Apple's Newest iPhone X Ad Captures an Embarrassing iOS 11 Bug (theverge.com)

Tom Warren, writing for The Verge: If you blink during Apple's latest iPhone ad, you might miss a weird little animation bug. It's right at the end of a slickly produced commercial, where the text from an iMessage escapes the animated bubble it's supposed to stay inside. It's a minor issue and easy to brush off, but the fact it's captured in such a high profile ad just further highlights Apple's many bugs in iOS 11. 9to5Mac writer Benjamin Mayo spotted the bug in Apple's latest ad, and he's clearly surprised "that this was signed off for the commercial," especially as he highlighted it months ago and has filed a bug report with Apple.

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Re:Least Significant Bug Ever

[Tsolias]

most people look away when their iProduct doesn't function well...

It is a bad bug fix for a class 3 error.

[140Mandak262Jamuna]

That delay is NOT the bug, but it is a BUG FIX

There is another bug where if you type too fast the taps dont register correctly. It made rounds a few months before. If you tap the numbers in the calculator too fast you will get random results. Basically if you hit the next number in your input before the animation on the previous tap fully diappears, the tap does not register. Random digits dropped from your input to the calculator. A serious bug if there is one, given how much people have come to trust the calculator.

In our company we will classify this as a "Class 3 Error: An experienced user might trust the wrong answer" and report it to regulators of air safety, nuclear power commission and a dozen such agencies. Class 3 is worse than "crash, no answer" and "answer so wrong far out in the la-la land".

The fix they came up with, it looks like, is to adjust the timings of the animation, instead of buffering taps during animation, like a type ahead buffer of the keyboards.