Why is Select in Apple Mail hidden in a menu on iPad but not iPhone in iOS 26.2

On iOS the Select button is large with a menu next to it. I hate inefficiency! Why should something I use every day be hidden under a menu on the iPad where there is ample space, but not on the iPhone where there is not! iPad O 26.2 and the select is hidden under the menu Here is the menu with select at the bottom. I hate having an extra step and it is even weirder that the device with more screen real estate is the one that hides Select making it the 2 presses versus one the iPhone. Not only should this be consistent between devices, but it makes no sense. Please Apple Fix This!

iOS Reduce Transparacy leaves Mail search with half of screen black

So since activating reduce transparency to get rid of the awful and illegible Liquid Glass, when I try and search in Mail, the results only show half the screen. Obviously there is something transparent there that is now opaque, and it basically makes search unusable. Just another huge issue with Liquid Glass. I have reported the bug to Apple, but I am not holding my breath.

iOS and iPad OS 26 have the worst battery life ever

And I can definitely say just how bad it is because my iPad Pro M2 was replaced after screen issues 3 months ago so it has a basically brand new battery, and I had my battery replaced in my iPhone 14 Pro not a month ago (and they exploded my phone so I have a replacement). After upgrading to version 26 I thought it was bad at first, but I have literally such worse battery life than I did with my phone which was down to 80% efficiency on the battery! Without walking and using the GPS my phone is down to 30 percent by 3:47 PM! And this happens every day! And my iPad Pro with almost no use is down to 70 when with the old battery would have been at 96%.. And I am sure half of it is from the awful transparency that makes everything look illegible, and constantly glitches and takes a while to redraw as most things show up transparent. And hopefully 26.1 which will allow you to limit transparency will bring some efficiency back, but likely this is mostly bad coding! My pet peace’s in an OS are making things less efficient (more steps to do the same things),, less legible (say with transparency, and running slower with each OS release! And these OS’s do all of these in spades!

Macworld on that the iOS App Store needs to become more like the Mac

Jason Snell at Macworld has this interesting article. And it is also right that they are going too far against non-notarized apps on the Mac! Even worse are permissions in so apps that you must re-up every month! And yes I can see some shields around NFC on the phone, but yes you need to be able to bypass Apple if you want to, and just install what you want. Apple though doesn’t want to give up its cut, so this won’t happen unless they are forced and I don’t see them being forced in the US. They don’t see the iPhones as ours but as theirs and all the software and only regulation could help stop this.

Why does Apple sleep alarm move to watch but you can my do the same with other alarms on Apple Watch

Ok so this is something that has bugged me for sometime between the Apple Watch and the iPhone. If you use the Apple Bedtime and Sleep settings and are wearing your Apple Watch instead of the alarm happening on your phone, your watch will vibrate. Some people hate this, but I love it, as it doesn’t disturb my wife or newborn baby. The weird thing is there are no controls for this it just happens and you can’t say have the alarm on both your watch and the phone or even just the phone. Even weirder to me if you set alarms on your phone they don’t alert your watch even if your phone is set to silent (when it should default to vibrating your watch). Apple really needs to have settings for this and they should be global. If I have on my watch and have my phone set to silent I should be able to have all alarms go off by vibrating my watch, but there are no controls for this whatsoever. And the only cross alarm that happens is in the sleep/bedtime alarm mentioned earlier.

StopTheScript for Safari, is my new go to extension

From Jeff Johnson of Underpass App Company, this works in safari in iOS and Mac. This app stops Javascript from running on pages, and I use it to block sites that make you turn off content blockers before you can view the site. I know sites need revenue, but random ads only annoy me, and some of that is that I edit commercials, so I know the tricks and they just annoy me! So i block them and making me turn off my content blockers annoys me even more! This takes a little effort and a little work, but it does what it says (and some pages break when you stop the scripts), and I love it.

Unfortunately FiLMiCPro 7 for iOS has gone subscription

Filmic PRO is easily the best app for shooting video for iOS. WIth many essential features such as shooting flat and working with stabilizers. I would say anyone shooting on the iPhone should be using FiLMiCPro. It is just too bad it had to go subscription. As a former owner of FiLMiCPro I get a download from within the app of FiLMic Legacy which has all the old features, but won't keep being updated, so will stop working before too long, but at least it works for now, and a discount off the subscription. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRi6SWYNK_k&feature=youtu.be New Features of FiLMiC Pro 7 The Update does look great, and the subscription model had better mean a steady stream of new features (I would love them to figure out how to get 23.976 if that is even possible). And I love the manual control sliders vs the wheels it previously was. I just honestly hate subscriptions, especially on IOS. I already have to have he full Adobe Suite, I have Maxon's Red Giant Suite, and a few others, and I don't need IOS ones. Honestly I hope EU regulators get on this and force Apple to be able to sort the store by purchase vs subscription.