As much as I don’t like negative threads, there’s one thing in iOS that really irritates me, and I want to air it…
Pressing and holding the tab button in Safari to access tab groups, should have a haptic response.
Because it doesn’t, I often end up opening the tab view instead, so I have to huff a little, hit Done, then try again. I don’t know why it annoys me that it doesn’t because none of the other buttons in Safari do, but I feel like it should.
No, I have not contacted Tim Apple about this. Yes, I probably should.
Spellcheck, and it perfectly encapsulates Apple’s view of their customers, that Apple knows what’s best, better than their customers. In iOS, if you have spellcheck turned on, it automatically changes your words based on what it assumes you meant. You have to actually tap the word bubble that pops up to cancel it, which seems completely ass-backwards to me. The word bubble should be their suggestion, but then let the user make that call. They just assume you’re the idiot and they’re right. Sometimes that’s fine, but sometimes I’m just using slang or an abbreviation or a foreign word or it completely picks the wrong word and spellcheck fucks you over.
Yeah that’s so ducking annoying.
Incredibly, I went out to buy a duck for our Christmas roast the other day, and at one text my wife to tell her “I’m just looking for a fuck”.
At least it wasn’t your mother.
They just fucking changed this so it autocorrects to your most commonly fucking typed words, they even fucking pointed it out in the presentation.
See, works great. I even tried to type 🦆ing and it autocorrected to F.
Autocorrect has gotten significantly better. I don’t even need to swype anymore.
settings > keyboard > auto-correction: off
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that was pretty easy…Right, but now there’s no autocorrect at all. A middle ground would be nice.
it underlines misspelled words… works pretty good for me
The latest version of iOS changes the words if you have spellcheck on. I think it underlines the misspelled words if you have spellcheck off.
Recently switched from Android. What’s pissing me off the most is the back button on every app being on the top left. They chose the least accessible place to put the most common action.
In fairness, most apps have a swipe action to go back. The button is almost vestigial.
What? Where do you swipe and on which direction?
from the left screen edge towards right.
So still inconvenient.
lol my guy it’s the most intuitive, straightforward, natural way to go back that I can imagine. You just swipe the window back.
From the right to the left, yes. But from the left, you still have to reach your thumb across.
On my phone, everything is done symmetrical. Swipe from left or right edge towards
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middle. Back
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middle down. Switch between 2 last apps
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middle down and hold. Kill/close current app
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middle up. Multi task window
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middle up and hold. Home
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bottom up. Home
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To switch apps, you swipe left and right along the little bar along the bottom of the screen. You can also swipe up on it to go to the app switcher view.
Not to return to the previous app. Here in Denmark, we often have to logon through an official logon app. But to return to the app logging into, you must either press upper left corner or manually switch app. Swiping from the left, will not exit and return to previous app
same… you can swipe back a lot of times though…
You can swipe left and right along the bottom (where the little bar is) to switch apps.
Also apps fill in the Home Screen from the top left… why.
I’m curious. What made you switch from Android. I went from Apple to Android and I can never go back to a walled garden
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My old phone had reached ‘thoroughly shagged out’ levels of wear and I needed a replacement.
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iPhone seemed to be an easy to use and well polished interface (and it has been for the most part, despite this back button weirdness).
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iPhones by most accounts have really good build quality now.
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I’m absolutely done with Google and their data harvesting ways. Apple are much better, and sure they no doubt record usage habits for their own purposes, there’s little evidence I’ve seen that they sell that data on. Also, I cannot be arsed to fuck around with GrapheneOS, I like privacy, but I’m not militant about it, and still want access to apps.
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I like the aesthetic.
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I never had an iPhone, and if I’m ever to have a valid opinion on them, I ought to use one instead of blindly following a brand and repeating second hand opinions.
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For similar reasons to 6, I want to try a Mac at some point soon as well, and iPhone has some neat tricks with it.
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The camera quality is fantastic.
While I came from outside a walled garden, I used maybe two apps which had to be sideloaded. The only one I really miss is newpipe, but there’s browser based solutions for YouTube. I’ve just reached a point in my life where I want my phone to ‘just work’ and I don’t care about being a power user, least of all on my phone.
The rest seem like reasonable reasons to switch. As for 4, I am on GrapheneOS and it’s been pretty usable. All my apps work even banking. You can still install google apps from Aurora Store or even the Google Play store if you want and the apps will be sandboxed. If you want to stay as private and secure as possible on ios though, I recommend trying out the lockdown mode.
