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Re:Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leavi... by wilkystyle on Friday February 13, 2026 @10:28AM (#47003773)
Long-time iOS user here. My motivation for iPhone has always been "you pay more for fewer features and customization, but the UX is more polished." For the past 5-ish years, the UX has consistently gotten considerably worse. Not just the usual things like the horrible keyboard and atrocious Siri capabilities, it's all the stuff that used to just work. Nothing deal-breaking by itself, but all together feels like death by a thousand cuts. I'm at the point where I'm seriously considering Android.
Re:Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leavi... by fodkodrasz on Friday February 13, 2026 @10:35AM (#47003859)
Also add Liquid Glass, it strains the eyes.

Even siri got worse, when I say call <nickname of my gitfriend> now it does some location based search, and calls sonebody, when near home it is a doctor, when on the other side of the river it is a flower shop, at othe rplaces other random non-contacts, with a contact having the sting it used for search, as her nickname is always part of the called person… It used to work flawlessly as expected…

I would be fine with Siri actually if if could handle simple fixed phrase based task, no AI, as it could a few years ago.

Re:Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leavi... by wilkystyle on Friday February 13, 2026 @10:44AM (#47004000)
The most frustrating aspect of Siri's quality decline is that super-basic things inexplicably stop working. For years I have been able to say "call <wife's name>" and Siri called my wife. A couple weeks ago she started dialing another contact I haven't talked to in 15 years with a similarly-pronounced name (but different spelling). I had to delete the old contact to stop that behavior from happening.
Re:Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leavi... by JohnMakin on Friday February 13, 2026 @11:53AM (#47004830)
They said it was Apple Intelligence - they didn't tell you how intelligent it would be!
Re:Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leavi... by threetonesun on Friday February 13, 2026 @12:27PM (#47005247)
I mainly use Siri for cooking timers, I really enjoyed the brief period of time where it started flipping 50 minutes and 15 minutes. And then went back, for some reason, but not after I started using things like 14 minutes and 59 seconds or 51 minutes to make it think just a little harder.
Re:Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leavi... by brynjolf on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @11:56AM (#47063147)
My Siri just forgets to confirm the timer. So I go to find my phone swearing at it just to figure out it did set a timer, but for the wrong time. It simply didn't tell me.
Re:Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leavi... by SoftTalker on Friday February 13, 2026 @01:40PM (#47006104)
First thing I did when I got an iPhone was disable Siri as much as possible.
Re:Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leavi... by mmh0000 on Friday February 13, 2026 @11:06AM (#47004284)
I’m not sure if gitfriend is a typo.

I’m lonely and really want a gitfriend to push and merge with! Please tell the story of how you got one!

/s for the /s impaired

Re:Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leavi... by DonHopkins on Friday February 13, 2026 @11:09AM (#47004309)
I'm afraid of commits.
Re:Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leavi... by dotancohen on Friday February 13, 2026 @11:24AM (#47004484)
You could wait a bit after forking.
Re:Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leavi... by Towaway69 on Friday February 13, 2026 @11:33AM (#47004584)
Squash commit can fix the conflict.
Re:Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leavi... by mmh0000 on Friday February 13, 2026 @11:43AM (#47004715)
Doesn't work if there are too many diffs
Re:Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leavi... by Towaway69 on Friday February 13, 2026 @11:52AM (#47004817)
Diffs can always be patched up.
Re:Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leavi... by BeetleB on Friday February 13, 2026 @01:26PM (#47005943)
It always ends up with a lot of blaming.

In extreme cases, it terminates with a bisect.

Re:Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leavi... by randerson on Friday February 13, 2026 @11:29AM (#47004543)
I'll sometimes ask Siri to take me to a local address, and it'll instead pick some random address in a city 2500+ miles away and start routing me there like that's obviously what i wanted
Re:Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leavi... by yndoendo on Friday February 13, 2026 @11:19AM (#47004421)
From an outsider that used their products years ago.

Apple has shifted from working to produce quality to working to maximize profit ... when it comes to software.

The only thing that would change this would be a new CEO or Apple hemorrhaging money with more people buy alternative solutions.

To be fair ... Microsoft is in the same down hill spiral in quality and the IT industry staying with them allows form the to do this.

Re:Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leavi... by sleight42 on Friday February 13, 2026 @02:28PM (#47006689)
Steve would've never let this shit happen.

This is a way that Tim has been failing Apple and its customers. The quality just isn't there any more. "It [doesnt] just work". And the UX is increasingly terrible.

I have also been considering switching to Android. The Apple tax is decreasingly worth it when it don't buy quality.