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Long pressing on the Bluetooth icon in iOS 13 gives you a device list now, if you wanted to know.

Talanes 7y ago
Well, that's a life-changer. Though it's annoying that it only seems to work after a second long-press to go from the condensed version of that little window to the bigger one. My ideal is that I can flip up and change the source in the time it takes for a song to change, which I used to be able to do seamlessly in Android. Though according to the sibling comment, Android got worse for that use since I switched too.
- spurgu 7y ago
  Ok I kind of feel like an idiot now, I just checked and apparently on Android 10 you can long-press as well to get a menu of available devices/networks. I'm not sure whether this was already there in Android 9 or whether they introduced it later but I'm quite sure that I read the release announcements (and reviews/articles[0]) at the time and turned up empty-handed. Just wish both had some kind of UI indicator that there's a long-press action available... it's not like people are reading mobile phone manuals nowadays, even if they existed. [0] For example no mention here https://www.xda-developers.com/everything-new-android-p-developer-preview/ https://www.xda-developers.com/everything-new-android-p-deve...
  - shawnz 7y ago
    It works on my Android 8 device.
    - spurgu 7y ago
      Are you saying you don't have a down arrow below the icon? I might be wrong as I said initially, I thought they removed the dropdown in 9 but might've been 8?
      - shawnz 7y ago
        I do have a down arrow, which takes me to a sub-panel listing the devices, but also I can long press on the icon to go to the full list. Personally I think the down arrow is way too small for me to press so I always just long press the icon anyway.
        spurgu 7y ago
        Ok then my memory was correct about the versions at least. Long-press or not, the arrow is still a great indication that there's an action besides a single click - wish everyone implemented something of the like.
  - solarkraft 7y ago
    A lot of this works on the basis of intuition and I think that's pretty okay for shortcuts. It becomes more problematic when it's an essential path, but then again right-click-abilityis also undiscoverable.
    - spurgu 7y ago
      True.
    - Talanes 7y ago
      It's a totally intuitive thing, but after a few years of using something you stop trying to intuit as much and are just doing the things you know work.
dvtrn 7y ago
Well this is an awesome thing to learn today!

Well, that's a life-changer. Though it's annoying that it only seems to work after a second long-press to go from the condensed version of that little window to the bigger one. My ideal is that I can flip up and change the source in the time it takes for a song to change, which I used to be able to do seamlessly in Android. Though according to the sibling comment, Android got worse for that use since I switched too.

spurgu 7y ago
Ok I kind of feel like an idiot now, I just checked and apparently on Android 10 you can long-press as well to get a menu of available devices/networks. I'm not sure whether this was already there in Android 9 or whether they introduced it later but I'm quite sure that I read the release announcements (and reviews/articles[0]) at the time and turned up empty-handed. Just wish both had some kind of UI indicator that there's a long-press action available... it's not like people are reading mobile phone manuals nowadays, even if they existed. [0] For example no mention here https://www.xda-developers.com/everything-new-android-p-developer-preview/ https://www.xda-developers.com/everything-new-android-p-deve...
- shawnz 7y ago
  It works on my Android 8 device.
  - spurgu 7y ago
    Are you saying you don't have a down arrow below the icon? I might be wrong as I said initially, I thought they removed the dropdown in 9 but might've been 8?
    - shawnz 7y ago
      I do have a down arrow, which takes me to a sub-panel listing the devices, but also I can long press on the icon to go to the full list. Personally I think the down arrow is way too small for me to press so I always just long press the icon anyway.
      - spurgu 7y ago
        Ok then my memory was correct about the versions at least. Long-press or not, the arrow is still a great indication that there's an action besides a single click - wish everyone implemented something of the like.
- solarkraft 7y ago
  A lot of this works on the basis of intuition and I think that's pretty okay for shortcuts. It becomes more problematic when it's an essential path, but then again right-click-abilityis also undiscoverable.
  - spurgu 7y ago
    True.
  - Talanes 7y ago
    It's a totally intuitive thing, but after a few years of using something you stop trying to intuit as much and are just doing the things you know work.

dvtrn 7y ago

Well this is an awesome thing to learn today!