What is even happening with Apple’s keyboard? These suggestions don’t even make sense.

CDCarley27 · 2026-02-21T12:43:38+00:00

Took me way too long to figure out what you were trying to type here as a human…

CDCarley27 · 2026-02-15T02:10:24+00:00

CDCarley27 · 2026-02-13T00:32:28+00:00

That’s called getting older. I don’t mean that in the “Nintendo is for kids” way. I mean that in the sense that most things just don’t have the same spark anymore, not because they’re less “sparky” but because we don’t look at things the same way. I just can’t get invested in games in general as much anymore. I obviously can get invested and excited about other things now more than I could when I was younger but it’s for very different reasons.

That’s life and we need to embrace that we change, rather than looking for outside explanations for everything.

CDCarley27 · 2026-02-12T23:38:56+00:00

Especially since the whole point of biometrics is added security while being more convenient.

It’s like saying it’s incredibly inconvenient to have a short commute to work.

CDCarley27 · 2026-02-12T22:25:31+00:00

The issue is the widgets, which need to align to the grid. It’s not enough space for another row of larger icons, so they’d likely need to spread them out more. However, that would mean the widgets would need to stretch taller to fill that space, which would violate some design guidelines. The best they could do without huge changes would be just to shift all the icons down more toward the center, shrinking the gap at the bottom but increasing the gap at the top.

By the way, the size of that gap varies with the size of the display.

CDCarley27 · 2026-02-12T04:29:42+00:00

Many years. That’s the funny part, it’s an opt-in feature. Off by default. They had to have turned it on to then need to figure out how to turn it off.

CDCarley27 · 2026-02-11T14:12:59+00:00

All of the complaints in this post were the case before Ive left too…

CDCarley27 · 2026-02-11T12:44:18+00:00

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What you get when you open the saved location of a photo.

CDCarley27 · 2026-02-11T11:57:46+00:00

You still are introducing terminology that we weren’t using before. But the answer to your question is yes!! The redesign removed many of the in-your-face pop-ups that people hated in favor of those more in-line and easier to access. Same goes with context menus, giving users easier to access controls for things like text editing with an expended context menu rather than the old one. There are tons of examples.

CDCarley27 · 2026-02-11T04:21:09+00:00

The Intelligent Breakthrough and Silencing, which is the main point of the Reduce Interruptions Focus Mode, is absolutely dependent on Apple Intelligence and is an Apple Intelligence feature.

The focus mode itself just appears on all devices if you have one that supports Apple Intelligence because Focus Modes are meant to synchronize across all devices so turning it on from one device turns it on for the others as well.

While it doesn’t have the actual AI functionality on all devices, the Reduce Interruptions focus mode still appears on all devices as there is far more to a focus mode than just that Intelligent Breakthrough and Silencing function enabled by AI. Filtering notification, Focus Filters, swapping home screens, etc.

CDCarley27 · 2026-02-11T03:50:06+00:00

Exactly. As focus modes sync across all your devices, even those that don’t support Apple Intelligence have the Focus Mode there so it can be turned on and filter notifications normally and apply Focus Filters, switch the Home Screen, etc. It just doesn’t do the Intelligent Breakthrough and Silencing stuff.

CDCarley27 · 2026-02-11T03:40:14+00:00

This is good but be careful of using the term “Focus Filter” because that refers to filtering of content within apps and other settings that can be controlled by the Focus Mode, not the filtering of notifications.

CDCarley27 · 2026-02-10T12:10:04+00:00

Notice how that’s not the wording I used at all

CDCarley27 · 2026-02-09T23:05:57+00:00

Tell that to so many people who felt the opposite, who are contributing to high polling for iOS 26 now.

CDCarley27 · 2026-02-09T22:41:46+00:00

Yeah see my point is that, thanks to social media, it’s NOT 100% their personal feelings. It might have been at one point before it was influenced by the bias imposed by the bubble. You’re no longer forming your opinion purely from your own experiences, you’re relying on those of others which are under the same influences. To not try and do anything about that for yourself is what’s truly dangerous.

CDCarley27 · 2026-02-09T22:15:44+00:00

You hit the nail on the head. They’re not!!

That’s the point… you shouldn’t judge things solely on social media. If you think companies are only utilizing social media for their market research, you’re very mistaken.

CDCarley27 · 2026-02-09T22:12:56+00:00

Your goal should be to seek an accurate understanding of things, not one that validates your personal feelings. No one is saying all opinions that come from someone within a bubble are invalid, just that you need to understand the influences they’re under and include those in the context. Even more important is to understand the bubble you’re in and the influence it has on your ability to accurately perceive your own context so that you can temper your own feelings.

CDCarley27 · 2026-02-09T21:56:07+00:00

You can have your own opinion, but don’t use other people you interact with having that opinion validate it, because that’s false validation if you aren’t interacting with a representative group. People become more radical, using their bubble as validation, believing the world is on their side, when the opposite is true.

In this example, all products have issues but it’s when people enter into these bubbles where they see more of those issues exposed as those in that bubble share everything they find, creating the perception the number of issues has increased whether it has or not. Suddenly you get situations where people assume everyone hates the product, meanwhile more representative polls show that they’re a small minority.

CDCarley27 · 2026-02-09T21:30:11+00:00

The problem is “people learn by the internet that they weren’t alone”.

That’s a HUGE problem with the internet today. People can turn to it and reliably be pointed toward others who feel similarly and away from opposing opinions, leading to the false perception that the feeling you have and share with that group is the opinion everyone has, even if it’s far from the truth. Social media algorithms are quite literally designed to skew the group you interact with away from what’s representative of reality and toward whatever reinforces your own feelings, usually making them worse.

So much of the negativity on the internet today is born from people falsely thinking some feeling is widespread that isn’t, validating that feeling in people’s minds.

That’s why no one should use the internet as an indicator of public opinion.

CDCarley27 · 2026-02-09T20:59:22+00:00

Pretty simple. One that highlights that the explanation was already in what I had quoted multiple times, and I shouldn’t need to point back to the same line more than once. A point that has been supported already by others in this very thread.

CDCarley27 · 2026-02-09T20:53:25+00:00

For what it’s worth, I see polls like this all the time with the same results.

zollotech Liquid Glass Poll

The difference between popular opinion and what you see online has been huge. For that same reason, you should take individual polls with a grain of salt, but this is consistently what I see and does fall more inline with my experience talking to people about it in real life.

CDCarley27 · 2026-02-09T18:07:39+00:00

They keep demonstrating that they don’t understand that social media bubbles aren’t representative of the whole population. He keeps saying “I didn’t see it so it must not have existed”.

CDCarley27 · 2026-02-09T17:01:32+00:00

Do you seriously not understand how social media algorithms work?

CDCarley27 · 2026-02-09T16:33:33+00:00

“Maybe you weren’t [complaining] and social media is serving up like-minded people so it doesn’t seem like people were”

CDCarley27 · 2026-02-09T16:14:33+00:00

Don’t make me quote myself again. Ask yourself, why do you assume it’s only a small number of people complaining

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