I’m with you most of the way. It seems that techs and engineers are all pathetic woke types and Apple don’t want to upset them too much. Honestly, at this point, Apple need better engineers who turn up at work. They also need to build a village nearby instead of crowding out San Francisco with ridiculously expensive housing filled with pathetic people.
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Some iOS 16 Users Continue to Report Plethora of Bugs Months After Launch
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Yeah, it will be better than keep adding new features that half-work and add bugs to existing features.
I used to recommend the betas with confidence to family members. No more. Too dangerous.
i report bugs on macos, ios, homekit, and watchos, almost daily and not a single one of them has been fixed. apple only seems to care about hardware now. watchos in particular has been almost completely abandoned
As an android user, I'm so glad they did. I can have the latest Gmail on my android 8 phone. Android 11 and newer have broken a few root apps I depend upon, so until those rooted apps gets updated to work with newer android, I'm sticking with 10 or older.
I'm thinking of upgrading to Android 9 for the private DNS setting. Private DNS would give me another layer of ad blocking on android.
Yeah iOS 16 is has not been great. Have had to call Apple multiple times as Siri never wants to work with Apple Music (even though there’s a plan where Siri is the ONLY way to control!). Half the time I get a, “Sorry Apple Music can’t play that.” Or when asking “Hey siri, play [downloaded song name] up next” I’m constantly getting “Sorry, I can’t add that to your que.” its sooo irritating when on the road!
Best example of Siri’s incompetence I’ve found was asking to play Matilda the Musical soundtrack…it clearly recognized what I said, but decided to play Green Day’s Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Broadway version) and then said, “maybe you wanted Linkin Park”
Best example of Siri’s incompetence I’ve found was asking to play Matilda the Musical soundtrack…it clearly recognized what I said, but decided to play Green Day’s Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Broadway version) and then said, “maybe you wanted Linkin Park”
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Same here, I thought I might've updated by 16.2 but glad I kept holding off. May skip it altogether.
My 13 Pro and two apple watches both running perfectly smooth on last version of major releases
I’m right there with you. You may have seen me say in another comment that I rocked Android 7.1 for five years. I had a Nexus 6P (RIP). The older OS didn’t cause me any issues.
THIS is the main problem with Apple. I’ve been a betatester in the past, but I signed out from the beta channel because most of my reports were being ignored. They eventually fixed some of the bugs on the last updates of the operating system, near the WWDC.
I’ve encountered a flagrant bug in iPadOS 16 involving big PDFs in the Files app when searching a word, as well as the iPad being unresponsive after using the external display feature (iPadOS 16.2) and honestly I haven’t filled a bug report because I’m not sure they will read it or try to replicate it or fix it.
I’m pretty sure they will say “this happens because you are using external monitor support without activating Stage Manager on your device” as an excuse not to fix it, but I just won’t use it on my iPad screen because I like having the classic view with two apps and maybe a Slide Over app. If Apple is forcing me to use Stage Manager in the external display, at least I will use the classic view on my iPad.
Woke up today to find my iPad Pro (2018) (16.2) screen frozen, and push-to-Siri not working. A reboot fixed the freezin, but it took another reboot to get Siri to work.
Never happened before 🥸
ip13pm iOS camera app freezes at least once a day since being on the most recent update.
ugh.
Never happened before 🥸
ip13pm iOS camera app freezes at least once a day since being on the most recent update.
ugh.
Bought an iPhone 14 pro max 2 months ago now and the battery capacity dropped 2% to 98%
Looking at this from another viewpoint, with all these new features that are bolted on to the OS every year mixed in with new APIs surely the whole OS has to be updated to support all of this, but it seems like parts that can be left that "barely" work are indeed left, a perfect example would be the music app on macOS.
This work from home approach isn't working and it's not only stunting the growth and polish of the OS, it's starting to really bring in a sense of disillusion among customers, that said...
Has software quality gone down, yes.
Is it the same across other manufacturers; yes.
This is completely unrelated but another industry let's say gaming, back when you bought Crash Bandicoot for the playstation that had an immense level of polish and stability, why? Because once it was shipped you couldn't push an update via the internet, once it was out, it was out, games these days day one patches galore.
So this new got to have it now, internet based delivery of software seems to be hurting all industries
This work from home approach isn't working and it's not only stunting the growth and polish of the OS, it's starting to really bring in a sense of disillusion among customers, that said...
Has software quality gone down, yes.
Is it the same across other manufacturers; yes.
This is completely unrelated but another industry let's say gaming, back when you bought Crash Bandicoot for the playstation that had an immense level of polish and stability, why? Because once it was shipped you couldn't push an update via the internet, once it was out, it was out, games these days day one patches galore.
So this new got to have it now, internet based delivery of software seems to be hurting all industries
yeah but if anyone has the resources to pull it off it’s apple. I play the smallest violin for their undertaking of “bolting together APIs” and adding (incremental) functionality year over year and yet feeling extremely same-y and as if the underlying hardware is being extremely underutilized and severely outpacing in comparison to the timeline of apple software
..when the SVP of software engineering bares no consequences for terrible quality control over and over again, even as charismatic as he is, can’t reasonably expect anything to change. WFH or not.
iOS 16 was solid for me. iOS 16.1 broke setting the Sleep focus from automations. Then iOS 16.2 broke the Fitness focus mode automatically turning on when starting a workout. I can’t wait to see what 16.3 breaks 
Guess that's IE for you. I raised a few Microsoft bugs recently and they were fixed within a couple of minor releases.
Bugs are definitely an issue. But what about the implementation of the latest features?
Stage Manager, the App drawer, Focus modes, the Health and Home apps, the coexistence of the old and new widgets, … all very confusing and very un-Apple like.
I don’t like the direction Apple is taking with its software.
Stage Manager, the App drawer, Focus modes, the Health and Home apps, the coexistence of the old and new widgets, … all very confusing and very un-Apple like.
I don’t like the direction Apple is taking with its software.
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I completely agree, I've said before the only person getting hurt in this is the customer.
We can all speculate to what's happening over at HQ and I agree with the charismatic Craig bringing a certain charm to the keynotes, but with the failed Apple maps rollout, one shot and bang Scott was out, why is this repeating mess of software allowed to carry on.
Though seeing the keynotes now, alot of their "senior" engineers look to be even younger than myself, and before I sound bitter or demeaning, if you're top and good at what you do then why not, but could this be a contributing factor it being quite simply a lack of experience
Android 13 on my S22 Ultra has been far more stable than ios 16 on my 14PM
If it weren't for getting new emojis, I wouldn't update to new versions of iOS until they'd been out for almost a year. Getting fresh emojis is the only reason I upgrade on day one. 