You may have already lost your patience while searching for a specific email in the Apple Mail app, but never managed to find it despite several attempts. Other well-known bugs, like AirDrop transfers that fail or iCloud photos blocked for no reason, also cause recurring waste of time without any update correcting them, whether on iPhone, Mac or iPad.
Users therefore had the good idea of compiling these bugs one by one and concretely measuring their impact. They then created a site called Bugs Apple Loves, which lists around thirty anomalies that have never been correctedwith concrete examples and an estimate of the time it wastes everyone.
Bugs never resolved
The Bugs Apple Loves site derides bugs by treating them as industrial disasters, based on problems reported for years by users, with in-house calculations on the “human cost” of each problem. Every time, we discover the total time wastedexpressed in millions of hours, human years, or even billions of dollars of lost productivity.
The whole thing is assumed to be “entirely invented”but is still based on precise formulas mixing frequency, impact, and absurdity. Even the estimated time to fix the bug is displayed, compared to the global scale of the disaster caused.
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The most emblematic undoubtedly remains the search in Apple’s Mail app, which fails to find messages that are nevertheless present. If you use a Mac or iPhone, you may have already spent some time searching for an email, before ending up opening it on Gmail. This dysfunction, known for more than ten years, would affect hundreds of millions of people and remains relevant in 2026.
Absurd situations become normal
Several other examples are highlighted, such as unwanted notifications from automated shortcuts, the lack of updating of widgets on Apple Watch, or even iCloud synchronization errors which prevent certain photos from appearing for weeks. Each time, the site estimates how much time was wasted by users, and how many engineering hours it would have taken to fix them.
If you have in mind a recurring bug with iOS that Apple has still not corrected for years, do not hesitate to share it with us in the comments. The idea of this compilation remains to highlight what many end up tolerating, for lack of an official solution.
By: Keleops AG
