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Being an iPhone user in 2026 is fucking intolerable.
I lost my phone but still had Airpods in. No problem. I'll just set a timer with Siri. Except Siri won't respond because there's another pair of AirPods connected. I'm triggering it from the ones in my ears, but that doesn't matter.
Finally, I get it to respond. I set a timer. I hear absolutely nothing.
Just in case, I tell it to turn off Bluetooth. "You'll need to unlock your iPhone first," says Siri.
I finally found it by putting on my watch and using the "Ping iPhone" feature. Except even then, I have to keep pressing the button because I guess Apple thinks a two-second audio file is enough to locate a lost phone.
So why didn't I hear the timer? Because despite turning off the option to change ring volume with buttons, it was somehow turned down to 6%. I genuinely have no idea how I would have found it if not for my watch. Used a Bluetooth keyboard to change the audio destination to the speaker?
I can't decide if tech is getting worse or I'm becoming less patient, but at this rate I'm going to go into seclusion from 2027 to 2036 and design my own one-of-a-kind smartphone—not because I expect it to have fewer bugs, but because at least the bugs will be mine.
I lost my phone but still had Airpods in. No problem. I'll just set a timer with Siri. Except Siri won't respond because there's another pair of AirPods connected. I'm triggering it from the ones in my ears, but that doesn't matter.
Finally, I get it to respond. I set a timer. I hear absolutely nothing.
Just in case, I tell it to turn off Bluetooth. "You'll need to unlock your iPhone first," says Siri.
I finally found it by putting on my watch and using the "Ping iPhone" feature. Except even then, I have to keep pressing the button because I guess Apple thinks a two-second audio file is enough to locate a lost phone.
So why didn't I hear the timer? Because despite turning off the option to change ring volume with buttons, it was somehow turned down to 6%. I genuinely have no idea how I would have found it if not for my watch. Used a Bluetooth keyboard to change the audio destination to the speaker?
I can't decide if tech is getting worse or I'm becoming less patient, but at this rate I'm going to go into seclusion from 2027 to 2036 and design my own one-of-a-kind smartphone—not because I expect it to have fewer bugs, but because at least the bugs will be mine.
Borris
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