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’s26.5 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.
Here’s a tough one: Why does Home turn on both of my LG TVs random times of day, both at the same time, even in the middle of the night. LG support pointed towards Apple about this, and indeed it stopped right after I deleted both TVs from my Home app. I have a ton of iOS/iPadOS/macOS/watchOS/tvOS devices so impossible to tell which of them might it have been, if any, but they all are running ~latest public versions, and macOS is ruled out by not being on on couple of occasions. Checked that there are no Automations or Shortcuts etc. anywhere.
This is almost as infuriating as when Apple Watch on my wrist used to (not lately anymore) wake me up in the middle of the night saying it has updates it can install, not respecting my Sleep mode absolutely-no-notifications setting. And there not being a ”Install update when put in charger” option instead of the ”Install this night” (but yeah this is dumb UX not bug)
That sounds frustrating. Probably won’t be able to help with this unfortunately as this involves 3rd party products. Basically I’d need access to both of your TVs