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> It wasn’t until I had been using an iPhone for a couple years that I discovered you’re just supposed to press it, not slide it. Huh? On the iPhone you've alw

> It wasn’t until I had been using an iPhone for a couple years that I discovered you’re just supposed to press it, not slide it. Huh? On the iPhone you've always been able to slide it. I blame this on all the other implementation which copied the switch design, but didn't bother to implement sliding…

Terretta 4y ago
Just confirmed, on 16.3 still slides, you can even do it partially/slowly. Readily accessible one is settings airplane mode, first setting in settings. Absence of verb in label makes it clear what it is. Meanwhile, on Kindle, it shows a black airplane in a white circle labeled "Off" and a white airplane in a black circle labeled "On". This is a recent update from before where the first was an airplane with a slash through it for Off. In both cases, Cell/WiFi is on when labeled Off, network+radios are on when icon was airplane with a slash through it labeled off.
stefncb 4y ago
I have an iPad. There seem to be two kinds of toggle switches in the native apple apps; one of them slides and animates, but the other one can only be pressed and it doesn't animate the transition. The latter is less common, but I've seen both in the same app before (settings I think). It's likely a strange bug, but I think it's relevant since you can't _always_ slide it.
lawkwok 4y ago
I’ve always liked Apple’s implementation because the slider has a temporal state. Airplane mode used to take a a couple seconds to enable so the toggle felt “stickier” to toggle. When you tapped on the toggle, the round button elongated and stayed in the middle for a split second before hitting the right side boundary of the toggle.
- eproxus 4y ago
  That seems to no longer be the case. Toggling Bluetooth on iOS 16.2 on an iPhone 14 Pro replaces the slider with a spinner, and it even flickers when turned back on. Also, the sliding only works correctly if you press and hold and then start sliding. If you swipe, it toggles regardless of which direction you swipe.
claviska 4y ago
This started when people discovered they could style <input type=checkbox> to look like a switch with pure CSS. (And, as a component library author, I can confirm it continues because we, perhaps lazily, don’t bother implementing the slide.)

Terretta 4y ago

Just confirmed, on 16.3 still slides, you can even do it partially/slowly. Readily accessible one is settings airplane mode, first setting in settings. Absence of verb in label makes it clear what it is. Meanwhile, on Kindle, it shows a black airplane in a white circle labeled "Off" and a white airplane in a black circle labeled "On". This is a recent update from before where the first was an airplane with a slash through it for Off. In both cases, Cell/WiFi is on when labeled Off, network+radios are on when icon was airplane with a slash through it labeled off.

stefncb 4y ago

I have an iPad. There seem to be two kinds of toggle switches in the native apple apps; one of them slides and animates, but the other one can only be pressed and it doesn't animate the transition. The latter is less common, but I've seen both in the same app before (settings I think). It's likely a strange bug, but I think it's relevant since you can't _always_ slide it.

lawkwok 4y ago

I’ve always liked Apple’s implementation because the slider has a temporal state. Airplane mode used to take a a couple seconds to enable so the toggle felt “stickier” to toggle. When you tapped on the toggle, the round button elongated and stayed in the middle for a split second before hitting the right side boundary of the toggle.

eproxus 4y ago
That seems to no longer be the case. Toggling Bluetooth on iOS 16.2 on an iPhone 14 Pro replaces the slider with a spinner, and it even flickers when turned back on. Also, the sliding only works correctly if you press and hold and then start sliding. If you swipe, it toggles regardless of which direction you swipe.

claviska 4y ago

This started when people discovered they could style <input type=checkbox> to look like a switch with pure CSS. (And, as a component library author, I can confirm it continues because we, perhaps lazily, don’t bother implementing the slide.)