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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 (aka radars) and/or bother the right teams/people to get bugs 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.

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  • iOS/iPadOS and macOS issues only. Please ensure that you are running the latest version of iOS/iPadOS (18.3.2) or macOS (15.3.2)
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Edit 1: thanks for the reports everyone! Some of these require a little more research/testing so while it might take me a little longer to get back to you, that doesn't mean I haven't seen your message :)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

The spotlight search box can be used for (simple) math prompts. My Mac (M1 iMac on 15.3.2) has its language set to Dutch. In Dutch, the official way of formatting decimal numbers is the inverse of the us-English way: groups of numbers are separated by a . and decimals with a , . So, for example: 12.345,67 (12 thousand three-hundred forty-five and 67/100).

When following the official number formatting of the configured language, math in Spotlight works fine. But Dutch people are also human and make small mistakes sometimes, and we also sometimes use a dot to indicate a decimal. But if you do that, spotlight seems to just disregard the decimal and starts showing completely unexpected results:

5,0 + 5,0 = 10 (expected) 5,0 + 5.0 = 55 5.0 + 5.0 = 110

Interestingly, while typing the above on my iPhone 12 w iOS 18.3.2, the autocorrect suggestion given after pressing the =-sign was exactly the same…

Also, this behavior has been around for years, not just the recent MacOS versions. I’m not sure if this also is present when using other languages.

Thanks for your post and work, and say Hi from me to Tim!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Round 2 :)

This one is very annoying when I have Safari windows already open on my secondary display and trying to create a new Safari window on my primary display because it then needs an extra click to focus the window.

Since this occurs with multiple apps (and also third-party ones like BBEdit), this is very likely not an issue in each of the apps but rather in AppKit or the windowing system.

FB17088400 Opening a new window of various apps via the Dock icon while the app is inactive does not focus it when it is created on another displayNormally, opening a new window of an app that supports this via the dock icon (e.g. Finder, Terminal, Safari) focuses the newly created window. However, this does not work correctly when the app is not focused and the previously focused window of the app is on a different display. In that case, it will create the new window on the current display, but keep the previously focused window focused.

This does not happen if either the app creating the new window is already active, or there are no windows of that app, or the previously active window is on the same display as the new window is created from using the Dock.

I’ve found this issue to occur in the following apps:

  • Finder
  • Terminal
  • Safari
  • TextEdit
  • QuickTime Player

To reproduce:

  1. Have at least two displays connected
  2. Open Terminal (or any other app of the list above) with at least one open window
  3. Focus another app (e.g. Finder’s desktop) on the display the Terminal window is not on
  4. Control-click on Terminal’s dock icon on that display
  5. Select “New Window”

Observed result: Terminal creates a new window, but does not focus it. Instead, the last focused Terminal window is activated.

Expected result: The newly created window is always focused (and appears on the display the Dock was used from).


System info:

  • MacBook Air M2, 2022, 8GB RAM, 256GB storage
    • macOS 15.3.2 (24D81)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

A not very important but annoying one - iOS keyboard dictionary for British English contains American words and spellings (e.g. gotten, yogurt etc.)

[–] WolfLink 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The monitor calibration tool on macOS does not support HDR properly, resulting in severe miscalibration.

Also while writing this post I realized “miscalibration” is not in iOS’s spellcheck dictionary lol.

Also Apple doesn’t fully support high refresh rate displays. My current display Apple supports as 100Hz when on Linux and Windows I can run it as 120Hz or 144Hz.

(M2 Mac Mini running 15.3.2)

External monitor is connected via thunderbolt to DisplayPort cable. It’s connected to my Windows/Linux computer via DisplayPort cable directly to the GPU.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Firstly, I have to thank you for doing this - you’re awesome.

Given your

Can’t help with general UI/UX complaints

I am unsure you can help, but I’ll drop it in here anyway.

