I love that Photos for macOS has smart albums. It makes the whole thing a lot more usable.

However.

I also hate how they aren’t even viewable anywhere else.

With iOS 18 Apple finally fixed a long running issue I guess most bilingual people have had: multi language keyboards.

Currently I think it works better than having to switch between keyboards all the time, but each of keyboards work better alone than together.

Hopefully this means that things will get better in a a few iterations of this.

Like, they are great. But there is one thing I hate about them: when the charging doesn’t work.

I wish it could detect it. As in, when they are in the case, should be charging, but doesn’t. And I wish there was better information on how to deal with it.

I’ve wondered this for years at this point: why the fuck can’t I re-order those damn things?! Not that important, but would make things a lot easier for me.

A few apps recently have started doing these movie like intro thingies on first run. Like Arc and Orion.

Big graphical intro with sound and all kinds of bullshit.

This crap got to stop. Or at least make it easy to skip.

Some apps, like Day One to mention the most recent one I’ve noticed, are doing something weird with their ID’s or other references in Shortcuts. Because I can never get them to work across different devices reliably.

It works perfect on whatever device I edited it last, all the others usually loose track of parts of the settings. For Day One it is typically the Journal that falls back to the default one.

When I’m at work I typically find myself with a multiple monitor setup. Currently with multiple regular shaped ones, but typically during the last few years ultra wide ones. And at home I’m either laptop screen only or with a 4k 27” screen.

When I’m on the laptop screen I typically find myself using Stage Manager and full size windows most of the time. And when I use an ultra wide screen I typically don’t use stage manager but treat it in a similar way, just more like as if it was three laptop screens in one.

But when I have a large screen, like the one I have at home, I typically find myself using differently sized windows just floating around using all the tools in macOS. Spaces, hiding, minimizing etc.

If there is one category of bugs that drive me nuts beyond anything else, it got to be buggy or unreliable notification badges.

Some of my favorites are:

• When you can’t figure out how to clear all or one of them
• When they clear when you just open the app
  • Even worse: that state is reset the next time a notification happens and you get the old number + 1
• When you have to restart the app for it to update properly, sometimes
• When in an messaging app they count number of unread “entries” not the number of “conversations” that has something unread.
  • If I send you 5 messages it would increase the count by 5

This isn’t something that happens a lot to me. Less than 5 times over the two years I’ve been medicated.

The last couple of times it has however it reminds me how large of an effect meds have on me. Because of the kind of meds I’m on and the slow process of getting to an effective dose I didn’t have a huge “wow” moment.

But when I don’t take them for a day it feels terrible, leaving me in this super unfocused anxious stressed state.

Can’t believe I used to live like this.