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.

52 points

The removal of 3D Touch

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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.

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6 to XR, so yeah, same.

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6 to 12 mini gang! I hate it they abandoned the mini’s. I’ll prob get an SE next.

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I hate it too! I got a good deal on the 14 pro but really wish it was the size of the mini. Just felt so much easier to hold

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Itunes to Music. iphotos to photos Yikes. Edit: not quite a tiny thing.

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That you can´t disable the open camera gesture on the lock screen. Drives me crazy …

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Dude, I miss when lock screens were lock screens. I want nothing on my lock screen other than an unlock method. I’m always hitting flashlight and camera when I pick up my phone. Then when I cave, and decide to start using the camera button for quick pictures, it requires the most perfect press, right in the center, otherwise it refuses to register. It’s engraging.

Edit: as I type this on an iOS device, I am deciding I hate autocorrect more.

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I like the new widgets for the lock screen in iPad OS 17 but I really hope Apple decides one day that camera is an option.

Agree. Autocorrect is really annoying, especially on the iPad so I installed Google keyboard. Using an Android smartphone makes using the Apple keyboard even worse.

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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.

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Yeah that’s so ducking annoying.

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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”.

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At least it wasn’t your mother.

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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.

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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.

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A little known feature, you can hold space and swipe left/right to control text cursor.

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It works but it was so much better on 3D Touch. You could 3D Touch the entire keyboard and swipe.

RIP

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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.

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settings > keyboard > auto-correction: off

that was pretty easy…

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Right, but now there’s no autocorrect at all. A middle ground would be nice.

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it underlines misspelled words… works pretty good for me

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