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Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator

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Re: Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator

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Post by deergomoo »

artursapek wrote: post #101
jb1991 wrote: post #96

On mobile devices, Apple’s Calculator app has always been one of the most frustrating apps I’ve ever used, and I’m surprised it’s a stock app by the company itself. If you press buttons quickly, like you would a normal calculator, many of the key presses simply don’t register at all. I’m not sure if they’re prioritizing some pretty little visual animation over actual functionality, but it’s incredibly surprising from…

The lock screen is even worse. I have to slow down to input my passcode or button pushes don’t register.

The lock screen has been buggy for me for years at this point. At least once a day I'll turn on the screen and for half a second or so the notifications will render with perfectly square edges and then switch to the correct rounded version.

Also quite frequently I'll swipe up to view notifications beyond the fold and they'll end up in weird places, like they'll jump further up than they should or jerk around.

Re: Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator

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Post by deergomoo »

wojtczyk wrote: post #156
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #82

> I would contact Apple, if there was a feedback option, but there isn’t There is: https://feedbackassistant.apple.com/ That said, it isn’t very user-friendly, and I find that they don’t seem to pay much attention to it. When they do respond, it tends to be some form of “#wontfix. Please close this.” That looks like a fairly ugly little bug. I suspect they know about it now, thanks to the HN Bug Reporter. It tends to…

Thanks! I didn't know about this site to share feedback. I'll give it a try. Also another reader mentioned to enter Feedback Assistant in Spotlight. It's the first time I see that app.

Honestly you might as well scream it into the nearest pillow. I'm sure someone somewhere reads some of them, but in most cases the very best you can hope for is a comment asking you to confirm whether it's still an issue in the latest release/beta.

Re: Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator

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Post by PaulHoule »

jb1991 wrote: post #96

On mobile devices, Apple’s Calculator app has always been one of the most frustrating apps I’ve ever used, and I’m surprised it’s a stock app by the company itself. If you press buttons quickly, like you would a normal calculator, many of the key presses simply don’t register at all. I’m not sure if they’re prioritizing some pretty little visual animation over actual functionality, but it’s incredibly surprising from…

Apple's greatest weakness is that many of it's fans and I'd assume people in house assume they are the epitome of UI design when actually it's not. The thoughtlessness/pixel ratio might be worse than Microsoft in some cases, which can be hard to believe.

Re: Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator

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Post by [deleted] »

layer8 wrote: post #140
DavidPiper wrote: post #104

Comically, I didn't even notice those wobbly numbers in the first screenshot, I was too busy noticing: - "Unicode" button label way off center - The 8/10/16 selector being off center in its own position - The indicators for bits 31 and 63 are not aligned with each other - x and + not being horizontally aligned (I believe this is an icon-font issue, seen on HN before so knew to look for it)

Arguably it also should be “1s’” instead of “1’s”. ;)

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Re: Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator

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Post by JamesonNetworks »

mason55 wrote: post #160
teekert wrote: post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Try switching focus mode from the lockscreen (by long pressing somewhere inbetween all notifications, widgets, the clock etc). Always takes me several tries and I end up feeling like something is broken.

This makes me angry literally every morning when I wake up and turn off sleep. And the worst part is that it used to work fine until they changed it to a long press for some reason.

I have this same issue, and the same frustration every morning. It’s to the point where I will probably set up a shortcut and train myself not to use it haha. I really miss when it just worked!

Re: Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator

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Post by wojtczyk »

rustybolt wrote: post #149

> I would contact Apple, if there was a feedback option, but there isn’t This is infuriating and the same for all the big companies (at least Google, Microsoft, Apple); you have a serious issue and simply no way to talk to a representative. The best you can do is post something on Hacker News and hope it somehow gets picked up. I worked at a company that paid Microsoft a lot to have a 1-day SLA for support. When I co…

Thanks! It looks like posting on Hacker News works well :) In the meantime a few people pointed out the "Feedback Assistant" for Apple. There's a website and an app that spotlight finds.

Re: Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator

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Post by wojtczyk »

galad87 wrote: post #6

macOS on a low dpi screen is mostly full of those kind of issues. I wouldn't recommend using a low dpi screen.

The issue persisted when I disconnected the external screen, but I probably should have taken additional screenshots from the built-in laptop screen.

Re: Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator

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Post by imchillyb »

I’ve been using an app called PCalc on Apple’s App Store.

The Apple calculator is a frustrating mess to use.

PCalc does scientific, engineering, and A to B calculations for most things.

I wouldn’t go back to Apple’s calculator app even if Apple gave me a credit for the PCalc app.

Nope.

Re: Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator

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Post by diggan »

PaulHoule wrote: post #163
jb1991 wrote: post #96

On mobile devices, Apple’s Calculator app has always been one of the most frustrating apps I’ve ever used, and I’m surprised it’s a stock app by the company itself. If you press buttons quickly, like you would a normal calculator, many of the key presses simply don’t register at all. I’m not sure if they’re prioritizing some pretty little visual animation over actual functionality, but it’s incredibly surprising from…

Apple's greatest weakness is that many of it's fans and I'd assume people in house assume they are the epitome of UI design when actually it's not. The thoughtlessness/pixel ratio might be worse than Microsoft in some cases, which can be hard to believe.

> Apple's greatest weakness is that many of it's fans and I'd assume people in house assume they are the epitome of UI design when actually it's not.

Which led to people like me making a fool out of themselves. Always been using Android, and listened to iPhone users singing the praise of the amazing UI and UX of iOS. Well, eventually iPhone 12 Mini released so I figured, "why not give it a try, can't be worse than my current Motorola Moto G gen4 right?"

Well, it is worse. I still have the phone because it still works, but that was my first and last iPhone. Everything is dog slow, not because poor performance but because of slow animations. Same on Android by default, but at least I can speed it up. And the UX makes you jump through hoops, things are impossible to discover unless you watch tutorials on YouTube, and the amount of UI bugs seems sky-high for something that sells itself as "Premium".

And then CarPlay is just an abomination! Even the most basic things like "I'd like to answer a call while still being able to see the map I use for navigation" seems to be completely ignored and it honestly doesn't make any sense at all.

Ugh, I almost look forward to accidentally dropping the phone so I can go back to having a non-distracting experience in the car again.

Edit: I just remembered the most egregious issue: How can I see the current year without having to open up a separate calendar application/put a huge widget on my home screen?

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