What’s the tiniest thing about iOS / iPadOS / macOS that really bugs you?
What’s the tiniest thing about iOS / iPadOS / macOS that really bugs you?
As much as I don’t like negative threads, there’s one thing in iOS that really irritates me, and I want to air it…
Pressing and holding the tab button in Safari to access tab groups, should have a haptic response.
Because it doesn’t, I often end up opening the tab view instead, so I have to huff a little, hit Done, then try again. I don’t know why it annoys me that it doesn’t because none of the other buttons in Safari do, but I feel like it should.
No, I have not contacted Tim Apple about this. Yes, I probably should.
What bothers me is that Apple doesn’t document its features very completely. Here’s an example:
In CarPlay, I do a lot of navigating using Apple Maps. I discovered years ago that I could say “Details” to Siri to get the map to zoom in to allow me to see upcoming turns. I could say “overview” to get it to zoom out to show me the whole trip on the map. Very useful! I had to discover this feature by accident, though. As far as I know, there’s no button in the interface to do this, and there certainly isn’t a list of commands that Siri users can use, CarPlay or otherwise.
Even more infuriating is that this feature was removed about six months ago. Does it exist under some other spoken command? Who knows? Apple doesn’t document anything!
Cutting and pasting files not being a thing
The change a few years back when a lot of apps changed the "maximize" button to full screen instead and not only does that suck it's inconsistent between apps
There not being a shortcut key to switch between monitor modes
They can't keep the best part of the OS consistent. The system preferences menu was well organized years ago. Every few months they fuck with it in a way that makes it a little worse
"Natural" scrolling suddenly was default and precisely opposite to how people had been scrolling for 20 years
Updates keep changing apps -- just pick a way and stick with it
Xcode is bloated garbage
The lack of real mouse support in iPad OS.
My gaming rig is currently out of commission undergoing repairs, but I was luckily able to continue participating in my multiplayer Baldur's Gate 3 nights using Nvidia's GeForce Now streaming. However, I've been forced to learn how to play using a controller, because iPad OS does not have real mouse support.
I was able to plug my iPad into a thunderbolt dock which gives me keyboard input, wired internet, and a "cursor", but the cursor is only a simulation of touch input rather than an actual cursor.
The TrueType vulnerability they patched in January 2023 without notifying the public of active exploitation, leaving Kaspersky to discover it while responding to security incidents.
macOS: Lack of official support for models that are still relevant. I've got the last MacBook Pro that was fully upgradable, a mid 2012 model with a dual core 4th gen i7. You can upgrade everything in it, and I have. 16gb of RAM, two disks, one an SSD, and the other a large HDD. But the latest official version of MacOS is Catalina. But I'm running Ventura on it now with no issues. And in similar respect, no upgradability at all of the new Macs after purchase. It's very anti consumer.
the app store doesn't let you see if an app has an ad banner built in or not.
ill be deep in the cold cold ground before i let some guitar tuner app download ads in the background and shove it in my face...
but how do i know which ones are bullshit without installing and uninstalling each one?
it's so stupid.
also, if i hold down the wifi quick toggle when it's locked, it asks for my pin and then just turns it off... that should be a single press.
if i hold it while it's unlocked, i get the expected wifi settings menu, so i can select a network or whathaveyou...
death by 1,000 paper cuts
oh and to beat a dead horse: not letting me sideload my own apps on my own device is complete bullshitHere’s another one— click through on macOS. Coming from other systems I find it infuriating. Not just the click though itself but its inconsistency, where it works in browsers and some other selected programs but not in most.
For those not aware, click through is when you’re focused on another window and click on this one. With click through, it will immediately action what you click without you have to click first to the window then click again. This isn’t inherently inferior, but I really don’t like it personally. And it is absolutely impossible to change this behavior on MacOS by any means. Believe me, I researched this extensively.
Here are some things, some minor and some major, in general I think Apple software is not up to their previous standars and just mediocre, not bad, but neither good anymore…
- Phone app doesn’t have an in depth history of every call, just some of the last conversations.
- Spellcheck: someten alterado Saiz it (someone already said it…)
- Maps: Sent several corrections with detailed info and images but more than half are not fixed. I just don’t care anymore.
- Siri: I just don’t know where to begin.
