Apple's quality control has been getting worse every year. This is something we say every year; that's because its true every year. They started the highest coming out of the 2000s, plenty big laurels to rest on. But their (and Microsoft's) software has gotten so bad nowadays that linux desktops are starting to look stable (and don't interpret that as an endorsement of the improvements in stability of the linux desktop experience, not even close, year of the linux desktop might happen but only because everything is so shit that you might as well at least use the shit that isn't taking screenshots of your desktop or resurfacing photos you deleted five years ago).

Yikes. That seems so wrong.I havent had this happen. For me the final straw was Windows Defender sending files to be analyzed, without letting you audit which files have been sent over.

There has been an unknown bug for a few years where, sometimes, the process that is supposed to tag the photo for deletion removes it from the list but doesn’t add the right tag for deletion and the schedule process never noticed them and never told the OS to delete the files. They just sat there in the photos library folder, sometimes for years.

The files were never actually deleted, just removed from the photos list. Later another process was deployed that saw unreferenced photos and added them into the photos index. That freaked some people out, particularly if they really had wanted to get rid of those photos.

This all happened as a higher level than the OS. The OS file deletion process was never invoked for these photos.

Big-tech sees no value in QA thee days when they already have monopolies over huge markets, so these jobs get cut. And even when they don't get cut, since such jobs are dead-end for your career there anyway ... you get what happens.

So a lot of QA is actually outsourced to third party body shops where employees don't care beyond shoveling some tests out the door to get home quick and get paid.

I'm thinking of changing brands when I upgrade. Guess I shouldn't look too closely at getting an iPhone either...

Five min install,

Play Store works great,

difficult to find apps that intentionally break themselves due to not being Google Android.

One of my favorite features is on the mickey/minnie watch face, they verbally tell you the time if you tap them..... except when they don't. Sometimes they just stop working until you power cycle the watch lol.

Also phone calls to/from the watch seem to go through fits of random failure. Like at least once a week it'll inexplicably fail to get notifications or fail to answer phone calls. And then once a month I'll have to power cycle both the watch and the phone because they fall into a trap where any call in/out fails.

I first noticed these bugs on my s4 and iphone xs. I'm currently using an s8 and iphone 13. Still got those bugs lol.

Oh I thought of one more. Any iOS device with a home button and an alphanumeric password won't show you the keyboard when it first starts up. You have to hit the power button and then wake it with the home button to see the keyboard lol.

Thanks for explaining iPhone SE2/SE3 behavior.

iOS Magnifier (for blind people!) will randomly stop speaking "image descriptions", continuing onscreen, invisible to the blind user.

The funny part is I use the sleep app and the alarms. When I'm really worried about missing an alarm I set my android phone too, or the alarm clock by my bed lol. That rarely is needed.

I've had an Ultra since it launched and it's been no different to any other Apple Watch.

I had NONE of these problems with older watches despite doing the exact same things.

If you yourself is not a primate ape I would be surprised and call every news agency available to tell them a new species is using written language and the internet.

Apple is shipping broken software left and right ever since the ARM transition and it's become noticeable.

What other species/order than primate apes do you think would be suitable for apple QA?

http://feedbackassistant.apple.com is where you file such requests. Just keep in mind that the wall they have between public and internal systems means you may not get updates unless you periodically ask for them.

https://lapcatsoftware.com/FeedbackAssistantBoycott/

The "yourself" might feel awkward but is required to ensure that I am talking about the specific poster instead of something like "if you are not a X" in which case it would read like a general you.

If you understood what I was expressing and have a better and more succinct way to express it let me know.

But based on your comment, unfortunatelly I can't say the same for you.

To the point where I want to include some sort of caveat or flaw in my reply, lest I be accused of the dreaded fanboyism. Problem with that is that I don't have one. I can't think of a single bug or glitch in the 18 months I've had it.

I guess I have one kvetch: there was a major OS version bump during which they disabled swiping between faces. They added it back as an option, which I promptly turned on, and that was that.

There was significant backlash about the removal of swiping faces. I'm also glad they brought it back. I used that feature professionally to swipe to an ugly watch face that showed seconds.

Then Apple made some annoying decisions with watchOS 10, and I stopped using it altogether.

The rich customer does not buy Apple because of the quality, but because of the price. /s

First I had Keychain taking a full core on _all_ my devices and had to go through a rabbit hole to fix it [0], then I had “fileproviderd “ do the same (again, across all devices) and had to delete iCloud DB to fix it.

I wonder how less tech-savvy users are supposed to notice the issue (and maybe fix them).

[0]: https://aldur.pages.dev/articles/2024/05/22/secd

Of course, this is just one of the thousands of bugs.