I’ve had enough. I made the incredible mistake of “updating” my Mac, iPad, and iPhone to OS 26.2. Updating is in quotation marks because a far better description is “bricking.” For those not tech savvy, bricking refers to making a change to a device that causes it to act like a brick. For most purposes, that’s what’s going on here. If you haven’t installed 26.2 avoid it like you’d run from a rabid wolverine. Apple OS 26.2 is a disaster whether it’s MacOS, iPadOS, or iPhoneOS.
There are many threads on the Apple Community Forum discussing this issue and workarounds (here and here for two examples). I’ll save you some reading: there are very few. For example, I use Airdrop routinely to copy files from one device to another wirelessly. It’s broken in 26.2 to the point where I installed LocalSend (available for all Apple and PC devices).
As I write this, Macobserver.com has listed 77 bugs. I’m showing their entire list so you can tell them bugs you’ve encountered that aren’t here.
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As always, you can let me know (via comments here or email) about entertaining/frustrating/hair-pulling bugs you’ve encountered. We’ve now come full circle in the desktop computer realm. Once upon a time, Apple’s slogan once was, “It just works.” The reference, of course, was to Windows notorious instability and bugs. No more. I propose a new motto: “If it just works, it’s a miracle.”
