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.
MacOS: that it is not possible to permanently connect my Mac Mini to my Homepod Mini and also to get rid of the 2s audio delay. It drives me mad when I move forward in a song or YouTube video (same on iPad)
I can’t simply copy a music file and set it as a ring tone. It’s the most basic feature that android has since forever, and I need to do a pagan ritual with iTunes and audio editors to maybe make it work.
No and they clearly could but then you wouldn’t need to buy them from the ringtone store. In other news, you can use any song as a custom alarm’s sound… but not your daily Sleep alarm.
wait, you still use your smartphone as a phone?!?
IKR? Talk about the tiniest thing ever…
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.
I can see how for games that could be frustrating, but when going around the general interface I quite like the adaptive cursor and how it snaps to buttons and changes based on context.
Oh yeah for native iPad features it’s kinda neat, albeit it takes some getting used to. But when you just want a basic mouse, it would be nice to have it behave that way when there aren’t fancy native UI elements to snap to.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It works but it was so much better on 3D Touch. You could 3D Touch the entire keyboard and swipe.
RIP
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.
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.
no, it only changes it with autocorrect
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.
Here are some things, some minor and some major, in general I think Apple software is not up to their previous standars and just mediocre, not bad, but neither good anymore…
- Phone app doesn’t have an in depth history of every call, just some of the last conversations.
- Spellcheck: someten alterado Saiz it (someone already said it…)
- Maps: Sent several corrections with detailed info and images but more than half are not fixed. I just don’t care anymore.
- Siri: I just don’t know where to begin.
- Apple Arcade: searching through Apple Arcade games is a nightmare.
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.
Clipboard management on iOS. At least I can get Maccy on macOS, but on iOS I’m just stuck to suffer through copy/paste hell.
The command/control split is a constant source of annoyance. I really wish they would just abandon that one and get with the rest of the world.
You mean move stuff like copy and paste to CTRL?
I super disagree with that, personally. It’s so much more comfy to move your thumb slightly over to hit Option than it is to reach a pinky down to hit CTRL.
If command was just the control key moved over I wouldn’t have a problem with it, the issue is that the control key still exists and is used in a lot of applications, often inconsistently. It’s a constant frustration to me when I hit the wrong one either due to muscle memory or simply because I forgot how each specific application is set up.
The argument for separation the command and control keys isn’t entirely wrong as using the control key for gui shortcuts was always a bit of a hack, but OSX doesn’t actually have any way to enforce the separation there, so it just makes the user experience worse in 3rd party applications which weren’t written primarily for OSX, which is unfortunately the case for most applications I use.
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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.
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.
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That you can´t disable the open camera gesture on the lock screen. Drives me crazy …
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.
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.
How useless the mail app is.
The calculator needs to allow a few more digits.
I’m curious what you dislike about mail. I find it nicer that Outlook or gmail, and generally read all email there (on iOS). I currently use it for about half a dozen email accounts, including several gmail and outlook accounts, as well as my work email
Soon thunderbird will come to iOS so that’s great for those that use iOS.
I second this, everytime I shut the mail app down or sleep my Mac the mail app prompts me to sign in again with my Gmail accounts. (could also be Google of course) - if anyone has a good suggestion for a better email client that supports ProtonMail bridge, I’d love to hear about it.
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Thunderbird, or at least it supports the bridge app on Linux.
Complete lack of support for clipboard history. This annoys me daily.
If you’re talking about MacOS, I’ve been using Maccy for this
Sorry, right, I was referring to iOS. On macOS I use Alfred for clipboard history. Works great.
Can’t you use a third party keyboard for clipboard history on iOS? That’s how it works on Android.
I think we do have this ability, but then we also have a few apps that will straight up block third party apps, mostly related to security, which is when you may want clipboard history sometimes like when copying a password from a password manager.
My job recently implemented new measures that extend to Outlook and Teams on my iPhone that won’t let me use third party keyboards in these apps anymore.
Not perfect, but I use this.
Yeah that’s probably the best solution but like you say, pretty inelegant.
Once they allow side loading we will be freee :)
If you’re in the EU or Japan, possibly. My guess is really doing it right (without impact on battery life) would require root. Or Apple supporting it officially with apis and everything.
The solution I linked above is installed through AltStore and works perfectly. No jailbreak required. Official support for sideloading will eliminate the need for AltStore, but shouldn’t impact the functionality of Clip.
