Requesting a sample bug report that would be most effective in getting the issue resolved

By Brian Giles, 30 September, 2022

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Apple Beta Releases

Hi all,

I've been thinking about getting back on the beta train with 16.1. I filed a few bug reports in 16.0 but I don't think they were as good as they could have been. I've gotten emails asking for more info about one even though it's been fixed for a while now.

Unrelated to that, I filed a bug report about how VoiceOver still sees controls from the previous screen on the now playing screen in the music app. When I read the list of new and resolved bugs in iOS16, there was a much better explanation of the bug than I thought I provided to Apple even though I tried to explain it thoroughly.

This got me thinking, can someone post a sample here of a good bug report that you would submit through the feedback app? If others have reported the same bug and provided a feedback number, do you just reference that somewhere in your own feedback?

If something like this already exists, can someone point me to it? Thanks!

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