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iOS 27 Will Reportedly Be Like Mac OS X Snow Leopard

crsh1976 said:
It's always funny to me that a new major version's selling point is to fix the previous major version's flaws - instead of insisting on an annual cycle for the sake of tradition (?), why not release when needed and ready?
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Because it’s an illusion to think software like this is ever ‘ready’ or a multi-year release cycle will make things substantially better. We’ve seen in the past with Mac OS X that isn’t the case.
 
n-evo said:
Because it’s an illusion to think software like this is ever ‘ready’ or a multi-year release cycle will make things substantially better. We’ve seen in the past with Mac OS X that isn’t the case.
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Oh I know, I could say the same about my employer - or in tech in general. Hence why they shouldn't release stuff for the sake of releasing stuff, it's never going to be complete/final/perfect, but the level of slop and bugs becomes inexcusable.
 
Hopefully they improve stability. Personally I wish they would make some changes with IOS, some are years over due, but I doubt that will happen which is why I'm planning to go back to Android for my next phone for the things I miss about Android that I wish IOS would add.
 
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MilaM said:
iOS is not in a bad shape. It's macOS that needs a 'Snow Leopard' release much more urgently.
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Aside if you like Liquid Glass or not, my 16e has absolutely taken a battery hit from it & I’ve had adaptive power mode turned on since day 1 of iOS 27.

Not to mention the weird ui glitches. Video player ui elements often fly in etc.

I agree with you that iOS isn’t disaster. But it’s not the software equivalent of the excellent hardware.
 
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I rolled back to Sequoia after like 2 weeks on macOS 26. The accessibility issues, the battery life is smoked and worse than both of those was what they did to Launchpad. Get your AI outta my work flow, iPilot!
 
There will be more bugs. There is too much going on with Siri to not have more bugs. The hope is that the easy stuff like UI visual glitches and such get fixed. Most of the new bugs will be all on the AI side and I am sure they will market Gemini-Siri as a beta because of that.
 
I suspect the reason for this is because they have tasked all of the dev teams with integrating the new Siri into their respective apps. As part of that they'll do some polish and bug fixes and such. But the major thing in 27 will be the Siri integration everywhere.
 
macfacts said:
apple can only fix issues users report and you can't find issues if you don't install and use it. Mac OS allows you to "downgrade", so why don't you test Tahoe?
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You can reinstall the OS, but the music library and your play lists do not revert, you have to recreate them from scratch. The same applies to the Photos library.

Apple has several "check valves" to enforce its onward march. So if you do want to try Tahoe back up everything first. And don't forget the user library folder which is easily forgotten since it doesn't show up in Finder.

The other option I think is possible is to install Tahoe on an external drive. Then you can try it and if you don't like it just wipe the drive.
 
What a terrible headline "iOS 27 will be like snow leopard"

WOW a desktop OS on the phone?

nah, read below, just in one very specific way in that there are no major updates.
 
About damn time. So many things need to be fixed across all the platform - basic quality of life things. AppleTV - it's time to remove the 'movies' box already. Apple fitness needs an option to turn off the music. Need to be able to use apple music on apple TV's via homepods. Need to get the damn music controls back to the top bar in apple music where they belong (instead of covering up a bunch of songs in the playlist), and on and on and on.
 
crsh1976 said:
It's always funny to me that a new major version's selling point is to fix the previous major version's flaws - instead of insisting on an annual cycle for the sake of tradition (?), why not release when needed and ready?
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Well, if they have any messaging skills, they could duck the whole Tahoe disaster and frame this as being "we can use our annual release schedule to improve quality, as opposed to Microsoft sitting on an upgrade for five years, botching it and cutting off support for the stable legacy version anyway."
 
TheIntruder said:
Doubling down on stupid is stupid.
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Right on! "SnowHoe" is another example of Apple choosing "quality as an act, not as a habit."

If there are "no new features," then don't call it something new. It's still version 26. Don't change a damn thing. Keep the name and actually fix the phux0r!

Once you "innovate" backward, the next reset feels like improvement, even though it was less than the original (which is the deception of tech advancement.) And see-saw “innovation” fools enough of the users that it is now wildly profitable. There’re no losers, but the users.

Snow Leopard was not an immediate success, but the careful curation, and longer-than-usual update-progression, matured the OS to the point of overwhelming approval. Would the current TikTok-minded, Apple audience accept such a schedule today?
 
Siliconguy said:
You can reinstall the OS, but the music library and your play lists do not revert, you have to recreate them from scratch. The same applies to the Photos library.

Apple has several "check valves" to enforce its onward march. So if you do want to try Tahoe back up everything first. And don't forget the user library folder which is easily forgotten since it doesn't show up in Finder.

The other option I think is possible is to install Tahoe on an external drive. Then you can try it and if you don't like it just wipe the drive.
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And don't forget to disconnect your previous Time Machine backup, if you rely upon it as a backup, as it will be migrated to the new system and will NOT allow a reverse-migration (restore over the older OS) if you try.

Love "check valves to enforce it's onward march." Very truthsome!
 
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