My use-case is quite intensive, not only do I do professional graphic design work, but also 3D modeling/sculpting, all on my iPad, and I literally explore every aspect of the OS for my SubStack because I do software reviews and content. I’m not saying no one ever runs into bugs, but if there were these really major widespread bugs, I would be extremely likely to run into them since I press my system so hard, and explore it thoroughly and am constantly testing things out for my content…
Siri works perfectly fine on my M1 iPad Pro, I haven’t had any issues with it on iPadOS 18, and it returns better answers and provides more functionality than it did in iPadOS 17. Even with running the betas, I have never had any issues with Siri not working…
That’s nothing more than your opinion. Many of us actually like yearly releases. And citing one dude’s YouTube video to try to claim “I’m not in the minority” isn’t evidence for your claim. At best, it’s a faulty appeal to authority, and that’s being very charitable even calling some rando YouTuber an “authority”… The fact of the matter is, many people look forward to yearly releases, that’s why threads like this exist in the first place. Just because you don’t like them and managed to find one YouTuber who also doesn’t like them doesn’t mean diddly squat about anything…
Had you watched that video you wouldn’t be saying that. He literally cites many people’s screenshots and issues that were sent in.
Nowhere did I say a YouTuber is an authority, however when I’m scrolling through and I see 100+ videos that talk about issues like this it becomes a lot more than just one person. Which again, you obviously didn’t want it because it’s not just his experiences he’s talking about.
It’s not an opinion, it’s a fact. You haven’t had issues? Great. Consider yourself lucky. I used to constantly tell people on here that I thought they were nuts for having the issues they were having too, because it wasn’t happening to me.
Things work, most of the issues I have aren’t completely making my devices useless. But the fact they’re NOTICEABLE is a problem. WiFi calling hasn’t worked in months for example. I have a dual sim setup, which is uncommon. Maybe that’s the reason it doesn’t work for me anymore. Nonetheless, I can barely talk to anyone at my apartment unless it’s over FaceTime or some other Internet service like messenger. Actual phone calls either don’t complete or the other person can’t hear me.
Go watch a video on your iPad Pro and try to get Siri to do something while it’s playing. On mine, it is 100% recreatable when a video is being played. When summoned, the video pauses, I ask Siri to do something, then Siri disappears without doing what I’ve asked and the video continues playing. This a fact, not “mY oPiNiOn”. People with your attitude are why I strongly dislike posting outside of the PPC or early Intel forum🙄
An operating system should be released with ALL its features. Not in 18.1, not in 18.5.. if it was announced at WWDC, it need to be there and working in 18.0. That hasn’t happened in probably over a decade. And that’s going into a bigger issue because Apple isn’t the only one who does this unfortunately. And yeah you’re correct that most the NPCs look forward to the yearly releases. But a lot of people don’t, and there’s more people than you realize that wish they’d stop.
Even my Mac that’s on the latest OS does some weird crap.
Why was Snow Leopard so good? Because they took their time on it and it wasn’t rushed out just because it was a new year and time to push something out. The same can be said about Windows 7 or XP for that matter. Software was genuinely better when the developers took their time to make things work, and weren’t under orders to crap out a new version in 8 months with half-baked features.
The time is only half the problem, I’ve heard a lot of rumors that the communication between different teams at Apple is pretty bad which definitely can’t help.