- Apple Arcade: searching through Apple Arcade games is a nightmare.
The headphone decibel meter on the watch doesn't mirror the phone. I like to make sure I'm not blowing my ears out listening to music, but the watch one only ever shows if music is played directly from the watch, so if I want to know how loud my headphones are I have to pull out the phone.
For the longest time I thought it was a bug so I spent months chatting with support. Took forever to get anywhere because the support reps weren't really familiar with the feature, lol...
iPadOS using an external keyboard:
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There’s no way to force the software to input a lowercase letter when it wants to autocapitalize. For example: when putting in an email into a form — where the input doesn’t have proper attributes — it’ll default to inputting an uppercase letter and you can’t force a lowercase. You end up having to type the starting letter twice and deleting the first letter. (Have to type “Eemail” then delete the first letter.) Edit: Apparently you can tap shift twice to go lowercase, as described here (https://lemmy.world/comment/6294849). Thank you! I obviously can’t recall any time Apple has described this behavior anywhere.
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The second and worse thing is that language icon that shows up when you type. That little thing that hovers in the corner of the app mostly in the way of the input. Yes you can move it, but now it’s in the way of something else. It’s basically useless, and apps end up getting all funky looking because elements try to move around it. This is especially bad in stage manager. They need to axe it or move it to one of the myriad commands you can access by holding Option.
Edit(s) as I think of them:
watchOS:
- Let me download a podcast anytime I want. Put a freaking button in the podcast app that says “download to watch.” I don’t care if it eats battery. The current way to manage podcasts on the watch is abysmal.
iOS:
- Someone thought it was a good idea to add bird sounds to the “rain” background noise, and I’m so mad about it. I want rain, not loud bird garbage. I turn on the sound because I’m trying to drown out noise like that. (Aside that’s not Apple’s fault: I’d love to buy something like Dark Noise, but I don’t want a subscription for that, and $50 for the one time purchase is crazy.)
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You Turn off mobile data.
“Your mobile data is offline” OK to continue.
No shit 💩
The tab view in Safari was changed from a Rolodex like view to tiny cards. But the cards are often too small to read, forcing me to click it to see what is on it. I end up leaving 30 tabs open because I don’t know if one is safe to close.
- No back button or consistent back action, can't swipe back from either side of the screen like you can with Android.
- When there is a back button, it's in the #1 most inaccessible part of the screen
- Can only use Safari (other brosers are just themed Safari)
- Because you can't have other browsers, you can't have browser plugins.
- You can use a custom keyboard... But only sometimes. It won't let you do it for passwords. This is very frustrating as their stock keyboard sucks ass and you don't have that muscle memory, they should just do it all the time.
- iMessage
- Inability to side load apps or install from places outside the app store that extorts developers
These are a few things that if resolved, would make me decide to use iOS over Android.
My tiny gripe…
On iOS, I have set a couple weekly to-do items (recurring) that all have sub-tasks….
Except there isn’t a way to just see the subtasks? I have to click into the reminder, scroll down to subtasks and click into that.
What the heck?!?
When you click on an app icon on the dock, on an app that is already open with several minimized windows, it doesnt expand the most recently used window. This is especially with Mail and Preview.
App Window management in Mac OS is beyond infuriating. Time ago it was non existent so you had to download a third party app to enable a clunky version, now it exists but you have to right click on the green dot and hope the snapping menu pops up (sometimes it opens some other menu). I just want MS Windows style “move an app window to the side of the screen and have it automatically snap to take up that half (or quarter)” not the clunky idiotic implementation Apple has provided. The number of hours I have racked up wasting my time resizing and moving windows around manually is obscene.
Also hardware related: the fucking charging port on the magic mouse will go down in history as the stupidest, anti-user design decision in human history.
The iOS message interface, specifically the audio message button. I goddamned always hit that goddamned recording button right after hitting send, or sometimes when picking up my phone if the screen is still on. And then I have to both x the recording to stop it, and delete the blank 1-5 second message. Just put that button somewhere else like on the other side, not replacing the send button. It sucks. I hate it passionately.
