every minute, and no app could play music or radio in the background. So I got a newer one, from 2025. Fortunately, radio & media do work. But product managers wouldn't have been product managers without spoiling something. Somebody decided the alarm and night mode must work together in unison, and also they dropped the turn-off-for-30-min feature, and they decided to make night mode smart, that it doesn't turn on if the phone was active at the time. So, now you can get spam calls or sms make it ring loudly at night, because night mode didn't turn on, because you used the phone. Next time when you notice night mode should be on, but isn't, you turn it on. But now it's permanent -- till the end of the universe, unless you turn it off. And alarm clock won't ring, because deep in there, a "waking up alarm" box is unchecked, that should have made it work despite the night mode. Did any human actually test it work on themselves?
    • realusername 8mo ago
      My pet peeve on Android (and also on iOS) with alarms is that alarms aren't clocks! They are totally separated concepts and bundling them all together makes no sense.
    • tempestn 8mo ago
      Nice thing about Android though is that you have more control to work around this kind of thing if you don't like the default behaviour. I rolled my own night mode with Tasker years ago, before it was built in, and have never looked back.
• catchmeifyoucan 8mo ago
  Wow, the first three "bugs" on this are so spot on. The Apple Pay Card icon that changes addresses always gets me. It's not what I would expect it to do.
• rPlayer6554 8mo ago
  You forgot when autocorrect fixes your word the second time, in 50% of cases you hit send too fast and have to send a follow up correction or edit the message
• MBCook 8mo ago
  > Apple Pay: Card Icon Changes Address This has been driving me nuts. The old design was perfect. Who could possibly think this made sense?
  • coob 8mo ago
    It's even done the right way on Mac OS! Infuriating.
    • MBCook 8mo ago
      Done the right way? Or they forgot to “fix” it?
• z0r 8mo ago
  The first one is pretty funny because Gmail search itself has a lot of issues.
• aidenn0 8mo ago
  I own an Android phone. The first time I tried to send a text from my wife's iPhone, I sent the wrong text 3 times in a row because autocorrect was convinced that it knew the word I wanted and I swear that the word was corrected only after I had committed to pressing the send button. At the time the autocorrect on Android was very mild; it's gotten more aggressive since, but still nothing like Apple's
  • joeframbach 8mo ago
    Yes, every time you send a message from an iPhone you MUST append a trailing space, just to be sure it won't fuck up the last word when it sends.
• PieUser 8mo ago
  BY FAR #3 is the most annoying UX on iOS 26 - I fall for it every single time when trying to change payment method. Not only does it undo years of muscle memory, it's so unbelievably unintuitive to have the first button change address instead of payment method https://www.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/1mb4lod/is_anyone_else_as_bothered_by_this_ux_as_i_am/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/1mb4lod/is_anyone_else...
  • 8n4vidtmkvmk 8mo ago
    Why would you need to change your address at all? That's part of the card details. No other payment system does that!
    • wrs 8mo ago
      It changes the shipping address, not the billing address. And yeah, I do tap it to change what card to use. "Every single time."
    • eddythompson80 8mo ago
      Not the address, but the phone number has a bug I run into it occasionally. Some merchants support the +1 country code, some are local US only and don’t expect it. Safari’s auto-fill figures this out when filling the form. But then I go to Apple Pay, an it replaces the phone number with a 1 at the beginning and drops the last number, then I get an error that something is wrong. Initially took me a while to realize what was happening and that you can edit the number in the Apple Pay overlay before it applies it to the order. Just a bit annoying
  • throwerxyz 8mo ago
    [flagged]
    • bigstrat2003 8mo ago
      > This is the objective logical UX. There is no such thing as "objective" in this arena. It's all subjective, the best you can hope is to find an approach that the majority of your users subjectively prefer.
• 650 8mo ago
  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 close to the battery life + screen quality + camera quality + decent software/security of iOS.
  • hunterloftis 8mo ago
    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 photography, especially HDR and low-light (although admittedly worse for video)
    • 650 8mo ago
      How's the OS security of the Pixel 10 Pro? I think "Airpods" and "iCloud" for Photo Storage are the only parts of the Apple ecosystem I use, so those will be missed.
      • stratosmacker 8mo ago
        Great if you install Graphene!
        • jmaker 8mo ago
          With Graphene, something financial won’t work anymore. I believe either banking apps or Google Wallet, a known issue. Graphene didn’t support Pixel 10 yet last time I checked. That said, I’ve been just too occupied with reading on how to fix the Pixel bugs that bit me that I couldn’t get to the point of reading on Graphene and I don’t exactly remember anymore what was wrong with it.
• vachina 8mo ago
  iOS user here of a few years, never hit any of the bugs in this article. Maybe Apple didn’t fix them because the bugs never existed in the first place.
  • bigDinosaur 8mo ago
    Maybe you just aren't perceptive. There's always a % of users that won't notice the most egregious bugs or design mistakes, just like there's a % that's way too sensitive to the most minor issues.
    • vachina 8mo ago
      The article lists very obvious functional regressions (that I use everyday), I would not have missed them.
      • brigandish 8mo ago
        I can't believe that anyone in the world has had Airdrop work for them perfectly, every time, every day. It has a less than 50% success rate with me, and that makes it sound better than it is.
        • vachina 8mo ago
          It has worked for me every time, at least on iOS 18. It used to conk out when storage is low.
• Mistletoe 8mo ago
  All these are so infuriating. It's crazy what a nice metal case and good hardware can make people forgive.
• lanthade 8mo ago
  This list is frustrating to read because it reminds me of all the time I've spent dealing with these bugs. Not all of them thankfully but more than half steal my time at least once on a weekly basis. They're all bad but I think the auto correct actively fighting me and the ios cursor thing are perhaps the most annoying of the bunch for me. Trying to communicate well on a mobile platform is bad enough but when it's actively sabotaging you it's just so much worse.
  • wtetzner 8mo ago
    I just turn auto correct off completely, as it's just plain worse than just typing it myself. Unfortunately there's nothing that can be done about the terrible text selection.
• cainxinth 8mo ago
  I laughed at “autocorrect will die on this hill.”
• akagusu 8mo ago
  All this s#it was already expected, because this is what happened when companies get big enough without competition or any kind of regulation. This already happened in other markets and lots of people have warned this would happened again but nobody cared. Now it doesn't matter anymore because Apple is so big that no matter what kind of s#it they do, nothing will hurt their sales, because people are trapped, depend on their stuff and don't have any other options.
• koinedad 8mo ago
  The Apple Pay one drives me crazy
• deathanatos 8mo ago
  The emoji search box's search bar sometimes will just stop working, usually after a {input, erase input, new input} sequence. No idea why. Dismiss picker, try again. Sometimes the picker just refuses to be summoned. Bluetooth is a mess. File transfers will fail, who knows why? Certainly not macOS. Often I'll just punt to GoogleDrive-TP. Really random screen wakes. Left macOS alone for 5s? All your windows have decided to start playing a game of musical desktop, and need 10s to re-arrange themselves back into place, also while sometimes displaying their contents at 2x. Slack has any number of these; e.g., emoji inside codeblocks are simply corrupted. A number of odd corner cases in URLs will corrupt, and each edit of the message will further corrupt it. So much of the web is plagued by some framework that, upon any JS exception, will destroy the entire DOM (idk maybe defunct page > no page at all?) and leave you only with "ApplicationError: …". At this point I'd add "is a motorcycle a car? Is a pedestrian signal a stop light?!" CAPTCHAKCAS to this list, but those are a "feature".
  • lukestevens 8mo ago
    The emoji picker refusing to be summoned drives me up the wall. There's a dedicated key for it! And yet...
  • MrJohz 8mo ago
    If we're doing "features": password fields with no option to view the plaintext value? I use long passwords, and if I'm in a safe place, I would much rather see what I'm typing and correct any typos I make along the way than have to retype the same password multiple times with long delays between each attempt. Also, once a day my Touch ID stops working and I need to log in with my password again. That's fine, the passwordless access expires after 24 hours or so, fair enough. But I turn my laptop on fresh every morning and have to also put my password in then. If I do that, I at least expect to be and to use my fingerprint until the end of the day.
    • bullfightonmars 8mo ago
      Ugh this is the worst. It’s topped by password fields that don’t work with a password manager.
• mkapor4 8mo ago
  This rightfully deserves its #1 spot on Hacker News. I've experienced most of these bugs for longer than I can remember (and my memory goes back to the Apple II days. Maybe this will help shame Apple into fixing these problems.
