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As long as the UI improves and I can ignore all the AI stuff they're starting to push through, that's fine with me, though like many longtime macOS users, I'm n

As long as the UI improves and I can ignore all the AI stuff they're starting to push through, that's fine with me, though like many longtime macOS users, I'm not holding my breath for a bug-free experience.

dylan604 2mo ago
> though like many longtime macOS users For those of us older than just 10 years of using macOS, the older Apple OSes have instilled within us the desire to never install the X.0 release and wait until at least the X.1 release. The bug-free experience is a myth
- D-Coder 2mo ago
  > wait until at least the X.1 release I think that applies to almost all software, not just Apple OSes. After all, Confucius said: "The only thing worse than old software is new software."
ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
> AI stuff they're starting to push through iOS 26 anecdote: A couple of weeks ago, I had a Baltimore Oriole (a cool-looking bird, not a baseball player) in my yard. They aren't rare, per se, but they are uncommon. Took my iPhone out to snap a picture, and pressed the camera button. I hadn't used it, since upgrading to 26. It takes the picture. It's there. I can see it, but it won't let me save it. Instead, it wants to tell me about the cool new voice-activated AI retouch feature. There was no way to save. I probably could have figured it out, but I was so furious, I just nuked the picture.
- pseudosaid 2mo ago
  for real? it did, like every subsequent photo taken on the device after pressing the shutter “button”. You must be a bot, just another living shill. another confident user error in the field
  - ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
    It was a first-time onboarding thing. After that first time, it didn’t happen again. Fairly typical kind of workflow, that most apps do, these days. It’s just that the timing couldn’t have been worse. > You must be a bot, just another living shill. another confident user error in the field I have no idea what that means.
- DHPersonal 2mo ago
  Holding down the camera button does open the AI search for me instead of the Camera app. This can be disabled, if I remember correctly.
  - ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
    It was a one-time thing. I have that button set for the app. I have the long-press set for manual tweaking. I assume that this was trying to get me to use AI, instead.

dylan604 2mo ago

> though like many longtime macOS users For those of us older than just 10 years of using macOS, the older Apple OSes have instilled within us the desire to never install the X.0 release and wait until at least the X.1 release. The bug-free experience is a myth

D-Coder 2mo ago
> wait until at least the X.1 release I think that applies to almost all software, not just Apple OSes. After all, Confucius said: "The only thing worse than old software is new software."

ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago

> AI stuff they're starting to push through iOS 26 anecdote: A couple of weeks ago, I had a Baltimore Oriole (a cool-looking bird, not a baseball player) in my yard. They aren't rare, per se, but they are uncommon. Took my iPhone out to snap a picture, and pressed the camera button. I hadn't used it, since upgrading to 26. It takes the picture. It's there. I can see it, but it won't let me save it. Instead, it wants to tell me about the cool new voice-activated AI retouch feature. There was no way to save. I probably could have figured it out, but I was so furious, I just nuked the picture.

pseudosaid 2mo ago
for real? it did, like every subsequent photo taken on the device after pressing the shutter “button”. You must be a bot, just another living shill. another confident user error in the field
- ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
  It was a first-time onboarding thing. After that first time, it didn’t happen again. Fairly typical kind of workflow, that most apps do, these days. It’s just that the timing couldn’t have been worse. > You must be a bot, just another living shill. another confident user error in the field I have no idea what that means.
DHPersonal 2mo ago
Holding down the camera button does open the AI search for me instead of the Camera app. This can be disabled, if I remember correctly.
- ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
  It was a one-time thing. I have that button set for the app. I have the long-press set for manual tweaking. I assume that this was trying to get me to use AI, instead.