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Why compare the iPad interface to the iPhone interface?
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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.
Then don’t bother. Unless an app has a pretty bad bug, you don’t need to force-kill it, and that’s what you’re doing here.
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…
I actually disagree. Some things I don't like, but overall I think Apple's been making worthwhile improvements.
I've long held, without any real concrete evidence, that Apple puts its best and most powerful iOS UI behind modern hardware/device capabilities as a ploy to coerce sales of newer devices. So much stuff is hiding behind Force Touch, which is a relatively recent hardware upgrade to their device fleet.
2 years later and it's completely frigging useless, nobody's been able to demonstrate a useful feature for it and outside of techy Internet forums I've yet to meet anyone who uses it on their phone. Every time I ask ~50% of people have it turned off because the incredibly laggy, counter-intuitive, and downright annoying "actions" were bothering them so they turned it off in settings.
Force touch belongs in the dust bin of history with wood grain UI and horizontal sliders on horizontal swipe interfaces.
>> In my opinion, this new design doesn’t work for the young, the old, the millenial, the seasoned pro, the able, the dis, the hawkeyed, or the near blind. My absolute favorite change with iOS 11 was the removal of unnecessary labels. As a young millennial who has been using iOS for almost half of my life those tiny little blips of text scattered everywhere are completely redundant and simply add noise to an otherwis…
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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...
Sure, absolutely not saying it doesn’t happen. But one extra long press to kill the current app isn’t problematic given that ideally you shouldn’t have to do it at all, and no-one needs to kill every recently used app (or rather, if you’re finding problems in multiple apps you really need to reboot your phone instead).
Swiping up from app list was next best thing and its sad to hear this has been removed.
The idea that exit buttons are redundant is completely missing the point. Reset, restart, save, quit - it's fundamental to software design but somehow these concepts have been demoted.
>> In my opinion, this new design doesn’t work for the young, the old, the millenial, the seasoned pro, the able, the dis, the hawkeyed, or the near blind. My absolute favorite change with iOS 11 was the removal of unnecessary labels. As a young millennial who has been using iOS for almost half of my life those tiny little blips of text scattered everywhere are completely redundant and simply add noise to an otherwis…
If you have a jailbroken device you can actually remove all app labels completely - it's gorgeous. I picked up a friend's iphone and felt completely overwhelmed by all the useless text everywhere.
>> In my opinion, this new design doesn’t work for the young, the old, the millenial, the seasoned pro, the able, the dis, the hawkeyed, or the near blind. My absolute favorite change with iOS 11 was the removal of unnecessary labels. As a young millennial who has been using iOS for almost half of my life those tiny little blips of text scattered everywhere are completely redundant and simply add noise to an otherwis…
If you have a jailbroken device you can actually remove all app labels completely - it's gorgeous. I picked up a friend's iphone and felt completely overwhelmed by all the useless text everywhere.
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…
Maybe next weekend I’ll spend the time to write a CADisplayLink debugging app to demonstrate the performance penalty of leaving apps open in the background...