Posts tagged with ios

Character Flaw: A Postscript

Bonus entry in the Big Tech's War on Users series. Parts 1 and 2 are the actual argument. This is just a good example that arrived on schedule. Apple is currently working on a fix for a bug that locked at least one iPhone user out of his device for months. The cause: somewhere between iOS 18 and iOS 26.4, the...
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Typewise Keyboard Update: The Honeycomb Experiment Hits Reality

Remember when I said I'd give Typewise a full week before deciding if it was genius or madness? Well, I gave it more than that. And I've got some honest feedback that's probably not what you (or I) wanted to hear. ## The TL;DR **I wanted this to work.** The privacy-first approach is exactly what I've been looking for....
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Escaping Apple's iPad Keyboard Nightmare: A Privacy-First Experiment

Look, I'm just going to say it: the iPad keyboard is hot garbage. Not the hardware keyboards—those are fine. I'm talking about the on-screen keyboard that Apple somehow thought was acceptable to ship on a device people use for actual work. Here's my specific gripe: there's no permanent number row. You know, that thing...
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A Look Ahead to iOS 27: When Your Band-Aid Needs a Band-Aid

Catching Up Back in October, I wrote about Apple's fastest design reversal ever—the Liquid Glass toggle that appeared in iOS 26.1 just weeks after iOS 26's launch. At the time, I was genuinely impressed by Apple's speed in responding to user feedback. Now? I'm wondering if that toggle was less "Apple listening" and more...
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Apple's Fastest Design Reversal Ever: iOS 26.1's Liquid Glass Toggle

Apple is set to release iOS 26.1 in early November, with the Release Candidate dropping to developers and public beta testers on October 28. After four beta releases, this update brings 4 major new features and fixes at least 4 known bugs. But there's a bigger story here. In a shocking twist from the company that told...
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