• mrcwinn 8mo ago
  I guess it’s about priorities and not prowess, but it is shocking/fascinating the things Apple seems really bad at. The Mac is funniest of all. I can’t imagine Tahoe drives an upgrade cycle. I buy a Mac for the hardware. Why not refine it? I would love to have a Mac with a better OS. (Don’t troll me about Linux. It’s worse.) Hm, what’s worse? To be incapable or simply not to care enough?
• aisuxmorethanhn 8mo ago
  A bug that’s persisted for 10 years at least is in the Music app. When you lose Wi-Fi the app will skip to the next song over and over and eventually freeze up.
  • ed_mercer 8mo ago
    Checkout Museeks for a solid alternative on Macos.
  • einr 8mo ago
    On iOS, it’s not just Wifi but cellular too. I tried switching from Spotify (got tired of their constantly deteriorating UI/UX) but this was a dealbreaker. You can’t listen to albums in the car because if the phone loses coverage at the wrong time it just… skips songs? HOW does this get through testing and persist for so long? So I cancelled Apple Music and reluctantly went back to Spotify. At least in Spotify, music playback is functional.
    • seec 8mo ago
      Haha, same. I actually prefer the layout and organization capacity of Music (I was an iTunes fan back in the iPod days), but there are so many things that don't work like you would expect them to or just plain bugs that it's too tiring. Whenever I would enter a supermarket without network access, Music would just stop streaming after one song, no buffering. Spotify handled it just fine. Even the Spotify remote functionality is better and snappier than the godawful Music Remote. That is a separate app, because for some reason they can't integrate that functionality in the main app for their own hardware. Apple is really in free fall; I don't think any of the top dogs actually use their stuff or care about it. It still looks good, and the base is strong, but now the cracks that started appearing a few years ago are becoming too big to ignore.
• AnonC 8mo ago
  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 issues described are spot on. The success rate for these is like 40% to 65% (the latter if you’re lucky). These features require doing a dance of airplane mode, disconnect from WiFi, go to Settings and fiddle with the toggles, etc. When it works, it’s like magic. At other times, it’s a big joke on “it just works”. Text selection and the trials to just move the cursor quickly and accurately: it’s like Apple has no senior management that cares enough (looking at you, Craig Federighi), no QA (this is obvious truth to every user) and no money to spend on making things better (don’t let the stock prices fool you). FWIW, I know of slower and fiddly ways to move the cursor somewhat (press space, hold and move or place finger on the text, hold and move). All these issues persist for years or decades because senior management does not care. I can’t think of any other rational explanation.
  • meroes 8mo ago
    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 updates. I can’t imagine on older hardware.
    • anematode 8mo ago
      I've had this experience too. One thing I've found that can sometimes help with laptops failing to connect is renaming your iPhone in the settings (which in turn renames the hotspot name)
    • seec 8mo ago
      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 versions of Android. You just lose access to new OS functionalities, but it has been a while since there was much to care about.
• arikrahman 8mo ago
  Sometimes the bugs are features, I.e, natural scrolling different and inconsistent between mouse and mousepad without third party extensions. Thanks Apple!
  • seec 8mo ago
    I recently discovered that for some reason, macOS doesn't want to work with a mouse with a traditional scroll wheel. It just jumps erratically all over the place. I tried using it because I forgot to charge my dumb magic mouse. I'm sure it can be fixed in some ways, but I really shouldn't have to. The mouse works just fine when plugged into a Windows PC.
    • maattdd 8mo ago
      I'm (and millions other people) are using macOS with a classic scroll wheel mouse perfectly fine. Are you sure there is not something messing with the trackpad at the same time ? (this looking erratically random?)
      • seec 8mo ago
        There is no trackpad connected, just the Magic Mouse that was charging. Maybe it is because of some setting stored inside the mouse (it's a Razer mini). I think it has something to do with the scroll speed that macOS cannot deal with. As I said, I'm sure I can fix it, but the point is that it works just fine as is on Windows and Linux. Logitech mice are appreciated on Macs because they generally make drivers to deal with macOS idiosyncracies. A generic mouse will probably work OK but will be painful to deal with. macOS expects scrolling to work with inertia because of their focus on the trackpad or touch surface for the Magic Mouse. Having used both extensively, it's not all bad, and I think they actually got some things right, but the problem is they make it hard for 3rd parties to make hardware because the APIs are lacking or inaccessible. For example, they just enabled linear mouse movement without relying on 3rd-party software; Windows has had that option since basically forever. Apple does have some good things, but you can't argue with the fact that they make it very hard to integrate 3rd-party solutions (display are the same, notably for brightness control, etc).
• DevKoala 8mo ago
  That email bug is the worst.
• kmeisthax 8mo ago
  > Apple Pay: Card Icon Changes Address This one is one of my pet peeves even outside of Apple Pay. My personal opinion is that almost all iconography is just reinventing the wheel. We already have a widely-accepted iconographic vocabulary already understood by a billion people: Chinese characters. The fact that English speakers can't read it is immaterial, because English speakers already can't read the icons we're already using. Using Chinese iconography in all languages will dramatically increase the legibility of the icons we use in apps. (Or, we could just put regular text under the icon...)
  • brigandish 8mo ago
    It takes years of practice to memorise Chinese characters. > (Or, we could just put regular text under the icon...) I'll take that option.
• modeless 8mo ago
  It's really staggering how much impact one engineer can have when working on a product used by billions of people. Fixing just one of these issues would instantly be the most valuable thing that person ever does in their life by orders of magnitude. We have incredible leverage in the software world.
  • achierius 8mo ago
    You'd be surprised how many Apple engineers are fixing many bugs, of this caliber, on a semi-regular basis. That "Human Hours Wasted" is not just sitting there because engineers don't care about it, it's because there are many many other opportunities to save similar amounts of time. Crashes waste time, perf bugs waste time -- and security bugs are much worse.
    • modeless 8mo ago
      I really doubt everyone or even a tiny fraction of people at Apple are working on opportunities to save more time than fixing the repeated autocorrect issue. It affects everyone and it's been a meme since forever.
    • saagarjha 8mo ago
      I actually think most security bugs have very low impact unfortunately
    • matrik 8mo ago
      At this scale, some bugs become features. I think fixing the bugs would need lots of conceptual work, due to the fact that there are millions of users of these apps.
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  • 9rx 8mo ago
    Trouble is, at that kind of scale even your bugs have users.
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• lukestevens 8mo ago
  The most egregious bug/s I've encountered in recent years is the utterly cursed tab management in iOS Safari. A couple of times a year it will just nuke all my open tabs (450-500) and present me with a delightful blank screen. Before that it will mislabel the active tab group on and off before giving up entirely. Quick action on my part stops the destruction syncing & I usually end up recovering them on my Mac & then save them as a tab group. But literally just an hour ago, iOS Safari looked like it nuked ALL MY TAB GROUPS. Ugh. They were gone; swiping right led to the "New tab group" screen. Frantic backing up and a restart later, and the tab groups are back, as though the phone was like "just kidding!". FML. So much for that backup plan. UI bugs are one thing, but how is that level of data loss acceptable in a modern operating system? Boggles the mind. (And don't get me started on the UI track wreck that is the iOS-inspired/inflicted bookmark management on macOS Safari, where all Mac UI conventions went out the window for some reason.)
  • squeaky-clean 8mo ago
    Very often I'll close a tab, realize I need to open it again for some reason, long press on the + button and it just isn't there. I feel like re-opening a closed tab fails more than it works. Also sometimes the back button will just freeze or not take you back. So I try hitting it again, it takes me 2 steps back in my history (this is fine), then I press forward and it takes me to the end of history, so I hit back again and it takes me 2 steps back. And the page I actually wanted to go back to is just gone from my history. I know there's a lot of whacky JS messing with history that happens on web apps, but it will often happen on HN when the article I clicked on is a plain text blog with minimal JS and definitely not altering the history state. Edit: This literally just happened to me after writing this comment, with the post about turso database. I clicked the HN comments, clicked the post link (to github), read for a bit and clicked back. And the comments page is just not in my history.
  • kalleboo 8mo ago
    macOS Safari also has fun tab bugs. If you have a window with only one tab in it, and drag that tab to another window to merge them, the window disappears and they merge... right? Nope, if you look in your Windows menu, you now have a phantom window with no tabs in it that you have to reveal and close manually. Randomly when I go to close a tab it will say "you have 2 tabs selected, do you want to close both". I didn't even know selecting multiple tabs was a feature, so OK maybe I had held down shift while switching tabs at some point? Nope, switching tabs (to deselect any tabs) doesn't change it, it still thinks I have some phantom tab selected somewhere. These have both been there for years.
