Luke Miani video highlights iOS bugs

[TruthAboveAllElse]

It’s not just you

I’m glad other people have the energy to compile stuff like this. I was getting sick of people gaslighting me and pretending it hasn’t gotten super buggy. I don’t keep track of the bugs I encounter, and so I can’t recall them all on command. But I do notice the deteriorating quality of Apple software.

 

[UliBaer]

That's exactly why i still stay on iOS 17.7.2.
It (17.7.2) already has more bugs than i like to have, but still less than iOS 18...

 

[Paddle1]

I find iOS 18 has many sporadic bugs. They don't happen all the time and they don't happen to everyone, but they're there.

Overall it's still very usable but there is the possibility of occasional hiccups. The video makes it seem like it's completely unusable but it's not really like that. I wouldn't be surprised if iOS 19 is worse since it's supposed to be an overhaul.

 

[Populus]

I’m also glad to see someone like Luke with the huge subscriber base he has, to compile some of the many bugs and UI glitches is accumulating over the past 2-3 years.

It would be cool if this story made it to the MacRumors front page.

And like Luke says, maybe it’s not just about polishing even more the UI (or remaking it entirely like it’s supposed to happen in two weeks), but also about remaking, rebuilding the base code from the ground up for current systems, Apple Silicon based (A13 and up, M1 and up).

I know it’s easier said than done and iOS itself is supposedly based on OS X base code (Darwin?), which is based on FreeBSD. And I know it’s a several years long work. But it would be great to have systems really made from the ground up to take advantage of the new technology the current chips offer, with powerful Neural Engines and GPU cores.

Or maybe that’s just too much. Well, then hopefully they will be able to just adapt the core, the kernel, to the new chips and rebuild the system from that layer up, using Swift.

What seems clear is that macOS iOS and iPadOS, especially now that they will share a similar interface, need to have some sort of deep rebuild to make it fresh, efficient, stable, consistent, and responsive.

I know there’s no software without bugs, that’s what many Apple apologists say, we’re not talking about an isolated strange bug, we’re now talking about a buggy operating system. And that must be fixed, either this year along with the UI redesign, or next year with iOS 20th anniversary.