Apple Papercuts Summer Edition

This is a short follow-up to my Apple Papercuts piece, wherein I bunched together a few more annoyances that I’ve come across while using my iPad Pro extensively on vacation. If you needed any more proof that Apple doesn’t really do QA testing, I think just two of these would be enough. And I’ve confirmed they are all still there in 26.6.1, freshly released last week. The Spotlight Near Miss At first, I thought this was a hardware problem. My brand new iPad Keyboard Cover had been giving me some odd glitches of late (I keep having to physically reconnect it for keypresses to register), but after a few days of using a desktop Bluetooth keyboard I am positive that all the input glitches I’m having are a software problem. One of the main symptoms is that invoking Spotlight with Cmd+Space works but then typing inside Spotlight fails to register. But a second attempt works, so my attempts at invoking Mail every day have the same outcome: First attempt at Cmd+Space, M… does nothing…