How long will it take them to fix the system preferences? I still can’t wrap my head around the fact that I have to scroll on my huge external monitor to find a setting. Scrolling on a smartphone? Of course, but on a computer with a massive display? Whyyyyy?

17 was my first major OS update and 17.1 was the first patch I got for it. All of my share sheet suggestions got fucked. The people I send things to multiple times per day in almost every app no longer appear as Messages suggestions. I get random people I haven’t texted in forever. I also can’t search group chats when sharing to Messages any more unless I do a very specific ordering and that only works some of the time. I can’t find anything about similar problems anywhere and doing resets hasn’t solved the problem for me. What used to take under a second now takes multiple seconds and infuriates me at least once a day.

In iOS 17.1 videos playing in Safari no longer prevent the screen from locking if they aren’t full screen. Maybe that’s intentional but it certainly seems like a bug. I find it very annoying.

Another Safari regression is the inability to scroll over video elements. Which really breaks the Voyager experience :(

Also, WatchOS 10.1 broke a bunch of complications for watch faces. They usually just fail to render. Which is also very annoying.

WatchOS 10 did fix a bug that was around for a long time. My watch used to fail to measure elevation gain while hiking but it works now. So that’s cool.

RE: context menus, I miss the pressure sensitive screens we had on iPhones 5-9. Press extra hard to get a context menu without waiting. There was also a distinct gesture to reposition the cursor in a text entry area.

Seek has always worked for me. I’ve owned an iPhone since the 3GS. Obviously changes have been made, but if yours crapped out, that’s not a large scale OS bug.

Same with long press. Never had an issue of it not working. Unless that app itself was bugged.

I would search around or reset settings on your device as cruft can sometimes carry over.

With all that said, Apple constantly refines and reinvents elements on their software. They often have an end game (as with the new hated settings pane) that we are often never made aware of. But that’s how software works. Whether you think it’s worse than it was or not, software will always evolve and change in new ways.

There is no point where iOS will ever be finished. If you want something that will never change, don’t upgrade. If you want Apple to pander only to you because you think you know what’s best for the operating system, oust Cook and take over!