Just. Fix. Siri.
Or let us use a different voice assistant with full integration into the system and music library.
Or let us use a different voice assistant with full integration into the system and music library.
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iOS 27 Will Reportedly Have Two Key Upgrades
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*Sigh* Every year the same "rumor" gets thrown around only to get people's hopes up, holding their breath... and then reality hits at WWDC when the focus on quality and stability "a la Mac OS X Snow Leopard" does not come to fruition not for macOS, not for iOS. I hate to sound like a Debbie Downer but I just don't believe Apple cares about quality and stability anymore, not one bit. The process of normalization of "Quality and stability is no longer important nor relevant" has been completed for several years now. Every single release of macOS since v10.7 and every iOS release since iOS 7 has proved that time and time again. 😢
You’re absolutely correct.
Everyone is so enamored with the financial results. …
Well, guess what doesn’t generate revenue, but does create costs?
Fixing bugs and issues.
Same here. I’ll see what the real-world reaction from real-world users is to 26.2 and then make my decision. If 26.2 is still very problematic, I’ll just stop paying attention to subsequent updates and wait for 27… or 27.2.
I hope better memory management is a big focus. I'm tired of background apps and Safari tabs getting killed off and force reloaded when opened again. The last state is often lost. It's pretty annoying.
I got an iPad Mini 7. Its 8GB RAM was initially a noticeable improvement over the Mini 6. However, after some OS updates, the background app/Safari tabs killing noticeably increased. I'm still on iPadOS 18.
I dread the likely increased RAM usage of 26. I'm almost sure that Liquid Glass stuff alone will take a lot of RAM and the mitigations for it won't decrease RAM usage at all.
I got an iPad Mini 7. Its 8GB RAM was initially a noticeable improvement over the Mini 6. However, after some OS updates, the background app/Safari tabs killing noticeably increased. I'm still on iPadOS 18.
I dread the likely increased RAM usage of 26. I'm almost sure that Liquid Glass stuff alone will take a lot of RAM and the mitigations for it won't decrease RAM usage at all.
My 16 Plus will be too 🫠 already being told I need to free up storage to download the latest software update. Does my phone know I’m paying for 2tb of iCloud storage?
The cynicism is palpable in this thread. For the iOS side, the addition of the folding phone next year will need a huge amount of resources dedicated to that, so adding a bunch of new features would probably be a bad idea. A bug fix update otherwise makes sense, the Fold itself will be the marketing push for next year
And for the MacOS side with Intel support being dropped, it seems like a logical time to do some housecleaning, just like Snow Leopard did with the removal of PowerPC. Plus we might get redesigned Macbooks etc, so there will be less pressure for MacOS to get any flashy updates
It makes a whole lot of sense for this to be a cleanup year. Hopefully it pans out
And for the MacOS side with Intel support being dropped, it seems like a logical time to do some housecleaning, just like Snow Leopard did with the removal of PowerPC. Plus we might get redesigned Macbooks etc, so there will be less pressure for MacOS to get any flashy updates
It makes a whole lot of sense for this to be a cleanup year. Hopefully it pans out
It baffles me how the people in charge at Apple are turning a blind eye to the core "magical" concept of "It just works"... In my opinion, I think that in addition to them becoming more and more fixated on profits, they have gotten dangerously fixated on delivering at an unrealistic pace. By that I mean shifting to an annual release cycle for macOS (regardless of how small the new feature set is or isn't). If they can't get macOS to be stable, reliable, and performant then they can't get iOS to be stable, reliable nor performant because you NEED the Mac and macOS in order to create iOS. I remember when Steve Jobs demoted the Mac to just another device and used an analogy of a Mac becoming like a truck (I'm paraphrasing here), you likely won't need to use a truck for every day use but for certain workloads that require the transport of big bulky heavy items you're going to need a truck no matter what. Keeping that analogy in mind, does that mean car manufacturers should then stop caring about making rugged, powerful trucks just because most people are moving on to sedans and crossovers? No. This is the case with macOS and their overall development strategy (or lack thereof). If they can't get the workhorse (macOS) singing on-key pitch perfectly, then they can't expect to do the same for iOS especially since the only thing separating the two operating systems is just their respective GUIs and specific APIs that are for touchscreens, the excuse of one OS running on Intel while the other on ARM has no longer been remotely valid for the last five years... But I digress... 🥴
Amen 🙌
Just look at how much folks are "enjoying" WatchOS 26, as one example of many.