Device: iPhone 14 Pro on iOS 18.4 (released by the time of this comment)

Issue: When screen recording, the Dynamic Island activity shows up in the recording - this is intended. However, if I do something in an app which full-screens the UI (as in the app hides the status bar - for example, I tapped a photo in the Photos app to hide everything but the photo, zooming in also works I think), the island activity disappears, but the black cutout remains in the video until a few seconds later, when it too abruptly and weirdly disappears with some weird flickers and other visual glitches. I can’t word it properly, so here’s a video (idk how to upload it so here’s the first way I found to do this - lmk of any other way to do this): https://streamable.com/ko8gsy

My test case: I am playing music, and the dynamic island shows the now playing activity. I start screen recording in order to demonstrate the issue. I then go into an app which has the capability to hide the status bar (clock, wifi/cellular, battery and the dynamic island activities) - in my case, I choose to tap on a photo in the Photos app to hide all but the photo itself. I zoom into the photo before I do that so that the island isn’t on the black part of the UI (issue would be invisible). After tapping and when the status bar disappears, the activity does so too, but the cutout/“pill” remains until a few moments later, when it glitches out when it abruptly disappears too.

Has been happening since the iOS 18 dev betas in the summer at the least.

Sorry for the incredibly bad wording. Lmk if you need more info

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I already have tickets for this, but I use the phone as a music player, and when using Siri it’s exceptionally bad at handling albums/bands with other languages, as it tries to convert the foreign words to English, then search. Double metaphone exists, y’all. :)

Could they also add a way to say “play album X”? 50/50 it will play artist X instead of album X. And if I say play album X by artist Y, it’ll either play that artist, that album by that artist, or a different album with the right name.

Thanks for doing all this!

[–] WolfLink 1 points 2 days ago

Using a song as an alarm sound only works if it’s locally downloaded in Music and there are some codec and bitrate restrictions as well, but this is never explained anywhere. I’ve had to figure it out by trial and error.

At the very least there should be a warning in the Alarm app when you choose a song as an alarm that isn’t going to work.

[–] sturger 1 points 2 days ago

Friend running latest M4 Max Studio. Studio display configured as main monitor connected to 1st TB5 port. Secondary Dell 4k monitor connected to HDMI.
Latest MacOS thinks the HDMI monitor is on, even when it is powered off. This means that a second Firefox window on screen 2 is unreachable without powering on the second monitor. Would be nice to have a feature that would return all open windows to the active screen(s).
Better yet if there was M-TAB or M-` would show the second window and open it on a screen that is actually on.
Big hassle for multi-monitor setups. Thanks for taking the time to do this.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I have this notch in my MacBook Pro display, and system tray icons just disappear behind it once I have too many of them. I need a third party app like Ice or Bartender to fix this bug, and honestly, it’s embarrassing for Apple to not have fixed this in so many years.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

yup that's a great callout, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

The notch is a design crime.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

PM me your Apple zero-days. /s

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

nice try, fbi

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I recognize this is a “feature” but I think it should be treated like a bug, or at least let us turn it off!!

Whatever egghead came up with the “keyboard hot zone” that dynamically (and invisibly) increases the size of the keys based on what it thinks you’ll type deserves to be tarred and feathered. Problem is, it’s always fucking wrong. It happened already typing this text, the above “increases” was first typed as “increased” because it expected “d” and thus made the “d” key zone slightly larger and the “s” zone slightly smaller. I tried typing “NCASE”, like the PC case brand, the other day, and I had to try repeatedly to get the “s” key to pop. I kept hitting the “a” key because it expected “NCAA” and increased that key zone.

Just the iPhone keyboard overall is bad. Inconsistent layouts based on where you’re typing. No number row. No period/comma (unless you’re typing a website). Just why.