• benkuhn 8mo ago
  The time lost estimates here are comically implausible--if Apple bugs were wasting 32m person-years per year, with around 1.5b Apple product users total, this would imply that the average Apple product user loses 32m/1.5b ~= 2% of their life, or about 11 16-hour days, to Apple bugs. If that were happening to you you'd, uh, notice :)
  • nulltype 8mo ago
    “The bugs are real. The math is not. All estimates are made up. Your frustration, however, is valid.” I’m pretty sure it’s way less than 2%, but I definitely notice running into the same bugs many times.
• bakeman 8mo ago
  How about a Screen Time Parental Controls literally do not work, at all, just completely unusable and broken? How about I can’t connect my AirPods to my watch to play music because my watch insists on acting as a remote control for my phone Music app, and support hasn’t been able to fix it for 5 years, over several watches and AirPods?
  • seec 8mo ago
    If you answer a call on the watch and have AirPods on, it can figure out to switch the audio in/out to AirPods for the call; it just gets handled by the watch. Then you have to awkwardly lean into the watch and listen very carefully because if there is any noise, you won't understand much because of the tiny speaker. Completely defeat the ecosystem argument, and I think the speaker in the watch is largely useless. The Apple Watch is popular but not very good at anything, really. All the apps are more cumbersome to use than they are worth; you can't properly make a real custom watch face, and sports tracking is extremely basic without additional software.
• cush 8mo ago
  Imagine if life was this zero sum
• SkyPuncher 8mo ago
  > The credit card icon doesn't change the credit card Ha. I thought I was the only one who's cursed this every single time I need to change payment (which is often) > You just wanted to move the cursor. Now everything is selected. Holding the space bar is your friend on this one. I recently learned, holding two fingers will move with selecting.
• appplication 8mo ago
  This 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 whatever determines whether it’s a search or a url, and is more likely to happen when typing quickly. I’d say it happens about 10% of the time I type anything in the search bar. It’s incredibly annoying. Without getting into too much detail, but I confirmed they’re tracking it internally too for close to a decade and are intentionally choosing not to prioritize.
  • hamstergene 8mo ago
    I personally reported that around time when Mac OS X 10.9 (first non-cat) came out and immediately saw it marked as duplicate. So at least 13 years and counting.
  • tannhaeuser 8mo ago
    When you had gone to a site using a deep link, Safari insists on autocompleting any URL in the domain to that link you used even if you just want to go to the top-level URL/index of that site. You have to type out the entire URL and add a space at the end or something (and that still doesn't work sometimes) to stop iOS from doing that, which defeats the entire purpose of autocompletion. Btw switched off any autocorrection feature a long time ago. Still, I happen to mistype a lot compared to my old non-Apple phones (there was even an "it's not just you" article last year about it). Apple needs to spend an entire release cycle to unfuck text entry and completion. However, with their qa lately (or lack thereof) they'd only manage to make it worse. The sad thing is they're still better than the alternatives, all things considered.
  • AceJohnny2 8mo ago
    Maybe you have an ISP that captures DNS checks to return ad sites, and Safari interprets that as a real website? But honestly it seems extremely weird that Safari would interpret something with spaces as a URL instead of a search
• ed_mercer 8mo ago
  Is anyone else annoyed by Finder's terrible search box? Everytime I try to search something, it seems to insert random results in the list that have nothing to do with the term. I have to always explicitly click Filename so it only searches for files with that name.
  • nhod 8mo ago
    I thought about adding that bug but it seemed like “search doesn’t work in this other thing” was just going to get repetitive (despite being true and annoying AF) and I had already spent way more time on it than I should have. Put in a pull request, tho. Happy to add it!
• nick238 8mo ago
  Spotlight search is infinitely more useful than the Windows 10+ start menu. 99% of the time I'm just using it to open an app or a recent document/download. In Windows, if I hit [Win], type "fusion" (to open Fusion 360, an app in the "Start Menu" folder, for what that's worth nowadays), there's a 70% chance it will do a Bing search for "fusion".
  • crooked-v 8mo ago
    It's more useful until it spontaneously stops working, at which point you're stuck until and unless it spontaneously decides to work again.
    • kfarr 8mo ago
      My favorite is how it’ll just forget which apps are installed. A list of like 30 items. If you had one job spotlight, it’s this
    • matwood 8mo ago
      Spotlight works great for me but the index can occasionally become corrupted. There’s a set of commands you can run to force a rebuild if you’re having issues. I’ve had to do this a few times over the years. This is another place where it’d be nice if Apple had a GUI to manage things like this.
  • Spivak 8mo ago
    I forget what combination of settings does it but my Windows start menu now only searches the two start menu folders. It's perfect, completely deterministic, instant. Trying to turn the app launcher into the magic "accio <anything>" bar was a huge mistake. You can have a second UI element for search, I promise it won't scare me.
  • godelski 8mo ago
    Just because something else is worse drones mean the other thing is good
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• varun_ch 8mo ago
  IIRC the animation that plays when you use ctrl+arrow keys to swap desktops is tied to the framerate so it's ridiculously slow on high refresh rate monitors. also the passwords popup on MacOS only sometimes takes keyboard input, so if I want to insert a TOTP pin, I can't reliably use the tab key or worse the search bar to reach it.
• andynrkri 8mo ago
  how can we make sure Apple leadership sees this?
• jb1991 8mo ago
  Several of these I don’t have any problems with myself, but the one that I get affected by all the time that I haven’t seen here, at least from as far down as I scrolled, is the bizarre typo that the voice dictation randomly inserts a capitalized word in middle of sentences. I’ve never understood that one. It’s like I can technically be hands-free most of the time except I have to go back and correct capitalized words for no reason.
• ksec 8mo ago
  The simple answer is that fixing any of these doesn't get those Software engineers promoted. And that has been the case for as long as Crag Federighi has been in charge of software. Yet he is extremely popular on HN and everywhere on the internet. Yes it is the same in all other software company. But we expect better from Apple.
• meroes 8mo ago
  No podcast app bugs? Are you even trying? Podcast app in CarPlay: A episode of a show is playing. It has the episode name, the show name, and a date. None of them hint at being pressable (touchscreen). But one is. Guess which one? The date one. That’s the only one that’s interactive and the only one that takes you to the actual show with its library. Podcast app on phone. 90% of the time the downloaded episode is not there even if you just downloaded it. Sometimes you have to have another “safe” downloaded episode from another podcast to FORCE downloaded episodes to appear. If you don’t have this safe reserve episode in your downloads, your downloads will be a black hole. Download a safe one, and suddenly the missing ones pop into the folder, or heck, generate the folder at all. 10% of the time the episodes will just fail while downloading without ever resuming.
• didip 8mo ago
  Nobody ever gets promoted from fixing bugs, no matter how bad the bugs are. And this is true even in much smaller companies.
• baxtr 8mo ago
  For the autocomplete one: on MacOS you can press ESC and get rid of the proposal.
  • joeframbach 8mo ago
    esc is the dismiss-the-modal-and-lose-all-your-work key.
• herpdyderp 8mo ago
  Idk what’s wrong with me but I’ve never run into any of these!
• makingstuffs 8mo ago
  The hotspot issue is my absolute pet peeve. It is so bad for me that I just had to accept that I have two options for hotspotting: 1. Go to settings and change my phones name then connect. Every. Damn. Time. 2. Use a cable and hope the MacBook Pro picks it up. Honestly the quality of iPhones has deteriorated to a point where my next phone will just be something like an oppo or xiomi. I’m done paying £500+ for a phone that doesn’t do what it’s meant to while forcing a load of crap I don’t want down my neck
  • srge 8mo ago
    The hotspot errors drive me insane. You’re basically connecting two device from the same company that happens to make both software and hardware on those two devices. I can’t understand this.
• afandian 8mo ago
  I'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?
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  • nneonneo 8mo ago
    If you have tap to wake turned on (it's on by default), you can tap the screen anywhere to wake it up. So long as the screen isn't already on and you don't mash the Snooze button, you should be able to hit stop. I believe the power-button-to-snooze thing is meant as a usability boost for groggy people: the physical button may be easier to click than some random spot on the screen.
    • throw310822 8mo ago
      I will object that the point of the alarm is to make sure you're not groggy anymore by the time you deactivate it.
      • temp8830 8mo ago
        But not everyone lives alone. If you'd like to avoid waking everyone else up - you hit the power button (or indeed any button) while groggy. And if you drift off to sleep despite your best efforts - well, that's why the button snoozes the alarm rather than disabling it.
  • ycombinator_acc 8mo ago
    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.
• retired 8mo ago
  Not sure if it is a bug, but not being able to uninstall Developer Tools or Rosetta when you are done with it.
• xylon 8mo ago
  What about that text selection bug all OSes have had for 20+ years. I'm dragging to select text, and if I drag one pixel too far, it inverts the selection.
