(Watch|mac|iPad|i)OS 26: The Enpludgening

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  • #281
    dal20402 said:
    Honestly the number of things that can go wrong with alarms is one of the very most frustrating things to me about iOS/watchOS. My old, brutally loud "BEEEEP BEEEEP BEEEEP" Zenith alarm clock that I had when I had a job where lateness would lead to loss of work was far more reliable. If an alarm is set, it should take precedence over EVERYTHING else.
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    I remember the first morning after coming down with COVID (and feeling quite wrecked) I woke up at 11‑12, still seeing the stop/snooze buttons on my alarm on the iphone that has been set to 8 am...

    And no, I am pretty sure I haven't pressed the snooze every 9 minutes for four hours!

    Give me back my good old mechanical clock.
     
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  • #282
    dal20402 said:
    Honestly the number of things that can go wrong with alarms is one of the very most frustrating things to me about iOS/watchOS. My old, brutally loud "BEEEEP BEEEEP BEEEEP" Zenith alarm clock that I had when I had a job where lateness would lead to loss of work was far more reliable. If an alarm is set, it should take precedence over EVERYTHING else.
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    Reminds me, one (well two) of my regular alarms became super quiet as of OS 26 for whatever reason. Wasn't cause the media or ringer volume, or the attention aware system setting (which was a suggestion I found online), or whatever other troubleshooting thing I could find. Even tried stuff with Shortcuts to try to raise volume after going off but that didn't work either. Finally gave up and just deleted and recreated the alarms...I think that's working properly now, or I've just been lucky about not sleeping through them again.
    FranzJoseph said:
    And no, I am pretty sure I haven't pressed the snooze every 9 minutes for four hours!

    Give me back my good old mechanical clock.
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    In my experience (at least pre 26, not sure if it's changed), once it went past the snooze time the alarm just stopped playing...but kept the alarm thing on screen as if it were still going.

    Been tempted to get Nintendo's Alarmo both as a Nintendo dork and as a real alarm clock as a fallback...
     
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  • #283
    dal20402 said:
    Honestly the number of things that can go wrong with alarms is one of the very most frustrating things to me about iOS/watchOS. My old, brutally loud "BEEEEP BEEEEP BEEEEP" Zenith alarm clock that I had when I had a job where lateness would lead to loss of work was far more reliable. If an alarm is set, it should take precedence over EVERYTHING else.
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    In college, I had an old-style double bell alarm clock. It was the single most unpleasant way to wake up, but eventually it trained me to wake a up a few minutes before my alarm, just to avoid the trauma.

    I’d still use one today, but I’d be divorced instantly. The Apple Watch’s silent taps are much better for my marriage and my 5am wake up routine.
     
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  • #284
    Trying to figure out whether this is a macOS 26.2 issue, a Word version whatever issue, or a good old-fashioned ‘me’ issue:

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    Anyone else running Word seeing this delightfully retro font rendering, in the style picker on the Home tab?
     
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    CommanderJameson said:
    Trying to figure out whether this is a macOS 26.2 issue, a Word version whatever issue, or a good old-fashioned ‘me’ issue:

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    Anyone else running Word seeing this delightfully retro font rendering, in the style picker on the Home tab?
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    I see this in Word 16.104 but not in Word 16.103.4, both running on macOS 26.2, so this looks like a new bug on Microsoft's end.
     
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  • #292
    wco81 said:
    With Podcasts, playback often starts at normal speed rather than the 1X that I have it set to.

    Pretty certain that this started with 26.x.

    IIRC, they touted a new Podcasts experience with one of these releases?
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    What’s the difference between “normal” speed and “1X” speed?

    They’re both your locker, Peralta!
     
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  • #294
    CommanderJameson said:
    Oh, forgot to mention - in good news, the WatchOS 26.2 update resolved the dipshittery with the action button. Happy days!

    Also, my Mac (M1P MBP, 16/512, 8C/14G) does seem a bit snappier, although I can’t quantify it at all. It just feels… better.
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    This didn't last. The stupid delays returned.
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  • #297
    Just updated to macOS Tahoe 26.2 (from Sequoia) and ran into this weird issue: I went to log into a website and my password wasn’t being autofilled. Tried another website, also no autofill. I opened the Passwords app and searched for the websites I was trying to log into, which I know I have saved passwords for, and none of them were there.

