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.
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?
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.
Yes! You push them to the background and then they jump back up front again. Who asked for this? Why is this? Whyyy???
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 is possible to turn this off. I did.
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.
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.
App Window management in Mac OS is beyond infuriating. Time ago it was non existent so you had to download a third party app to enable a clunky version, now it exists but you have to right click on the green dot and hope the snapping menu pops up (sometimes it opens some other menu). I just want MS Windows style “move an app window to the side of the screen and have it automatically snap to take up that half (or quarter)” not the clunky idiotic implementation Apple has provided. The number of hours I have racked up wasting my time resizing and moving windows around manually is obscene.
Also hardware related: the fucking charging port on the magic mouse will go down in history as the stupidest, anti-user design decision in human history.
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!
Complete lack of support for clipboard history. This annoys me daily.
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.
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.
It still exists, you swipe down on the bar at the bottom of the screen. You can also set up a feature called “Back Tap” and set a double or triple-tap on the back of the phone to trigger it or any number of other actions.
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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This is for watchOS, but when you add a watchface, look closely at the activity digital face… There is an activity complication in the corner. It makes me SO mad, I chatted with Apple and they just ended it. I really hate it.
swinging back around because I was just reminded of this trying to get to a calculator: iPad OS still not having a built in calculator in 2023 because Lord God Steve Jobs proclaimed a million years ago you can just use your iPhone. Sure you can. but why is that a reason to not have a feature? Fucking infuriating.
I was reminded of this last night when I opened the calculator on my Watch, and did a sensible chuckle.
the app store doesn’t let you see if an app has an ad banner built in or not.
ill be deep in the cold cold ground before i let some guitar tuner app download ads in the background and shove it in my face…
but how do i know which ones are bullshit without installing and uninstalling each one?
it’s so stupid.
also, if i hold down the wifi quick toggle when it’s locked, it asks for my pin and then just turns it off… that should be a single press.
if i hold it while it’s unlocked, i get the expected wifi settings menu, so i can select a network or whathaveyou…
death by 1,000 paper cuts
oh and to beat a dead horse: not letting me sideload my own apps on my own device is complete bullshitSpeaking of the App Store… I want a guitar tuner app that doesn’t collect information, but I can’t search with that as a filter so instead I have to open each app to check the privacy first.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tonalenergy-tuner-metronome/id497716362
This is the one I used to use in high school. It looks like it collects about as little as you can get these days.
You Turn off mobile data.
“Your mobile data is offline” OK to continue.
No shit 💩
Command vs ctrl for copy, paste etc. But only sometimes!
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Vocabulary Recognition Mystery:
- iPad doesn’t recognize the word “Vidalia” as a word.
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Home Lighting Grouping Wish:
- Annoyed that I can’t create groups of lights within a room.
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Delayed Photo Sync Confusion:
- Photos don’t sync immediately, and you cannot make them, except for one sync at a time.
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Caps Lock Quirk:
- About 70% of the time, I have to press the caps lock key twice for it to activate or deactivate.
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System Settings Search Issue:
- The search function in System Settings doesn’t seem to do anything.
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HomePod Timer Sync Problem:
- Timer set on HomePod doesn’t show up on my other devices.
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Volume Control Headache:
- System sounds/music volume lacks logical control. Accidentally clicking my buds when putting them in results in ear-piercing music, I guess because I have the systems sounds volume up high.
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Autocorrect Woes:
- Autocorrect has supposedly improved, but it has actually gotten significantly worse.
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iOS refuses to sync ringtones I made in GarageBand across my devices. I resorted to creating them on each individual device and then iOS reverts them back to the default after a couple of minutes.
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