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iOS 27 'Rave' Update to Clean Up Code, Could Boost Battery Life(macrumors.com)
74 points by tosh 2 hours ago | 47 comments
bikelang an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Literally all I want from Apple is a year (or multiple) spent laser focused tackling tech debt and improving software performance.

Someone1234 43 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Yep; and all Apple fans ever say is "report feedback!!!" but what is the point when seemingly Apple never gets to their backlog of bugs/broken features? I mean, sure, some big stuff gets fixed, but there is a lot of stuff broken going on years they haven't even touched.

usrnm 28 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I care more about numerous bugs than I do about performance, to be honest. I'm starting to to regret not switching to Android last time I was upgrading my phone. Even if it is the same bugfest, at least I wouldn't have paid premium for the priveledge of using a device that "just doesn't work"

gannonburgett 38 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

We need another Snow Leopard era.

dgxyz 43 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

I want them to have invested in this already so we don't have this miserable shit to deal with.

postexitus an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Just drop the liquid glass farce and you will save 5% battery life already.

baq an hour ago | parent | next [-]

ios 27 being ios 26 minus liquid glass is literally the only thing I want from the next ios version.

bouke an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Same with macOS. I'm sticking with Sequoia, but don't know what to do if macOS 27 turns out to be just as ugly as Tahoe.

turtlebro 3 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah. Its the corner radius, they really messed it up. They went too big and now the inner padding just looks wrong in many places. It's also inconsistent across different UI elements, which makes it worse. Really bad from Apple, former masters of corner radius. Hope they can fix it, if they can't get UI proportions right and it ships with Gemini, what's gonna be the point of paying premium?

dgxyz 43 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Just give me my fucking corners back. I paid good money for them.

sturza an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm sticking with Sonoma as long as they still provide security updates, then i go +1, hoping to skip the whole liquid glass phase.

joezydeco 23 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'd even settle for it being on a switch, call it "minimal UI" or something, but I have a feeling that Apple doesn't work like that. It's burn-the-boats, we're going all in on Glass and there's no going back.

bubblewand an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I would like them to also fix all the weird rendering bugs they introduced in Safari.

Though maybe those are also liquid glass’ fault.

soared an hour ago | parent [-]

Chrome has them too :)

TheDong 25 minutes ago | parent [-]

Yeah, because chrome is required to use -safari- webkit too, apple won't allow alternative browsers on the app store.

Except in the EU, but they don't allow it globally so no sane company is going to invest time into building a browser for iOS while apple is intentionally region-locking the ability to install them.

So yeah, on iOS, rendering bugs on Chrome are quite often apple's fault, and the Chrome team can't fix em.

jtbaker an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

this would make me so happy!

Someone1234 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

But what if I want my iPhone to look like Windows Vista?

data-ottawa an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I actually liked how Vista looked, but it had a lot of artificial sheen that Liquid Glass doesn’t have.

Looks were never Vista’s problem.

Hamuko 18 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

I don't remember my Vista installation being this illegible.

_diyar an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I wonder if anybody at Apple is bold enough to lose face over this, given that there‘s a leadership shuffle underway.

lou1306 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

They might manage to pin it all on Alan Dye, who recently jumped ship to Meta.

snarf21 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I thought the person responsible was already gone...

troupo an hour ago | parent [-]

People keep blaming Alan Dye as if he was the only one responsible.

Federighi—who's in charge of implementing this and was busy praising it on stage—is completely blameless. As are all other managers big and small at Apple.

newsclues 22 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

I don't think they can or will change something that drastic right away, but I'd wager that there is at least one team, rethinking it.

Maybe a year or two of bug fixing updates, while they entirely refresh liquid glass?

