Calculator App Issues in iOS 18

You think that’s how compounding interest works?

before what you’re talking about isn’t and doesn’t apply to how interests work.

So what you are saying is that before you’ll take 1,000+12% and it’ll show 120 as the interest, and when you press equal it’ll then give you your total of 1,120 and if you press equal for a 2nd time (as in the 2nd year) it’ll then give you a value of 1,240. Which is wrong when it comes to interest, all you doing there is adding another 12% to the initial cost of 1,000 which would give you another 120 and every time you press = it’ll just add 120 in the span of 40x.

The way the calculator is NOW is how it should be when compounding interest which is taking 1,000+12%= 1,120 for the first year and what happens for the 2nd year is that you will then receive 12% to 1,120 and not 1,000 so the new total for the 2nd year would be 1,254.40 and not 1,240. So what you thought you was doing this entire time has been incorrect as far as interest goes.

So the 3rd year would be 1,404.93 (404.93 in interest) and not 1,360 (360 in interest) which is what you initially said is what you’ll do.

After every year you have to apply the 12% to the new balance, NOT add the initial 12% of the first year. If that’s the case instead of just pressing = 40 times you could had just took your value to 120 and times that by 40 and gotten your “answer” quicker. Which still would had been incorrect by the end of your term example.

Correct answer to your term example is that you will end up receiving $92,050.97 in interest at 12% yearly for 40yrs from $1,000.

NOT $120x40= $4,800. Huge difference.

So if that’s what you’re into figuring out then iOS18 calculator is NOW perfect for you since you are now doing proper math with a proper approach when it comes to interest compounding. Don’t believe me? You can use any online interest calculator and put in your exact values for the time mentioned, you’d see.

Same here. I downloaded another basic calculator

You will find it enlightening to read the rest of the 3 pages of the thread you just added to.

You, too, will find it enlightening to read the rest of the 3 pages of the thread you just added to.

On https://apple.com/feedback, they don't even include a form for the Calculator app anywhere on the page. And there's no "Other" option under the "iOS and iPadOS Apps" section :/

I would honestly classify this as a bug at this point

Please update to 18.3.

and there’s nothing to fix, it was changed because other users demanded it. Now it’s back to being broken for them.

Quite literally the most pointless change to what was a decent working calculator - it is now utterly unuseable. It’s like a child’s speak and spell.

Once more pointless and unnecessary changes ruining a once great app.

why change it if it worked? It’s like it was designed by someone who never actually uses a calculator. 😡

After adding numbers and getting a seven-digit result - say, 1,234,567 - and copying that result in Calculator, if I then paste it into Notes or Messages, it pastes as 1.23457e6. This has never happened before, and I can find no way to make it paste as a seven-digit number. Very frustrating.

Absolutely hate this new calculator. Use it to balance my bank statement. It was so easy to use before. Am I going to have to go out and buy a basic calculator when I have this beautiful iPhone 14 Pro Max? Help! 😡

AlWeir wrote:

Don't bother using the Calculator in iOS 18. It gives you wrong numbers for totals. The Calculator on Mac's are accurate.

This is not my experience at all. We're also not seeing a lot of posts to that effect. Could it possibly be that it's easier to type accurately on a real keyboard than on a tiny screen and so you make fewer errors on the Mac?

There was a earlier threat about the in iOS 18 calculator a few weeks ago that some one posted and showed that calculator was inaccurate. I did the same on the Mac and it was correct.

Here is the thread.

ios18 calculator not accurate - Apple Community

AlWeir wrote:

There was a earlier threat about the in iOS 18 calculator a few weeks ago that some one posted and showed that calculator was inaccurate. I did the same on the Mac and it was correct.

Again, a single thread doesn't mean there is a problem with the Calculator app on that phone, let alone one an all phones. The vast majority of problems people have with phones, computers and tablets are the result of people not understanding how things work or making mistakes. And I include myself in that.

Did you test it on your iPhone?

ETA - The iPhone calculator is not wrong. The basic calculator only shows to one number after the decimal so it rounds. If you enter that calculation and switch to the scientific calculator, you'll see the two digits after the decimal.

There is an old saying “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”.

The iOS 17 calculator was definitely “not broken” (as evidenced by so many people griping about it — Me too). So Why did some genius? “fix it“?

Please make the iOS 17 calculator an option within your next revision … PLEASE.

Particularly, I enjoyed the basic calculator when my telephone is in the portrait position, but it automatically converted to the scientific calculator when I turned my phone to the landscape position. (Plus not ever having to hit the = between each set of numbers, to see my running total — no matter which calculator method I was using).

(Then, please stop Fixing things that don’t have a problem)

I agree this was designed by someone who has never used a calculator. The rendering is pathetic, aside from the insane lack of functionality. A large dark area displays above the calculator in horizontal mode, squishing the font of the keys, and in vertical mode the result is cut off