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.
iPadOS using an external keyboard:
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There’s no way to force the software to input a lowercase letter when it wants to autocapitalize. For example: when putting in an email into a form — where the input doesn’t have proper attributes — it’ll default to inputting an uppercase letter and you can’t force a lowercase. You end up having to type the starting letter twice and deleting the first letter. (Have to type “Eemail” then delete the first letter.) Edit: Apparently you can tap shift twice to go lowercase, as described here (https://lemmy.world/comment/6294849). Thank you! I obviously can’t recall any time Apple has described this behavior anywhere.
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The second and worse thing is that language icon that shows up when you type. That little thing that hovers in the corner of the app mostly in the way of the input. Yes you can move it, but now it’s in the way of something else. It’s basically useless, and apps end up getting all funky looking because elements try to move around it. This is especially bad in stage manager. They need to axe it or move it to one of the myriad commands you can access by holding Option.
Edit(s) as I think of them:
watchOS:
- Let me download a podcast anytime I want. Put a freaking button in the podcast app that says “download to watch.” I don’t care if it eats battery. The current way to manage podcasts on the watch is abysmal.
iOS:
- Someone thought it was a good idea to add bird sounds to the “rain” background noise, and I’m so mad about it. I want rain, not loud bird garbage. I turn on the sound because I’m trying to drown out noise like that. (Aside that’s not Apple’s fault: I’d love to buy something like Dark Noise, but I don’t want a subscription for that, and $50 for the one time purchase is crazy.)
Hit shift twice in a row, then you can type a lowercase letter at the beginning of a sentence.
Well I’ll be damned, you’re right!
Chalk this one up to one of those secret interface things Apple does super poorly to describe or explain!
This is demented, since the normal behaviour is so standard. Press ‘e’ for ‘e’ and shift-‘e’ for ‘E’.
That is the normal way of capitalization, but the os auto-capitalizes sometimes (like when starting a new sentence), and occasionally it’d do it where you didn’t want.
Apologies, I meant the way iOS does it is demented. I have a keyboard with a shift key, why assume I need help with that?
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Macos can’t split screen easily with meta+arrow keys
the Podcast app eats 30% of my battery in an hour just listening to an audio file…
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!
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.
Mine is still that (on Mac, at least) the only way to update Apple apps is by updating the whole system. Work requests we don’t update our macs, and now I still can’t edit texts from my computer.
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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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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
macOS: Lack of official support for models that are still relevant. I’ve got the last MacBook Pro that was fully upgradable, a mid 2012 model with a dual core 4th gen i7. You can upgrade everything in it, and I have. 16gb of RAM, two disks, one an SSD, and the other a large HDD. But the latest official version of MacOS is Catalina. But I’m running Ventura on it now with no issues. And in similar respect, no upgradability at all of the new Macs after purchase. It’s very anti consumer.
Look for open core legacy on google, I have somona on a early 2015 mbp running great
They’re running Ventura, so they’re using something to get there. :)
How else would they force you to pay 4x market rates for SSD and RAM if they don’t force you to buy a new non upgradable machine?
ipados sometimes shows me annoying translucent grey boxes in the app menu until I reboot. (I think this is the smallest problem I have with ipados, but I’m sure I could list more)
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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.
Any luck with that?
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.
Apps have become so monetized now that I just don’t use new ones any more and just keep the ones I bought 10 years ago.
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.
Yes and if you want to use your phone in your car then you have to have Siri enabled. It’s the one thing I won’t enable to use CarPlay.
This is the biggest issue for me too, but Apple is working on on-device LLMs so I’m hoping they use that to improve Siri drastically
I only use Siri to start timers when cooking, do quick maths and conversions, and to pull up random things that my wife and I are discussing that we don’t know the answer to. It works well with just those use-cases.
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I have Alexa. It’s pretty crappy too.
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.
I’ve used both extensively and Alexa is miles ahead of Siri.
Agree. Recently purchased an Homepod Mini for my Mac Mini and Siri is so bad compared to Alexa.
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)
