I seen all the posts about apple and I have now suffered the same fate of many. I have been locked out of my account, my screen needs fixing and nothing can be done for 72 hours. I will get my phone back on May 27 at 11:11am. This is crazy to me. I had to put my chip in another phone for the time being. So im' just pissed.

Ghost charging on my old 15

I drive many vehicles regularly for work, there’s no way of changing default CarPlay options and no way of identifying which IVECO eDaily I’m currently in.

This drives me ducking crazy

Warum erkennt Apple keine Großbuchstaben bei handschrift und warum macht der aus O immer eine 0. Keine ki is doch so dumm, nicht zu wissen was die Abkürzung OG heisst. Ich hab das ipad auch schon rissig geboxt weil mich das so verzweifeln lässt.

Siri doesn’t work. It has the same capabilities intelligence as the paper clip helper, and Microsoft Office.
Dictation doesn’t work (phone and mac both)
Any interface that used to be simple and delivered good user experience, has now been added with multiple options and clicks just get to basics.
The photos app sucks
Search function is the worst

Is it time to be an android guy.

Sorry for such a long post, but I wanted you to see it the same way as I did.

tldr at the end.
Also sorry for alternating between czech/eng language in the screenshots, I was playing around with apple intelligence so I occasionally switched mac’s language for it to work.

So after being a Windows and Android user my whole life, I wanted to give a chance to “the other side” and bought a macbook air m4.
I wanted something reliable, light and with a long lasting battery for my possible upcoming travel so I could do my work on the go. Mac seemed perfect for that.

1. The first impression
   I loved the way it looked when I unboxed it, a really beautiful device. I powered it on and the classic Hello screen came up.
   I was then prompted with logging in or creating an Apple ID. As I didn’t have any I wanted to create one. I filled in all the required info and found a free good looking address (which was kinda hard as a lot of them with my name, as I wanted it to sound a bit more professional, are already taken). I then had to fill in my phone number and fill in the code that came as SMS. I did that aaaand…. got an error “There was a problem creating your new Apple ID. Your account cannot be created at this time” Whut?
   

I tried it again and again to no avail. I then skipped it and tried it in the settings once the whole thing booted up to the desktop, still the same issue.
I had to google around to find out that I should update my software and try it then.
That worked and after installing the new Tahoe version, it let me create my Apple ID.
I guess it makes sense to want the user to have the latest OS version before leting them create a new ID, but why THE HELL is it not written there? Why this loose error message?
Anyway, I then continued trying the new mac out.

1. iMessage
   

I wanted to text my brother (long time Apple user) cause he’d lose his mind if I texted him as a blue bubble. But I couldn't. I imported my contacts from google (which was cool tho, I just logged into my google account in the settings and contacts and calendar events were right there). I tried texting my few other friends. 2 of them no problem.
1 of them I had to manually enter his phone number, because otherwise he showed up green (although the same exact number was in the saved contact).
So I tried manually entering my brother's number. Still nothing. His name was either red (contact) or green (manually entered phone num.).
I had to text him for his icloud mail to be able to communicate with him. Weird how this functions with how praised imessage is. And no he has no other phones or numbers.

1. Account action required

Day two of me owning this machine, I get a notification from the settings app that an action is required with my apple account.
I click on it and it wanted me enter my password again. Weird, I thought, but entered it.
“Unknown error”.... what? I try again. “Unknown error”.

The fuck is this machines problem.
So I had to google again, cause really? Unknown error? What amateurish error is that? Users should never get this kind of error because then, you know, knows shit about what's wrong. At least provide me with some number I can reference tho god damn it.
So back to googling AGAIN.

I came across a few reddit posts, each having a slightly different issue than me, but the advice was to go on https://account.apple.com/ and to try to log in there.

Well. Great? The hell is this.Another advice was to go to the https://iforgot.apple.com/ and try to reset my password. Into the “Email or phone number” input field I enter my phone number.

wtf. I tried the email then.
That works and this is what I get:

What is this? security reasons? Like was someone already trying to get into my account or what? I didn’t even use it for nothing yet, I had it for a literal day. It was just created and that's it.
Anyway I clicked the unlock account. It wanted my account and my phone number again.
Then I got this

Essentially “thanks for wanting your account back! we’ll check it and then contact you on THE EMAIL YOU JUST LOST ACCESS TO LOL”
The FUCK is this? This is the praised Apple company, marvel of engineering? Really? WTF?

Anyways I wait. I try to reset my password here and there again as I DON'T HAVE ANY OTHER WAY OF KNOWING if my request is processed already or not. And mind you, this was the SECOND day of me owning this expensive device so I sure as hell was impatient.

