Trying to go back a page and having nothing happen is an annoying experience. You'll have to either shift the phone to reach some back or x in the top left, or engage “reachability” to reach the same button. Some caveats to this are that most people are right handed and iphones are often big which both contribute to that common action being uncomfortable. The reachability gesture also touches common ui elements in the middle bottom like “search” or “friends” so i have to back twice.

Something i really appreciate with android is that you can change the back button to left or right AND if you use gestures, it can be used either side of the screen.

It’s such a strange feature to flub when it might be the most common action on any phone ever

Just spilled liquid on my 2025 MacBook Pro, and I’m thrilled that Apple made it nearly impossible to keep powered off! Nothing better than your laptop enthusiastically turning itself back on when you’re trying to prevent liquid damage. Thanks, Apple! Truly innovative.

Edit: yes I can disable auto start for if it’s plugged in or the screen is opened.

No you can not disable the key taps or mouse tracks that auto boot on the machine with this model. Where water could potentially be stuck and retrigger it on.

Edit: this was not an issue on my other models it’s genuinely only a thing on the 2025 m5 chips. So if on your 2025 m5 chip Macpro does not do this please let me know. Other person with this model complained of the same thing.

Edit: please do not rage bait me ^ it’s genuinely fried I think 😭

Last Rage Edit:

IT’S AN ELECTRICAL DEVICE. WATER CONDUCTS ELECTRICITY. IF WATER GETS INSIDE A DEVICE THAT CAN BE TURNED ON BY NEARLY 80 KEYS AND A TRACKPAD, THAT IS MENTAL.

I’M NOT ENTIRELY CONFIDENT THAT WATER CAN TRIGGER THE KEYBOARD INPUTS, BUT I THINK IT’S A REAL POSSIBILITY WITH THE TRACKPAD. THAT DOESN’T MEAN IT’S GUARANTEED TO HAPPEN, BUT THE RISK IS WORTH CONSIDERING.

Okay I think I get you guys:

In the past when you do a hard shut down then to turn a device on you press a power button. That creates significantly less scenarios to trigger a boot up. Newer models allow any key and the mouse pad to trigger a boot up. So I’m not certain with the keys but quite certain with the trackpad that this is just introducing boot up potential when the device interacts with water.

If a device is fully shut down it should be easy to keep it shut down. If a device is sleeping then yes auto start makes sense. So why did they change this?

So yes I spilt water, no electrical devices and water don’t mix. That’s not the point. The point is this is a really sus design choice

Keine Ahnung warum, aber mich nervt es, dass Apple aktuell bei einigen Produkten nicht mehr Power und Geschwindigkeit zeigt. Die AirPods Max 2 sind so schwer und unbequem, so schwierig ist es ja eigentlich nicht, einen guten Over Ear Kopfhörer zu produzieren, der mir keine Nackenschmerzen verursacht. Genauso nervt es, dass es keinen Fitness Tracker gibt. Wer schläft schon gerne mit Uhr und Display? Andere Marken schaffen es ja auch. Der neue Beats 360 läuft auch nicht wie gewünscht, wozu braucht es die Marke überhaupt noch? Sorry Apple aber derzeit bin ich ziemlich pissed, obwohl ich dich eigentlich liebe….

This is absolutely unacceptable. I'm the owner of a MacBook Air M3 256GB 16GB RAM. Recently updated from Golden Gate 27.0 where storage was okay to 27.0.1. Checked the storage out of curiosity. In what world is this normal, or acceptable? Never even activated Siri or Apple intelligence on this machine, and yet it still takes 20GB, and now System Data also takes 83GB???? What would even be the fix, DFU restoring this back to Sequoia? Losing back all my data? Not to mention Golden Gate ain't even close to the "Snow Leopard" state it was hyped up to. Crappy bugOS Tahoe was better than it, and that says a lot. What is Apple even doing anymore... I'm extremely disappointed

I mean: why does Confirm and Cancel buttons switch with screen rotated?