As for 7, I’ve tried macs in the past and they’re really not for me. I much more like my arch linux and grapheneos setup. I prefer not having Apple track me everywhere I go using their mesh tracking system.
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It made since when iPhones were small enough to be used with one hand.
Now that they are all phablets, they introduced the double tap on the home button to slide the top half of the screen down. No idea if this shortcut exists for devices without a home button.
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The removal of 3D Touch
I’m still so mad about that. I was so excited to have that feature but I was a broke college student through the whole of its lifespan. I ended up jumping from an iPhone 6 to a 12 mini, missing 3D touch entirely.
6 to XR, so yeah, same.
When windows steal focus in macOS. If I am opening an app it should be able to open in the background while I do something else. Same with a “file copy” dialog in Finder. So many apps and windows repeatedly steal focus and push themselves to the top and it’s so frustrating.
Oh Christ yes. If I’m using an app, then I don’t give a shit if another app wants my attention.
Yes! Don’t you bounce your icon at me, bitch. I see you and I will get there when I’m ready.
To be fair this also happens in Windows (Zoom anyone?) and probably Linux too, although for the latter that may be customizable.
Yep, this bad design is everywhere. Typing my password when a text editor opens…
It’s even worse when using stage manager
Yes! If you have a full screen app open with stage manager active on your primary desktop, swiping between the full screen app and the desktop basically becomes a game of app roulette.
I hate this so much! Some apps do this even multiple times during startup.
Yes! You push them to the background and then they jump back up front again. Who asked for this? Why is this? Whyyy???
It is possible to turn this off. I did.
So… do you mind telling the rest of us how to do this? I don’t see a setting anywhere to change this behavior.
Set a timer on the iPhone, both iPhone and Apple Watch will ring. Set a timer on the Apple Watch, only the watch will ring.
Also all used timers in the past are not synced on both devices.
Also, why doesn’t my watch show the timer I set on the phone by default? I just set a timer for five minutes. Why else do you think I’m looking at the watch?
This drives me bonkers. The timers should be synced.
What bothers me is that Apple doesn’t document its features very completely. Here’s an example:
In CarPlay, I do a lot of navigating using Apple Maps. I discovered years ago that I could say “Details” to Siri to get the map to zoom in to allow me to see upcoming turns. I could say “overview” to get it to zoom out to show me the whole trip on the map. Very useful! I had to discover this feature by accident, though. As far as I know, there’s no button in the interface to do this, and there certainly isn’t a list of commands that Siri users can use, CarPlay or otherwise.
Even more infuriating is that this feature was removed about six months ago. Does it exist under some other spoken command? Who knows? Apple doesn’t document anything!
I wish I’d known about the Siri command but the details/overview navigation option still exists. It’s toggled by tapping the button on the top-right of the screenshot shown on this support page: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/get-turn-by-turn-directions-iph215b053f6/ios
I’ve used this button before. I swear it does something slightly different than saying “details” did. Like it doesn’t preserve North-up map orientation or something. Without having the old voice command, I can’t check to verify. Thank you for taking the time to highlight the button, though!
Just don’t rely on Siri for anything and you won’t be disappointed. I finally said “enough is enough” when she stopped even letting me rate the song that was playing.
Complete lack of support for clipboard history. This annoys me daily.
Separate volume sliders in iOS for ringtone,media, notification, and alarms
Fucking this, it really kills me me that after all this time we still don’t have this level of configuration. There is clearly a difference between alarm volume and audio volume, so give us separate sliders!
Agreed. And why can we not permanently change the Timer notification sound? If you change it in app, then close, it will revert to the Redial sound. And unlike the Alarm, Ring tone, etc, there’s no option to change it in settings. So annoying.
This is still not a thing???
I decided to get an 15 this year after using Pixels for a while. I haven’t seen it if it exists…
Ringtone volume is set under “Sounds & Haptics” in settings.
It’s a “sticky” setting in that, if you have “change with buttons” turned off, you have to go back to settings to adjust the notification/ringtone volume, but I’ve always treated ringtones as on/off rather than specific volume levels, because of the silent switch. I don’t ever want my phone to ring loud, so I have the volume set low just in case I happened to forget to put it in silent mode.
