A significant fraction of the bugs in this article are because the author has deliberately chosen settings that cause problems (disabling all location access) or are just bugs, some of which I can't reproduce myself. He throws in random comments like "goodbye accessibility" with no attempt to justify them, when in fact iOS and macOS are famous for their unusually strong accessibility features.
I'm not trying to excuse Apple, but this article attempts to paint the impression that every issue is connected in some kind of serial incompetence, but that simply isn't the case.
> chosen settings that cause problems (disabling all location access)
I thought Apple was all about privacy. But their software needs location access to function properly?
The Reminders app has significant location-based functionality, which obviously won't work if it can't access your location.
It remains private because this runs locally. It's not sent up to the cloud.
There isn’t a single screen I use day to day in iOS 26 that doesn’t have a major or minor defect.
iOS and Mac used to do a good job with things like animations, now they are horrible. Pre-beta quality.
And dark mode and accessibility settings need to just work. That is a core part of the job of every front end iOS developer, including the ones at Apple.
It absolutely is serial incompetence and the Apple engineering leadership that signed off on it should be ashamed.