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I sadly have to agree. Even ignoring all the poor design choices (the photos app, control center, etc), ugly new UI changes, and the confusing-at-best and misle

by pesus 2y ago

I sadly have to agree. Even ignoring all the poor design choices (the photos app, control center, etc), ugly new UI changes, and the confusing-at-best and misleading-at-worst integration of "AI", it's just incredibly unstable. I've never had as many performance issues and freezes during normal day-to-day tasks as I do with iOS 18. Safari constantly lags, and has a nasty habit of tabs becoming either completely unresponsive or completely blank, the latter of which has actually been an issue for a few iOS versions, but has gotten worse. Battery life is absolutely abysmal - my phone suddenly lasts half the time it used to after jumping from iOS 17 to 18. Somehow playing music is a complicated task now, and the music controls on the lock screen, control center, and music app itself all somehow regularly get out of sync and become unresponsive on different songs, all while a completely different song keeps playing in the background, unaffected by any of the controls. I could go on, but it's frankly embarrassing that Apple put it out in this condition. It seems to me that they really got caught with their pants down about the generative AI trend, and their rush to hop on board is taking precedence over everything else, including basic stability and quality.

dabinat 2y ago
I’ve been frequently bitten by the Music bug. It keeps playing but the controls no longer work so you can’t pause or skip and have to force-quit the app. I also had an issue where iOS told my car I was on a phone call instead of playing music, which prompted my car to only play the music through the center speaker, which is extremely quiet. I had to reboot the phone to fix it. The bugs are annoying and I hope they get fixed soon. But in spite of this, I do like iOS 18 overall and it has some things that are genuinely useful, like RCS. I was also surprised that the message summarization feature (the only Apple Intelligence feature I’ve used so far) is actually great. If someone sends me a “serious” text, it’s handy to get a gist of what it’s about so I can mentally prepare before I read it.
amluto 2y ago
I’ll add: Siri somehow gets in a state where the pulsing circle appears and responds to voice, and it stays in that state apparently indefinitely and never actually transcribes any words or does anything. It’s possible this happens when music is stuck? iOS 17 seemed to break Siri pretty badly when the phone thinks it’s in a car, but the damage seems to be spreading in 18.

by pesus 2y ago

dabinat 2y ago

I’ve been frequently bitten by the Music bug. It keeps playing but the controls no longer work so you can’t pause or skip and have to force-quit the app. I also had an issue where iOS told my car I was on a phone call instead of playing music, which prompted my car to only play the music through the center speaker, which is extremely quiet. I had to reboot the phone to fix it. The bugs are annoying and I hope they get fixed soon. But in spite of this, I do like iOS 18 overall and it has some things that are genuinely useful, like RCS. I was also surprised that the message summarization feature (the only Apple Intelligence feature I’ve used so far) is actually great. If someone sends me a “serious” text, it’s handy to get a gist of what it’s about so I can mentally prepare before I read it.

amluto 2y ago

I’ll add: Siri somehow gets in a state where the pulsing circle appears and responds to voice, and it stays in that state apparently indefinitely and never actually transcribes any words or does anything. It’s possible this happens when music is stuck? iOS 17 seemed to break Siri pretty badly when the phone thinks it’s in a car, but the damage seems to be spreading in 18.