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What’s the tiniest thing about iOS / iPadOS / macOS that really bugs you? (thelemmy.club)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (13 children)

Spellcheck, and it perfectly encapsulates Apple’s view of their customers, that Apple knows what’s best, better than their customers. In iOS, if you have spellcheck turned on, it automatically changes your words based on what it assumes you meant. You have to actually tap the word bubble that pops up to cancel it, which seems completely ass-backwards to me. The word bubble should be their suggestion, but then let the user make that call. They just assume you’re the idiot and they’re right. Sometimes that’s fine, but sometimes I’m just using slang or an abbreviation or a foreign word or it completely picks the wrong word and spellcheck fucks you over.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Yes, spell check… autocorrect. Rage inducing.

Also, something happened in newer releases of iOS, where sometimes you can’t tap your finger to place the cursor on a paragraph of text. Ends up selecting an entire word instead of putting the cursor between words. Sometimes does that, sometimes places cursor. It’s random, or at least I don’t know what causes it to get in that mode.

Also, another thing that boils my blood. Typing on this thing, getting almost an entire paragraph typed out, then suddenly the last sentence is selected, and the next character I type replaces it all, essentially deleting everything. Sure I can undo but it completely demolishes the stack in my brain that I was trying to convey.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A little known feature, you can hold space and swipe left/right to control text cursor.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

It works but it was so much better on 3D Touch. You could 3D Touch the entire keyboard and swipe.

RIP

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