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Apple does this, a lot. The number of times I have incorrectly called somebody on FaceTime because I clicked on a contact at the same time FaceTime decided to u
by bmitc 4y ago
Apple does this, a lot. The number of times I have incorrectly called somebody on FaceTime because I clicked on a contact at the same time FaceTime decided to update the list should be embarrassing for them. I have zero idea how this doesn't get fixed. It should be a trivial change to make sure the list is updated however they'd like before showing it to the user. As it is right now, given that it's slower or about as fast as me clicking something on the screen, it seems updating the list is the very last thing they do.
- jer0me 4y agoI’m always nervous about AirDropping things—the list shuffles around in real-time and there’s no confirmation or way to rescind a file.
- grishka 4y agoI was thinking about this problem in the context of Telegram. I have a lot of chats and they constantly jump around. Way too often I misclick because the list has updated in the split second between me stopping my mouse/finger and actually clicking/tapping. It's not really doable on phones, but at least on computers one could pause the updating while the user is moving the mouse over the list.
- wruza 4y agoThe recipe is to not accept click/touch after a while when you reshuffle a list.
- TulliusCicero 4y agoAlternatively, if the list is actually updated with new information, block input to the list for 300ms or so.
- gwd 4y agoI came here to complain about Apple's autocompletion feature: probably 30% of the time when I start to type a long word, the exact word I want comes up in the suggestion box at the top; only by the time I click the box, the word has changed to something else. It would have been faster to type all 7 characters out with my thumbs than to delete and re-type everything again.
- antihero 4y agoAlso Apple’s various search across products (music, spotlight, ios) is so damn slow it exacerbates this issue hugely
- medstrom 4y agoYes, my trick is to avoid the global search and go for a specific search, e.g. on the iPhone I go to the apps library and only then swipe down to get the search. That search is for apps only, so it's instant & responsive.
- yakubin 4y agoI have Sublime Text and Sublime Merge installed on my Mac. Trying to launch them through Spotlight is an exercise in frustration. Each successive letter typed in Spotlight alternates the selection between Sublime Text and Sublime Merge, so when I press Enter to launch, it’s almost certainly the wrong one of the two.
- FollowingTheDao 4y agoRight? Just click on Safari's address bar to see this in action!