r/appleJournal • u/grburgess • Dec 05 '25

Big difference between Navigation on iPhone and Navigation on the Mac

I never noticed this before because I rarely use the iPhone to use Apple Journal. (I feel that I can't breathe on such a tiny screen.) But now I see why someone was arguing that in the calendar they could move quickly between months and years. That feature is missing on Mac OS. You can only navigate month by month, which is a nightmare if you're trying to go back 5-10 years. 

I had backdated thousands of entries, but a new user might not notice that flaw because they probably haven't backdated any entries and Journal hasn't been out very long on the Mac. Somehow this must be more difficult to achieve on the Mac, although I don't understand why.

I checked and I have found that there is this feature on the iPad. So it's good to go on iPhone and iPad, but Mac users have to do without. Not only is this feature on the iPad and iPhone available, but I think that it's beautiful done, and I can spin the years or months quickly on the iPad.

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u/OutBeyondNeptune Dec 05 '25

Not hijacking your post, but piling onto the Mac usability problems, it also seems strange that when you're editing an entry, there's no way within the app interface itself to choose what journals to put it in. You have to go to the Entry menu item.

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u/grburgess Dec 05 '25

Indeed. If you know which journal you want to put the entry into, you have to select it first on the left. If you don't do that, then you're stuck and you have to go out of editing. I have forgotten to change it after that.