Tip: Consider including your FB number when posting about bugs that you've filed through Feedback Assistant

By robin24, 21 July, 2022

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Apple Beta Releases

Hey all,

I haven't been active on here for a while, and just noticed this awesome new forum dedicated to beta release discussion.
While reading through some of the topics, I noticed that quite often some of you will mention that you have reported a certain bug to Apple using Feedback Assistant, however in most cases the Feedback ID isn't included in these posts.
I do feel that sharing this would make a lot of sense, however, as someone working at Apple might perhaps come across the topic, and having the ID right there would possibly enable them to investigate the issue or pass it along for further action.

Currently there aren't any keyboard shortcuts / menu options in the Feedback Assistant apps on macOS / iOS to quickly copy the Feedback ID to the clipboard, I feel this is something Apple should add in a future release of the app, and have filed report FB10809123 for this.
With this being said though, I've found that it is still quite easy to copy the Feedback ID from the macOS app with the following steps:
1. Select the "Sent" row from the sidebar.
2. Interact with the table which contains all your submitted reports, and interact with the one whose ID you wish to share.
3. Press VO-Right Arrow twice to move to the Feedback ID, then press VO-Shift-C - this copies the last spoken phrase to the clipboard, which in this case is the Feedback ID as well as the OS against which the report was filed.

Similar steps can be taken to copy the ID from the Feedback Assistant website at feedbackassistant.apple.com, which may come in handy in case the app isn't present on your Mac.

Hope y'all find this suggestion useful, I just figured if there's already a beta forum on here, it probably would make sense to share as much info as we can when discussing OS bugs which have been reported to Apple.

Robin

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Comments

By Dawn 👩🏻‍🦯 on Thursday, July 21, 2022 - 18:34

Could you possibly copy speech to clipboard? A lot of times, when reporting issues with apps, if there's an error message, I'll copy it to the clipboard using Vo's copy speech to clipboard command. i forget what it is, as I've changed it to something I can more easily do. But, if possible, maybe that may be something you could try. I've copied codes for authentication at times as well using this method.