I wish they stopped adding features, especially useless UI “improvements” and AI stuff nobody asks for, and focused on making the system rock solid as we’re used to.
- The iPhone lockscreen does not consistently swipe away after unlocking. It just keeps stuck.
- The iphone no longer automatically connects to my Apple TV. The remote takes a second to load, and this happens each time I navigate back to the TV remote app.
- Alarms and timers do not work. I have had to set up a separate physical alarm.
- Podcasts keep crashing, and resetting to 1x speed.
- Internet connection completely drops, and only recovers once I completely reboot my phone.
- My phone starts to overheat with no discernible cause. I sometimes wake up with my phone so hot that it's almost painful.
- Once, while charging, my phone dropped to 16% battery from 85%. According to the Battery Usage chart, the Weather app (which I had not opened) used 83% of the battery in the background.
This is on top of the completely ruined, battery-killing interface.
These are all problems that cropped up since iOS 26. I had a few complaints about rough edges or missing features in iOS, but this is honestly mind boggling. Software engineering is very hard, but Apple seemed to have had a decent system.
Recently, a mandatory iOS 26.2 update hit and I had numerous messages from non-techie friends about it (who I believe had it installed over iOS 18).
There must be deep systemic problems at Apple that allowed them to destroy so much so quickly. I just hope it's not decades before we can read about the 2020s in a memoir or book.
> Put AirPods into my ears
> Press play
> AirPods connect from my iPhone to my Mac
> iPhone starts to play music on speaker
