https://martin.wojtczyk.de/2024/08/31/is-my-vision-that-bad-no-its-just-a-bug-in-apples-calculator/ Martin Wojtczyk my personal homepage Menu Skip to content * Home * Robotics + Leonardo1 Robot o Documentation + Leonardo2 Robot o Documentation + F5 Robot o Private Documentation + F5-S Robot o Private Documentation * Projects + Qiew + Mobile Applications o AquaChem o iChem + Tools * Blog * Photography + Gallery + Equipment * Music * How-to Martin Wojtczyk Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator. 14 Replies While programming on my Mac and converting decimal numbers to hex and binary and using Apple's Calculator for it - because it is built-in and works decent - I thought, I saw some wobbly lines of numbers. [1_calculator] My first thought was: my eyes are getting tired. But it looked annoyingly wobbly and there went my focus on the task. I had to investigate, what was going on. I took a screenshot. Can you see it in the image above? Let me highlight the annoying detail in the image below. [2_calculator] Maybe you are reading this on a tiny screen, or your eyes are tired, but also... I had to see it for myself. Here is a zoomed in version below: [3_calculator] Yes, indeed! Some digits in the binary display section are off by one pixel. Nice anti-aliased rendering by the way, but still, why are some digits misplaced by a pixel? How did this happen? I should add, the calculator app has been open for many days. Maybe the UI coordinate system is using floats and a rounding error aggregated over many days... I'd love to find out, but I guess I won't. Anyways, at least my vision is not that bad. I would contact Apple, if there was a feedback option, but there isn't, so I won't. Instead I'll just share the bug on the Internet. Enjoy! This entry was posted in Note To Self and tagged Apple on August 31, 2024 by martin. Post navigation - Intel's Arc A750 Limited Edition arrived. 14 thoughts on "Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator." 1. [af974]Foo August 31, 2024 at 06:19 If you do a spotlight search for ,,feedback" it should give ,,Feedback Assistant" as result where you can tell Apple about it. 2. [7ef21]yomgui August 31, 2024 at 07:52 it's a feature 3. [55502]John August 31, 2024 at 08:06 Apple and feedback. I guess you have to forget about that. 4. [889da]Tim August 31, 2024 at 08:50 Is it always bits 0, 2, 4, and 5, and always shifted up by exactly one pixel? My first thought is that it's some dumb undocumented design concept that I don't understand. Most of the weird little things like this that I've seen in macOS in the past 10 years have been like that. You try to report it as a bug and they say "oh, we meant it to look like that". 5. [c9cef]Nope August 31, 2024 at 09:50 You can send feedback through the Apple website. Please do. 6. [cacdd]autoreleasepool August 31, 2024 at 11:42 > I would contact Apple, if there was a feedback option, but there isn't... https://feedbackassistant.apple.com 7. [a431f]martin August 31, 2024 at 12:50 > I would contact Apple, if there was a feedback option, but there isn't... https://feedbackassistant.apple.com Wow! It's the first time I hear about the Feedback Assistant. Thank you! 8. [9e4af]martin Post authorAugust 31, 2024 at 12:54 Is it always bits 0, 2, 4, and 5, and always shifted up by exactly one pixel? No, after I took screenshots and restarted the calculator, the misplacements were gone. I am looking out for it to happen again. 9. [9e4af]martin Post authorAugust 31, 2024 at 12:59 You can send feedback through the Apple website. Please do. Thanks, I never knew about the feedbackassistant website! 10. [9e4af]martin Post authorAugust 31, 2024 at 13:02 If you do a spotlight search for ,,feedback" it should give ,,Feedback Assistant" as result where you can tell Apple about it. Thank you! This is indeed the first time I see the Feedback Assistant! 11. [15630]Christian Teijon August 31, 2024 at 13:21 Today I had a similar experience where all my MacOS top menu (apple Finder File Edit ... ) was "too high" and the apple was even cropped on the top (unfortunately I didn't take any screenshoots). My guess is that it happened after plugging/unplugging my external screen that triggered some glitch computing the layout. Maybe the same happened to you, were you using an external screen around the time you noticed this glitch? 12. [5b7f9]Dave August 31, 2024 at 14:40 Don't hold it that way. -- Steve Jobs 13. [c11c4]rhawk301 August 31, 2024 at 15:20 I have Monterey, its not like this. Mine is straight. I have an Acer monitor and built-in video on MacMini. 14. [0caef]Heywood J. August 31, 2024 at 16:11 Fwiw, I can confirm that Apple reads all issues submitted through the feedback assistant and files them in their internal bug tracking system. 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