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.

  • @bigredgiraffe@lemmy.world
    5•2 days ago

    Oh I have a very specific one for you buckle up haha. So one thing in macOS that gets progressively better and worse over time is actual multi-monitor support. It’s fine but I swear either no one at Apple uses multiple monitors or everyone actually has only cinema displays arranged in a horizontal line haha. I have used OSX/macOS for a long time and it was much worse for a long time but had gotten pretty workable then BAM around Tahoe or so arrangement is buried in some menu now and I’m not sure the function of the row of displays actually is now? Anyway, it’s mostly great, this is the one thing that apparently turns into a rant haha! Okay two things, bring back eGPUs on Apple Silicon :D

    • @kumquat_spritz@lemmy.worldOP
      4•2 days ago

      no one at Apple uses multiple monitors or everyone actually has only cinema displays arranged in a horizontal line

      when I walk around the office I see most people with either 1 or 2 monitors. Very rare to see 3+. No Cinema displays haha, those are antiques. We’re mostly using studio displays & lg ultra fines, and yes, arranged in a horizontal line lol

      bring back eGPUs

      heh, wouldnt that be nice? noting for the record that there is now a semi-official way to use egpus for ai