If you have AirTags in the vicinity of your iPad it drains its battery for no reason.

The past months I’ve been wondering why my iPad Pro always needed to be recharged when I used to use it without charging for weeks.

I’m not the only one:

• https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/unusual-find-my-background-battery-drain-after-setting-up-airtag.2294993/
• https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253036053
• https://www.iphonetricks.org/how-to-fix-find-my-battery-drain-issue/
• https://old.reddit.com/r/AirTags/comments/nn5q9k/fix_for_find_my_app_battery_drain/

Literally the only helpful piece of information for me here would be the exact starting time in my current local timezone, because depending on when exactly DST starts in each country it might be an hour sooner or later.

While I do have all my devices set to English, I of course also have correctly specified where I live, so this should be about the easiest thing in the world to provide.

Instead, Siri demonstrates that not only is it unable to give that information, apparently it doesn’t even know what timezones are at all. Also it seems like I’m pronouncing “GMT” as badly as “30 minutes”.

I also recorded the attempt of getting any useful information out of my HomePod, and playing back that recording on my iPhone managed to trigger Siri on that same device. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills, because things like that were already working quite well years ago. What the heck did they do to make Siri so much worse?

Are you okay, Music.app?

Less is more, or something like that.

The daily game of “will I overwrite the whole spreadsheet or just add a new tab to the sheet”.

Now if only there would be space to add useful options. Maybe the main functionality of the app: “turn light on/off”?

Someone’s getting paid by app openings.

Bonus points for the pixelated app icon in 2022. It’s only been 10 years since the introduction of retina screens on Macs though.

The hottest fight in browser land right now is who can get the most screen estate on password input fields.

Unsure what this is supposed to tell me.

t just works!

(This started happening at some time between 7pm and 11pm CET on Feb 17th, since then it has affected every new Twitter preview I see in iMessage, on both iOS and macOS, and it always shows for both sides of the conversation.)

When submitting a Chrome extension for review I got this error message that didn’t really tell me anything:

Chrome Web Store system error, please try again later

I had a hunch that Google is probably doing Google things and it only works properly in Chrome. Tried it there and you’ll see a proper error message.

Thanks Google for wasting my time!