For nearly 12 minutes, the progress bar was stuck at 98.6% complete and “about 5 minutes remaining”, and on many older Macs those lasted even longer. Did the update get stuck?
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Why isn’t the progress bar for macOS updates better? Why can’t it estimate the whole time remaining to complete an update?
During a macOS update, the progress bar tells you each of the phases as they’re completed. This explains how you can track progress and make more sense of what’s happening.
Why did that progress dialog suddenly vanish long before it had even reached 50% of the copying progress?
Sierra 10.12.5 claims that the App Store app has been enhanced. That’s not what I have seen.
Progress bars are usually wildly non-linear, only increasing anxiety and frustration during an upgrade like iOS 10 or macOS Sierra. Let’s change them, please.
Tutorial showing how to turn long text passages into hypertext, add progress bars, and summary tables.
Microsoft’s Windows 10 update troubleshooter could not tell me whether my computer was eligible for the free Windows 10 upgrade.
I confirm the claim of the Human Interface Guidelines that I am often very annoyed, and know that something is wrong.
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