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

That could is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

If they can't get my keyboard to stop replacing in with inn I don't think they are going to magically fix the battery life hit that comes with every ios update.

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

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

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

If it’s true, then good for Apple. Pausing feature development to clean up tech debt is healthy.

I worry that they’ll realize a 5% efficiency saving and then immediately spend it on a 10% inefficiency feature and sell the net result as “only 5% slower and our research tells us that is imperceptible”.

Given that Apple tend to have long periods of crud accumulating and releases becoming slower, buggier and more annoying they should revamp their entire release process and make quality a more prominent part of the release process. Linux did so with its odd/even version numbering to signal which kernels were considered stable and which were development versions.

For each major release cycle the longest part of the cycle should be focused on code quality and cleanup. So that people who depend on the stability of their operating environment can configure the software update process to just wait until a new OS release has gone through a bugfix AND cleanup cycle.

Why spend more time on cleanup that on features? Well, so far it seems to have been the other way around. Which means that everyone has to waste a lot of time while some experimental OS is making your life miserable. People who want to use bleeding edge features can upgrade as soon as a new major release is dropped. But people like me, who depend on their phone and computer to make a living, would rather not be field-testing buggy, slow experimental code.

And not to put too fine a point on it, iOS was crap. And from what I am hearing macOS Tahoe isn't worth the upgrade so I keep clicking away those annoying popups that try to get me to install it.

Yeah, I get it, the guy from marketing isn't going to like it, but we could also stop pretending that every new major release is a gift to humanity. We don't think so and Apple knows it isn't so. Every release comes with dread. What will stop working this time?

It isn't like Apple doesn't have the means to hire developers.

> according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.

The entire Apple rumor world is based off this guys Sunday email.

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].

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.”

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.”

There are SO many fundamentally bad/broken design decisions in iOS now, from simply infuriating to use elements to downright broken ones.

The amount of times the keyboard just blocks some button, a setting is nested 5/6 menus deep, things that used to be slick no longer just work.

I set alarms on my iPad sometimes, theres a floating popup, you can't dismiss it by clicking away like you would expect, you have to click the x, [image](https://support.apple.com/guide/ipad/set-an-alarm-ipadec8a36...)

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

a couple years ago it felt like the iPhone just worked. currently, it's so buggy i can't ignore it. some of these which i encounter every day: - screen is dimmed when unlocked, then after a minute or so, goes to normal brightness - touch screen does not work when receiving calls, so i can't answer. same for alarms, where i have to use the volume buttons to snooze the alarm, then touch starts working so i can manually clear it - alarms not going off, or just being silent. so many time's i've woken up next to my phone being completely silent with the alarm interface being active - keyboard not appearing sometimes causing layout issues - using reduced transparency in Apple Music causes a huge empty area to appear in the bottom bar where the dynamic (?) "current song playing" appears - rearranging icons on the home screen feel like it's a 50/50 chance moving the icon actually succeeds. the other half of the times, the icon just returns to where ever it was before - re-arranging the control center do not register, or actions are delayed and makes it so un-intuitive what is going on

some design things which are intended which annoy me so much are: - plugging in a charger will force show you the battery, so you can't use your phone for a few seconds - hold and dragging the keyboard spacebar to move the cursor has some delay until the keyboard returns to normal, and tapping the spacebar again (when i need to place a spacebar) resets the delay

iMessage and AirDrop is so convenient, and the integration with AirPods is super clean. i would really like to continue using iPhone, but every day i feel somewhat depressed over how laggy iOS is :(

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

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.

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

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".

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.

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.

> 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".

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!

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