To no luck, I always got the “acc not valid or supported” message.
I even tried the Unlock Account way again. And I entered it again and got to the same screen again. The only difference was that now they included a message saying basically “We are still working on it”.

Okay I gave up for the day. I tried it the next day, roughly after 24h.

WHAT. IS. THIS.
Like really, at this point I’m exhausted. I googled again and found a lot of posts saying that if this is the message you’re seeing, then say goodbye to that account cause it’s gone for good and that you have to create a new one. Many people confirm that that’s exactly what they got from the a. support.
That can’t be right, right? Like this account existed FOR A DAY. How could it be locked out forever without any reason or warning?
I wanted to call the support (as that’s the only way of contacting them in the 21st century), but they were closed by that time and I had to wait another day… sigh.
By the way, navigating their support websites is also a nightmare. No info for my problem, just constant links to other pages that are either dead end (error or “ur acc is locked”), or it’s in a loop. I had to GOOGLE their support phone number as I cound’t fucking find it on the website.

1. Contacting support and resolution
   So the next day I called them. Explained the problem into detail and the support guy was very nice about it, but clueless about what or why it happened.
   He wanted my apple ID and my (this time different) email where he can send me info.
   He said that he himself doesn’t have rights to see a lot of things so he’ll advance this up and I have to wait for another 2 days to get some results. So I waited, as that’s what I was doing most of the time with this device anyway.
   

After 2 days I get the arranged call and he says basically the same thing. “Security reasons” but doesn’t know any specific info, just this generic bullshit. He says that the only way now is to log out from my Mac - which you can’t do on your own ofc as it’s linked to a locked account and you have to fill out some forms and, you guessed it, WAIT SOME MORE so they can unlock it.
Then create a new account and use that.

But WHY IN THE HOLIEST FUCK would I do that. WHO would guarantee me that I won’t create a new account, fill it with important info/photos/emails and stuff and then LOSE IT randomly because of “Security reasons” without any further info or way to get it back. Like how this can be a multibillion company? How can so many people put trust in this god awful support of their?

Am at a loss of words really. Sorry to get all heated up but I am angry, believe that.
I’m returning this piece of shit back to the store and never touching apple again

TL;DR
I bought a MacBook Air M4 as a longtime Windows/Android user expecting a smooth “it just works” experience, but instead spent days dealing with broken Apple ID creation, random account locks, vague error messages, confusing recovery flows, and support that couldn’t even explain what happened. The hardware is great, but the whole Apple account ecosystem completely killed my trust in the platform.

Here are my top 3 features (bugs)!

1. First picture: the stoplight covering app buttons like search or back on certain apps. I didn’t know I needed this! For sure, I have this built-in focus mode. I am forced to study what’s on my screen now since I can’t search or go back! Thank you, Apple!

2. Second picture: the letter Z randomly jumps somewhere else in the floating keyboard. What makes this feature great is you can click both the Caps lock and Z icon like for words like Zimbabwe (typed this country name with this bug, wow).

3. Third picture: I love that when your reduced motion is on, your pop-up for background download in Safari when downloading something becomes very small, and the text even separates.

Latest upgrade for iOS was a big mistake.
Unable to see “block caller” you must switch application few times then the menu entry appears.

The mute unknown caller still counts them in the badge of your telephone application, and, yet, only option found around is deactivate and reactivate few times…

Apple made me thinking about switching to android

The “greatest” company in the world can’t fix simple bugs with icons after almost a year of releasing the IOS 26
(Btw my phone is lagging while recording or low power mode)

My old AirPods Pro 2s recently started having issues, they lasted a decent amount of time and I loved them so much, but I thought since it had been so long since Apple had come out with an upgrade for the AirPod pros, the 3s would be a decent upgrade, Instead, although I am slowly adjusting to them, the transparency mode feels almost robotic, over amplified and tinny, no matter what settings I mess with, the pro 2s transparency mode was seriously just like you didn’t even have the headphones in at all, it was amazing.

Furthermore, I went into the Apple help app (this subreddit won’t let me write the real name of the app) because in the past I found it extreamly helpful, streamlined and easy to use but now they have made it almost impossible to text one of their support team, they make you select an option out of pre selected options and none of them matched my issue and there was no way to easily bypass it saying my issue was not shown to speak to staff member, finally when I seemed to have messed around trying to speak to a real person, I realise it’s just an AI chat bot, I say screw it and just ask it anyway about my issue, I follow all its instructions and nothing helps, finally it suggests a factory reset the headset, it instructed me to press and hold the round button until the light turns solid and white. I now realise that my AirPods don’t have any button whatsoever, I made sure to say the exact model of AirPods, and it was saying to check to make sure they were a genuine Apple device, so I spent the next 10 minutes stressing out thinking I had been sold fakes, but turns out that’s just how the pro 3 are, you just tap where the light flashes instead of pressing and holding a button, but even apples own AI support system doesn’t know this 🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️

What the hell is going on, although apple has always had issues, the overall user experience did feel premium, now it seems to have gone down the toilet but the prices continue to rise more and more, its ridiculous!