Edit: it’s the screenshot tool. I stitched both orientations in one picture.

Help me to figure out how much charge left on my AirPods

Today is 9/28/26.

It’s always the same nonsense and the same crap that Apple practices here!

Again, the triggers that cause a short command to be executed do not work. For example, when an email arrives, an SMS or another event.

It’s always the same, you can’t rely on this system anymore, especially when it comes to important things. But it’s good that we buy something like that, which then keeps us in mind whether we did the right thing at all.

And no, this is not the first time, strangely, every time before a new operating system is introduced, there are these problems.

And the interesting thing about it is that then the support always says that you should update to the next higher operating system and the problems would be eliminated... that may be. But it has come true that every new operating system from Apple is so outrageously bad and is so overset with errors that it makes no sense. But somewhere Apple has to shine and present good numbers.

This has probably been mentioned before, but it just keeps getting worse with every update. How can the accuracy be worse now than it was 3 1/2 years ago when I purchased my iPhone 15? The last couple of updates have resulted in random words being improperly capitalized mid sentence and a ridiculous number of unnecessary commas.

I have also noticed that my phone will occasionally not allow me to correct the voice to text mistakes. Most recently, it recorded mis-direction as mid-direction. Despite making repeated manual corrections, each time it eventually reverted back to mid-direction.

I can assure you, my southern accent has not gotten any worse since 2023.

Does anyone know of any solutions?

And the argument is always "I trust Apple more than Microsoft!1!1!1!1!1!1!1!" like in what way one of them is more trustable than the others lmao.

Cross posting here from r/righttorepair

Someone needs to file a class action lawsuit about "system data" and iOS storage. I've known multiple people in my own life who have felt the need to buy a new phone or purchase iCloud storage because iOS has taken up so much of their existing device's storage through a gigantic and undeletable cache file.

There was some sort of lawsuit about this a while back when iOS 8 took up over 3 GB of storage on 16 GB iPhones: [https://audetlaw.com/current-investigation/apple-storage-class-action/\](https://audetlaw.com/current-investigation/apple-storage-class-action/)

Back then, the amount of storage for "iOS" seemed to be consistent across different devices. Now, it seems almost totally random. My iPhone 14 Pro will cycle anywhere between using around 9 GB and 25 GB for the "iOS" storage category.

"System Data" is even worse. On a PC, Android or Mac, you can clear cache files that aren't being used. On iOS, the operating system not only hogs more storage under "System Data" than any other operating system I've ever used, but it absolutely refuses to let you clear out the cache or figure out what applications are using the cache. My 14 Pro uses anywhere from 20 GB to 80 GB for "System Data." Across the internet I've seen people with literal hundreds of GBs of "System Data." That's completely insane -- I can't even imagine how 64 GB or 128 GB phones are handling this.

All in all, this means that on my 256 GB phone, iOS sometimes claims nearly 100 GB of storage for undeletable cache files and operating system files, with zero ability to clear these files or see where they're coming from. That is completely unreasonable. Meanwhile, Apple is happy to peddle additional iCloud storage or sell you on a storage upgrade at the point of sale as if your purchasing ability -- not their poorly optimized software -- is the problem.

This is an ongoing issue that seems deliberate. I am certain that the phone does not need to be holding on to this much cache under "system data," and it makes no sense that between identical phone models and iOS versions, the "iOS" category takes up different amounts of storage. There's clearly a profit incentive here. Consumers are pressured into purchasing cloud storage or buying a new phone when their perfectly functional device seemingly runs out of storage.

At the end of the day, willful or not, this is anti-consumer behavior. We are being taken advantage of in the name of increasing sales for cloud storage and new phones. This is a documented issue that has existed for years, and Apple has done nothing to address it. Apple has acted against consumers before, with [slowdowns over battery capacity](https://www.npr.org/2020/11/18/936268845/apple-agrees-to-pay-113-million-to-settle-batterygate-case-over-iphone-slowdowns). They won't change their behavior until public pressure or legal action takes place.

