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.

  • th3dogcow
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    14 hours ago

    iPhone 13, 26.4.1. Volume buttons and software controls stop working and a hard restart is required. Sometimes doesn’t happen. Sometimes happens multiple times a day.

    Edit: Here is somebody else with the exact same bug as me, video included.