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Oh, you want to updates your apps? That's easy. Open up the App Store and then click on your profile picture. Wait, what?
by JohnTHaller 7y ago
Oh, you want to updates your apps? That's easy. Open up the App Store and then click on your profile picture.
Wait, what?
- kccqzy 7y agoHold the App Store icon until a menu appears. Choose "Updates" and done. I'm not defending Apple here. I only accidentally discovered this shortcut. I feel that designers these days expect users to explore a lot of things out of blind faith in order to discover functionality.
- rogy 7y agoonly works if you know where your app store icon is. i dont use the icons from the launcher screens anymore, everything goes in one folder bar the 'sticky apps' find it much faster to just pull down and search for apps
- vladvasiliu 7y agoOn the Iphone it works when long pressing in the search results too. (iOS 13.3)
- frank2 7y agoAm curious what you mean by the 'sticky apps'.
- OGWhales 7y agoThanks for the tip. I always forget how to do it the couple times I've updated.
- emodendroket 7y agoSomehow we've unlearned all those lessons about styling links to look like text and making users play Minesweeper on the screen
- zentiggr 7y agoWow, that's seriously dysfunctional. I get that Apple doesn't do UX testing but maybe they could do some UX testing? Getting at least one user's opinion about a redesign might have nipped some of this in the bud
- OGWhales 7y agoYeah I think exactly one would be enough lol
- Razengan 7y agoTHIS right there is what seems to be the core issue at Apple these days: It doesn't feel like they have anyone who uses their own products anymore (dogfooding.) The one thing about Steve Jobs was that he was a user like us, sharing most of the same annoyances and frustrations and in a position to make the engineers do something about them.
- riffraff 7y agoon the contrary, to me it feels like they have people who only use the latest product, and know it 100%. So when something new comes along, nobody is confused. Just all of us who don't live at apple 24/7.
- domador 7y agoYou got that right! I'm all for dogfooding, but at some point, it can turn into kool-aiding, if you don't take a look at how people out on the street are actually using your products (or trying to.)
- domador 7y agoThe following, classic comic speaks more to Windows-style UI pathologies, but it seems appropriate here as well: http://okcancel.com/comic/4.html http://okcancel.com/comic/4.html
- denzil_correa 7y agoThe inclusion of the Arcade tab on the App Store has pushed this change. I'm guessing that Apple feels like most people don't really update apps manually and just do an auto-update.
- fingerlocks 7y agoIt makes way more sense when you have multiple profiles with a different set of apps for each of them.
- krtkush 7y agoI feel that this is a dark-pattern to force users to enable automatics updates.
- JBiserkov 7y agoThey just needed the space previously occupied by "Updates" to promote their "Arcade"
- xattt 7y agoClearly, the solution would be to place Arcade under Profile. Easily accessible!
- endorphone 7y agoiOS 13 defaults to automatic app updates. How in the world is that a "dark pattern"? I get that people got accustomed to manual updates [1], and some illusion that this gave them some control, but from a rational evaluation it makes no sense. [1] - I remember when Google first added enabled automatic app updates and one of the most common retorts, including on here, was "can you say bricked" and similar nonsense.
- ascagnel_ 7y agoiOS updates apps automatically; system updates still require explicit user approval. I think it 's a decent trade-off, given that the options are "don't update", "update now", and a default of "update overnight, when/if the device is plugged in". More stuff should allow for the latter option.
- q-base 7y agoHaha I have for the past few months wondered where the "update" list had gone in the new App Store. Thanks for the help :) That is of course the most natural place to put that information - said no one ever.
- Aeolun 7y ago“Upcoming Automatic Upgrades > 82” Something must be going wrong here. It doesn’t appear the ‘automatic’ part of that is working :P
- ollie87 7y agoYeah I've been having that issue. Along with the email inbox bug they claim to have fixed but is still very much live and well on my iPhone 7 Plus.
- endorphone 7y agoA constant barrage of application update notifications, and the process of doing the same, was an unnecessary chore that led to update fatigue. Apple moved to defaulting to automatic updates, removed the various signals and notifications about updates pending, and now the average person just has updated apps within a reasonable window of consideration. e.g. This was definitely a change for the better. They're pushing something that shouldn't be first class into the background, in the same way that you don't manage memory or decide which apps in the background to close.
- ItsMattyG 7y agoGoogle and Netflix are horrible for this. Want to switch which user account you're using? No problem, simply find the picture of the current user account that you definitely don't want to use, and click on it.
- golergka 7y agoClicking your user account picture to access actions related to your user account (such as, change account, logout, change this picture etc) actually seems pretty intuitive. Where would you expect to find this functionality instead?
- ItsMattyG 7y agoI was expecting to find it there, but older people who I've walked through these interfaces would expect it to be under something like "settings" or "switch account" rather than "this account". Also, it's really a stretch to say that an action related to account x is "switch to account y."
- tzs 7y agoIf N updates are available, they put a red badge with an N in it on top of the profile picture, the App Store icon, and if you have moved the App Store icon to a folder on top of that folder.
- capedape 7y agoYea this is awkward. It will then often show you a “partial” list of the available updates so you might have to swipe down a couple times to see the full list. I also know the long press shortcut to get to updates, but often forget that. As well as the copy/paste swipe gestures.