A new website takes Apple’s most persistent software bugs and turns them into a fun scoreboard, using deliberately redundant statistics to estimate how many hours people have spent over the years.
Do you feel noticed?
Bugs Apple Loves describes as:
“A funny website documenting how much time humanity wastes on bugs that Apple seems to love so much they keep them around forever.”
Currently, the site lists 16 bugs, with the oldest (Finder Forgets Window Sizes) dating back to 2001.
Here is the full list of insects on the current list, each with a cheeky footnote:
- Mail Search Not Working: The search bar is decorative only
- Autocorrect Won’t Take No for an Answer: You fixed it. Fixed it. You fixed it again. He repaired it again.
- Apple Pay: Card Icon Changes Address: The credit card icon does not replace the credit card
- Google Contacts Sync is a black hole: It syncs. Or is it? Neither knows.
- AirDrop: Looking for Devices…: They are close. They don’t see each other.
- iCloud Photos: ‘Loading X Items’: IX has been 847 years for three weeks.
- Highlight: ‘Indexing…’: Apple can’t really search.
- Personal Hotspot Will Not Connect Automatically: Three attempts. Every time. When you need it most.
- macOS 26 Window Resizing Not Working: The corner is there. You can’t click it.
- Apple Watch Widgets Won’t Stop: You deleted that appointment. Your watch did not receive the memo.
- iOS Text Selection Is Pure Chaos: You just wanted to move the cursor. Now everything is selected.
- AirDrop Shuffles Target Mid-Tap: You meant Sarah. You beat Dave. Dave now has your meme.
- AirPlay Menu reorders by clicking: Click on ‘Conference Room TV’. She has ‘Karen’s MacBook’.
- Finder Forgets Window Sizes: You have changed the size. The finder doesn’t care.
- Changing Keyboard Language Stops Working: Press the Globe. Nothing. Press again. Nothing. Again. Nothing. Again. Oh also.
‘You think our numbers are wrong? organize yourself’
In total, according to the website’s approved estimates, humanity is currently wasting a total of 32.4 million years a year on these bugs.
However, Bugs Apple Loves allows you to do your calculations, adjusting many parameters, including the percentage of affected users, how often the error occurs, how long it takes to reach the desired result, and how many attempts are required to complete each action.
Finally, Apple Loves Bugs has a GitHub repository, where users can submit new Apple bugs, or suggest website improvements.
Apple Loves bugs are worth a look. Copying is really fun, and may provide some much-needed relief as you battle your pet peeves across Apple’s operating systems.
Well done.
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