I got some excellent feedback from y’all last year, so let’s do round 2!

A bit about me: I’m an Apple software QA engineer (yes, we exist) and I’d love to hear about bugs you’ve encountered. I can create bug reports internally (aka radars) and/or bother the right teams/people to get issues fixed. To be clear this is not official company business, thoughts/opinions are my own, and I’m doing this in my free time to keep Lemmy awesome and because I love you guys.

Alt/throwaway account for obvious reasons.

IMPORTANT PLEASE READ BEFORE POSTING:

  • iOS/iPadOS, macOS, & watchOS issues only. Please ensure that you are running latest public release (26.4.1) or latest beta (as of today that’s 26.5 beta 3).
  • Please provide detailed step-by-step instructions on how to reproduce the bug. Vague reports such as “battery life bad” or “UI laggy” are not helpful. So yes, that means you should ELI5. If I don’t have enough info from you, then there’s a good chance I won’t be able to reproduce it on my test devices which in turn means I can’t report it.
  • Provide hardware details in your report (i.e. model, year, device specs)

Things I can’t help with:

  • general UI/UX complaints, use the feedback form for that.
  • 3rd party (non-Apple) accessories, hardware, or software. This includes monitors, keyboards/mice, thunderbolt docks, cameras, etc.
  • Issues that only appear sometimes or randomly. If it can’t be reproduced consistently, then it probably can’t be reported. Unfortunately I can’t just tell the devs I saw a ghost 👻

General Disclaimer

I can’t guarantee that anything I report will be fixed and due to the nature of how we work I won’t be able to share status updates, but I’ll certainly try my best to shuffle things along internally.

Please don’t ask about upcoming hardware/software. Whatever it is, I have no idea what you’re talking about and no, it doesn’t exist.

Thanks and looking forward to hearing about what’s been bugging you 🐛

edit 1: added sporadic issues to things I can’t help with.

  • @listless
    16•2 days ago

    I solemnly swear that even in 26.3.1 it is not reading my keypresses properly.

    I used to type like a fiend but for several years the typing experience is degraded. Is is multitouch somehow trying to read something between my two thumbs?

    Also that period key that appears when I’m in the URL bar but typing a search with spaces that are all suddenly dots and it thinks it’s a malformed URL? OMG move it or kill it with fire.