• ant6n 8mo ago
  Mine “favorite” bug is the auto-replace of I->O on iOs. O think that’s a real strange one, and really wonder whether anybody ever uses “O think” in English.
  • Almondsetat 8mo ago
    Are you sure it's the auto-replace and not the dynamic keyboard doing its dark magic?
  • srge 8mo ago
    My iPhone always replaces « wow » by « WoW ». So annoying
    • christefano 8mo ago
      That does sound annoying. I have a dozen regularly typed words that I have had to set up string replacements for (in General -> Keyboard -> Text Replacement) to work around recorrect the autocorrect. It used to be possible to tell autocorrect to ignore certain words and add them to the system dictionary (by typing the word, having jt autocorrected, hutting backspace and fixing the autocorrected word, and repeating the process 2 or 3 times), but that inexplicably stopped working for me a few years ago.
• can16358p 8mo ago
  The AirDrop randomly not working one is really manifesting at the most inconvenient times. Apple simply won't fix it.
  • seec 8mo ago
    I'm always dumbfounded by people constantly praising AirDrop. It hasn't worked properly more often than it did. And that's not talking about the times when you send something, it gets accepted, and it just ends up in a void, not to be found anywhere. At the end of the day, in most cases, it would be preferable to just connect the damn thing with a cable and send things that way. If you send a large file, it takes a while, and having to redo the process because of some bug kills any benefit from the convenience of not having to use a cable.
    • tonyedgecombe 8mo ago
      It’s always been flawless for me. It uses Bluetooth to establish a connection so I wonder if that is the source of some peoples problems.
      • seec 8mo ago
        Maybe that's it. It is really dependent on the radio environment indeed. And it uses Wi-Fi Direct for large transfers. Once I had weird dropouts streaming to a friend's Bluetooth speakers because it had weird interaction with my Apple Watch, my iPhone, and his iPhone. That was in a cabin basically in the middle of nowhere... But that's basically my point. Wireless everything is cool and convenient at first sight, but then you often have to deal with all kinds of problems, making you wish you could just connect a cable, browse the file system, and exchange stuff that way. I have a friend who connects his Android phone to his Macbook, and he drags and drops the photos in/out of storage. Simple, efficient, no need for any cloud, no need for internet/wireless connectivity, no need to wait for any syncing, it just works.
  • ngcazz 8mo ago
    That's the problem with the "it just works" philosophy. When it doesn't... you have no idea what's wrong and no way to fix it. A bolted hood over the engine.
• ildon 8mo ago
  I stopped reading at the very first bug: > Mail Search Doesn't Work For me mail search works very very well. Ironically, it's one of the features that convinced me to use Mail as my primary and only email client. I'm wondering if the author of the rant is using the search input of the single message/thread, instead of the global one, or if they are not aware that the global search is by selected account, so if you want to search in all accounts you have to first select the unified inbox. By the way, this is another awesome feature of Mail, while the search string is in the input, you can switch accounts and see the different results per account. Before anyone asks: I have 5 email accounts, between them, I have way more than 100.000 messages (might be 5x, I don't have the Mac now to check) and they're all synced on my devices (it's ~24gb of messages)
  • zapzupnz 8mo ago
    Great, "Works on My Machine" award for you. Well done.
• simojo 8mo ago
  Had a similar thought today while marking up pdfs with my iPad. Half of the time I'm fighting with Files' ability to persist my changes after it frequently crashes. Why market it as an iPad if marking up pdfs is so scuffed? this has been happening for years, it's like Apple's desire to add new features tops the desire to fix long lived bugs.
• nneonneo 8mo ago
  I have a fun one: my iPhone (12 Pro) refuses to acknowledge that it has eSIM functionality, even though the hardware exists. I'm fairly sure I know what the problem is! It was restored from a backup taken on an iPhone X that had two physical SIM slots (Chinese version). The new phone now seems to think it has two physical SIM slots: it shows an IMEI2 in About, but any attempt to use the eSIM functionality just fails (scanning a code does "nothing"; no "add" button is visible, etc.). If this was an Android phone, I'd root it and just fix the offending network configuration file. I believe it's possible to tamper with a backup of the phone to fix the issue, but this would mean a full backup+restore cycle and some specialized tooling to go mucking with the backup. I filed a Radar on it ages ago, but I'm assuming nobody ever picked it up.
  • 12_throw_away 8mo ago
    > I filed a Radar on it ages ago, but I'm assuming nobody ever picked it up. I mean, based on all experience with Apple in the last 10 years, their bug trackers have presumably migrated to /dev/null for a backing db.
  • rgovostes 8mo ago
    I had eSIMs get screwed up on my iPhone a year or two ago when I deleted an expired eSIM. It asked me "Do you want to update contacts to use <the SIM I just deleted>?" and I knew I was in trouble. I did successfully use a backup editor, iMazing, to exclude the telephony data from a backup in order to fix it, but it cost me $30 and hours (transferring my Signal data to a second device and back). For 99.999% of their customers this would require a total erase-install. All because Apple has an off-by-one error somewhere.
  • praseodym 8mo ago
    Issues caused by restoring from backups were super common in the early iOS days. It makes me wonder how many weird bugs can be fixed these days by starting from scratch instead of migrating years of cruft through backup/restore.
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• panny 8mo ago
  Tim Cook is "stepping down" soon. Do you think his replacement will fix these things? I stopped using Apple stuff shortly after Steve Jobs died. Linus is still alive, but I wonder where I'll move once he is gone.
• cyode 8mo ago
  I’ve encountered several of these, but (at least on iOS 26.2), I can’t reproduce the typo one. > Autocorrect Won't Take No For An Answer. You fixed it. It unfixed it. You fixed it again. It unfixed it again. My experience is after the system makes the first autocorrection, the word is underlined, allowing me to revert to the original spelling. Then subsequent instances of the word aren't autocorrected. It’s true though that if I leave the context and enter the same unrecognized term elsewhere, it’s the same grind. The only fix for this is to spotlight search for “Text Replacement” settings page to essentially add it to the iPhone’s dictionary. Clunky, but personally only have had to do this twice.
• grsmvg 8mo ago
  Text selection peaked with Force Touch, where holding the space button, moving to start point, pressing down even harder to start selection en lifting finger at the end was sooo ergonomic.
  • gloxkiqcza 8mo ago
    I still miss 3D Touch. For me, iPhone XS was the peak iPhone.
    • mdemare 8mo ago
      Yeah, me too, that form factor was perfection. So pretty, so nice to hold!
• fsh 8mo ago
  I was given an iPad at work and had to make an Apple account to use it. Every time, the form on the website errored out with "Your account can currently not be created" without any further information. By trial and error, I figured out that creating an account with the exact same information on the iPad worked. Not the best first impressions of the "it just works" company.
  • jraph 8mo ago
    Ok, it's not just because I'm trying this from my Linux computer with fake phone numbers to jailbreak the stupid iPad 3 I found in a drawer (and on which the registration form of course doesn't work anymore). Thanks.
• cm2187 8mo ago
  To add to the list: on iOS, if your music library is mp3s transfered on the phone with itunes, iOS randomizes the artwork of the mp3s, so a song will show a completely different artwork. Have experienced that for years, on multiple devices and across versions of iOS.
  • secretsatan 8mo ago
    Ugh, this has happened many times for me, i curate my own music and very careful about it and sometimes after a sync this happens. You have to delete the music app from the phone and then resync. For me, this takes near a day with 100gb of music to retransmit
• left-struck 8mo ago
  I’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! How dare I want to use my phone while navigating! (Even when walking) I think what’s happening is that face ID doesn’t activate until you stop swiping, where usually it would start when you look at the phone or pick it up? Presumably because you’re going to be looking at the phone a lot when using maps. God I hate it so much. I didn’t use apple maps for years because of it but then I switched to apple maps because of some egregious privacy violation by google maps that I can no longer remember. Also applies to other apps that work when your phone is locked like phone calls.
  • nhod 8mo ago
    Yeah this is a good one. I’ll add it. It really is so bizarre, it takes like three unlocks.
    • PieUser 8mo ago
      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 :)
• seec 8mo ago
  This is satire, but it is so real that it hurts. I have encountered all of those bugs and more. The worst part is the delusional Apple fanboys who will pretend it always works for them because they have associated their ego with the ownership of Apple devices. Google might be bad, but at least it works most of the time. And hilariously, Microsoft, well-known for bugs galore, actually manages to make softwares that are less infuriating in the long run.
