so your saying that not being able to swipe anywhere is a bug and now the whole OS is trash? Sure the freezing up has happens to me sometimes, but thats under intense load from opening lots of apps or loading an Local AI model. Does that make it trash, not neccessarily.
yes, people are more demanding than before, but once you got the feature people most desperatly wanted and it doesn’t feel right, people start complaining about it because there are so many little issues to it.
Given how carefully you quoted my earlier comments point by point, I’ll try to respond with the same level of seriousness and respect for the detail you’ve shown.
As for the freezing issue — it actually isn’t a freeze. What happens is that the screen just stays there sometimes. It doesn’t really freeze; you can still tap the apps that are on the current page, but that’s all. You can’t swipe left or right to move away from that—well, I don’t even know whether to call it a “page,” “scene,” or maybe just the “home screen.”
Yes, it’s not a freeze, and it doesn’t happen when I have tons of apps open. I rarely have more than seven or eight apps running at once, certainly not ten or more. Since updating to 26, I’ve already run into this issue at least four times, and I can’t reproduce it on purpose. Whenever it does happen, though, it usually comes with a weird side effect: since you can’t swipe between home screens, your instinct is to open the multitasking view to check what went wrong. In that view, all your open apps show up normally—but you can’t close any of them. They still work fine, and you can open and use them, but once you go back to the home screen, you’re still stuck on that same seemingly frozen screen (even though every app on it can still be opened and used).
That’s why I said this is effectively a P0-level bug—and I called it “garbage” with good reason. A P0-level bug in a product that’s supposedly gone through extensive testing is a complete disaster. It’s not just an annoying glitch; it’s something that completely blocks user interaction. So I don’t think calling it garbage is an act of malice or bullying—it’s just a factual evaluation.
I’m sorry if my use of the word “garbage” sounded harsh to you, but I’m glad you seem satisfied with it (apparently so). After all, it’s not like what you said—“people’s expectations have risen and they’re spoiled by new features.” That’s not the case. For an iPad, being able to swipe left or right on the home screen is a basic function. (Honestly, I find it absurd that I even need to call it a “feature.” It’s like saying, “I’m thrilled that my car can actually drive on the road.”)
So if complaining about a P0-level disaster makes me “a user spoiled by fancy new features,” then fine—I’ll still congratulate you. I’m happy that you’re satisfied with iPadOS 26.
