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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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

No option for focus follows mouse. And no way to implement it due to the way the menu bar works.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)
  • No back button or consistent back action, can't swipe back from either side of the screen like you can with Android.
  • When there is a back button, it's in the #1 most inaccessible part of the screen
  • Can only use Safari (other brosers are just themed Safari)
  • Because you can't have other browsers, you can't have browser plugins.
  • You can use a custom keyboard... But only sometimes. It won't let you do it for passwords. This is very frustrating as their stock keyboard sucks ass and you don't have that muscle memory, they should just do it all the time.
  • iMessage
  • Inability to side load apps or install from places outside the app store that extorts developers

These are a few things that if resolved, would make me decide to use iOS over Android.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Swiping from the left side of the screen is almost always back

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I dislike having icons on home screen, I use drawers and the only place that has icon is the dock.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

The iOS message interface, specifically the audio message button. I goddamned always hit that goddamned recording button right after hitting send, or sometimes when picking up my phone if the screen is still on. And then I have to both x the recording to stop it, and delete the blank 1-5 second message. Just put that button somewhere else like on the other side, not replacing the send button. It sucks. I hate it passionately.

Happens multiple times a day, drives me absolutely batty. I have literally never used speech to text or voice messages on my phone, except by accident. And I don’t want to, either. I’d like to disable it but 1. I haven’t found a way, and 2, I assume if I manage to do so, it will cause other problems, like it’ll probably disable speech to text on my watch also (which I do want to keep, because I’ve used it there), because Apple -sucks- at user control and configuration.

Also, the fact that I can’t change ringtones to non-default options without either spending money or going through a massive process to convert an existing ringtone with their software, which conveniently only runs on Mac (which I don’t have because fuck apple walled garden bullshit). Seriously, wtf is that shit? Greedy swine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don’t think I have ever done that. But don’t you have to hold it down now to record? Probably to fix this exact issue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No, it still only takes a single press, just checked it.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I was never able to get annoyed with the mouse charging port. The idea was that you could plug it in for a few minutes, go and make a coffee / have a piss / whatever, and when you came back it was good for weeks worth of juice. Ultimately, Apple didn’t want people using their wireless mouse with a wire.

But it does lead to a discussion about what art means to the viewer vs the artist. Apple’s job was to make a mouse to sell to users, and the users job is to use it however they see fit. Trouble is, Apple are terrible for not wanting the users to cloud what their vision is for their products.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

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.

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