Spellcheck, and it perfectly encapsulates Apple’s view of their customers, that Apple knows what’s best, better than their customers. In iOS, if you have spellcheck turned on, it automatically changes your words based on what it assumes you meant. You have to actually tap the word bubble that pops up to cancel it, which seems completely ass-backwards to me. The word bubble should be their suggestion, but then let the user make that call. They just assume you’re the idiot and they’re right. Sometimes that’s fine, but sometimes I’m just using slang or an abbreviation or a foreign word or it completely picks the wrong word and spellcheck fucks you over.
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Yeah that’s so ducking annoying.
Incredibly, I went out to buy a duck for our Christmas roast the other day, and at one text my wife to tell her “I’m just looking for a fuck”.
They just fucking changed this so it autocorrects to your most commonly fucking typed words, they even fucking pointed it out in the presentation.
See, works great. I even tried to type 🦆ing and it autocorrected to F.
Autocorrect has gotten significantly better. I don’t even need to swype anymore.
Yes, spell check… autocorrect. Rage inducing.
Also, something happened in newer releases of iOS, where sometimes you can’t tap your finger to place the cursor on a paragraph of text. Ends up selecting an entire word instead of putting the cursor between words. Sometimes does that, sometimes places cursor. It’s random, or at least I don’t know what causes it to get in that mode.
Also, another thing that boils my blood. Typing on this thing, getting almost an entire paragraph typed out, then suddenly the last sentence is selected, and the next character I type replaces it all, essentially deleting everything. Sure I can undo but it completely demolishes the stack in my brain that I was trying to convey.
The removal of 3D Touch
I'm still so mad about that. I was so excited to have that feature but I was a broke college student through the whole of its lifespan. I ended up jumping from an iPhone 6 to a 12 mini, missing 3D touch entirely.
Recently switched from Android. What’s pissing me off the most is the back button on every app being on the top left. They chose the least accessible place to put the most common action.
In fairness, most apps have a swipe action to go back. The button is almost vestigial.
same... you can swipe back a lot of times though...
You can swipe left and right along the bottom (where the little bar is) to switch apps.
When windows steal focus in macOS. If I am opening an app it should be able to open in the background while I do something else. Same with a “file copy” dialog in Finder. So many apps and windows repeatedly steal focus and push themselves to the top and it’s so frustrating.
Oh Christ yes. If I’m using an app, then I don’t give a shit if another app wants my attention.
Yes! Don't you bounce your icon at me, bitch. I see you and I will get there when I'm ready.
Siri is pretty much useless. When I see how well something like Alexa works, I really don’t understand how Apple can be so far behind on that technology.
I can’t simply copy a music file and set it as a ring tone. It’s the most basic feature that android has since forever, and I need to do a pagan ritual with iTunes and audio editors to maybe make it work.
wait, you still use your smartphone as a phone?!?
IKR? Talk about the tiniest thing ever...
No and they clearly could but then you wouldn't need to buy them from the ringtone store. In other news, you can use any song as a custom alarm's sound... but not your daily Sleep alarm.
Set a timer on the iPhone, both iPhone and Apple Watch will ring. Set a timer on the Apple Watch, only the watch will ring.
Also all used timers in the past are not synced on both devices.
Also, why doesn’t my watch show the timer I set on the phone by default? I just set a timer for five minutes. Why else do you think I’m looking at the watch?
This drives me bonkers. The timers should be synced.
What bothers me is that Apple doesn’t document its features very completely. Here’s an example:
In CarPlay, I do a lot of navigating using Apple Maps. I discovered years ago that I could say “Details” to Siri to get the map to zoom in to allow me to see upcoming turns. I could say “overview” to get it to zoom out to show me the whole trip on the map. Very useful! I had to discover this feature by accident, though. As far as I know, there’s no button in the interface to do this, and there certainly isn’t a list of commands that Siri users can use, CarPlay or otherwise.
Even more infuriating is that this feature was removed about six months ago. Does it exist under some other spoken command? Who knows? Apple doesn’t document anything!
Complete lack of support for clipboard history. This annoys me daily.
That you can´t disable the open camera gesture on the lock screen. Drives me crazy ...
Dude, I miss when lock screens were lock screens. I want nothing on my lock screen other than an unlock method. I’m always hitting flashlight and camera when I pick up my phone. Then when I cave, and decide to start using the camera button for quick pictures, it requires the most perfect press, right in the center, otherwise it refuses to register. It’s engraging.
Edit: as I type this on an iOS device, I am deciding I hate autocorrect more.
Cutting and pasting files not being a thing
The change a few years back when a lot of apps changed the "maximize" button to full screen instead and not only does that suck it's inconsistent between apps
There not being a shortcut key to switch between monitor modes
They can't keep the best part of the OS consistent. The system preferences menu was well organized years ago. Every few months they fuck with it in a way that makes it a little worse
"Natural" scrolling suddenly was default and precisely opposite to how people had been scrolling for 20 years
Updates keep changing apps -- just pick a way and stick with it
Xcode is bloated garbage
Natural scrolling confused me for a good hour or so, but I figured I’d stick with it. I’m glad I did, because it actually does make more sense to me.