Happens multiple times a day, drives me absolutely batty. I have literally never used speech to text or voice messages on my phone, except by accident. And I don’t want to, either. I’d like to disable it but 1. I haven’t found a way, and 2, I assume if I manage to do so, it will cause other problems, like it’ll probably disable speech to text on my watch also (which I do want to keep, because I’ve used it there), because Apple -sucks- at user control and configuration.
Also, the fact that I can’t change ringtones to non-default options without either spending money or going through a massive process to convert an existing ringtone with their software, which conveniently only runs on Mac (which I don’t have because fuck apple walled garden bullshit). Seriously, wtf is that shit? Greedy swine.
No option for focus follows mouse. And no way to implement it due to the way the menu bar works.
I dislike having icons on home screen, I use drawers and the only place that has icon is the dock.
Clipboard management on iOS. At least I can get Maccy on macOS, but on iOS I’m just stuck to suffer through copy/paste hell.
This is for watchOS, but when you add a watchface, look closely at the activity digital face... There is an activity complication in the corner. It makes me SO mad, I chatted with Apple and they just ended it. I really hate it.
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Vocabulary Recognition Mystery:
- iPad doesn't recognize the word "Vidalia" as a word.
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Home Lighting Grouping Wish:
- Annoyed that I can't create groups of lights within a room.
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Delayed Photo Sync Confusion:
- Photos don't sync immediately, and you cannot make them, except for one sync at a time.
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Caps Lock Quirk:
- About 70% of the time, I have to press the caps lock key twice for it to activate or deactivate.
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System Settings Search Issue:
- The search function in System Settings doesn't seem to do anything.
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HomePod Timer Sync Problem:
- Timer set on HomePod doesn't show up on my other devices.
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Volume Control Headache:
- System sounds/music volume lacks logical control. Accidentally clicking my buds when putting them in results in ear-piercing music, I guess because I have the systems sounds volume up high.
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Autocorrect Woes:
- Autocorrect has supposedly improved, but it has actually gotten significantly worse.
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iOS refuses to sync ringtones I made in GarageBand across my devices. I resorted to creating them on each individual device and then iOS reverts them back to the default after a couple of minutes.
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Some notifications only have the option to snooze, not dismiss.
ipados sometimes shows me annoying translucent grey boxes in the app menu until I reboot. (I think this is the smallest problem I have with ipados, but I'm sure I could list more)
When I save things and then go try to find them in Files and they aren't there, only to find out later they ended up in some hidden part of the file system that Files doesn't see.
swinging back around because I was just reminded of this trying to get to a calculator: iPad OS still not having a built in calculator in 2023 because Lord God Steve Jobs proclaimed a million years ago you can just use your iPhone. Sure you can. but why is that a reason to not have a feature? Fucking infuriating.
MacOS — making me go into system settings to allow an app to install that I’ve initiated. I know where the app comes from, I just downloaded it, why do I have to tell my own computer I trust myself to not be an idiot?
iPadOS — multitasking. I know that things are better than they used to be but it’s still a clunky experience to use multiple windows or flip back and forth between them unless you use a keyboard (at which point why wouldn’t I just use a laptop?)
iOS — not a lot these days. I’d still like to be able to customise my Home Screen layouts more, and shortcuts are still pretty unreliable, but I’m largely happy with iOS itself.
watchOS — better customisation for the widgets section. Let me have multiple complication/shortcut blocks, let me organise widgets more easily, etc. More watch faces would be nice too. A lot of the ones that are available are pretty ugly.
Itunes to Music. iphotos to photos Yikes. Edit: not quite a tiny thing.
Macos can't split screen easily with meta+arrow keys
Mine is still that (on Mac, at least) the only way to update Apple apps is by updating the whole system. Work requests we don't update our macs, and now I still can't edit texts from my computer.
This is my tinniest irritation.
The translate app tries to fit the text on the sign. Regardless on of tiny or distant it gets making it sometimes impossible to read. Can't you zoom you ask?
Yes if you take a take a picture. But first it makes enormous photo sound making people in places you are not allowed to take photo turn around. Then you need to wait for it to translate again. Tben you can zoom in.
Just because it cool to see the text actually on the screen.
Intercom messaging from an HomeKit automation trigger.
MacOS: that it is not possible to permanently connect my Mac Mini to my Homepod Mini and also to get rid of the 2s audio delay. It drives me mad when I move forward in a song or YouTube video (same on iPad)