• sefrost 8mo ago
  Something I’ve noticed recently is that I press notifications by accident a lot more frequently. They just always pop in right when I’m trying to do something else. I suspect it’s because of the smart widget UI at the top of the screen that shows now playing, sports scores, direction etc. We didn’t used to interact with anything up there! But it’s extremely annoying to open a 300+ unread messages chat when I didn’t want to!
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• JSR_FDED 8mo ago
  All of those would be so much better if there was at least some way to get a proper error message or status message.
• VerifiedReports 8mo ago
  Good list. WTF happened to iOS text selection? It's a shitshow now. First Apple decided that the cursor shouldn't snap to the space between characters. WHY? Why would I want to start a selection in the middle of a character? Oh yeah: I never would, and can't anyway. So why does the cursor go there? Then there's the fact that if you press and hold and release, the "select all" option (and others) doesn't appear anymore. Try again. Try again. And then after the fifth? Seventh? try, suddenly you get the floating menu. And then there's the now-often-useless magnifying glass, which frequently appears offscreen or behind the stupid notch. And the window resizing. Ugh. It wasn't until what, the mid-2000s that you could resize an Apple window by anything other than THE LOWER-RIGHT CORNER. No other corners, and no edges. The sheer stupidity of this was galling. When Apple finally "fixed" that, they did so in typical Apple fashion: grudgingly. They refuse to put frames on windows, so there's no clear area in which the cursor should become the resizing cursor. Is it any wonder that the resizing behavior is flaky as hell? And now it's even worse.
• gxs 8mo ago
  Ah, you can add to that list messages never showing you your attachments Have a thread going with someone for years? Yeah good luck seeing more than 20% if anything you’ve ever sent each other
• softbuilder 8mo ago
  Now do Google. A few that immediately come to mind: * Accounts: Can't use a GSuite address for Youtube, Nest, or any other Alphabet offering. Never explained. 15 years of this. * Sheets: Hide the sum option in the menu bar. After digging, you find the Summa character and click on it. Oh, it's a menu of functions, not sum. * Search.
  • badgersnake 8mo ago
    Particularly search on Google drive / gsuite docs. For a search company, it’s just embarrassing.
  • InMice 8mo ago
    That you cant jump to the beginning or end of search results in gmail. You can only click page by page and only know the end is near when you know when the results get close to your account creation date. The only work around is to guess ahead with editing the results page number in the URL string. It's been this stupid annoying way since day 1 of gmail. Also now seeing the stupidest copying of liquid glass in google's web interfaces. Like adding transperancy to some of their pop up info boxes just so ugly and pointless.
• hacknat 8mo ago
  Syncing on Apple devices across the board is pretty bad. A great example is the Notes app. It took me a year to convince my wife to migrate our grocery list away from the Notes app. So many arguments about missed grocery items that never synced.
• zombot 8mo ago
  Bugs Apple loves? It must be all of them, because they hardly ever fix any. And they make more of them with each OS release.
• p0w3n3d 8mo ago
  It took me 4hrs or more to register an account for my child on ipad. It was spread across several days... When got my work macbook I had to register an account on apple to download some app from the store, and it wouldn't send me sms to activate. I had to do it the next day. I wonder what happens there, but it seems like a very unprofessional web development or a lousy A B testing
• leokennis 8mo ago
  Some of these bugs are more well known but for some like AirDrop not working or hotspot not connecting I always thought “well it’s probably because some power setting / DNS config / ad blocker / whatever” that I accidentally changed from the default years ago. Nostalgia is real but I do remember a not so distant past (around iPhone 4S or so) where AirDrop worked, autocorrect worked, text selection was flawed but predictable, WiFi connected and stayed connected etc. What happened?
  • tonyedgecombe 8mo ago
    > Nostalgia is real but I do remember a not so distant past (around iPhone 4S or so) where AirDrop worked, autocorrect worked, text selection was flawed but predictable, WiFi connected and stayed connected etc. The funny thing is all of those features are fine for me.
  • srge 8mo ago
    AirDrop and hotspot work 50% of the time for me. It’s a shame since they must own all of the stack for those technologies
• abbassix 8mo ago
  I bought the latest Intel MacBook Air and after few months they released M1 MacBook Air. Then they release an update, I did as I should, and it broke my laptop! I lost all my data! They fixed it for me in a couple of weeks without providing me a substitute! And they were arrogant enough to behave like they did a favor to not charge me for the repair! It was 2020! My MacBook Air never became like before, and it died a couple of times in a year, which it recovered by itself. And some months ago it died, and it didn't recover! I lost lots of data I spent thousands of hours and I trusted that I can have them even if my laptop dies. Now, I have no way to recover my data!
  • VistaCatalina 8mo ago
    This exact thing happened to me with the update to Catalina. Had to send to fix, they were pricky arses over the ordeal. Sent back, it was never the same. Actually started seeing rainbow loaders. The most damning permanent damage was that the wifi card never worked properly again and I had to connect an adapter, then a usb to ethernet adapter and use that. Which meant I had to sit in a specific disk at work if I wanted to use that computer. To me, Catalina is the Vista of the mac world.
  • halapro 8mo ago
    Speaking of data loss, it's fucked up that Apple doesn't give a shit about your data. Ages ago I shipped my iMac to them and it came back with a new HD. Hello? Maybe include the old drive so I can attempt to recover the data? I lost a year's worth of photos and a bunch of personal documents. This is when I started doing backups.
    • rafram 8mo ago
      That really sucks, but they absolutely do tell you to back up all your data before sending your machine in for service. Involuntary hard drive replacements aside, your package could get lost or damaged in the mail.
      • halapro 8mo ago
        Kinda difficult to do when the Mac does not turn on. Actually a technician came over to attempt to fix it, then just took it with him to ship it to Apple.
• ozlikethewizard 8mo ago
  Its been a 4 years since I had to target a website for Safari, but last time I did it still had serious difficulties parsing 8061 compliant dates. If you Google safari/webkit iso date parse bug looks like its still on going lol.
• radicality 8mo ago
  that Contacts one hits hard, no idea how many hours I wasted trying to figure out what the hell it’s doing. Just today was looking at Activity Monitor Disk tab, for an unrelated reason - sorted by Bytes Read, lo and behold ‘contactsd’ - the Contacts daemon, is in 2nd spot at ~400 _gigabytes_ read, right after mediaanalysisd. I don’t even remember last time I opened the Contacts app on my Mac. It felt like it’s gonna be another time sink with no solution, so I didn’t even bother to investigate more.
• InMice 8mo ago
  Clicking on folders that you have put in Finders sidebar - It will not display the folder with the view settings set for that folder, but instead the last folder you clicked in the sidebar. It seems to happen clicking from top to bottom vs bottom to top. You just cant make this sh*t up it's so bad. Example sidebar: Applications - Always shows as icons Documents - Shows as icons if you last clicked on Applications. Shows as details if last you clicked on Downloads Downloads - Always shows as details Finder is the absolute worst we could write a book about it. Once a year or so all my sidebar folders randomly vanish and I have to re-add them. Also The most annoying "it's a feature, not a bug" - That instant drop down of the title bar in full screen if the mouse cursor hits the top edge of the screen. So obnoxious with remote desktop sessions. No delay, no way to disable it, no way to change anything about it.
  • Kovah 8mo ago
    I really wish Apple would allow us to swap out the Finder with something else, so files open in that other app instead of the Finder. This works reasonable well on Windows, where I "replaced" the Explorer with Directory Opus.
    • Cockbrand 8mo ago
      This used to be possible, I remember that I replaced Finder with some other app many years ago. I strongly assume that this doesn't work any more, though.
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      • xp84 8mo ago
        Yeah. Path Finder was a common power user tool. I recall you used to be able to flip some bit somewhere to allow you to Quit the Finder, but I assume that's disappeared inside the encrypted and signed partition where Apple keeps all the things us stupid users shouldn't be allowed to touch. But even then, you'd want more than just that, as when you tell the OS to "Reveal" a file or open a folder, that's the association I'd want to be able to change. Honestly I'd really prefer the Windows XP File Explorer to the pile of crap the Finder has turned into.
• hahahahhaah 8mo ago
  Apple Screentime. 100 settings. If you crack the code it works. One wrong setting and the childs device is as open as a book.
  • baggy_trough 8mo ago
    Nobody on the Screentime team can actually use this product, because it's been totally bugged for a decade.