[–] WolfLink 2 points 2 days ago

Bruh I never made the connection that this was happening this explains so much

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I suspect that this is a feature, or at least a partner-related market decision, rather than a bug, and I suspect the most you’ll be able to say is “the weather is nice today” or “thank you for sharing this”, buuuut…

DisplayPort 1.2 Multi-Stream Transport: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253432530?sortBy=rank

With a full implementation of DisplayPort 1.2 MST it should be possible to output to two independent (non-mirrored) monitors over a single USB-C port. This can be via an MST hub/dongle or using monitors that support DisplayPort MST daisy chaining. This is a core part of the spec to the point that my Steam Deck supports this.

macOS, however, will treat MST displays as targets for mirroring instead of separate displays. The only way to have an elegant “one wire” experience with a MacBook is to use a much more expensive Thunderbolt dock or a dock that uses a DisplayLink chipset which requires a driver to be installed (as DisplayLink are a company unrelated to DisplayPort).

It’s worth noting that macOS does support MST in the form of two video streams for one very high-resolution monitor, which is kind of interesting.

I’d love it if we could use MST docks/hubs/splitters with macOS rather than either needing expensive third-party peripherals or plugging multiple wires into our MacBooks. Especially because most office setups I’ve seen recently use MST hubs if they offer dual monitors!

Thanks for reading this far, and more importantly thank you for soliciting feedback in this forum and manner. Best of luck!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Oh this is why my two monitor dongle only works on Linux.

I thought it was weird that I couldn't get the second monitor to work without plugging it directly into a Mac, but I put it down to being a cheap dongle.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

MacBook laptop, latest MacOS.

When I hop on a zoom call, I always get a pop in the toolbar about filters. There’s an x on the dialog bubble but you can’t x out of it.

When my external monitor shuts off, it cuts my internet connection whether it’s WiFi or plugged in via Ethernet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Could you please clarify what you mean by pop in the toolbar about filters? Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but this doesn't sound like a first party dialog. Alternatively if you could share a screenshot that would be helpful.

Which model of external monitor are you using and how is it connected to your Mac?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

No this happens to me too - it's the portrait effects feature for all video apps that use the cam

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I have a mac m3 I'm forced to use for work. It is managed by my organization (I'm not sure exactly what that entails).

There is no screensaver that just turns my screen black. I don't want animation, I don't want color, I just want the screen to be blank.

Speaking of, I kept hearing my fan spin up and was wondering why. Flurry screensaver was just taking up like 2.5 CPUs and a couple gigs of ram. No clue why. It was actually supposed to be the photos screensaver, but I'm assuming it was angry that the photos screensaver was pointed at a folder with no photos (nor anything else). This was when the PC was running and in use so the screensaver should not even have been running.

Sometimes, when logging in, the password will just not work. If I click off my user and click on admin or another, it will then work fine. Multiple occurrences, not sure of cause.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Why do you want a blank screen instead of the display turning off?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

I actually never use the laptop's display; it goes to a monitor via HDMI that I switch between sources. It could cut output to the HDMI port and I'd be equally happy

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I have a petty one:

  1. Go to Settings and disable Apple Intelligence
  2. use Siri voice control for a task
  3. the Siri icon thing remains at the bottom of the screen because it’s listening for the next command.
  4. tap elsewhere on the screen

Expected: Siri goes away

Encountered: the tap does nothing - Siri will continue listening until you say “thank you” or turn off the screen.

Workaround: restart the phone and the problem goes away.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I’d settle for Apple Intelligence not turning itself back on with every iOS update.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

yeah that's a good callout, thx!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The (picture) convert function in iOS shortcuts ignores HDR. So when I edit my HDR ProRAW photos and then convert them to HEIF to save space after I‘m happy with my edit, the image looks SDR/dull. It’s bad enough the only native way is constructing your own shortcut.. How else are you supposed to use ProRAW without absolutely trashing your storage?

[–] WolfLink 1 points 2 days ago

To add to this, iOS (and macOS) are very sensitive about what a file needs to have to be recognized as HDR. A lot of 3rd party HDR files just won’t render as HDR even though the data is all there.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Sometimes app icons stay in their dark version even though the UI is in light mode. Was still present in iOs 18.3. just updated to 18.4 so don’t know if it has been fixed yet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Oh hey, awesome!

