Apple Users Laugh Through the Pain as New Website Turns Beloved Bugs Into a “Wasted Time” Scoreboard

Apple’s notoriously loyal fanbase is cracking up and shaking their heads in unison this week, thanks to a new satirical website that transforms the company’s most persistent software bugs into an unintentionally hilarious tally of lost human productivity.

“Bugs Apple Loves” Launches with 16 Classic Annoyances

The website, aptly named “Bugs Apple Loves”, launched recently to spotlight what its creators describe as “bugs that Apple seemingly loves so much that they keep them around forever.” The tongue-in-cheek site features 16 of the most infuriatingly persistent issues plaguing Apple’s ecosystem, with the oldest dating all the way back to 2001.

From Mail search that “doesn’t work” (the search bar is “purely decorative”) to AirDrop that keeps shuffling targets mid-tap (“You aimed for Sarah. You hit Dave. Dave now has your meme.”), each bug gets its own spotlight complete with a sarcastic subtitle that’s hitting way too close to home for many Apple users.

The Math Behind the Madness

Here’s where it gets really wild: the site claims that collectively, humanity wastes approximately 32.4 million years per year dealing with these bugs. Yes, you read that right—MILLION. The calculation is admittedly “made-up” but follows a formula that considers the percentage of affected users, frequency of occurrence, time to resolve, and number of attempts needed.

Want to adjust the math? The website lets you play with the numbers yourself, tweaking parameters to see how your personal frustration levels compare to the global average.

The Full Bug Roster That’s Making Apple Fans Say “Same”

The site currently tracks these 16 classics:

• Mail Search Doesn’t Work: The search bar is purely decorative
• Autocorrect Won’t Take No For An Answer: You fixed it. It unfixed it. You fixed it again. It unfixed it again.
• Apple Pay: Card Icon Changes Address: The credit card icon doesn’t change the credit card
• Google Contacts Sync is a Black Hole: It’s syncing. Or is it? Nobody knows.
• AirDrop: Looking for Devices…: They’re right next to each other. They can’t see each other.
• iCloud Photos: ‘Uploading X Items’: X has been 847 for three weeks.
• Spotlight: ‘Indexing…’: Apple really can’t do search.
• Personal Hotspot Won’t Auto-Connect: Three attempts. Every time. When you need it most.
• macOS 26 Window Resizing Doesn’t Work: The corner is there. You just can’t click it.
• Apple Watch Widgets Won’t Let Go: You deleted that appointment. Your Watch didn’t get the memo.
• iOS Text Selection is Pure Chaos: You just wanted to move the cursor. Now everything is selected.
• AirDrop Shuffles Targets Mid-Tap: You aimed for Sarah. You hit Dave. Dave now has your meme.
• AirPlay Menu Reorders at Click: You clicked ‘Conference Room TV’. You got ‘Karen’s MacBook’.
• Finder Forgets Window Sizes: You resized it. Finder doesn’t care.
• Keyboard Language Switching Stops Working: Press Globe. Nothing. Press again. Nothing. Again. Nothing. Again. Oh there it is.

Join the Community, Submit Your Own Bug

The project is open-source on GitHub, where users can submit new bugs or suggest improvements to the website. It’s become a cathartic community space where Apple users can finally feel seen in their collective suffering.

As one Reddit user put it: “This is the most relatable thing I’ve seen all year. It’s like they looked into my soul and calculated exactly how much of my life I’ve wasted waiting for Spotlight to finish indexing.”

Why This Hits Different

What makes “Bugs Apple Loves” particularly resonant is that it speaks to a very specific kind of tech frustration—the kind where you know the company is capable of better, but these issues persist across multiple OS versions anyway. It’s the digital equivalent of a paper cut that never quite heals.

The site’s brilliance lies in its ability to transform genuine user frustration into comedy gold. Instead of just complaining, it quantifies the absurdity in a way that’s both informative and therapeutic.

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