• Traubenfuchs 8mo ago
  No one cares anymore. Everyone sits on giant balls of mud and those who built those balls are long gone. Fixing any of this would mean wading through and fixing endless legacy code at the risk of introducing new bugs. Some of it has hardware and radio broadcasting quirks involved which probably narrows down the people capable to understand the problem to almost 0. And of those 0 people, no one gets promoted for fixing the incredibly buggy AirDrop. No one even knows how to replicate those bugs. Some iPhones in the wild sometimes stop being able to be found by other iPhones in the wild. Yikes. How do you even begin? Who's gonna write some debug code for a debug app for an iPhone in a lab and then runs back and forth with 50 other iPhones that also need to run debug code to finally get one in the state where it's unable to find or be found and then check diagnostics the communications hardware returns only to find out you need more diagnostic code. Sync issues? Yikes again. Who the fuck would want to touch a system where any new bug could mean the destruction of trillions of photos and the wrath of OVER A BILLION of users. Flaky connections, many clients, sync algorithms, space on device limits, quota in the cloud limit, offloading of images. Also, once again, how do you even reliably replicate this issue which sporadically happens and sporadically resolves? At scale and beyond critical mass, love and care and quality software are not rewarded. They are extra costs, just like human support agents.
• jtfrench 8mo ago
  I feel heard. Auto-correct un-correcting what I corrected three times in a row is maddening.
• meindnoch 8mo ago
  No no no, please don't try to shame them publicly, because they will rewrite it in SwiftUI and it's going to be even worse!
• jonplackett 8mo ago
  Out of these the text selection and the Apple Pay card button bring me the most daily pain. Even writing this short sentence I’ve accidentally deleted words when I just wanted to move the cursor and it decides, no, you must want to select that whole word
  • shantnutiwari 8mo ago
    > it decides, no, you must want to select that whole word Yeah this arrogance where my tool decides what I want to do, and even if I put the cursor to where it will want, Apple will (un)helpfully move it. Because Apple thinks its users are retards and need help
    • jonplackett 8mo ago
      Yeah what’s with the cursor moving thing? I put the damn thing where I wanted. Why move it? It’s so interrupting to general mental flow having to constantly check and double check every action.
• shantnutiwari 8mo ago
  The autocorrect is a real pain, especially when you are using a correct and grammatical word, but Apple decides, F&ck you, you will use this other word instead. And the text select has been broken for years, as the site points out. I thought it was a mobile thing until I used an Android, and it just worked. These are minor irritations, but they are adding up so much so I'm thinking about Android...
• pjerem 8mo ago
  The macOS login screen is broken since basically forever. Opening a macbook lid and choosing another user than the one already selected is a PITA. I can't even remember it working. And I have the issue on 3 macbooks.
  • 05 8mo ago
    On the same note, airdrop doesn’t work when multiple users are logged in. It’s rocket science to switch airdrop advertisements to currently active user, I guess..
    • pjerem 8mo ago
      Oooh so that's the reason !
  • orloffm 8mo ago
    Choosing another user on the current macOS is horrible beyond any corporate standards. Clicking a different user has a 2 second delay without any animation, and any interaction ("wait, have I clicked it?") in that time cancels it. Like no one has multiple users on their computers in the whole management chain? No one cares?
    • pjerem 8mo ago
      > Like no one has multiple users on their computers in the whole management chain? No one cares? I frankly believe that those people are so rich that they obviously own at least one computer per family member.
  • michelb 8mo ago
    or, you wake from sleep, and start typing your password because the input is there and focused, but it swallows your first character because it wasn't ready for input after all.
  • crest 8mo ago
    Press escape, select the other user, login?
• ragazzina 8mo ago
  The page should focus on the bugs, since there's no shortage of them. But clicking on "Change payment method" to change payment method is not a bug, is just bad UI.
• amelius 8mo ago
  Switch to Linux and take control over your hardware.
  • fainpul 8mo ago
    Yeah, it feels liberating. Every OS is full of UI annoyances and bugs, but on Linux you don't feel so powerless about it. You won't fix everything, but those few things that really bother you, you can fix.
• epolanski 8mo ago
  Spotlight opens the wrong application so many times with some odd heuristic favoring a random vscode.ts file (labeled as an mpeg-2 stream?) when typing "code". But the best one is typing "ghos" and pressing enter as it highlight "Ghostty", but as your finger presses the key, spotlight swaps ghostty for some other random application (generally mail).
• jasonkester 8mo ago
  What about the "Sign in to iCloud" one? Phone: I know you probably opened your phone for a reason, but would you mind signing in to iCloud? [OK] [Maybe Later] Me: Maybe Later. Phone: Ok, but would you mind signing in to iCloud? [OK] [Maybe Later] Me: Maybe Later. Phone: Ok, but would you mind signing in to iCloud? [OK] [Maybe Later] ... repeat infintely until... Me: Ok. [Then find the little arrow in the top left corner to get back to phoning]. Extra points for immediately locking my AppleID every time I finally break down and type my password in, forcing an email => browser "unlock your appleID" journey. Some days I go through this whole experience four times in a row before it finally settles down. Then I make the classic blunder of opening one of my iPads and the whole thing starts again on both devices. I assume it's just their form of blackmail to force me to upgrade to their 2FA thing so that they can finally lock me out of my old devices for good.
• TomMasz 8mo ago
  Mail search is a joke. HoudahSpot was the best way to search your mail right up until Apple made that stop working.
  • radicality 8mo ago
    For email app on Mac, I’ve been using MailMate for a few years now and quite like it. Once you sync the mailbox, search is basically instant. And for even bigger search tasks, Foxtrot Pro is quite good too. Not cheap, but it is fast, and the tool I reach for when I need to find something and when Finder search don’t find it
• lighthouse1212 8mo ago
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• Nevermark 8mo ago
  > $6.4 trillion Total time value lost to text selection games sounds about right. When I just selected that figure, I had to select twice because double tapping “trillion” then grabbing a text selection endpoint never works the first time.
• ChrisMarshallNY 8mo ago
  Just yesterday, I encountered a classic frustration. I wanted to forward an image from one Messages conversation, to another one. The “target” conversation was one that I’ve been having for a couple of years, with a friend. In the “Forward” sheet, I select that friend’s Contacts card, and it moves to the ongoing (blue bubble) conversation. I hit the Send button. Green bubbles. I get a failure to send message, saying it’s a bogus number. Messages used my friend’s work landline, even though we’ve been communicating for years, on his iPhone line, and it put the bogus send into the iPhone conversation.
• michelb 8mo ago
  I think most popular OS's these days have >5000 open bugs and some may get attention if they actually break something serious enough. Others may get plastered over in a new major OS update, which opens another 1000 bugs or so. I have no problem with a rolling number of bugs, but this is a tiny list of age-old bugs. I'd like to be in the room when Apple's people decide what to work on, but I bet I would get depressed instantly since they obviously don't use their products.
• throwaway290 8mo ago
  I think it's a bit of bullshit. the first bug (Mail search) with millions of people allegedly affected somehow never affected me on 5 Apple devices in 10+ years. what??
  • BugsJustFindMe 8mo ago
    Glad it doesn't happen to you, but it happens to me and others all the time. Mail.app's search is completely broken.
    • throwaway290 8mo ago
      It makes me think people misconfigure their imap servers... for me and people i know it works better than gmail
• urbandw311er 8mo ago
  This is brilliant and about 50% of the top 10 bugs affect me regularly. Some (eg airdrop, mail search, spotlight search) are absolutely maddening. If this even slightly prods Apple into doing something about it, this would be a net win for humanity.
  • embedding-shape 8mo ago
    That is indeed maddening. Are you using that computer for professional work? That'd drive me bonkers if I was working on a project and had bugs in the OS bothering me "regularly". I myself drank the cool-aid back in 2012 and think it took me 2-3 years before I realized "Apple is the best at UX and stability" is so far away from reality it starts being funny, and finally migrated to a stable environment that works the same as when I began using it.
• urbandw311er 8mo ago
  Is the eternal delay bringing up the MacOS native colour picker in the list? Click on a colour to change it, wait about 10 seconds, eventually it appears. Every. Single. Time.
• lopis 8mo ago
  > Autocorrect Won't Take No For An Answer Oh god. I don't use an iOS device regularly, so when I encountered this issue I had to control myself not to throw the device. Absolutely horrible experience. Worse part is that it autocorrects when pressing "send", not just when adding a space or a period. So the correct word gets corrected wrong and immediately sent.
  • sonnig 8mo ago
    I've owned iOS devices since around 2010 I think, and one of the first things I do when setting them up is disable autocorrect and most other typing assistances. For this reason! Also when typing in 2 or 3 languages, it is completely useless.
    • halapro 8mo ago
      iOS 18 really fucked up the multiple languages setup. It used to automatically detect secondary languages when I had the English keyboard, but still prefer English. Now you have to create keyboard combos and can't reuse languages (can't "prefer Spanish but also support English" and viceversa)
  • Grisu_FTP 8mo ago
    > Worse part is that it autocorrects when pressing "send", not just when adding a space or a period. So the correct word gets corrected wrong and immediately sent. Oh my GOD. YES. FINALLY SOMEONE ELSE NOTICED. Everytime i use an iphone it drives me insanely insane. I dont understand how this isnt one of the most common tech complaints i hear. This ruins my day every time i think about it.
