Kirk McElhearn debuts a new Macworld column called “Hey Apple, fix this!”

The first of this series focuses on this issue with the Mac’s Notes app:

Apple made a bewildering design decision: They don’t allow users to choose a default font and size in the OS X version of the app. On iOS, the Notes app inherits the overall font settings you choose; if you choose to increase the size of the system font, in Settings > Display & Brightness > Text Size, then the font in Notes gets bigger, as it does in apps such as Mail, Reminders, and others. (Not all apps support this Dynamic Type setting.) But there is no such system font size option on OS X. So all notes start out in a tiny (to me) font.

I love the idea for this series. There certainly is no shortage of this sort of issue on both the Mac and iOS. Kirk’s daylighting of this sort of issue can only help bring it attention, get it fixed.

Here’s an issue I’d like to see daylighted in Kirk’s column:

Every so often (perhaps one in five calls), my phone rings and iOS refuses to recognize my slide to answer. The slider appears, but does not recognize my touch. I’ve tried everything I can think of, but once it goes in this mode, there’s no way for me to answer the call. But once the call goes to voice mail, my phone returns to normal.

I’ve done all the normal things, like restart the phone, hit the power button, nothing seems to help.

And I know I am not alone in this. I’ve gotten a wave of Twitter responses from folks experiencing the same issue, with some going as far back as iOS 6 and an iPhone 4s.