The iOS 15 beta is great, but it still doesn’t fix this decade-old bug that leaves me hanging in the worst way.
I’ve been really enjoying the iOS 15 public beta for weeks now, and the new features like Live Text and UX refinements like clustered notifications already make it a better experience than iOS 14. But week after week, new beta update after new update, I’ve made a nauseating discovery: iOS 15 isn’t fixing a bug that’s been in iOS for a decade. Let me preface by saying this is not some experience-ruining glitch or phone-bricking calamity; this is an annoyance, a malformation so benign that it’s been kicked to the bottom of every priority list since it appeared, if the iPhone’s devs noticed it at all. What am I talking about? Okay, picture this: you’re chatting away in the Messages app and you want to send a photo. You tap the action bar to open your photos and tap the one you want to send, which then appears in your message draft window. You hit the send button, and the draft goes away.
