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.
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”.
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.
Yes, spell check… autocorrect. Rage inducing.
Also, something happened in newer releases of iOS, where sometimes you can’t tap your finger to place the cursor on a paragraph of text. Ends up selecting an entire word instead of putting the cursor between words. Sometimes does that, sometimes places cursor. It’s random, or at least I don’t know what causes it to get in that mode.
Also, another thing that boils my blood. Typing on this thing, getting almost an entire paragraph typed out, then suddenly the last sentence is selected, and the next character I type replaces it all, essentially deleting everything. Sure I can undo but it completely demolishes the stack in my brain that I was trying to convey.
A little known feature, you can hold space and swipe left/right to control text cursor.
I was going to mention this if nobody else had. Easily the thing that makes me angriest most frequently on my iPhone is its behavior when trying to type out and edit longer comments. I honestly don’t know what’s going on when it starts acting funky, but the more time I spend, the weirder it gets. Sometimes I’ll try to place the cursor and it will select a word on a completely different line (it just happened when typing this up that I selected a word in the latest line of this comment and it selected the very first “I” at the top and started overwriting it). Sometimes when I try to change or retype a word, autocorrect suggests the new word mashed together with the old word. When a comment gets too long, the screen bumps up to the top of the page after every new word is added so it’s almost impossible to see what I’m typing. I don’t know if it’s the iPhone, the browser, or the webpage, but it’s a terrible experience.
Then sometimes it’s perfectly fine.
Right, but now there’s no autocorrect at all. A middle ground would be nice.
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 12 mini gang! I hate it they abandoned the mini’s. I’ll prob get an SE next.
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.
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.
It’s one of the things keeping me from moving. I need a back button and the software ones are dumb AF.
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.
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.
I hate this so much! Some apps do this even multiple times during startup.
To be fair this also happens in Windows (Zoom anyone?) and probably Linux too, although for the latter that may be customizable.
Siri is pretty much useless. When I see how well something like Alexa works, I really don’t understand how Apple can be so far behind on that technology.
The thing that bugs me about Alexa is that I will ask a question and it will answer as it should, but then continues, “By the way, …” and tells me something completely unrelated. I understand they are trying to inform of other features and capabilities, but I don’t want to hear about them and wish I could turn this off.
