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For context AWDL is responsible for AirDrop, AirPlay, etc

“Apple shall implement the measures for Wi-Fi Aware 4.0 in the next major iOS release, i.e. iOS 19, at the latest, and for Wi-Fi Aware 5.0 in the next iOS release at the latest nine months following the introduction of the Wi-Fi Aware 5.0 specification”

https://ec.europa.eu/competition/digital_markets_act/cases/202512/DMA_100203_1536.pdf

What are your guys thoughts?

Also a fun diagram of airdrop protocal (which shows adwl)

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I’m an Apple software QA engineer (yes, we exist) and I’d love to hear about bugs you’ve encountered. I can create bug reports (aka radars) and/or bother the right teams/people to get bugs fixed. To be clear this is not official company business, thoughts/opinions are my own, and I’m doing this in my free time to keep Lemmy awesome and because I love you guys.

Alt/throwaway account for obvious reasons.

Want to try and help as many folks as possible so please feel free to share this thread with any other communities where it is relevant.

In the interest of keeping the scope here narrow, rules for bugs:

• iOS/iPadOS and macOS issues only. Please ensure that you are running the latest version of iOS/iPadOS (18.3.2) or macOS (15.3.2)
• Please provide detailed step by step instructions on how to reproduce the issue. If I can’t reproduce it on my test devices, then I can’t report it.
• Provide as many hardware details as you can (e.g. iPhone/iPad/Mac model, year, device specs)
• Can’t help with general UI/UX complaints, use the feedback form for that.
• Can’t help with vague power/performance/battery drain issues unless you can provide exact steps to reproduce.
• Can’t help with services (e.g. iCloud, App Store, Apple Account).
• Can't help with 3rd party software
• Can’t guarantee that anything I report will be fixed and due to the nature of how we work I won’t be able to share status updates, but I’ll certainly try my best to move things along internally.
• Please don't ask me about upcoming hardware/software; whatever it is, I have no idea what you’re talking about and no it doesn’t exist.

Edit 1: thanks for the reports everyone! Some of these require a little more research/testing so while it might take me a little longer to get back to you, that doesn't mean I haven't seen your message :)

OK, so Apple isn't big on responding to feedback:

Nickkk's numbers eclipse mine: I'm 0/10 on responses/acknowledgments/signs of life over the past couple of years. And you know what...

That's OK. They're telling us they're too big for that. OK.

Accepting this fact, how can Apple avoid hurting their fanboys' little feelings, like through better transparency setting expectations? Could we get some recognition, some social features, automated acknowledgments, a "thanks, archiving" email after 18mo w/o response for a sense of closure... anything?

I have a handful of self hosted sites on my LAN, only one has SSL enabled. On my iPhone, in Safari, I have a favorite for one of the non-SSL sites, but when I tap it, it brings me to the site that has SSL enabled. With how I have subdomains in nginx configured, this tells me that Safari is forcing HTTPS for the site, even though I’ve triple checked that the favorite starts with http://

Any suggestions for why this is happening? It only started happening a few months ago

EDIT: another weird detail I forgot to mention is that if I tap-hold the favorite, tap Copy, then Paste & Go in the address bar, it goes to the correct site

& Kagi (search company w/controversial CEO) sounds like they're doing something right

Excerpt:

...Paul Kafasis...took it and pursued it thoroughly, asking Siri “Who won Super Bowl __?” for every number from 1 through 60.

His report at One Foot Tsunami documenting the results is utterly damning:

So, how did Siri do? With the absolute most charitable interpretation, Siri correctly provided the winner of just 20 of the 58 Super Bowls that have been played. That’s an absolutely abysmal 34% completion percentage. If Siri were a quarterback, it would be drummed out of the NFL.

Siri did once manage to get four years in a row correct (Super Bowls IX through XII), but only if we give it credit for providing the right answer for the wrong reason. More realistically, it thrice correctly answered three in a row (Super Bowls V through VII, XXXV through XXVII, and LVII through LIX). At its worst, it got an amazing 15 in a row wrong (Super Bowls XVII through XXXII). Most amusingly, it credited the Philadelphia Eagles with an astonishing 33 Super Bowl wins they haven’t earned, to go with the 1 they have.

Below, I’ve gathered a dozen of my favorite responses, in sequential order.

I have an iPhone 15 and have the full lineup of watch, iPad, MacBook etc and generally enjoy all of them but I am a wee but stale with years of iPhones. I love the idea of the Fairphone running e/os but don’t know how well all the services interact.

I use Apple Music and News+ but the latter is only on iPad for me. Fitness+ is nice but I barely use it so would have no issue switching the watch out for a Garmin or something.

Wondered if anyone else had paired up iPads, MacBooks etc with an Android phone and what their experience was like?

Kinda miss the old days where I would be able to change phones every couple of years and they felt/looked different.

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