Since this is the only place there is to contact apple, I am using this forum to complain about the myriad issues I have had since the upgrade to iOS 27. And before anyone grouses about my being not tech savvy, I have spent years working on computers. I have had all sorts of problems with both my iPad and iphone since the upgrade. The most vexing problems are with wallpaper settings, focus settings, brightness settings and others that have more than one place that the settings can be adjusted or set. It used to be that if you were in the Settings menu under General, you could set preferences or focus and that would translate to the control center or notifications as appropriate. No longer. Now you have to go to all those places to turn off something instead of one place like settings. The wallpaper cannot be deleted except from the lock screen and if you choose not to use Face ID, you can’t do anything with it. Face ID is not an option for some people. The brightness settings and nite mode seem to operate however they want regardless of what is set and again have to be checked in settings and control panel before you can set anything.
I realize that personalization is a big thing on the device and options are nice. But when it breaks coordination between functions designed to be coordinated then it’s no longer a good thing. When an update causes the device to become unrecognizable or unuseable without a lot of hunting and online research to figure out what happened, it’s not a good experience. Apple used to be lauded for its upgrades since they DIDN’T break things or screw up settings like Windows always did.
I love my Apple devices and will continue to use them. They are wonderful pieces of technology but that sparkle is being tarnished by the rush to compete or trying to find something better when maybe keeping the things that work working would be just as good. It’s frustrating when you see another update, which you can’t deny or would dare to because of fear of being hacked, and just groan because you know it means hours of fixing and searching for fixes. Sometimes the perfect really is the enemy of the good. Apple products are great. They could be greater with a little more attention to detail when getting out these updates. I dare to say most people only use a fraction of the functions on these devices. The rest are pretty but really not necessary. People want, above all, things that work as they should.
Sorry for the rant but I’m tired of chasing my tail on these updates. I just want it to work after the update like it did before the updates. Give me the right to change my settings if I want to and not have them pushed on me. This goes for AI too.
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