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I run into a few iOS bugs often. Today, 3 times today alone, I paused audio (tap on airpod) and then 5 minutes later tap to resume, nope, tap again, nope, tap h
by greggman3 6y ago
I run into a few iOS bugs often. Today, 3 times today alone, I paused audio (tap on airpod) and then 5 minutes later tap to resume, nope, tap again, nope, tap harder! nope, tap harder again angry now that the damn phone isn't effing working, unlock phone, audio starts :(
Another I run into often, especially with face masks on, is trying to unlock with a code and how iOS, for lack of a better way to describe it, has an input buffer.
Let's say your code is 123456 and by accident you enter 1123456. It will error at 112345 but it will register the 6 so when the error finishes I quickly enter 123456 which it sees as 612345 (error) with a buffered 6, so repeat two or three more times getting angrier and frustrated that the EFFING phone won't unlock. Finally stop, delete the buffered 6 and enter 123456.
There's absolutely no good reason to buffer the 6 that happened 1/2 a second ago (or whatever the error delay is) IMO.
I have a feeling the new "smart home screen" is going to really suck with it's AI trying to surface apps for you meaning you can never know where to find an app. This seems so antithetical to everything Apple wrote about UI design in the 80s and 90s. I know app ABC is on the first screen 3rd row on the left. App DEF is on the second screen 2nd row on the right. But no longer, now, at ever time of the day, at least according to the iOS 14 ad here
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/09/ios-14-is-available-today/ https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/09/ios-14-is-available-t...
the icons will move at different times of the day on the whim of the OS. That sounds like hell to me
- Xavdidtheshadow 6y agoThe "Smart Home Screens" (actually called "App Library") is a totally optional feature. You make it sound like the phone will just start moving your apps for no reason (which it won't do).
- marnett 6y ago> Another I run into often, especially with face masks on, is trying to unlock with a code and how iOS, for lack of a better way to describe it, has an input buffer. I know exactly what you are referring to and to this day it dumbfounds me this UX has not been fixed. It is an abysmal experience.
- alasdair_ 6y agoMy personal favorite is an old iOS bug that I ended up going through a super-convoluted process to report and that they finally fixed. The bug was extremely simple: the calculator app would ignore the decimal point depending on whether the phone was held vertically or horizontally. Steps to reproduce: 1. Open the calculator application 2. Ensure the app is held vertically (non-scientific mode) 3. Enter a number such as 10,000,000 4. Attempt to make the number 10,000,000.1 by pressing "." and "1" 5. Notice that instead of this number, the calculator application converts the input to 100,000,001 - i.e. the decimal point was ignored. I wouldn’t have minded, except I only discovered the bug during a finance final in grad school, and It took me three attempts before thinking “maybe the calculator is wrong”... Bug id 6743558 for posterity :)