That is pretty lame. But perhaps if it was revised to have the user slide vertically instead of the normal direction it won't be an issue. Or use two buttons an

That is pretty lame. But perhaps if it was revised to have the user slide vertically instead of the normal direction it won't be an issue. Or use two buttons and make the user press both of them to start. I agree that Apple is being silly here, but they might have had to tell too many developers to not use the slider like that; other devs who really were trying to add a misleading experience. They don't want to be seen as applying the rule inconsistently. They reserve the right to use the slider when they re-implement your nice app as their own native stopwatch.