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  • JCAPER@alien.topBtoSamsung@hardware.watchOne UI destroys iOS
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    10 months ago

    Yup I noticed, and wrote my comment after. I work with different OS’s (and desktop environments in Linux), and phones. I also felt that frustration at first, because I kept expecting those other OS’s to be Windows/Android. My thought process was always like “in Windows this would be simpler”, “in windows this wouldn’t happen”, “in windows…” you get the idea. It only stopped when I started to learn how I’m supposed to work in each environment.

    And the vibe I got from your comment was that same frustration.

    For example:

    no back button

    Apps made for iphone are designed around this, so is the OS. There isn’t a back button so most/all apps will have one, and the OS expects you to use gestures to minimize or change apps. Trust me, I “get it”, I also missed this button at first. But then I “got” how iOS works and it’s just different.

    no settings in apps

    It’s in the Settings app. It’s weird coming from Android and these things being in different places, but it’s not worse or better, it’s just different.

    can I not highlight a word by double tapping it

    Maybe things changed meanwhile, but on my Samsung Note I also had this problem. The only way to circumvent it at the time was by using the S-pen. On iOS, you can take a screenshot and then select the words that you want.

    The most simple tasks like downloading a couple files and emailing them were a burden

    I don’t get this one to be honest, as I’m unaware how you do it, but the process for me is pretty similar, if not simpler. Once you download a file, click on the downloads symbol, click on it. Then hold, press share, select mail or any other email app that you use. Done. So I’m guessing you were expecting to do this a certain way like you do on Android, but it’s not. So you got frustrated.

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    To be clear, I’m not saying that you’re wrong in preferring one over the other, I’m not saying “nuh uh, iOS better”, I’m not saying you should give it a second chance.

    What I’m saying is that they’re different, they require different workflows, and people get frustrated and call it bad because they try to use the same workflow that they used in another OS and expect it to work.


  • JCAPER@alien.topBtoSamsung@hardware.watchOne UI destroys iOS
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    10 months ago

    To be clear for other users, u/fzammetti is talking about the App Drawer. It’s a menu that you can access if you swipe to the right after the last panel in the home screen. He is right, it’s the app devs themselves that set this categorization and the user can’t change it (as far as I’m aware)

    In the home screen though, you can edit it any way you want, put in whatever folder, etc.