I personally submitted bug reports to Apple for bugs in Mail.app in Mac OS X Tiger, and those bugs are still there. So how do I contact this Joanna Stern lady? Sounds like she can actually get things done.
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Apple Promises to Fix Long-Ignored Parental Control Bug After Media Spotlight
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To Apple, literally nothing matters except money. Thus I trust none of the stuff they claim without actions to back it up.
I guarantee you a number of horny 12 year old boys knew all about this and shared it widely.
First, I dunno if you are seriously reporting a bug found in a software that’s been discontinued for years. Secondly, the impact of whatever bug you found is likely to be much smaller than this parental control circumvention bug.
Sorry - to be clear I reported the bug in 2006 or so.
Screentime is the biggest hunk of steaming junk I've ever encountered. Unfortunately I'm stuck with it bc my kids have Apple devices. It's much more smooth going on Android and Windows devices. I just cannot fathom the level of ineptitude around screentime. Heck, maybe AI can save it?
Or for those earning some form Of income, rent a remote computer to access from any web browser, then surf away like that. Costly? Yeah sort of, but that’s also one way. I’m not sure if such services are meant to be used by minor though.
Which again is for long discontinued product. With any luck, Apple would not even think about fixing it at this point when they Have more recent software with more bugs.
I…. Think they’re implying the bug is still in current versions of macOS, at least that’s how I interpreted it.
You would be mistaken. iOS Apps use Apple's iAds platform for banner ads. So the more time kids spend with their eyes on iPhone/iPad screens, the more ad revenue comes in to Apple.
Blame the Unicode Consortium. They ran out of real work many years ago.
Feedback improvements just rolled out. Now it’s just a form that sends an email to Joanna Stern.
It's faster to get enrolled in MIT, get a couple of degrees in CS, work a couple of jobs to pad the resume, get hired by Apple, then fix those bugs yourself while Craig isn't looking, than to wait for Apple to fix them.
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Still waiting for the option to disable “1 more minute” on my kids devices. Time limits are good until kids can 1 more minute every app on their device.
I get that certain things take priority but ignoring a critical bug for YEARS??? Ffs.
I want to hear ANYONE defend Craig Fedherigi at this point. Go ahead. Try.
I want to hear ANYONE defend Craig Fedherigi at this point. Go ahead. Try.
I've used Macs since 1985, and I figured managing Screen Time controls for my two kids devices should be a piece of cake. How wrong I was. I think I have lost some part of my sanity attempting to make it work over the past year. PARTICULARLY since it acts completely like crap (unpredictable and ineffective) if you have a mix of older and newer devices. Apple has got to do better.
If you want to REALLY drive yourself insane, have a limited number of websites on your allowed list, and then have your kids try to play Minecraft on MacOS. I've spent probably hours adding more random Microsoft and Minecraft sites to that list than I can count.
This is so indicative of Apple right now and it looks terrible. I’ll believe they’re making changes when I actually see some improvement
Are you joking? They’re obviously saying they reported those bugs in 2006 and the bugs are still in Apple Mail to this day
Screen Time is the absolute worst POS ever to come from Apple. It's an inscrutable patchwork of incoherent and badly designed features that are NOT what a parent needs. And it does not work, my kids easily bypass it. Clearly they don't care.
My point is, the product the initial bug report is associated with is a discontinued product (apple mail in Mac OS X tiger), and unlike this parental control bug which can have adverse impact on parents using this feature, that mail app bug might not get that attention. The fact that Apple ignored that parental control bug for 3 years says it all, despite people reporting it. If that same bug exists today, then that’s a new bug report For sonoma apple mails app.
I feel you on this I have complained and sat on calls with Apple engineers about a maps issue where I have a persons address saved and when I hit directions there it takes me to another address a few blocks away. Recoded the incident only to be told they were aware of this issue and it might be a server side fix. This was over a year ago! Same with my sister who hits share current location regardless of time setting and it never shares although it says it is. Every update that comes out never ever addresses it.
I know they have some ad business, but how significant is it compared to hardware and services? If it’s a small fraction of their revenue, then the correlation (and therefore conflict of interest) is weak.