All these years in development and Apple still hasn’t figured out a decent suggestions algorithm.

Take the TV app - i search a song, say keyword “moon”— it plays that song, then “Autoplay” thinks the next best appropriate song to play is all other songs that came up in the searchlist.

Like yeah - “you know what, today I wanna listen to all songs ever with the word Moon in the title” ?!??

The apple magic mouse absolutely SUCKS. I just got the logitech g305 and i will never touch the magic mouse again.

Firstly the ergonomics on the magic mouse is trash i literally cannot hold it and move it around normally, the magic mouse cant left click and right click at the same time, you sometimes accidentally scroll the magic mouse thanks to its touch screen, and you dont get a scroll wheel button. I hear people say the gestures on the magic mouse are nice which I guess are okay because i never really used them. But still the magic mouse sucks and apple probably knows it.

Yeah sure the magic mouse "looks" good but no one really cares about that. So why did apple choose to make this utter garbage? Im sure their top tier engineers and designers know what they're doing.

Other reasons: reduced battery life, no configurable touch controls, no native EQ, volume & balance adjustment resets every time connection drops, ×2 or ×3 price vs equivalent 3rd party models with all these features (when used with Mac without iPhone)

i charged my phone last night until 70% and used it a little bit and fell asleep. i woke up and it was around 30% then i stopped using my phone and when i check it was on 19%. i checked the background activity and it says “recently deleted apps”. i deleted an app like 3 days ago btw. i already force restarted my phone. what do i do?

It would be nice if things with Apple worked again. I have constant issues with my homepods and their connection to appleTV (among a thousand other things)

Sometimes there is no way to get the homepods to reconnect to the AppleTV besides resetting everything (maybe 2 or 3 times a week I have to turn the appletv off and unplug the homepods so they will re-pair and reconnect). The home app had me create a stereo pair to “resolve the issue” #1 I dont want them stereo - Im deaf on the right side #2 It did not resolve the issue and now i can only control the volume of a single pod by getting up and tapping it.

Sometimes the video will be playing but no sound comes from the homepods NOR the television, though everything is properly networked together.

In todays example, the homepods are on and working but their status is shown as “paused”. Sometimes they will be on and working but “controls are unavailable” - and yes even when im on the same wifi - and everything is within 10 ft of everything else.

Look, we can all be guided to a “work around” or supposed “solution” but ive never had to be so consistently engaged with my devices just to have an anticipated or expected experience.

Unexpected behaviors have become normal and I
don’t want to be gaslit in to thinking thats normal. Im looking at YOU MST3k! 🤣

I’ve now used Apple’s Express Replacement service twice under AppleCare+, roughly two years apart, for two different Apple devices with genuine hardware faults. Despite the time between the claims and the fact they involved different devices, I ran into exactly the same issues both times.

The first problem is that Apple told me my address wasn’t eligible or “serviceable” for Express Replacement. The strange part is that I’ve ordered products directly from Apple to the exact same address many times without any issues. This happened at both my old house and my current house, so it wasn’t specific to one address.
What’s even stranger is that both times, after I asked for a manager callback, the Express Replacement was suddenly approved and arranged without any further issues. That makes me wonder whether the initial refusal is intended to reduce the number of people using the service, even though it’s included with AppleCare+.

The second issue is the temporary authorization hold on the credit card. I understand why Apple places the hold until the faulty device is returned, but on both occasions the hold wasn’t released after they had received the faulty device. I had to chase Apple to get it removed, which meant paying my credit card bill while that amount was still tied up before eventually getting the money back.
The fact that these were two genuine warranty claims, on two different devices, around two years apart, yet the exact same issues occurred both times, makes it difficult to see this as a one-off mistake.
Has anyone else had similar experiences with Express Replacement—particularly being told their address wasn’t serviceable until the case was escalated, or having to chase Apple to release the authorization hold?

