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iPhones are hard to use

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Re: iPhones are hard to use

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Post by jsjohnst »

eridius wrote: post #303
entee wrote: post #137

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I think the points that are well taken are those around identity, relationships and contacts. I've been using iPhones for something like 8-9 years and I didn't know I could specify a contact as a specific family relationship. A while ago when I wanted to configure emergency contact information it took me a google search to figure out that I needed to find the Health app buried on the last screen of the phone. At the…

I'm not about to try it right now (don't want to mess up my contacts) but I'm pretty sure you can just tell Siri that "suchandsuch is my wife" and she'll update the relevant Contact cards for you.

Jane will find it funny if you say “call my wife” and it calls someone else instead I’m sure.

Re: iPhones are hard to use

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Post by JiNCMG »

jacobush wrote: post #504
danaris wrote: post #480

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Not if the problem has nothing to do with how simple the onboarding actually is, and everything to do with the users being scared to try things.

Why?

Why? It's literally the whole reason for that article. It's "hidden" because these older people are too scare to even click on a setting button.

Re: iPhones are hard to use

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Post by jakobegger »

texan wrote: post #517

"Seriously advanced security features like two-factor authentication (which kind? Apple offers two) are exactly the sort of thing only experts who don’t need them will ever set up." Hmm. This is a reflection of the author's bias towards not having the features he likes on the Iphone be more in your face, and the features he finds annoying are labelled as useless. The two factor ID, is there as a CYA for Apple, so the…

Two Factor Auth is not a CYA.

It effectively prevents phishing attacks and helps mitigate weak/reused passwords.

Everyone should have it turned on. If you don't have 2FA turned on, it's just a question of time until someone downloads all your nudie pictures.

Re: iPhones are hard to use

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Post by josho »

fit2rule wrote: post #374
coldtea wrote: post #360

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I don't think so. What's important for setup is not important everyday. Some things you just need to be able to set once and forget. No reason to put those things front and center.

Language? I'd quite like to be able to change that frequently. I see no good reason to have mono-culture enforced by the OS. There are three languages spoken in my household, by various family members. Changing the language dynamically for them would be a benefit, not a hindrance. Text size? Same - I often have to show something to my elderly family members, but digging deep into the menu's to find the Text Size sett…

I would argue that Apple actively doesn't want to support your two use cases because they'd much rather sell a device to each member of your household and make it incredibly easy to share the page you are looking at between each member of the house.

This is what frustrates me about consumer electronics, that if you have a use case that the vendor doesn't want to support then you'll be constantly frustrated over what could be a simple software change.

Re: iPhones are hard to use

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Post by jplayer01 »

eugeniub wrote: post #512
jplayer01 wrote: post #390

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> And I would encourage you not to say it in private contexts with friends either. Not sure it's any of your business what he says to his friends in private, even if you have an autistic son.

Encouraging people not to be offensive in private? The nerve!

Offensive to whom exactly? Are you literally insane?

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Post by wool_gather »

Sharlin wrote: post #501
wool_gather wrote: post #495

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Text sizing is addable to the control center, as are other accessibility shortcuts. That's about as fast access as I think it's possible to get. Worth noting that there's a fair number of apps historically that don't really support text sizing. Until iOS 11, if you were using a non-system font, you had to do the resizing manually. They made it much, much easier to buy in to Dynamic Type in iOS 11, so hopefully this w…

> Text sizing is addable to the control center, as are other accessibility shortcuts. I don't think that was the point. The point was that people don't even know it's possible to change text size, never mind about other accessibility features, because they're not easily discoverable. Besides, the people who don't know about text sizing don't know about control center customizability either...

True, you do still have to find it once.

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Post by MattSayar »

monkeynotes wrote: post #499

Most people know it's controversial to say "iPhones are hard to use" because most people feel that the iPhone, perhaps more than any other technological innovation in the past 20 years, made technology easy to access, use, and integrate with their lives. To say 'iPhones are hard to use' and then point out all the small edge cases of use as significant flaws is hyperbole in bad faith. The author is caught up in his ow…

But then nobody would read it
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