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13 was the worst iOS release I can remember. Photos would crash from scrolling too fast. Mail wouldn't check for new messages for a whole day. Safari blank screens. Replying to messages in Mail was a 50/50 proposition. The phone would freeze for 5-10 seconds more than it ever did before. All kinds of visual artifacts like text appearing where it shouldn't, UI elements getting orphaned and just floating around, effects that didn't finish all the way...

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Also photo sync launched COMPLETELY broken. Do you have >10k photos in your library you want to sync? Tough luck. So far they've fixed photo sync up to ~20k photos or so but now absolutely zero videos will sync. "include videos" just doesn't work.

It’s been working well for me since the first 13 release, and I have (as of today) 67616 items, about 2k5 videos. I’m glad I don’t have to debug stuff like that :P

I'm still holding off on updating my iPad, even though I really want to use sidecar. Has iOS 13 stabilized now?

iOS 13 and Catalina have been OK for me, XCode on the other hand is a hot mess.

I'm on 13.2.3 and a lot of the worst things seem to be fixed. That said, I still find some of the design changes odd and unintuitive (e.g. new editing gestures, new Music/Mail layouts). Mail is still infuriatingly slow at almost everything. I think you could probably call it stable (for my usage).

Note that there were also some... "interesting" iCloud sync design choices. You need to upgrade all devices (including macOS) to be sure of proper syncing in some cases, with odd behaviour ensuing if you don't.

Catalina 10.15 has been my worst ever. MS Word documents now totally @#$% disappear on saving. Fortunately doing a hard shutdown usually causes them to reappear.... in the Trash, along with three dozen zero-byte recovery folders.

1/10. Would not upgrade again.

I have this bug where until reboot, some albums from Apple Music would destroy media playback. Changing volume would be delayed by about five seconds, the device would become hot in my pocket culminating in a respring in three minutes.

I've been having the same issue, did you find a workaround?

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