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What’s the tiniest thing about iOS / iPadOS / macOS that really bugs you? (self.apple_enthusiast)
submitted 10 months ago by DJDarren 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] 29 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Siri is pretty much useless. When I see how well something like Alexa works, I really don’t understand how Apple can be so far behind on that technology.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I have Alexa. It's pretty crappy too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

The thing that bugs me about Alexa is that I will ask a question and it will answer as it should, but then continues, “By the way, …” and tells me something completely unrelated. I understand they are trying to inform of other features and capabilities, but I don’t want to hear about them and wish I could turn this off.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I've used both extensively and Alexa is miles ahead of Siri.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

This is the biggest issue for me too, but Apple is working on on-device LLMs so I'm hoping they use that to improve Siri drastically

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I only use Siri to start timers when cooking, do quick maths and conversions, and to pull up random things that my wife and I are discussing that we don’t know the answer to. It works well with just those use-cases.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yes and if you want to use your phone in your car then you have to have Siri enabled. It’s the one thing I won’t enable to use CarPlay.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Agree. Recently purchased an Homepod Mini for my Mac Mini and Siri is so bad compared to Alexa.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago

I use Alexa and Siri. Siri is leaps and bounds better than Alexa.