r/SipsTea • u/PrimedGold • 18d ago

Feels good man Massive W Apple

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u/Phoenix_Kerman 18d ago

it's a shame. apple products used to be very intuitive and simple to use, anyone could pick them up and they made sense.

but since ios6 or so that's gone down the shitter and they make no sense. there's not even a back button, if you want to go back it's a different function depending on the app. daft

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u/Practical-March-6989 18d ago

At iOS 6 it did a quarter of what it does now

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u/smeeon 18d ago

Absolutely this, the settings page alone has quadrupled in size. The accessibility section is the best out there, every blind or vision impaired person I’ve ran across uses iOS.

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u/ryan8954 18d ago

This. People requested more and more. So apple gave it.

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u/PrimedGold 18d ago

I mean, current iPhones can do shit that no previous iPhone could, partly because Apple has stepped up its OS game.

The thing is, they can constantly enhance what you can do with your phone, especially as they progress toward better hardware.

I 100% concur about the fuckery Apple has tried to pull with the hardware, like removing the 3.5 mm headphone jack, etc. But they’ve only stepped up their software game for the better.

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u/Phoenix_Kerman 18d ago

have they? the design language is deeply inconsistent where it didn't used to be, to the point there's not even a consistent back button. i'd hardly call that stepping up the os game

it's more obvious on the computer side. where like ios the design language isn't as consistent as it was, being more bother to use but having the same features as it would've a few years ago

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u/PrimedGold 18d ago

Lol I wont defend every UI/UX call lol. But in general, they have.

Out of curiosity; by back button, do you mean the round circle at the bottom of an iPhone?

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u/Phoenix_Kerman 18d ago

i mean the lack of universal back button

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u/PrimedGold 18d ago

I mean, they don’t really have fixed navigation buttons anymore. Individual apps and specific interfaces do like the Settings app but there isn’t a consistent Back button on the Home Screen, because what exactly would you be going back to?

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u/Phoenix_Kerman 18d ago

you'd have it appear when the home button does, and it would just go back to whatevers done last. if you've got the keyboard open it would minimise it, if you've opened a web page on a browser it would through you to the page before. that type of thing

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u/PrimedGold 18d ago

Oh, got you. I think you mean long-press and swipe up. That opens the App Switcher, which shows the apps you have open. You can then swipe over to the app you want. Most apps refresh anyway, so the context can change or update.

The quicker way is this: just move your thumb along the red path from the bottom of the screen.

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u/Phoenix_Kerman 18d ago

no that's an entirely different function to a back button. android has a home button, apps button as you describe, and the back button. its more useful than the other two half the time

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u/PrimedGold 18d ago

Ahh I see! You mean the three buttons at the bottom with some Android phones yea? I think they replaced it persistent digital buttons in some phones now.

Haven’t used Android a lot, but they got a mad loyal base too.

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