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Why compare the iPad interface to the iPhone interface?
As someone who've used iPhone since the first version of it, usablitlity has been on decline since iOS 9. They removed very simple two step gestures like swipe-delete in music player. In the iOS10 search bar, if you search an app and start that app, the 'search button' remains active on the top left, press on which leads you back to search. (Why would I want to go back to search after I've found my app?" In iOS9, the…
> But in iOS 10, they put AirDrop and Airplay controls on the first tab of control centre and music control is on second tab...
...in iOS 11, it's not. But those (generally) aren't usability declines as much as necessary rethinks about how apps and OS functionality should work. It's unfortunate that they sometimes break muscle memory, but I'd be much more worried if the iPhone still worked like the first version of it.
> Few more iOS iterations, and I think I'll switch to Android.
That will probably solve everything. /s
As someone who've used iPhone since the first version of it, usablitlity has been on decline since iOS 9. They removed very simple two step gestures like swipe-delete in music player. In the iOS10 search bar, if you search an app and start that app, the 'search button' remains active on the top left, press on which leads you back to search. (Why would I want to go back to search after I've found my app?" In iOS9, the…
As someone who've used iPhone since the first version of it, usablitlity has been on decline since iOS 9. They removed very simple two step gestures like swipe-delete in music player. In the iOS10 search bar, if you search an app and start that app, the 'search button' remains active on the top left, press on which leads you back to search. (Why would I want to go back to search after I've found my app?" In iOS9, the…
This is fixed in iOS 11, everything is now on the first tab (and it's customizable).
I wonder if this is a reaction to the belief that you need to keep on killing apps as soon as your phone is perceived to be running slowly? iOS will background kill apps under memory pressure but leaves an screenshot of the interface up in the task list. As people rarely need to manually kill apps and presumably rarely use the task switcher to jump back in the history more than a few places, having easy access to kil…
I need to kill apps quite often because the app has a bug and killing it, whether it actually kills it or not, ends up making the app redisplay or resync etc...
As someone who've used iPhone since the first version of it, usablitlity has been on decline since iOS 9. They removed very simple two step gestures like swipe-delete in music player. In the iOS10 search bar, if you search an app and start that app, the 'search button' remains active on the top left, press on which leads you back to search. (Why would I want to go back to search after I've found my app?" In iOS9, the…
In your opinion.
The global back button e.g. Search was specifically added to make the device more usable. You may not get lost and wonder how to get back but many users do.
And as for Swipe to Delete for music playlists I don't think Apple has ever used that paradigm when there is an button (cloud download) on the right side. If you think about it when a user is trying to download a song and they slightly move the table cell they might accidentally delete the song.
I personally like the new iPad UI - it makes it a lot easier to task switch to an app that may be several apps back in my history, and enables great drag-and-drop capabilities.
The stacked-card app switcher in iOS is the worst thing ever. It scrolls to the side instead of flinging an app "up" and closing it. You can see maybe a fraction of the most recent app, and barely any of another two, and then you have to scroll through a list of apps that have been open since I last rebooted my phone. How anyone can think the iOS app switcher is the pinnacle of design baffles me.
The Control Center's little control panel (reminiscent of the one in macOS 1, by the by) is an accelerator —a bunch of non-canonical secondary ways to reach items that have canonical locations in Preferences. Accelerators are about recall, not recognition. They're intended for touch-typing, not discoverability. The app close buttons are indeed too small, though. Maybe they only tested them on the iPad Pro with the Pe…
Why not just have the same "swipe up to close" as iOS 10? It'd be instant. I guess regular people must "close" apps all of the time and Apple wants to hide that.
I wonder if this is a reaction to the belief that you need to keep on killing apps as soon as your phone is perceived to be running slowly? iOS will background kill apps under memory pressure but leaves an screenshot of the interface up in the task list. As people rarely need to manually kill apps and presumably rarely use the task switcher to jump back in the history more than a few places, having easy access to kil…
Probably, but in using it on my iPad it is my biggest annoyance. If they don’t keep the swipe up to close they should at least have a drag to rearrange. The reason I want to be able to remove it is because I usually have a few things going on when using my iPad now. Mail, slack, Twitter, notes, messages. Then I open some random app and want to get it out of my “working space” but the new system makes that quite slow.