[mkmk]

I consistently struggle with Notes and iMessage sync issues, and I suspect it’s due to being a customer for so many years and making my way through many devices over those years.

The UX of the Apple ecosystem is so nice but when it goes sideways you’re kind of out of luck, even if you have applecare.

I wish they had some sort of premium “fix my esoteric appleID account issues” service you could pay them for once a decade or so.

[bwbmr]

I agree- long standing issues that have popped up and are never fixed over the years:

1) My iPhone has never properly synced screen time with my other devices (presently my other devices: 2x iPads, MBP) sync fine together. This has persisted across multiple iPhones and major releases of iOS.

2) Apple News has a permanently saved “story” of a specific magazine issue’s table of contents. No idea how it got saved, but since it isn’t actually a story (it’s a ToC instead) the UI option to “unsave” it is greyed out / unavailable. I reported it to a CSR about four years ago, he took down bug reports, I even sent a screen capture demonstrating the bug… it still persists and Apple provides no mechanism to manually clear all saved story data. I can remove it locally from the device from disabling iCloud sync for Apple News -> selecting yes when prompted to remove local data, but it will still persist in iCloud and there is no way to wipe it there… it’s back as soon as I reenable sync.

[amunster]

I had a sync related issue with Messages.app on macOS recently. Escalated through apple support. The solution was to reinstall macOS from scratch. Not pretty but a small price to pay.

Now my lingering issue is with search: Calendar events and Reminders prior to the reinstall date do not appear in search results. This has been an issue for years on both macOS and iOS! Much Google searching was no help.

I wish that premium fix service included useful forums and…search.