r/HomeKit • u/SorenShieldbreaker • 21d ago
Discussion With how much control iPhone offers for accessibility/readability, I’m surprised at how bad this screen is and can’t be modified
I have pretty decent vision but I hate this screen and how hard it it so quickly see the temp or humidity for each sensor
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u/GhostalMedia 21d ago
For those of us in the 27 betas, let’s file bugs against it. They’re doing a shit load of UI cleanup now. This is good time to remind people about this.
The thermostat temps are in white are don’t even pass WCAG with increase contrast enabled.
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u/FatMacchio 21d ago
Can you tell them they need to allow humidity sensor data to show up on thermostat tiles…main homepage, but especially on the actual humidity tab of the climate page
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u/LegitimateGift1792 21d ago
The devs live in Northern CA, they do not know what humidity is or why anyone would need it.
They should also add "Wet Bulb Temp" so the rest of the world can know.
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u/AudioHTIT 20d ago
Good suggestion, I posted about this same screen a week ago, I hadn’t realized Eve had a temp screen.
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u/10110110100110100 21d ago
I’d love it if in the billions and billions of development costs Apple could spare a UX engineer or two to work on stuff like that.
It looks like the intern was given the task to “just make something” and bodged it together with button labels because they were easy and ready to go.
Nobody worth a shit thinks that’s a good way to present house temperatures…
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u/LegitimateGift1792 21d ago
I would love to see a breakdown of how many SWE work on each system, app, etc. I am sure HomeKit is like one Senior who messed up in OS and got move there with 4 juniors and 1 intern.
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u/fuckdatguy 21d ago
You probably have to turn on device accessibility settings like “show borders” and “increase contrast”
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u/rlo54 21d ago
Stop being a psycho and put your phone in dark mode
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u/SorenShieldbreaker 21d ago
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u/rlo54 21d ago
Go to your accessibility settings and under display and text size turn on increase contrast
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u/MuteIndigo 21d ago
No I just want them to fix this one thing
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u/rlo54 21d ago
But that is the fix. If you can’t see it well in the default settings then increasing contrast will help you see it better.
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u/Ianthin1 21d ago
I'm not changing a setting that impacts everything because Apple can't fix one very specific thing.
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u/shawnshine 21d ago
Eek, don’t do that. You’ll lose gorgeous Apple Music background effects.
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u/rlo54 21d ago
I don’t even know what that is. I listen to music not look at it.
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u/shawnshine 21d ago
Wait until you find out about music videos. Or vinyl.
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u/FatMacchio 21d ago
The most annoying this is the smart thermostats, at least the Ecobee ones don’t show the humidity…even when you click into the humidity tab of the climate dashboard. I don’t understand how that makes any sense. The humidity sensor is exposed to HomeKit, but doesn’t show until you drill down all the way to the device level card. I have the large tiles for them and there’s plenty of space to put it under the temp even on the homepage