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Meanwhile, core functionality like “Find My” is completely and utterly broken. Leaving behind my stuff at a new place gets me at least two different messages on my Apple Watch at different timing. One for my devices, one for my Apple tags. One only has a “dismiss” button, the other has a “trust location” button that when I click, it says “content unavailable”, and if it works (which is only! over Wi-Fi), then it only works for that one device. I always need to go through the find my app at every new place since it’s an absolute UX disaster.

That’s what I get for carrying only Apple gear in the thousands of euros with me.

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You should try it if you're only a step into their ecosystem. Kiddo got some airpods for use with his android phone. Registered them with 'find my' on an iPhone SE I have for work that sits on my desk, so that when they get lost, we have a chance of finding them. Now, we get to be alerted to potential trackers every time when travel with him... even he gets the alerts, because he travels with his airpods frequently.

I've heard good things about Apple TV devices, but given what a pain Airpods are without the rest of the ecosystem, there's no way I'm going to try it.

I just don't understand how more people don't complain about this all the time. My wife has an apple tracker on her keys and I get a notification about an unknown tracker travelling with me on my phone every time we go anywhere. Why isn't there an "I know this tracker, leave me the fuck alone" option anywhere???

Yeah, seems like we should be able to acknowledge known trackers, or something. Or be able to enroll multiple phones or other devices (of multiple OSes) as owners, so if the keys move with your phone instead of hers, that counts as 'not being separated from the owner', rather than throwing another BS alert.

> I just don't understand how more people don't complain about this all the time.

I'd assume because they're using the share feature: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/share-an-airtag-iph41...

You can also turn them off altogether in Settings > Notifications > Tracking Notifications.

I should have mentioned - I'm on android, she's an iPhone user. Afaik there is no way to do this without also having an iPhone.

That shouldn't be happening.

The way it should work, is that if the keys are nearby the user that owns them, the tracker shouldn't be giving unknown tracker notifications to other nearby users.

> nearby the user

You mean nearby the user's phone.. nowadays the 2 are almost interchangeable..

Maybe the wife doesn't take her phone when they go somewhere (yeah, implausible, but, maybe). Or she has several phones..

Talking about core functionality, iOS `UISlider` api is broken in iOS 26. A lot of my users emailed me last few days how the font sizing menu in my hacker news app is broken because the sliders don't do anything. Turns out it's a bug many developers are facing.

This bug somehow went through the beta releases and still exists:

https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/797468?login=true

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