• hn111 8mo ago
  Just typing on iOS randomly inserts the wrong characters: https://youtu.be/hksVvXONrIo https://youtu.be/hksVvXONrIo I thought it was just me until someone mentioned this on HN
• halapro 8mo ago
  Connection-related bugs are the worst. Here I am, wishing that after 15 years of hotspot software and WiFi/BT enhancements I'd get painless hotspot, airdrop and general WiFi connectivity. My bad, still not possible. But yeah Liquid Ass surely is lickable. Apple software, especially Mac software, tanked ages ago.
  • srge 8mo ago
    And in the WiFi/BT department, they almost own all the stack. Guess Airdrop and hotspot would work all the time! Oops.
• dssagar93 8mo ago
  It's funny that a trillion dollar company which which was originally built by Steve to be the front-runner of tech and innovation and was supposed to provide the best user experience to end users is actually turning out to be the most annoying or frustrating one in deliver what user ACTUALLY needs.
• lloydatkinson 8mo ago
  The one about Spotlight not searching for files, I assume that's like Windows Explorer, which also famously has a terrible search. Why do these large companies reliably struggle with file search but third party software does it instantaneously, including reading the NTFS partition table for speed?
• sdgluck 8mo ago
  An issue that frequently annoys me is the keyboard not opening in apps that use a WebView, eg. progressive web apps. https://kagi.com/search?q=webview+no+keyboard+ios https://kagi.com/search?q=webview+no+keyboard+ios
  • Lucasoato 8mo ago
    They have all the interests to keep PWA unsupported since they don't pay the app store tax.
• sgt 8mo ago
  I think a lot of these are just hard to reproduce. Take the AirDrop one, it's been 5 years probably since I had an issue with it, and I use it quite a bit. Auto correct? No idea, I switch that off by default anyway since I switch between languages. Most of the others - I haven't seen that at all. With the exception of a couple, like the macOS 26 resizing. That happened to me once. But I keep trying to reproduce it and I simply can't.
  • tambourine_man 8mo ago
    > …since I switch between languages. You can easily switch between keyboard’s languages in the globe icon close to the spacebar.
    • sgt 8mo ago
      Can't find it. I can see the keyboard layout per language but not actual languages. One layout is enough for all of my languages.
      • tambourine_man 8mo ago
        You need to enable more keyboards in System Settings -> General -> Keyboard -> Keyboards
        • sgt 8mo ago
          I see now. But .. bottom line is, I don't want any auto correct. It'll force to capitalize and all kinds of stuff. And if you type in a language's dialect, you're basically stuck.
• DeusExMachina 8mo ago
  The same happens with their developer frameworks. I used to submit tickets (radars, as they call them) for framework bugs clearly reproducible in a few lines of code. They never got fixed over multiple OS releases, so I stopped bothering.
• glebasp 8mo ago
  My Nokia C2-01 purchased in 2013 worked for many years without a single (!) glitch. Of course it didn't pretend to do as many things as iPhone does, but for it was capable of it worked always with 100% quality. I bought an iPhone13 mini looking forward for "quality", but after few years of usage I realized that the quality is exactly what I have lost: • Time-to-time when I open a contact, the "Call" button is disabled without any explanation. Surprisingly turning wifi and/or bluetooth and/or mobile data ON and then OFF again results in the "Call" button becoming re-enabled. Is the call function not an essential functionality of the phone to be dependent on such nonsense? Imagine you have an emergency and need to call real quick. • Every time I open the "Notes" app it greets me with "Mobile Data is Turned Off" pop-up. Mobile data just to type some notes? Who do you have to send it to? • DND logic so complicated and buggy that I started using the flight mode to be "sure" that nobody calls through. • "Settings" icon keeps displaying the "1" badge in revenge for my refusal to set up my Face ID. Well, I thought, at least this thing is a very good camera (which it really is). As if reading my thoughts, it started recording my landscape videos as portrait which I didn't manage to fix, so now I have to rotate the recorded videos on my PC.
• ndkap 8mo ago
  Some other bugs: 1. Open a file using Preview, but it is behind all other windows. 2. If you connect to your own personal hotspot (iphone) on mac, you can't forget it and connect to someone else's hotspot.
• piyuv 8mo ago
  I’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.
  • ryandrake 8mo ago
    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.
• GeorgeOldfield 8mo ago
  this is a great showcase of how good Mac OS is compared to something like Windows when we bicker about tiny things like the address field in the apple pay app. Meanwhile on Windows we could talk about unreliable updates causing major bugs (explorer crashes, audio failures, slow performance, taskbar issues), poor quality assurance leading to regressions, bloatware. not to mention the hardware is in a different league.
  • debesyla 8mo ago
    From hardware perspective MacOS is way worse, because you can't even use it on whatever hardware you wish it to run on. (While windows work on a lot of stuff and Linux can run even on microwave and a toaster if needed.) :V
• baggy_trough 8mo ago
  Another one I enjoy is the adventure of making a captive Wifi portal screen appear. Sometimes it will, sometimes it won't. Who knows why? Just reboot and try again.
• telesilla 8mo ago
  My 2022 M1 macbook sound input will slowly have the volume lowered to where no-one can hear me, regardless of what the device I'm using as a microphone. I run a permanent applescript that keeps the input volume at 80%, updated every 5 seconds. Apple doesn't care since it's a rare issue, never seen anyone else with this problem and I don't see how taking it to Apple Support will help.
• tibra 8mo ago
  Save a file from any application into a directory, say an Affinity Designer file. Then, export another version (jpg) from the same file and same application right after that and it will show a totally different directory, presumably the last directory you've exported that file type. Can't only be me who is annoyed by the behaviour, can it?
• kpmcc 8mo ago
  Audio balance issues: for some reason on macOS the left right balance for audio will just change from being centered??? At least 6 years old. https://superuser.com/questions/1516621/macbook-sound-balance-changes-on-its-own https://superuser.com/questions/1516621/macbook-sound-balanc... Still around as of 2025: https://www.techradar.com/computing/mac-os/its-2025-and-apple-has-still-not-fixed-this-ancient-mac-bug-but-heres-a-solution https://www.techradar.com/computing/mac-os/its-2025-and-appl... There’s a dedicated applet to fix this…
• pkteison 8mo ago
  I love this idea, and agree the bugs are important and embarrassing, but find the “it should only take Apple 320 hours to fix Mail search” to be so insulting that it ruins it for me.
  • Schmerika 8mo ago
    Yeah, some of the estimates to fix are ridiculous. 40 hours to fix auto-correct?? On how many devices? Yes, they acknowledged the numbers are completely made up. But, even with a 100x or more increase in those estimates the point would still stand. Why undermine the argument with such wildly silly (and, as you say, insulting) estimates?
• storus 8mo ago
  When I switch between macOS users frequently, in 2-3 days I get pink garbage on the screen and/or the windows start literally falling apart and macOS at some point hangs with a rotating wheel. On a 128GB RAM M3 Max. This persisted across multiple macOS versions and two logic boards.
• samtheprogram 8mo ago
  Spotlight has really been bothering me lately, for months now, and it’s not even indexing all the time. I disabled all but applications and the calculator, because that’s all I use Spotlight for, and it still can’t find some apps that are in /Applications. Sometimes it’s some apps, sometimes it’s everything, and after rebooting it’ll sometimes reindex. No idea what’s going on, but today might be the day I install Quicksilver, if that’s still a thing. I also had to type over reindex 3 times to get it to stick :)
  • evilduck 8mo ago
    Most (all?) Spotlight replacements depend on the same underlying index and system services that Spotlight provides and uses. High chance Quicksilver is just making 'mdfind' calls like everything else, especially since it doesn't look maintained anymore.
    • auxbuss 8mo ago
      LaunchBar doesn't use Spotlight's data. And so, as a result, can't search for data inside files. That said, it provides a Search in Spotlight command – that you can assign a shortcut, if you wish – which returns its results in a new Finder window.
• DamnInteresting 8mo ago
  On MacOS I use multiple desktops, and I have Finder assigned to "All Desktops" since it is useful to interact with so many other apps. For several major OS releases now, this setup causes any open Finder windows to render on top of all other windows for ~1 second when switching desktops. It creates an annoying lag, and pollutes what would otherwise be a smooth, pleasant experience.
