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”

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.

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.

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.

Currently on iOS 18.4.1 on iPhone it seems to randomly boost the typing sound volume. Both on phone speaker (not horrible) and when wearing headphones (painfully loud).

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?

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?

💙

- Founder Supreme, The “Has Apple Ever Responded to Your Feedback?” Support Group

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 display

Normally, 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).

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System info:

• MacBook Air M2, 2022, 8GB RAM, 256GB storage
  • macOS 15.3.2 (24D81)

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.

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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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 :^)