Thanks, that’s a bit helpful. I think Apple could take a few steps or design changes to make these easier to adjust in a single place using the buttons. I think I’m still very used to android though, so maybe I’m just whining.
It should be in control center, or configurable to be put there.
All the processing power in an iPad, but no calculator. But my Apple watch has one.
How advanced of a calculator do you need? You can do a lot with the search bar.
I’d like a calculator that doesn’t require internet, so not advanced at all…
Using the search bar in iPad OS to solve equations does not require access to the internet.
If you have a keyboard, press command-space. You can then enter an equation that you want to solve in the search bar. If the syntax is correct, it will give you the solution. Try this equation as an example:
(2+pi)/(3^3)
It will display this result: 0.1904293575
If you press enter and you do have internet access, then it will send the equation to Safari and execute a search in your default search engine. I’m not sure why it odes that; that doesn’t seem too useful.
Some other operations you can do in the search bar:
sqrt(n), cos(n), sin(n), tan(n), log(n), ln(n), etc.
Some other functions that I’ve used in Excel also work in the search bar, such as min(12,2)
My guess is that it supports many or all of the functions that are supported in Numbers.
With this, you should be able to quickly solve just about anything you would type into a calculator app.
Sorry, my mistake. I just thought that a multi trillion dollar company that makes the hardware and OS for my tablet could install the calculator program from their other similar architecture hardware with an OS that shares a very large amount of the same code base (that actually used to be the code base).
You are correct I should just do this other round about way that requires more steps to get the search bar opened each time to do what should be a very simple operation.
That you can´t disable the open camera gesture on the lock screen. Drives me crazy …
The lack of real mouse support in iPad OS.
My gaming rig is currently out of commission undergoing repairs, but I was luckily able to continue participating in my multiplayer Baldur’s Gate 3 nights using Nvidia’s GeForce Now streaming. However, I’ve been forced to learn how to play using a controller, because iPad OS does not have real mouse support.
I was able to plug my iPad into a thunderbolt dock which gives me keyboard input, wired internet, and a “cursor”, but the cursor is only a simulation of touch input rather than an actual cursor.
It bugs me immensely that, in order to have Hot Corners, you have to turn on Assistive Touch and have that button floating on the screen.
I dislike how inconsistent or broken scrolling can be for third party mice. And the lack of customization options for extra buttons.
When disabling WiFi or Bluetooth in the quick toggles, it just turns it off until tomorrow. No way to change that behavior. That just really annoys me.
Probably to avoid a thief being able to block any hide-my-device attempts without using the pin?
Is this on iOS? My Mac has had WiFi disabled for six months, running Ethernet only. I have never had to turn it back off. Latest version of Monterey.
It’s the control center specifically I think. You can turn it off correctly in the settings, but the toggle is fake “not really off” nonsense.
It’s iPadOS to be specific, but Apple probably does the same thing with iOS.
the Podcast app eats 30% of my battery in an hour just listening to an audio file…
Wild, mine doesn’t. Do you think it depends on what podcast?
maybe? i’ve been listening to LPoTL and hardcore history…
when i search for it, im definitely not the only one with this problem.
I don’t use the podcast app (I use Overcast), but if this were happening, I’d check if it’s downloading a bunch of new podcasts in the background or something and see if there’s a setting to limit that.
i think we’re all computer guys on this here lemmy… but i definitely checked that.
searching the webs, a lot of people have this problem.
i think it might just be too high of quality audio…
but, thanks… i’ll check out overcastOh I I have no idea if overcast will improve your battery life, I just like it. I think the UI is intuitive and the smart speed feature is amazing for talk shows.
so far it’s the ideal podcast player… just exactly what i needed… very nice on battery as well…
thank you!
The mouse acceleration present in all Apple platforms that you can’t turn off unless you change system files on a Mac. It makes using an iPad as a work computer difficult.
I don’t experience this on my Mac. Because I am using an app called “Linear Mouse”. Maybe that would help you without changing system files. And it makes scrolling more natural.
It would! If it worked on an iPad. But I’ll keep it in mind if I get a Mac in the future. Ty!
I thought you do because you mentioned a Mac.
Nah. But it is present on all Apple platforms. You can pair BT mouse or use an OTG adapter for iPad and you’ll see it’s awful there too.
The TrueType vulnerability they patched in January 2023 without notifying the public of active exploitation, leaving Kaspersky to discover it while responding to security incidents.
