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Apple prompts
Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2019–2026), in 6 threads.
People raised many different problems with Apple prompts, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 7 complaints
- Must repeatedly click OK on prompts they no longer take seriously2026-10-06
- Repeated 'ask me again later' prompts keep interrupting the user2026-09-22
- "Not Now" doesn't stop the update prompt from reappearing every day2026-09-22
- Face ID failure forces an account password entry with no PIN fallback or password manager access2025-06-12
- Keeps nagging to accept T&Cs or update with no permanent opt-out2023-01-17
- Users are repeatedly nagged endlessly to upgrade the OS on iPhone and Mac2020-06-22
- Not immediately obvious which updates the notification refers to2019-12-10