• jvandertoorn 8mo ago
  "Autocorrect Won't Take No For An Answer" does have a workaround at Settings > General > Keyboard > Text Replacement. If you add the word as both the phrase and shortcut it won't be autocorrected. Apple should still fix the learning behavior of autocorrect, but this workaround can prevent some frustration. Two other bugs I haven't seen mentioned yet: - The notes field in the Contacts app on iOS is completely broken. If you start typing a contact note the page jumps around randomly. And if you have a longer note it won't autoscroll to the cursor so you're typing blind. Became even worse in iOS 26... - Stage Manager on macOS feels very buggy due to inconsistent behavior across apps and windows. Could be great in theory, but in practice frustrating to use.
  • thewebguyd 8mo ago
    > Stage Manager Also, for seemingly no reason, you can't choose to open an app/window on the current stage on macOS but you can on iPad OS. It makes stage manager unusable on macOS for me, which is unfortunate because I actually really like the feature
  • bobbylarrybobby 8mo ago
    This doesn't really work for things that are already words like it's/its. I type the one i want, iOS “corrects” it to the wrong one, and even after I tap the one I typed in the prediction bar? iOS still inserts its own suggestion again.
• duxup 8mo ago
  Air Drop .... just generally doesn't work, often.
• tigereyeTO 8mo ago
  I simultaneously love this collection and hate that it exists
• julian_t 8mo ago
  I have a lot of undeletable old photos on my iPhone. The photos are there, but no photo app shows the trash can icon. They aren't on iCloud or any other current device, so I'm thinking that at some time I must have done something like sync an iPhone I no longer have with a Mac I no longer have. I've usually just cloned one phone to the next, but I reckon that next time I may be in for a manual copying job.
  • tigereyeTO 8mo ago
    This is a frustrating result of “syncing” an album of photos from a computer. Apple decides that—despite you putting your album on your device—you are not allowed to alter the album in any way. You can’t edit photos or delete them…you must do those things on the computer instead. It’s awful.
• waffletower 8mo ago
  I wish more people would upvote this. Ride to number 1 for a few days.
• christefano 8mo ago
  Getting HTML email signatures to work in iOS Mail is a trial and error nightmare, and it requires a second device. Create an HTML email signature in TextEdit or some other rich text editor on macOS, copy it and paste it on iOS using Continuity Clipboard into the signature text field in iOS’ Settings -> Apps -> Mail -> Signature text field, and pray that it works. When it does work, it ignores text size. Want your email signature to be in a smaller font size? Too bad. The only workaround I’ve found is to copy an email signature from another email account that miraculously did copy over successfully, copy it on iOS and paste that in to another’s email signature field, and manually rewrite the whole thing. Of course, the HTML links aren’t editable, and the Signature text fields don’t enable the “Add Link” item to the hover tools menu when selecting text. Worst of all, even when the email signature is finally perfect, the Signature text field doesn’t preview it properly. If text is pasted in at a smaller text size, the preview still shows it at the default size. The only way to accurately preview an email signature is to draft a new email and hope the email signature displays like it did originally in TextEdit. In short, never create a new HTML email signature on iOS. Create in on a Mac (source), copy it over the network with Continuity Clipboard, hope it works, and treat the iOS email signature fields (destination) as a never- or rarely-editable workspace.
• dzonga 8mo ago
  if AI reall worked for software engineering then all these bugs would've been fixed
• mring33621 8mo ago
  OMG, "Apple Pay: Card Icon Changes Address" bit me recently! I selected a different credit card on Apple Pay and my skis were shipped to my ex-wife's house instead of mine, because it quietly changed the address! Good thing we're in the same town...
• dekhn 8mo ago
  Somebody somewhere told Jobs that Apple products had too much "surface area"- a modern desktop computer with huge number of tunable options, too many programmable APIs, too many products, etc. Every one of those areas is a source of customer complaints and engineering cost, and eliminating them- even if there are users- leads to higher profits and higher average satisfaction. Taken to an extreme, I expect that Apple will evolve to have only one product, with minimal surface area. A button you press that gives money to apple, in response you receive some sort of lovely bauble with no actual functionality. The cost to apple to maintain this would be quite small (they could probably survive with 10 engineers focused mainly on site reliability) and given the historical pattern of Apple customers (I am one), would be highly profitable.
• zahirbmirza 8mo ago
  Seriously its time for a new OS. I mean a non-google, non-apple, non-linux, non-microsoft one.
  • jaykru 8mo ago
    I'm not sure four examples of failure, each developed under very different conditions, is the best argument for success with a 5th ;)
• jiehong 8mo ago
  When I connect my iPhone to my dock with an external screen, it mirror the phone screen to the display, which is nice. But, the keyboard never activates in any field. If you use that to charge your phone (so the external screen is off), you can’t talk to people since the phone really don’t want you to have a keyboard at all as long as your connected.
• system7rocks 8mo ago
  I am a diehard Apple fan. I stuck with Apple through the dreadful 90s and fought for their relevance as a needed computing alternative in education spaces. I extolled their virtues. I hung on until Steve Jobs took over and helped things improve... quite drastically, in fact. I could never have imagined the widespread celebration of the hardware with the m series of chips. Quite an achievement. But even now, I acknowledge the latest macOS release is dreadful. Just absolutely dreadful. And the fix is easy - hire new young talent. Hire kids out of college. Bring in fresh faces who are going to speak the truth, who are hungry to make it better. Listen to them and do what they say.
• roody15 8mo ago
  Searching email in Mac Mail is truly horrendous. I honestly like the program and use it almost daily … but when needing to search I absolutely open a browser window and login / search. The search has been a disaster in Mac Mail well over a decade.
• alexrsagen 8mo ago
  Here's a fun one. Apple Music stops playing (lossless) tracks after 15 seconds. You'll know it's going to happen before it happens as well, if the lossless icon doesn't appear within 1-2 seconds after playing a track. I promise I'm not crazy, it's not just me. Just search for "15 seconds" in Apple Community: https://discussions.apple.com/search?q=15+seconds https://discussions.apple.com/search?q=15+seconds I'm sure this is likely already fixed in the latest version of iOS and macOS, but I use Apple Music for Windows: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9pfhdd62mxs1 https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9pfhdd62mxs1 I switched from Spotify to Apple Music mainly for lossless audio. The Apple One Family subscription helped sell it. However, now I can't play non-downloaded tracks without waiting 5-30 minutes for the music to start playing.
• SwtCyber 8mo ago
  Apple systematically underinvests in boring reliability work compared to shipping new features and hardware
• edude03 8mo ago
  On iOS 26 (and I think before that as well) if I enable the sleep focus and disable it later it usually stays in sleep focus despite showing no focus is selected. Therefore I don’t get notifications and the wall paper on the main screen is dimmed. Requires a reboot to fix it but it defeats the purpose of having a phone if no one can contact me until I notice
• secretsatan 8mo ago
  A very niche one from me as a developer. Apple frameworks for exif editing do strange thing, and exif is altered even if you never touch it. In particular for me, the gps location cannot be written at the full accuracy allowed, and overwrites accurate data. For the location, exif allows 3 rationals, for degrees, minutes and seconds, but apple ignores the seconds.
• seg_lol 8mo ago
  My favorite one is Calendar, where you just made a new calendar entry and if you hit Esc to make the window go away, it will delete the whole thing. It isn't a dialog box, there is no save. If you hit close, it will close, if you click away, it will close, but if you hit Esc it will delete silently. I asked people that work at Apple, they hate these bugs as well, but they don't fix them!
• k_bx 8mo ago
  My iPhone and macOS stopped syncing my main iCloud calendar. Isn't that crazy? How is this even possible at company such as Apple? I'm Ukrainian and my Apple Notes aren't searching case-insensitively. How could such large company not implement case insensitive search for Cyrillic?
• zestyping 8mo ago
  Renaming files from a window title bar broke some years ago and has never been fixed. I most often want to do this in Preview, but every other app with clickable filenames in the title bar has the same problem. The filename in the title bar has a down-pointing chevron next to it, indicating you can click it. You click it. A small drop-down window appears with the filename, the tags, and the folder where it is located. You edit the filename and press Return, as you would when renaming the file in Finder, or as you would when completing any text field. Nothing happens. The file isn't renamed. Only if you press Tab (?!) is the file renamed. Insanity. itle
• LordDragonfang 8mo ago
  I can't take this website seriously if it thinks that a difficult-to-reproduce syncing bug that has been around for a decade can be easily solved (and tested!) in a week and a half. That's the kind of delusional time estimate even my CS-illiterate boss wouldn't make.
• rajnathani 8mo ago
  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.
• freakynit 8mo ago
  I summarized all comments using LLM for better reading: https://hn-discussions.top/bugs-apple-loves/ https://hn-discussions.top/bugs-apple-loves/