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Focus modes & calls

2024-12-24 00:00

When you set up a focus mode you select if you want to block everyone, nobody etc. I can never figure out the right way of doing it to make sure I don’t silence calls. And it isn’t really intuitive how it works.

I just wish they had that as a yes / no dropdown until you actually added any contact to forbid / allow.

Photos & Smart albums

2024-12-17 00:00

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.

Finally? Kind of

2024-12-10 00:00

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.

AirPods Pro 2 complaints

2024-12-04 00:00

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.

Re-order focus modes?

2024-11-27 00:00

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.

Apps with onboarding “Movies”

2024-11-19 00:00

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.

Shortscuts: weird references?

2024-11-12 00:00

Some apps, like Day One to mention the most recent one I’ve noticed, are doing something weird with their IDs 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.

Using small vs multiple or wide vs large monitors

2024-11-06 00:00

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.

Notification badge bugs

2024-10-30 00:00

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

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