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I have same experience with ios

spurgu 7y ago
Right? Simple things like selecting/copying text can be so annoying and unintuitive to the point where I wasn't feeling comfortable even after 1.5 years, and I'm somewhat of a power user in that I like to figure out the most effective ways of doing things. With iOS I've failed on so many different occasions and having to succumb to what I'd consider workarounds. Another glaringly obvious thing with Android that frustrated me to no end with iOS: Why the fuck do you need to swipe twice to remove a notification. So many swipes wasted that I could've used for Tinder instead. I have a boatload of stuff that annoys me about iOS, to the point where at one point thought about opening a Twitter account to send a daily tweet about something that sucks on iOS. Emojis look good though.
- Razengan 7y ago
  As an iPhone/iPad user, yes, selecting text is absolutely jackiechan.jpg befuddling on iOS. To the point that you wonder if anybody at Apple actually uses it. They've actually made it worse in a way by removing the magnifying glass, but at least the new copy/paste/cut swipe gestures are handy, if a little odd on smaller screens.
  - Daneel_ 7y ago
    I agree that removing the magnifying glass was a terrible idea, but what's befuddling about selecting text? The biggest loss for me on newer devices is 3D touch, since that's the best way to select text quickly and easily.
    - Razengan 7y ago
      Try getting the cursor after tapping the Safari address bar with a long URL. On many websites it will zoom around unpredictably. Very awkward to select specific text in Notes etc. sometimes, especially around links and other clickable items.
      - saagarjha 7y ago
        > Try getting the cursor after tapping the Safari address bar with a long URL. I’ve found that if you try to move the cursor with the keyboard it’ll show up.
- Talanes 7y ago
  Just to pile a couple more on, why is the only way to get to the bluetooth device list by going through settings?! Long-pressing/right-clicking on the bluetooth tray icon does that in every other OS I've used, phone or desktop. And for the love of god why does your spellcheck keep trying to replace the word "talk" with "ya'll?" I've had to manually set text replacement for way too many word pairs like that, and if you do typo the word you're going for in a way that's not in the text replacement, it defaults to the weird choice anyway.
  - spurgu 7y ago
    > Just to pile a couple more on, why is the only way to get to the bluetooth device list by going through settings?! Long-pressing/right-clicking on the bluetooth tray icon does that in every other OS I've used, phone or desktop. This is something Android messed up since Android 9 (IIRC). You used to have a small arrow below the Wifi and Bluetooth (and whatnot) icons where you could select what to connect to. Removing those since 9 was partially what drove me to angrily expore iOS. Can't say about the spellcheck because I used Swiftkey on iOS but the Android version is miles ahead of it. In hindsight I should've probably just reverted to the iOS built-in one.
    - solarkraft 7y ago
      Gboard for iOS was a bit worse than the Android version the last time I used it (years ago), but it was usable.
      - spurgu 7y ago
        That might be, and might've been better than the native keyboard, but SwiftKey on Android is still on a level of witchcraft that I've yet to seen anywhere elsewhere.
  - jedieaston 7y ago
    Long pressing on the Bluetooth icon in iOS 13 gives you a device list now, if you wanted to know.

Right? Simple things like selecting/copying text can be so annoying and unintuitive to the point where I wasn't feeling comfortable even after 1.5 years, and I'm somewhat of a power user in that I like to figure out the most effective ways of doing things. With iOS I've failed on so many different occasions and having to succumb to what I'd consider workarounds. Another glaringly obvious thing with Android that frustrated me to no end with iOS: Why the fuck do you need to swipe twice to remove a notification. So many swipes wasted that I could've used for Tinder instead. I have a boatload of stuff that annoys me about iOS, to the point where at one point thought about opening a Twitter account to send a daily tweet about something that sucks on iOS. Emojis look good though.

Razengan 7y ago
As an iPhone/iPad user, yes, selecting text is absolutely jackiechan.jpg befuddling on iOS. To the point that you wonder if anybody at Apple actually uses it. They've actually made it worse in a way by removing the magnifying glass, but at least the new copy/paste/cut swipe gestures are handy, if a little odd on smaller screens.
- Daneel_ 7y ago
  I agree that removing the magnifying glass was a terrible idea, but what's befuddling about selecting text? The biggest loss for me on newer devices is 3D touch, since that's the best way to select text quickly and easily.
  - Razengan 7y ago
    Try getting the cursor after tapping the Safari address bar with a long URL. On many websites it will zoom around unpredictably. Very awkward to select specific text in Notes etc. sometimes, especially around links and other clickable items.
    - saagarjha 7y ago
      > Try getting the cursor after tapping the Safari address bar with a long URL. I’ve found that if you try to move the cursor with the keyboard it’ll show up.
Talanes 7y ago
Just to pile a couple more on, why is the only way to get to the bluetooth device list by going through settings?! Long-pressing/right-clicking on the bluetooth tray icon does that in every other OS I've used, phone or desktop. And for the love of god why does your spellcheck keep trying to replace the word "talk" with "ya'll?" I've had to manually set text replacement for way too many word pairs like that, and if you do typo the word you're going for in a way that's not in the text replacement, it defaults to the weird choice anyway.
- spurgu 7y ago
  > Just to pile a couple more on, why is the only way to get to the bluetooth device list by going through settings?! Long-pressing/right-clicking on the bluetooth tray icon does that in every other OS I've used, phone or desktop. This is something Android messed up since Android 9 (IIRC). You used to have a small arrow below the Wifi and Bluetooth (and whatnot) icons where you could select what to connect to. Removing those since 9 was partially what drove me to angrily expore iOS. Can't say about the spellcheck because I used Swiftkey on iOS but the Android version is miles ahead of it. In hindsight I should've probably just reverted to the iOS built-in one.
  - solarkraft 7y ago
    Gboard for iOS was a bit worse than the Android version the last time I used it (years ago), but it was usable.
    - spurgu 7y ago
      That might be, and might've been better than the native keyboard, but SwiftKey on Android is still on a level of witchcraft that I've yet to seen anywhere elsewhere.
- jedieaston 7y ago
  Long pressing on the Bluetooth icon in iOS 13 gives you a device list now, if you wanted to know.