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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] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm curious. What made you switch from Android. I went from Apple to Android and I can never go back to a walled garden

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

  1. My old phone had reached ‘thoroughly shagged out’ levels of wear and I needed a replacement.

  2. iPhone seemed to be an easy to use and well polished interface (and it has been for the most part, despite this back button weirdness).

  3. iPhones by most accounts have really good build quality now.

  4. I’m absolutely done with Google and their data harvesting ways. Apple are much better, and sure they no doubt record usage habits for their own purposes, there’s little evidence I’ve seen that they sell that data on. Also, I cannot be arsed to fuck around with GrapheneOS, I like privacy, but I’m not militant about it, and still want access to apps.

  5. I like the aesthetic.

  6. I never had an iPhone, and if I’m ever to have a valid opinion on them, I ought to use one instead of blindly following a brand and repeating second hand opinions.

  7. For similar reasons to 6, I want to try a Mac at some point soon as well, and iPhone has some neat tricks with it.

  8. The camera quality is fantastic.

While I came from outside a walled garden, I used maybe two apps which had to be sideloaded. The only one I really miss is newpipe, but there’s browser based solutions for YouTube. I’ve just reached a point in my life where I want my phone to ‘just work’ and I don’t care about being a power user, least of all on my phone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The rest seem like reasonable reasons to switch. As for 4, I am on GrapheneOS and it's been pretty usable. All my apps work even banking. You can still install google apps from Aurora Store or even the Google Play store if you want and the apps will be sandboxed. If you want to stay as private and secure as possible on ios though, I recommend trying out the lockdown mode.

As for 7, I've tried macs in the past and they're really not for me. I much more like my arch linux and grapheneos setup. I prefer not having Apple track me everywhere I go using their mesh tracking system.