If only there was a way for a cloud service to do background tasks without relying on the user’s browser to stay open.

Really bizarre situation I somehow ended up in a while ago: When switching back from picture-in-picture mode, only the video itself was reset but the overlay remained active and could still be used to control video playback. It came back when trying to dismiss it, so I had to force-quit the app.

I’d love to see the algorithm here. I get that sometimes there’ll be silly edge cases because processing language is always tricky, but replacing a full stop at the end of a sentence with … and Read More genuinely seems like a bug. The bubble even ends up slightly larger in the “truncated” version because the extra line of text for the Read More.

Excuse the Kraut – you can tell via the pictogram used in the tutorial message that this highlight should be on the right-most item instead of… somewhere. Remember 15 years ago, when iOS made fun of Android for having different screen sizes?

If only there was some space on the screen where they could put the text directly instead of just having a link. Maybe they could even have scrollbars on the dialog to fit it all.

Getting mixed signals here.

Straight from the crack UX innovation department, look at this amazing dropdown menu that automatically restricts available options to only the items below the top-most option you selected, until you reset it with a full page refresh.

Speaking of cutting-edge pre-26-OS design innovation, have you heard of the amazing Mixed Mode in iOS 18? It allows you to set up two identical widgets from the same app (which have no user-configurable color options) and randomly one of them will use Light Mode despite your phone being set to Dark Mode. Courage™.

People complain about text over text making things unreadable in Liquid Ass – but I took this “screenshot” in Sequoia, when I got a new machine at work a few months ago. Always on the edge of innovation!

It seems like sleep mode on modern macOS is just broken. It used to be the one feature that always worked more reliable than on other platforms.

For the past years I’ve constantly had issues with my old Intel Mac Mini randomly waking up at night, causing attached hard disks to start spinning and getting very hot in the process. After switching to a M4 Mac Mini I expected my Mac to not suffer from that any more. I only installed a limited number of software after a clean install to not carry over old issues.

After the first night I already noticed that once again the brand new Mac felt quite warm, I immediately installed Sleep Aid and saw once again that it was randomly waking up for events like keepalive-push.apple.com-NonCellular or filesystem.image, then getting too hot and shutting down. This is different from the short maintenance wake-up events that the Mac does a few times per hour.

Would be slightly more convenient if the power off button on the new Minis wouldn’t be on the bottom where you always have to tilt them up to turn them on.