All the processing power in an iPad, but no calculator. But my Apple watch has one.
MacBook: I use two screens and I constantly move the bottom bar between them by accident. The only built-in way to override that is to fix both screens as the same workspace, but this means any time you use fullscreen, the other screen also switches to "another" workspace.
Separate volume sliders in iOS for ringtone,media, notification, and alarms
The lack of real mouse support in iPad OS.
My gaming rig is currently out of commission undergoing repairs, but I was luckily able to continue participating in my multiplayer Baldur's Gate 3 nights using Nvidia's GeForce Now streaming. However, I've been forced to learn how to play using a controller, because iPad OS does not have real mouse support.
I was able to plug my iPad into a thunderbolt dock which gives me keyboard input, wired internet, and a "cursor", but the cursor is only a simulation of touch input rather than an actual cursor.
I can see how for games that could be frustrating, but when going around the general interface I quite like the adaptive cursor and how it snaps to buttons and changes based on context.
the Podcast app eats 30% of my battery in an hour just listening to an audio file....
When disabling WiFi or Bluetooth in the quick toggles, it just turns it off until tomorrow. No way to change that behavior. That just really annoys me.
The mouse acceleration present in all Apple platforms that you can’t turn off unless you change system files on a Mac. It makes using an iPad as a work computer difficult.
the app store doesn't let you see if an app has an ad banner built in or not.
ill be deep in the cold cold ground before i let some guitar tuner app download ads in the background and shove it in my face...
but how do i know which ones are bullshit without installing and uninstalling each one?
it's so stupid.
also, if i hold down the wifi quick toggle when it's locked, it asks for my pin and then just turns it off... that should be a single press.
if i hold it while it's unlocked, i get the expected wifi settings menu, so i can select a network or whathaveyou...
death by 1,000 paper cuts
oh and to beat a dead horse: not letting me sideload my own apps on my own device is complete bullshit
macOS: Lack of official support for models that are still relevant. I've got the last MacBook Pro that was fully upgradable, a mid 2012 model with a dual core 4th gen i7. You can upgrade everything in it, and I have. 16gb of RAM, two disks, one an SSD, and the other a large HDD. But the latest official version of MacOS is Catalina. But I'm running Ventura on it now with no issues. And in similar respect, no upgradability at all of the new Macs after purchase. It's very anti consumer.
The TrueType vulnerability they patched in January 2023 without notifying the public of active exploitation, leaving Kaspersky to discover it while responding to security incidents.
Here’s another one— click through on macOS. Coming from other systems I find it infuriating. Not just the click though itself but its inconsistency, where it works in browsers and some other selected programs but not in most.
For those not aware, click through is when you’re focused on another window and click on this one. With click through, it will immediately action what you click without you have to click first to the window then click again. This isn’t inherently inferior, but I really don’t like it personally. And it is absolutely impossible to change this behavior on MacOS by any means. Believe me, I researched this extensively.
The headphone decibel meter on the watch doesn't mirror the phone. I like to make sure I'm not blowing my ears out listening to music, but the watch one only ever shows if music is played directly from the watch, so if I want to know how loud my headphones are I have to pull out the phone.
For the longest time I thought it was a bug so I spent months chatting with support. Took forever to get anywhere because the support reps weren't really familiar with the feature, lol...
Here are some things, some minor and some major, in general I think Apple software is not up to their previous standars and just mediocre, not bad, but neither good anymore…
- Phone app doesn’t have an in depth history of every call, just some of the last conversations.
- Spellcheck: someten alterado Saiz it (someone already said it…)
- Maps: Sent several corrections with detailed info and images but more than half are not fixed. I just don’t care anymore.
- Siri: I just don’t know where to begin.
- Apple Arcade: searching through Apple Arcade games is a nightmare.
iPadOS using an external keyboard:
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There’s no way to force the software to input a lowercase letter when it wants to autocapitalize. For example: when putting in an email into a form — where the input doesn’t have proper attributes — it’ll default to inputting an uppercase letter and you can’t force a lowercase. You end up having to type the starting letter twice and deleting the first letter. (Have to type “Eemail” then delete the first letter.) Edit: Apparently you can tap shift twice to go lowercase, as described here (https://lemmy.world/comment/6294849). Thank you! I obviously can’t recall any time Apple has described this behavior anywhere.
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The second and worse thing is that language icon that shows up when you type. That little thing that hovers in the corner of the app mostly in the way of the input. Yes you can move it, but now it’s in the way of something else. It’s basically useless, and apps end up getting all funky looking because elements try to move around it. This is especially bad in stage manager. They need to axe it or move it to one of the myriad commands you can access by holding Option.
Edit(s) as I think of them:
watchOS:
- Let me download a podcast anytime I want. Put a freaking button in the podcast app that says “download to watch.” I don’t care if it eats battery. The current way to manage podcasts on the watch is abysmal.
iOS:
- Someone thought it was a good idea to add bird sounds to the “rain” background noise, and I’m so mad about it. I want rain, not loud bird garbage. I turn on the sound because I’m trying to drown out noise like that. (Aside that’s not Apple’s fault: I’d love to buy something like Dark Noise, but I don’t want a subscription for that, and $50 for the one time purchase is crazy.)