A new website takes Apple’s most persistent software bugs and reframes them as a hilarious scoreboard, using intentionally over-the-top math to estimate how many collective human hours they’ve supposedly wasted over the years.
Do you feel seen?
Bugs Apple Loves describes itself as:
“A satirical website documenting how much time humanity wastes because of bugs that Apple seemingly loves so much that they keep them around forever.”
Currently, the site lists 16 bugs, with the oldest one (Finder Forgets Window Sizes) dating back to 2001.
Here’s the full list of currently listed bugs, each with its cheeky subtitle:
- Mail Search Doesn’t Work: The search bar is purely decorative
- Autocorrect Won’t Take No For An Answer: You fixed it. It unfixed it. You fixed it again. It unfixed it again.
- Apple Pay: Card Icon Changes Address: The credit card icon doesn’t change the credit card
- Google Contacts Sync is a Black Hole: It’s syncing. Or is it? Nobody knows.
- AirDrop: Looking for Devices…: They’re right next to each other. They can’t see each other.
- iCloud Photos: ‘Uploading X Items’: X has been 847 for three weeks.
- Spotlight: ‘Indexing…’: Apple really can’t do search.
- Personal Hotspot Won’t Auto-Connect: Three attempts. Every time. When you need it most.
- macOS 26 Window Resizing Doesn’t Work: The corner is there. You just can’t click it.
- Apple Watch Widgets Won’t Let Go: You deleted that appointment. Your Watch didn’t get the memo.
- iOS Text Selection is Pure Chaos: You just wanted to move the cursor. Now everything is selected.
- AirDrop Shuffles Targets Mid-Tap: You aimed for Sarah. You hit Dave. Dave now has your meme.
- AirPlay Menu Reorders at Click: You clicked ‘Conference Room TV’. You got ‘Karen’s MacBook’.
- Finder Forgets Window Sizes: You resized it. Finder doesn’t care.
- Keyboard Language Switching Stops Working: Press Globe. Nothing. Press again. Nothing. Again. Nothing. Again. Oh there it is.
’Think our numbers are wrong? Edit them yourself’
Collectively, according to the website’s admittedly made-up estimates, humanity currently wastes a total of 32.4 million years per year on these bugs.
However, Bugs Apple Loves lets you do your own math, adjusting multiple parameters, including the percentage of affected users, how frequently the bug occurs, how long it takes to reach the desired result, and how many attempts are required to complete each action.
Finally, Bugs Apple Loves has a GitHub repository, where users can submit new Apple bugs, or suggest improvements to the website.
Bugs Apple Loves is well worth a look. The copywriting is genuinely hilarious, and it might offer some much-needed relief as you wrestle with your own pet issues across Apple’s operating systems.
Bravo.
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