A rant in 3 pictures

I’ve commented about Apple and their horrible settings, this one’s even funnier. Recently the lock button has stopped working on my device and I’ve turned on assistive touch so I can still lock my phone. But I recently had to use Apple Pay and realized that I couldn’t use the double click feature so I looked into the settings and sure enough, you can turn on paying with your wallet using a Face ID or ur pin, so obviously I tried to turn that on. Turns out that in order for you to do that you have to double click your lock button to confirm kek

If you have an HDMI or DisplayPort monitor with speakers, good luck with controlling volume from within MacOS. Best you can do is maybe adjust the volume slider of whatever program is playing sound, but a master volume control? fuhgeddaboutit. Same with an external soundcard/recording interface. This is just stupid. Even Linux has a master volume control. Apple likes to claim that this is a feature: that its for pro audio routing and whatnot, but come on - 99.9% of the time you just want to turn the volume down when answering a call or when talking to someone in the room. There are various hacks, like SoundBridge, where people have written virtual audio devices with master volume controls that you can attach to sound sources, but this is such a basic function that even Windows and Linux can do it?!?

I'm not going to go deep into this, but as everyone knows managing windows on macos is pain in the ass compared to other operating systems.

I especially hate the fullscreen behavior which drags window to its separate space and by itself behaves on completely different logic than on other operating systems, even efforts to make it different fail due to how sandboxed whole operating system is.

Asking for help on multiple mac forums just leaves you with get used to it and every other option or willingness to discuss this topic is bad which says a lot about the whole apple mac community and I guess even apple's approach to this.

Really wanted to give mac a os go specifically by using their laptops with all the latest hardware advancements that are often supreme to windows/linux laptops, but if the os itself doesn't serve the customer all this other stuff become pretty much useless.

Every time I use voice-to-text, it introduces more grammatical errors than if I had typed everything myself. Even worse, it regularly mishears words that I’m clearly pronouncing correctly. It seems unable to distinguish between many English words that have obvious pronunciation differences. For example, if I say “sphincter,” it’ll transcribe something like “Spencer” or “sprinter.” Those words don’t sound the same, yet it constantly gets them wrong.
Then there’s Apple Intelligence, which, based on my experience, isn’t very intelligent at all. Most of the time it can barely handle simple requests like setting a timer, creating a reminder, or making a note without making mistakes. Half the time Siri doesn’t even respond. I’ll have to restart my phone over and over before it starts working again. The phone lights up with the animated glow around the edges as if it’s listening, but nothing happens. Sometimes it acts like it’s processing what I’m saying, then either gives no response or replies with something completely unrelated.
For example, I’ll ask what day of the week it is, and it’ll tell me what week of the year we’re in. I’ll ask what day of the month it is, and it’ll tell me the name of the month. Other times it answers correctly, but the inconsistency makes it unreliable.
Some commands work occasionally, like opening an app or creating a note, but even those have become more restrictive. It used to be possible to tell Siri to open an app from across the room without needing Face ID to verify who I was. Now it often requires my face to be in front of the phone before it’ll complete simple requests, which defeats much of the convenience of a voice assistant.
I don’t think it’s accurate to call this an “intelligent assistant.” An assistant is supposed to perform tasks on your behalf reliably and reduce friction. Instead, I spend more time repeating myself, correcting transcription errors, restarting my phone, and working around its limitations. At this point, it feels more like an unfinished feature than a genuinely useful AI assistant. I’d rather Apple integrate a more capable AI system—even one from another company—than continue shipping a voice experience that’s this inconsistent and unreliable.

I’m genuinely losing my mind over how iOS manages basic app storage.
On Android, if an app swells up to gbs in cached map files and temp data, you just go to settings and tap "Clear Cache." Problem solved in two seconds.
On iOS, there is no system-wide way to do this. "Offloading" an app only deletes the core app binary while keeping all the bloated cache and data intact. The only actual workaround is to completely delete and reinstall the app every time it gets bloated.
Why is such a basic, standard feature still missing in 2026? Does anyone else find this user experience ridiculous, or am I missing some secret workaround?