Some Bugs

last updated Jan 29, 2025 by Carl Pearson

I spent a few days trying to be mindful of every time I ran into an apparent software bug (outside of work!). I had a feeling it was happening all the time and I had just trained myself to move on without even noticing. Probably 95% of my personal computing is on my iPhone, so that's where they all show up.

January 28, 2025

The AirPods popover came up on my iPhone and I couldn't close it by tapping the "x" button.

I tapped the "skip forward" button in the Pocket Casts app, and the audio stopped and the play/pause button no longer worked. I had to restart the app to resume listening.

January 25, 2025

When I logged into a bank online, they called me to deliver a one-time code, and the call was just 8 seconds of silence. Then I received three automated calls with the same code in the following minutes.

January 25. 2025

When I logged into a financial broker on my iPhone, the app immediately crashed.

January 24 2025

The color saturation of an app in the iOS app switcher is different whether it was the last foreground app or is coming from the background

Orange banner is less saturated when the last active app

Orange banner is more saturated when a background app

January 23 2025

Play/pause button on iOS overlay screen didn't work.

January 20 2025

I paused an in-progress vacuum in the iRobot app and the robot rebooted into an error state. I had to press a button on the robot to clear that error.

January 19 2025

I selected a URL in Firefox for iOS and couldn't edit it or drag the selection handles.

January 18, 2025

Reddit's video element is only a few pixels high in landscape mode in Firefox for iOS.

My iPhone's unlock screen got totally mangled when I switched from landscape to portrait orientation.

January 17, 2025

Using the Slack app for iOS to take and send a photo attached the photo to the message twice.

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