Seems like a BIG job.

pavel_lishin an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Hey, maybe they'll fix the keyboard, too, and then that guy won't have to switch to Android for two years!

k33n an hour ago | parent [-]

Apple got brutally frame mogged by the keyboard frat leader

nan60 an hour ago | parent [-]

This is both the best and worst comment I’ve ever read on HN.

p_ing 18 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Why is an oft-wrong rumor site which churns out clickbait left and right being pushed up on HN? There's no story, here. It has no reliable source and nothing coming directly from Apple.

macrumors.com, 9to5mac.com should have been [dead].

zelifcam 38 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

How about fixing their calendar widgets? I didn’t think it was possible to make a non functional calendar. But here we are… https://lemmy.world/post/18872755

BoredPositron 29 minutes ago | parent [-]

At least not as useless as the windows taskbar calendar. It's nearly a decade without any functionality or integration.

Brajeshwar 43 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I wish Apple would pause the Major Number bumps across all the OSes. Perhaps a 3-year OS update cycle. No Rush. They can still do the Marketing thingies with feature additions and bug fixes, like, “This WWDC is all about the 0.5 update, and you will love it.”

walterbell an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Will iOS 28 bring silent voice interface? https://www.newsweek.com/apples-2b-ai-acquisition-could-have...

> users [could] interact with Siri and future Apple devices without speaking out loud.. AI systems capable of interpreting facial expressions and subtle muscle movements to understand so-called “silent speech.”

kdheiwns an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Israeli AI software that's constantly watching my face and surroundings to read what I'm talking about? If there's anything I do not want, it's this.

stetrain an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I would expect this to be a feature of a specific product, like AR glasses.

walterbell an hour ago | parent [-]

It's from the creator of FaceID, so might be possible on other devices.

canxerian an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Never considered this but I'd love this feature

throwuxiytayq 25 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm assuming by now they have realized that they got scammed in this acquisition.

haritha-j an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah I'm really looking forward to frantically sticking my tongue out in morse code to subtly communicate with my phone.

uxjw 39 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Less than a month after Microsoft announcing this for Windows https://www.theverge.com/tech/870045/microsoft-windows-11-is...

varispeed 10 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Apple should focus on security and verifiability. At the moment, when another zero day for iOS is released, users have no way to check if their phones have been compromised.

Meaning from security point of view Apple devices are not trustworthy.

Apple should cease doing security by obscurity.

9dev an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is the one thing users have asked for for years now. Apparently even Apple eventually listens.

kachapopopow an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'll believe it when I see it. iOS 26 has been having 5 fps in the home screen all the time and I can see the effect constantly pop up, go away and even spaz out on a 3 year old pro max model. I have a pitch black home screen as well and the glass effect is completely inconherent and looks horrible so would be ideal if glass can be disabled in the homescreen entirely or have the same opaque effect as it is in-apps.

kiririn an hour ago | parent [-]

A bug(?) exists to disable liquid ass on the Home Screen that still works in 26.3 - enable Reduce Motion globally in accessibility settings, then add a per app accessibility override for “Home Screen & App Library” with Reduce Motion off, then reboot. Somehow this disables liquid ass throughout the Home Screen, back to iOS 18 gaussian blurs

newsclues 25 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Apples own Apps need serious attention. The iOS Podcast app doesn't allow me to delete certain podcasts from the downloads section. Seems like silly bug for the ecosystem that "just works".

hulitu an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> iOS 27 'Rave' Update to Clean Up Code, Could Boost Battery Life

I'm trying to imagine a world where, instead of affirmative or negative, we use conditional.

"We could search for a new candidate". "Honey could you go buy some bread ? There isn't any. / Yes honey, i could". "Your salary could raise with 3%". "I'm a journalist. I could write an article if i would". And so on and so forth.

P.S. They forgot the "could" before "update" and "clean".

lenerdenator 39 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Tim, honey, darling, baby.

Just do this for like, the next six months. Go in, clear out tech debt, get stuff fixed.

Tell the creative and features guys that they look like hell and need to take a vacation. Unless it's the guy who says you can't make colorful MBP finishes. Just fire that guy.

Do that and you'll have my money for another MBP sooner rather than later.

iamleppert 28 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

All I want from Apple is to get rid of that atrocious frosted glass interface. It looks like a Sharper Image catalog from the 90's!