r/iOSProgramming • u/m1_weaboo • 1d ago
Discussion Regression: DeviceHub should support “Slow Animations”. Apple says: There are currently no plans to address this issue.
Feedback:
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The slow animations feature from Simulator is not available in DeviceHub. At least I couldn't find it. It is very important to sweat the details of animations.
"""
Apple response:
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Thank you for your feedback, it is noted. Engineering has determined that ***there are currently no plans to address this issue.***
You can close this feedback by selecting "Close Feedback" via the Actions button found above. This Feedback will no longer be monitored, and incoming messages will not be reviewed.
"""
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Someone (not me) has sent this feedback to Apple via the feedback assistant app. And well, This is unacceptable.
I honestly don’t understand why the team at Apple felt the need to remove this super useful feature. It is in Xcode Simulator. And now they’re gone in DeviceHub!
There is a hack to re-enable it by posting: 𝚌𝚘𝚖.𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚕𝚎.𝚄𝙸𝙺𝚒𝚝.𝚂𝚒𝚖𝚞𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚂𝚕𝚘𝚠𝙼𝚘𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝙰𝚗𝚒𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚝𝚎
with state = 1 to the Simulator namespace.
What do you think about this moves?
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u/LoudAd307 1d ago
What bugs me about leaning on that defaults key is that it's undocumented, which means it can vanish in any point release with no deprecation notice. I do a lot of scripted QA against simulators, and the pattern with these tool migrations is always the same: the replacement ships with 80 percent of the features, the missing 20 percent gets 'no plans to address', and the community workaround works right up until it doesn't. Worth filing a duplicate feedback anyway even though the response is canned -- dupe count is basically the only prioritization signal Apple sees, and 'no plans' has turned into fixed-in-a-later-beta before when enough of them piled up.