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.

  • vfscanf()@discuss.tchncs.de
    41·
    11 days ago

    I‘m a bit sceptical if a real Apple employee would come to lemmy to ask users about their experience , but I‘ll take any chance so this can get fixed:

    Sometimes, notifications for upcoming calender events just don‘t work on iOS , which is very frustrating. It‘s completely random, whether they will show up or not. I‘ve gone through every troubleshooting step with no luck. Weirdly, I never have this issue with reminders.

    I‘ve had this problem since iOS 26, I can‘t say if it is fixed with the newest version (26.4.1).

    • kumquat_spritz@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      6 days ago

      I’m not able to reproduce this, any additional details you can share? Also worth noting that if you want to be notified you need to set an Alert/Second Alert in the event and ensure that nothing else in your notification settings and/or focus modes is suppressing delivery