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.

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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 :)

  • tudor@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Firstly, I have to thank you for doing this - you’re awesome.

    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