Yes, this has me a bit concerned as well. A number of years ago, as the Internet pages became much more complex and full of data, more RAM usage was understandable. But Liquid Glass gobbling up RAM and slowing down my phone is completely unnecessary.
How much storage do you have on your 16 Plus - and how much is used up already?
I have been on all xOS versions since the release candidate came out (iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, Tahoe) and I have not had any issues with stability or legibility as many here report. Whether or not I'm a "real-world" user, don't know, but a very good portion of MR users are not "real-world" users, they are tech nerds ...
So please when you get that "real-world" feedback please enlighten us where you found it.
Snow Leopard? Did I read that right?
Prayed for times like this man. Hopefully this is true.
Prayed for times like this man. Hopefully this is true.
iOS 26 was the straw for me. everything got worse, and it is becoming clear the fake AI features Tim Cook lied to us about are much further away than we think. after liquid glass i went to pixel and i wish i'd done it earlier. the only thing i miss about my iPhone is the camera, nothing else. google's version of android is so much better designed than iOS it's depressing. steve jobs is probably using a pixel in heaven and wishing he hadn't anointed a bean counting accountant with no creativity to succeed him.
why not pray for software that is done right the first time and a company that doesn't hide its incompetence by jangling keys (liquid glass) in front of you like you're an infant?
Sort of. Apple's own Rosetta support documentation says that in macOS 28 and beyond they "will keep a subset of Rosetta functionality aimed at supporting older unmaintained gaming titles, that rely on Intel-based frameworks."
If apple says that the only new features are AI feature you can say that there are no new features in iOS 27 at all
I’ll be getting it from you, the “tech nerds” on MR and users on other sites. And I’ll be paying attention to exactly what the complainers are complaining about. Some things may apply to me… others may not.
I’d hope they do focus on fixing bugs since about a dozen times since I updated, I’ve had lock screen bugs where it would freeze on unlock or activating the camera from the lock screen.
That and a bunch of intermittent visual bugs from the Liquid Glass effect flickering black for a frame and weird button stretching when rotating from horizontal to vertical in videos.
That and a bunch of intermittent visual bugs from the Liquid Glass effect flickering black for a frame and weird button stretching when rotating from horizontal to vertical in videos.
Amen to this. I did the same thing. I am impressed with how user friendly, fast and smooth the Pixel version of Android is. It's refreshing.
Any issues that I have had with any I have reported in Feedback and the issues got fixed. I am perfectly happy with all current versions of Apple’s OSes. Yeah I see a few rough areas in the GUI now and then that they fix or will fix, but none of my Apple products are unstable or non-performant.
Think it would be good. In terms of features there is nearly anything substantial already in the system. AI is another area they need to work on.
Focussing on overall polish, getting rid of old code and stuff would be great.
Otherwise… have see seen these big new features over the last years? Liquid Glass isn’t that crazy overall as everyone expected, new features over the years have been relatively small - which is all fine as we already have systems with a huge set feature of features that should be fine for 95% of the average users.
Focussing on overall polish, getting rid of old code and stuff would be great.
Otherwise… have see seen these big new features over the last years? Liquid Glass isn’t that crazy overall as everyone expected, new features over the years have been relatively small - which is all fine as we already have systems with a huge set feature of features that should be fine for 95% of the average users.
Seems that they’re working on both.
If they can implement Gemini in a good way into Siri it will work fine.
Other area I’m not sure about is how good this Gemini integration will work „on device“ without a internet connection which was one of the main advantages of apples AI intention so far.