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Post by culebron21 »

BitsAndObjects wrote: post #33

Trying to type this comment on an iPhone and that very last issue, text selection, is so so real. It’s probably the single biggest thing I hate about this phone that makes me consider switching back to Android (I was on Android for 12 years before trying out an iPhone for 3 years atm, and in general, on average, I can’t tell the difference… they both have strengths and flaws. Text selection is a pretty massive flaw o…

Android isn't any better, every new version every year, it's becoming a buggier and buggier Tamagotchi that demands attention every half an hour, and has a gazillion contradictory settings that never work. My phone, model 2023, has night mode that turns on automatically. You can turn it off for 30 minutes, or permanently. There are clocks that work independently. I wanted a better one, because this one would reset all its widgets every minute, and no app could play music or radio in the background.

So I got a newer one, from 2025. Fortunately, radio & media do work. But product managers wouldn't have been product managers without spoiling something. Somebody decided the alarm and night mode must work together in unison, and also they dropped the turn-off-for-30-min feature, and they decided to make night mode smart, that it doesn't turn on if the phone was active at the time. So, now you can get spam calls or sms make it ring loudly at night, because night mode didn't turn on, because you used the phone. Next time when you notice night mode should be on, but isn't, you turn it on. But now it's permanent -- till the end of the universe, unless you turn it off. And alarm clock won't ring, because deep in there, a "waking up alarm" box is unchecked, that should have made it work despite the night mode. Did any human actually test it work on themselves?

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Post by crooked-v »

nick238 wrote: post #109

Spotlight search is infinitely more useful than the Windows 10+ start menu. 99% of the time I'm just using it to open an app or a recent document/download. In Windows, if I hit [Win], type "fusion" (to open Fusion 360, an app in the "Start Menu" folder, for what that's worth nowadays), there's a 70% chance it will do a Bing search for "fusion".

It's more useful until it spontaneously stops working, at which point you're stuck until and unless it spontaneously decides to work again.

Re: Bugs Apple loves

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Post by nielsbot »

magnio wrote: post #7

Had the pleasure of making an Apple account to join our company's developer team. I filled out the form on the website 7 times: Edge on Windows, Edge on macOS, Safari on macOS, using 2 different phone numbers. No matter what, Apple just refused to send the verification code to me. It only worked after I remember Apple is a dick to the web platform, then I managed to create one from the popup in the App Store.

I seem to remember this happening to me, and I finally called them and they said something about a waiting period for new accounts? It might help to try calling their tech support for this as painful as that is.

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Post by Spivak »

nick238 wrote: post #109

Spotlight search is infinitely more useful than the Windows 10+ start menu. 99% of the time I'm just using it to open an app or a recent document/download. In Windows, if I hit [Win], type "fusion" (to open Fusion 360, an app in the "Start Menu" folder, for what that's worth nowadays), there's a 70% chance it will do a Bing search for "fusion".

I forget what combination of settings does it but my Windows start menu now only searches the two start menu folders. It's perfect, completely deterministic, instant.

Trying to turn the app launcher into the magic "accio " bar was a huge mistake. You can have a second UI element for search, I promise it won't scare me.

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Post by HexDecOctBin »

cosmic_cheese wrote: post #25
HexDecOctBin wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had a similar issue when I first brought my iPad. Turns out, Apple doesn't like custom domains for emails. So, I had to make an Apple account with a Gmail account, then remove the Gmail account and add my email address with the custom domain. Why? Who knows. Still remember my first experience after buying an iPad.

Might've had something to do with the state of the various email security measures on the domain. I have an Apple account on a custom domain with Fastmail and it's never been a problem.

Mine was also managed by Fastmail. And no one else has ever had a problem with it (including Apple when I added it after signing up).

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Post by wtetzner »

lanthade wrote: post #49

This list is frustrating to read because it reminds me of all the time I've spent dealing with these bugs. Not all of them thankfully but more than half steal my time at least once on a weekly basis. They're all bad but I think the auto correct actively fighting me and the ios cursor thing are perhaps the most annoying of the bunch for me. Trying to communicate well on a mobile platform is bad enough but when it's ac…

I just turn auto correct off completely, as it's just plain worse than just typing it myself. Unfortunately there's nothing that can be done about the terrible text selection.

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Post by PieUser »

duomo wrote: post #108
gruez wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't get it. The screenshot on reddit appears to show that tapping on the card changes the billing info, and under that there's a separate button to change the card. So far as I can tell that's the same on iOS 18? The only difference is that tapping on the card doesn't do anything. What's the "muscle memory"?

iOS 18 is what introduced this. In iOS 17 you could tap the button with the card to change the payment method.

You're right my bad, iOS 18 introduced it and I'm still mistapping 2 years later.

Re: Bugs Apple loves

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Post by throwerxyz »

bigstrat2003 wrote: post #100
throwerxyz wrote: post #77

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> This is the objective logical UX. There is no such thing as "objective" in this arena. It's all subjective, the best you can hope is to find an approach that the majority of your users subjectively prefer.

No there is objective logical UX.

If you click a button that says "Change payment method" it'll change the payment method.

If you press the card on a "which payment" window, it'll use that card.

Unfortunately objective truths are very boring.

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Post by godelski »

nick238 wrote: post #109

Spotlight search is infinitely more useful than the Windows 10+ start menu. 99% of the time I'm just using it to open an app or a recent document/download. In Windows, if I hit [Win], type "fusion" (to open Fusion 360, an app in the "Start Menu" folder, for what that's worth nowadays), there's a 70% chance it will do a Bing search for "fusion".

Just because something else is worse drones mean the other thing is good
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