What bothers me is that even if you buy (own) echo devices, it still puts that crap in your face all the time. Same for the Ring app. Crappy nuisance atop otherwise decent software

I wish they’d nominate Apollo again, even though it’s unavailable lol

One day I randomly found all my lost Shared Photo invitations on my work iPad. I never really use the camera or photos on that, but that’s the only place they went- it is signed into iCloud with the exact settings as my iPhone and Mac. No matter what I do I only get Photo invitations on the iPad.

Had a similar thing with my partner’s HomeKit invitation- it would ONLY go to her iPad, no matter what.
Oh and just remembered the same issue happened when Find My iPhone wouldn’t work on my dads phone. 8 months later I did a point OS update on his iPad, which then prompted a new Agreements Confirmation, and received received 16 “found iPhone” alerts all at once… either months later lol.
The software agreement thing has been a major issue for a LONG time. Gotta be a better way to catch that and force the popup everywhere.

Not sure if that’s helpful, but check all your signed in iCloud devices and make sure they’re all on the latest OS.

Stupid tip, but if you have older devices you lightly use, which can’t run the latest/current OS, create a unique isolated iCloud account for those devices.
Yes, it can involve extra steps, but it will mitigate all the issues mentioned above.

Keyboard Updates- yes I know that was part of 17 but it was 3 steps forward, 2 steps backwards. Need to fix the learned words, speed, and other issues.

I think any device like this would need a well tested heat-sink and fan that pulls directly from the phone chassis. Just my experience, maybe other phones don’t get as hot

Oh boy, nobody likes this answer in my experience but… More than anything, I use Chrome everywhere.
It goes back to when I used Windows & Mac machines daily, and Chrome had the best bookmarks search and extension (uBlock, now origin, and tab suspender).
To be fair, for a handful of reason, I use all the browser regularly, but my primary is still Chrome on everything.

Few things I’ll add, that might make me switch to Safari:

1. Extensions have to be BETTER and better integrated. Trying to use: complete and custom ad block, session manager with/and tab suspender, 1Password. Currently it sucks.

2. iOS/iPadOS Safari needs to be better at: Tab Sync/access across devices. Mobile Chrome is way better at this and we all know that’s an advanced Safari wrapper.

3. Chrome and mobile chrome sleeps tabs better, AND has unlimited tabs, mobile Safari still does not - come on now. I understand people are different, but I want to organize and close tabs myself, not have them all closed when I reach a max.

Honestly I could go on about this- Chrome is somehow just better. I WANT to use Safari, because there’s things like 2-factor codes and extensions, that Apple locks out for other browsers, but every-time I use chrome I could frustrated by it.

For anyone else curious about the production team,
the Jeff Wozniak at Apple Workflow does not seem to be related to Woz (I was curious).
Jeff Wozniak has a cool history though, worked on previs/cg/production for the SW prequels, avatar, avengers, Star Trek ‘09.

So yeah I could see using an iPhone camera wouldn’t hold back the quality considering the rest of the production design and team. Pretty cool.
I liked how they seemed to use smoke machines but removed the machine.
Also, Quinn!

Was an interesting idea. I think for it to take off they would have needed to shorten the trackpad, move the keyboard down slightly, keep full F-row at half-height, and make the touchscreen taller and closer to bottom of the screen. It was so small, lo-res, and usually slightly covered up by hands.
On top of this, even Apple didn’t use it for much on their apps, in general it was rarely utilized well.

Overall I think the key part of it was evolution and learning for apple silicon on the Mac.

I’ve never been able to adjust my workflow for it; I simply don’t look at the keyboard much at all.
Also I found that the brief period I really tried to use it, it kind of triggered some muscle memory that had me touching the main screen quite a bit, which of course doesn’t work and leaves fingerprints. It’s a weird hybrid.

I don’t think it’s waiting on a release, they might already have those usb peripherals built, they probably haven’t worked through enough of the remaining Lightning stock, and that’s the holdup.

I still find it absurd that Apple has to tie a full OS update with an app release. Granted, maybe the api updates couldn’t be included in previous 17 builds? But why not just use the App Store and push more frequent updates and fixes, without needing an OS upgrade?
I assume it’s just so they can stick it on every device, maybe legally they can’t do that if it’s they the App Store?