I have plenty of apps on my iPhone, and a notion of where they should go on my home screen (and other screens)–for example, social networks Twitter and Instagram next to each other. You can’t put app icons where you want in iOS
Sometimes the Apple devices of random nearby strangers even appear before yours.Īpple finally acknowledged that MacBooks have a stuck key problem, though the company says it doesn’t affect many users.
But for a long time–I’ve clocked 12 seconds, and sometimes way longer–you see a blank space in the AirDrop section, even when your laptop is inches away. Icons for destinations such as Twitter, Mail, and Messages appear instantly in the menu. Say you’re in the iPhone Photos app and click the Share button. AirDrop takes forever to find a deviceĪirDrop is a handy way to transfer files between iPhones, iPads, and Macs–eventually. Got Apple frustrations of your own? Hit me up at or on Twitter. Here are 11 particularly aggravating glitches–as picked by my Fast Company colleagues and me–with the best workarounds. They range from stuck laptop keys to fraying power cables to app icons that won’t go where you want them to in iOS. But even though Apple often delivers, the promise of “It just works” makes a bunch of longstanding bugs and poor design choices–in software and hardware, on iOS devices and Macs–all the more frustrating.
