Garageband

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2014–2025), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with Garageband, 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

Knob sometimes doesn't follow finger and moves in random directions2025-10-11
Became weird and tough to use compared to its earlier accessible version2024-02-08
Commenter says they can't get anything done in GarageBand after repeated tries2022-04-13
Core MIDI features that used to work no longer function on iPad2022-01-07
Non-intuitive flow made it nearly impossible to make a simple ringtone2019-12-22
Features removed and settings moved, making songs sound different and hard to find2016-09-28
Old files open but lose settings and sound clips, so recordings are silently altered2014-03-17