iOS 27 needs to be the Snow Leopard of iOS
iOS 26 soured a lot of people because of the design and personally while its not my cup of tea it didn't really bother me that much. What does bother me however is the sheer amount of bugs in iOS (and for that matter MacOS too) that just grind away at you.
The biggest one for me is that always use spotlight as a quick way to google stuff, this has been broken in many different ways over the past few years, but maybe 1 in 50 searches I get a pure black screen when it takes me to safari, most frustratingly if i then go to google i can see the search in the search history. Also many times buttons in the OS don't work until the 2nd or 3rd tap.
Then there is of course the keyboard, I don't know what apple has done here but it feels like with every update the keyboard just gets worse and worse in terms of accuracy and also just correcting words from the correct word that i typed properly to a completely different word.
Then finally there is just general UX issues around the OS although that is particularly more of an issue on MacOS. Where it seems like apple is just ignoring their own Human Interface Guidelines.
All of this is to say that I really hope that apple is taking on board all the issues it's having and with the current state of tings they need to take a deep look at there software. I think it would not only be prudent but well received if the 27 lineup of software, incorporated minimal new features but instead focused on a deep clean of as many bugs as they can possibly fix.
This would then also give them time behind the scenes to work out their new direction for the design of this software for a iOS28 release as personally I doubt with a new design chief in charge they will stick with liquid glass long term especially after it has been so brutally panned by so much of their customer base. As I have written about I would really like to see a return to attention to detail in apples software which is what made it so good in the first place and in a world of vibe coded apps and services attention to detail will show up even more than ever before.
Last Edited: 1 month, 1 week ago.