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.

  • Amputret@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Recently switched from Android. What’s pissing me off the most is the back button on every app being on the top left. They chose the least accessible place to put the most common action.

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      1 year ago

      In fairness, most apps have a swipe action to go back. The button is almost vestigial.

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              1 year ago

              lol my guy it’s the most intuitive, straightforward, natural way to go back that I can imagine. You just swipe the window back.

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                1 year ago

                From the right to the left, yes. But from the left, you still have to reach your thumb across.

                On my phone, everything is done symmetrical. Swipe from left or right edge towards

                • middle. Back

                • middle down. Switch between 2 last apps

                • middle down and hold. Kill/close current app

                • middle up. Multi task window

                • middle up and hold. Home

                • bottom up. Home

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                  1 year ago

                  Left-to-right makes sense in iOS because new pages or screens in an app typically animate in from Right-To-Left, so the back gesture is just the opposite of that.

                  Different OS, different paradigm.

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          1 year ago

          To switch apps, you swipe left and right along the little bar along the bottom of the screen. You can also swipe up on it to go to the app switcher view.

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        1 year ago

        Not to return to the previous app. Here in Denmark, we often have to logon through an official logon app. But to return to the app logging into, you must either press upper left corner or manually switch app. Swiping from the left, will not exit and return to previous app

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      1 year ago

      You can swipe left and right along the bottom (where the little bar is) to switch apps.

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      1 year ago

      It made since when iPhones were small enough to be used with one hand.

      Now that they are all phablets, they introduced the double tap on the home button to slide the top half of the screen down. No idea if this shortcut exists for devices without a home button.

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      1 year ago

      It’s one of the things keeping me from moving. I need a back button and the software ones are dumb AF.