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 (aka radars) and/or bother the right teams/people to get bugs 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.

Want to try and help as many folks as possible so please feel free to share this thread with any other communities where it is relevant.

In the interest of keeping the scope here narrow, rules for bugs:

  • iOS/iPadOS and macOS issues only. Please ensure that you are running the latest version of iOS/iPadOS (18.3.2) or macOS (15.3.2)
  • Please provide detailed step by step instructions on how to reproduce the issue. If I can’t reproduce it on my test devices, then I can’t report it.
  • Provide as many hardware details as you can (e.g. iPhone/iPad/Mac model, year, device specs)
  • Can’t help with general UI/UX complaints, use the feedback form for that.
  • Can’t help with vague power/performance/battery drain issues unless you can provide exact steps to reproduce.
  • Can’t help with services (e.g. iCloud, App Store, Apple Account).
  • Can’t help with 3rd party software
  • 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 move things along internally.
  • Please don’t ask me about upcoming hardware/software; whatever it is, I have no idea what you’re talking about and no it doesn’t exist.

Edit 1: thanks for the reports everyone! Some of these require a little more research/testing so while it might take me a little longer to get back to you, that doesn’t mean I haven’t seen your message :)

  • tiredofsametab@fedia.io
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    4 days ago

    I have a mac m3 I’m forced to use for work. It is managed by my organization (I’m not sure exactly what that entails).

    There is no screensaver that just turns my screen black. I don’t want animation, I don’t want color, I just want the screen to be blank.

    Speaking of, I kept hearing my fan spin up and was wondering why. Flurry screensaver was just taking up like 2.5 CPUs and a couple gigs of ram. No clue why. It was actually supposed to be the photos screensaver, but I’m assuming it was angry that the photos screensaver was pointed at a folder with no photos (nor anything else). This was when the PC was running and in use so the screensaver should not even have been running.

    Sometimes, when logging in, the password will just not work. If I click off my user and click on admin or another, it will then work fine. Multiple occurrences, not sure of cause.

      • tiredofsametab@fedia.io
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        3 days ago

        I actually never use the laptop’s display; it goes to a monitor via HDMI that I switch between sources. It could cut output to the HDMI port and I’d be equally happy