I'll just paste here what I've already written in Feedback Assistant.

FB15922287 Messages sometimes only allows you to send SMS despite the recipient supporting RCS

  • Device: any
  • App: Messages
  • Conversation type: 1-on-1, RCS

Sometimes, Messages only allows you to send SMS despite the recipient supporting RCS. During a conversation, receiving an RCS message even briefly changes the text in the input bar to RCS before switching back to SMS.

This seems to be caused by failing to deliver an RCS message sometime before, which can always happen (bad connection on either side, recipient is offline, other network error, etc.)

To reproduce:

  1. Take recipient phone offline
  2. Send an RCS message
  3. Wait for it to fail to be delivered
  4. Take recipient phone online

Observed result: Messages shows the recipient as supporting SMS only, ~~even when they are actively sending you RCS messages.~~

Expected result: RCS is never artificially disallowed by Messages.


This also happens if you use the “Send as SMS” entry in the context menu on a stuck message.


Looks like at this point receiving an RCS message fixes this. However one sent RCS message that falls back to SMS will still lock the conversation to SMS until you get a reply.


FB16920262 Separate window for single conversation does not mark messages as read

  • Device: Mac
  • App: Messages
  • Conversation type: 1-on-1, RCS (probably any)

When opening a conversation in a new window, this window does not mark the messages as read when active like the main window.

To reproduce:

  • Open conversation in new window (Control click on conversation, Open in New Window)
  • Receive a message
  • Focus the separate window/scroll to the bottom

Observed result: The received message is not marked as read

Expected result: The received message is marked as read like in the main window


FB17053263 When "Group windows by application" is enabled, selecting a specific window from Mission Control does not actually focus the window

  • Device: Mac
  • App: Mission Control

In Mission Control, with the "Group windows by application" setting enabled, you can scroll up to unstack the windows of an application to allow you to select a specific one. In this view, clicking one of them focuses the application but not the window, leading to a weird state where the application is focused but none of its windows are, and the menu bar also isn't interactible until you click on another window.

Steps to reproduce:

  • Turn on "Group windows by application" in System Settings (Desktop & Dock)
  • Open an application such as TextEdit, open one or multiple windows
  • Open Mission Control
  • Scroll up on the TextEdit group to expand its windows
  • Click one of the TextEdit windows

Observed result: The application is focused but none of its windows are, nor are they ordered to front. This also looks really glitchy because Mission Control will show the animation that the selected window is expected to be in front but it will then move back behind any other windows that were in front of it after the animation is done

Expected result: The selected window is focused and ordered to front, like when you don’t scroll up.


System info:

  • MacBook Air M2, 2022, 8GB RAM, 256GB storage
    • macOS 15.3.2 (24D81)
  • iPhone 13 mini, 128GB storage
    • iOS 18.3.2 (22D82)

I have a couple more watchOS ones, and a couple wonky ones that I either don't know how to reliably reproduce, or can't reproduce anymore right now but also don't know if they're fixed yet. But these should be the bugs I can think of right now that I can reliably reproduce that aren't watchOS. If I find/remember more I'll post them.

This also just made me check and close 2 feedbacks that did get fixed in the meantime :^)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Device: iPhone 15 Pro Max (iOS 18.3.2)

Description: I created a Shortcut called “Brush Teeth” that uses a combination of vibrates, timers, and spoken words to help make sure you’re adequately brushing.

I have the Zarvox (US English) voice selected for all of the spoken words, but oftentimes it will use the default voice for one or two of the steps in the shortcut. Sometimes all the steps use the correct voice, and sometimes a random step (or two) will use the default voice.

The shortcut is as follows:

Vibrate
Speak “Go”
Wait 30 seconds
Vibrate
Speak “Switch”
Wait 30 seconds
Vibrate
Speak “Switch”
Wait 30 seconds
Vibrate
Speak “Switch”
Wait 30 seconds
Vibrate
Vibrate
Vibrate
Speak “All done”
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

iPhone SE2:

  1. Use until it turns off due to empty battery
  2. Put on charger, wait for it to boot.
  3. Unlock at the earliest opportunity.