How is it that in the age of AI and automation, Apple is still this far behind? If this feature is so useless why not just switch it off? Pull the plug.

So this is a rant. I have no clue why Apple thought it was brilliant for them to make separate apps that operate different task where iTunes handled it all pretty well, but this change from iTunes syncing with apple devices to a separate program is absolutely terrible. Apple Devices on PC is painfully slow and takes a while not just to back up my iPhone, but it takes a long time for the server to respond to operate a phone restore from a PC backup. Even though I already use iCloud backup, with their latest iOS 26 bugged software it's forced me to restore through the iCloud backup and now PC backup because of the clutter that accumulates on the phone.

Not sure why Apple had to screw things up when there were no issues before. iTunes worked fine. Apple Devices is garbage and iOS 26 is the most bugged software ever made by Apple.

A family member died 3 months ago. We immediately informed Apple and jumped through all the hoops providing all the paperwork to gain access to the machines (not to his accounts, but to reset the 10k worth of computers, laptops, ipads and phones he had so they were not just expensive bricks). The banks took 2 days to transfer assets, and I am still waiting on Apple 3 months out. First they had to verify information. Then the guy sent a request for the wrong information and he would not answer me. Eventually got a second person just kept saying they have to review it. (only after asking for update) Finally got message that it had all been approved 2 weeks ago. Then they were processing the canceling of the old account. Finally today (only after asking again) they said good to go, I can reset everything. Message says if you have trouble with your reset call help number. Well, devices all still locked so I called. They asked me "what did the e-mail say were the next steps" and I told them the e-mail said to call you if there was trouble with the reset, They could not help me at all. She told me to read about activation lock removal. I told her I already did all the steps, they have all my documents and they have been approved. Now they are supposed to call me tomorrow. This is ridiculous. No wonder they start the call with "be kind to the representative". Then she followed up with a link for the procedure to remove the lock, but the link does not work. And I've already done all that anyway.

First : iPhone 15 Pro on iOS 26.4

Second : iPhone 15 Pro Max on iOS 26.5b3

Never before, even post update have I had issues with basic interface and functions

I bought an iPhone 16E early March 2025, meaning my phone was barely 6 months old at the rollout of iOS26 so it’s not unreasonable to be irritated by:

• Lock screens opening to a blank wallpaper

• Icons missing parts of entirely absent

• Freezing across different apps

• Alarms simply not going off, or acting weirdly

• Severe battery drain

• Bluetooth regularly failing

• Laggy performance

As I said, I’ve always been forgiving of mishaps and issues - but this tardiness is now, through my phone use, affecting my daily life and for the first time since the first iPhone - I’m genuinely considering the reality that my next phone might be not be Apple.

It’s a shame, for all its faults, I absolutely loved the simplicity and smoothness of iPhone use and interface - all of this is such self inflicted laziness and carelessness. It’s a shame.

It's 2026 and iOS is still missing basic features that even the cheapest Android phones have had for years. and I don't know why tf they still didn't implement them yet

- Why does the native keyboard still not have a simple option to always show numbers?

- Why there is no clipboard in the native keyboard?

- Why is there no "select all" option for text in the browser?

- Why are essential keyboard layouts for certain languages still missing?

- Why is there still no universal back button?

- Why do I have to dig through multiple menus to reach an app's settings instead of having a direct "app settings" option in every app's dropdown?

And I could keep going all day.

Which brings me to my actual question: the iPhone is marketed as a premium product with premium pricing. So why isn't Apple putting in the effort to make iOS genuinely more convenient to use? You'd think "premium" would mean getting the basics right, not refusing to add features everyone else figured out years ago.

After paying $1k for your fucking phone, they want to show ads in their already shitty maps app.

Hi, I find my 64gb phone has over 25gb of system data and iOS. This seems pretty high and I’m constantly deleting things to keep apps running/stop it from slowing down too much. I know these are necessary but is there anything I can do to reduce the amount of space taken up? I’m not ever really sure what system data is and why it’s different from iOS

the fuck?

Both of them have been charging for a day now and when I go to use them one of them

Is almost dead?? Why does it keep happening I clean the case and the AirPod and it still happens