    Eventually it dawned on me that the missing passwords were in my shared Family group. For no apparent reason, Tahoe had disabled password syncing: the Passwords app didn’t have a “Shared Groups” section at all.

    So I went to System Settings to turn it back on. When I clicked the “iCloud” item in my Apple Account settings, the UI froze and Activity Monitor even reported that System Settings had stopped responding. Quit System Settings and tried again, same thing. Tried a third time, same thing. So now what…I just can’t reenable password syncing on my Mac again? Ever?

    On the fourth attempt, I just let it hang and left it alone rather than force quitting it. A few minutes later, it sorted itself out and my iCloud settings eventually loaded, and then from there I was able to turn password syncing back on. But what the heck?!
     
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  • #303
    jaberg said:
    Historically, I’ve never found AirDrop to be flaky. (Not enough experience to comment on 26.2) It’s a wireless communication, highly subject to local interference and issues.
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    Well, to be a little more nuanced: IOS to IOS has generally been pretty reliable for me, but IOS to Mac is a different matter. I’m inclined to say it’s more likely to fail than succeed in the latter, though I haven’t tried to quantify it*. I was just trying to airdrop something off my phone last night, and could not get it to work. Quite by accident I recently discovered airdrop over wired connection, so I tried that, but no such luck. And really, a big part of the problem is the inscrutable nature of it; just “Failed”, no indication why…

    *edit: this is my experience across multiple OS version and multiple hardware combinations.
     
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  • #304
    Sudoma bin Usri said:
    but IOS to Mac is a different matter. I’m inclined to say it’s more likely to fail than succeed in the latter, though I haven’t tried to quantify it*
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    Again, while not questioning your experience, I don’t find that to true here in my home/office/studio. There may be external factors affecting our results.
     
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  • #305
    Sudoma bin Usri said:
    Yes. Though to be fair, when has it ever not been flaky as hell? It’s really great when it works, but goddamn it’s frustrating when it doesn’t.
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    In my experience AirDrop on IOS 16/17/18 to both IOS and MacOS worked pretty well. Or, when it didn’t, it failed quickly rather than waiting to hit a multi-minute timeout.
     
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  • #310
    leet said:
    I'm on iOS 26 (came installed on my phone) but haven't upgraded my Mac or iPad, and don't see any reason to any time soon. I'm on Safari 18.6 on my Mac, and Software Update is offering version 26.2. Any reasons to upgrade or not upgrade, given I'm not upgrading the OS?
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    You get the latest WebKit and Safari improvements and fixes. You should avoid the worst of the UI changes, if that's a concern.
     
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  • #313
    Thinine said:
    You get the latest WebKit and Safari improvements and fixes. You should avoid the worst of the UI changes, if that's a concern.
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    I am on Sequoia and I have Safari 26.2, so you can get both without upgrading to the Tahoe mess.

    ETA: Safari 26.2 and its WebKit also support Sonoma, since it's a security fix release. In Tahoe it's just bundled into the whole OS 26.2 release.
     
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  • #317
    daGUY said:
    I’m one of the weirdos that actually preferred the compact layout, so I’m disappointed they removed it. I also like the way the tab bar reflects the color of the site, but in Tahoe for some reason that only applies when the window isn’t in full screen – I don’t get why they made that distinction.
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    Tahoe devs: “What distinction?”
     
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    It’s also confusing because it means sometimes the appearance can radically change when you switch into and out of full screen. For example, this forum has a black bar at the top, so the toolbar and tabs are also black when viewed in a regular window. But then switch to full screen and the toolbar and tabs revert to the default gray.

    I can’t think of any logical reason why the toolbar can (or should) only reflect the color of the site when not in full screen. What’s the difference?! Especially since it was consistent in Sequoia.

    This is yet another Tahoe design issue where I can’t tell if it’s a bug or a feature. Is it intentional that full screen windows don’t inherit the site colors for…some reason? Or is this an oversight or a bug that hasn’t been fixed yet? Who knows!
     
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    OK it's been a few months now, and I've got to say this design has NOT grown on me. Normally I get used to design changes, and it's... whatever. But after a month or two of trying, I just started putting things back the way they were if possible. My wife's frustrated, my MIL is frustrated. It was like change for change sake that didn't make, like, anything better.
     
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