Problem: after unlocking, the background disappears (goes black).

Only the home screen though, the lock screen wallpaper works. ‘Fix’ is to change the wallpaper.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

On my iPhone 15 pro using the windows 11 phone link will cause my phone to stop connecting to other devices.

Basically set up phone link so it can send notifications to the PC, and use it for a bit. After that shut down (or just walk away) from the PC and try to connect to a Bluetooth device (AirPods for example). Most of the time it won’t work. My AirPods for example will get stuck connecting. I haven’t found the exact rhyme or reason of when it does work. But usually when it’s broken turning Bluetooth off and back on again (in system settings) fixes it.

[–] Reverendender 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

The retro Mac screensaver in MacOS crashes like 97% of the time. I have confirmed it's not just for me.

Also: Can you please ask someone to add the OpenDyslexic font to apple books?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Could you please clarify what you mean by retro Mac screensaver? To my knowledge this isn't the name of any stock screensaver. Also could you please share the specs of your Mac?

[–] Reverendender 1 points 3 days ago

The literal name of the screensaver is "Macintosh".

Specs:

Cheers!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

apple notes on ios, ipados when a note is too long, adding more text at the bottom of the note, sometimes causes the cursor/screen to jump up. issue disappears when creating a new note/reducing the oglethorpe of the note. not sure what the limit is when a note is too long, using search function sometimes does not properly jump to the search term and high light. it jumps to some random location that does not have search term when writing a note, switching to another application and back, loses the original cursor position

all still happening on ios 18.2.1. iphone 14 pro, ipad os 17.5.1 ipad mini 6

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

oglethorpe?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I know one thing people complained on Reddit before is that the current shortcuts settings doesn’t tell you where the shortcut was duplicated. See this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/s/JjTxfDLjSY

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

Not all Live Photos can be used for Lock Screen. You get an error saying this photo can’t be animated or some shit. Many different hardware versions and latest software.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Not really a bug, but I hate the blank space at the top of a macbook screen if you set your dock to auto-hide. It’s a waste of screen real estate.

[–] WolfLink 1 points 2 days ago

?

I have my dock and top bar set to auto-hide and my windows typically take up the full screen, wasting no space at all.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Bug Report: Missing AppleScript Introduction on First Login

Summary

After logging in for the first time, users do not receive any introduction or guidance on using AppleScript. As a result, one of macOS’s most powerful automation features remains hidden and underutilized.

Steps to Reproduce

Set up a new macOS device or create a new user account.

Complete the initial macOS setup process.

Log in for the first time.

Observe the lack of any AppleScript introduction or onboarding.

Expected Behavior

After logging in for the first time, the user should be presented with an introduction to AppleScript, including a brief explanation of its capabilities and an option to open the Script Editor with example scripts.

Actual Behavior

No introduction, tutorial, or prompt related to AppleScript is displayed. Users remain unaware of its presence unless they actively seek it out.

Environment

macOS Version: All

Device Model: All

User Type: First-time user (new account or fresh macOS installation)

Reproducibility: 100% (occurs on all tested machines)

Additional Information

AppleScript is a core feature of macOS but is not surfaced to users who may benefit from it.

Other macOS features, such as Shortcuts, receive more prominent onboarding.

A simple onboarding dialog or notification could greatly improve discovery and adoption of AppleScript.

Suggested Fix

Introduce a brief AppleScript onboarding experience upon first login, possibly including:

A welcome screen explaining what AppleScript is.

A button to open the Script Editor with example scripts.

A link to documentation or tutorials.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago (2 children)

dressing up your pet feature request up as a bug report isn’t going to work

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

It's totally gonna work /s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

lol he just made up an “expected behavior”.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Just my personal opinion, I think this is unlikely to happen. Even the official docs for AS are part of the Documentation Archive. You're better off using Shortcuts if you can.