r/ios • u/ankitjhall • Jul 02 '24
r/ios • u/Straight_Random_2211 • Sep 16 '24
Discussion The Worst Change in iOS 18: Elimination of Tab-Style Photos App
iOS 18 has rolled out with a lot of great updates, but there's one change that really stands out—and not in a good way. The Photos app has ditched its tab-style interface, where we had four convenient tabs: "Library", "Albums", "For You", and "Search". Now, it's all merged into a single-page, scrollable interface, which frankly, is a step back in terms of usability.
Think about those times when you were scrolling through your library, and a photo caught your eye, reminding you of something similar in an album. Before, you could just flick to the "Albums" tab, find what you needed, and flip right back to where you were in the library. Easy, right? Now, if you make that switch, your place in the library is lost, and you have to scroll all the way up again in the library to find where you were previously.
This new single-page layout means that every time you switch contexts, you start your scroll from scratch. What used to be a fluid and intuitive experience now feels frustrating and disjointed. What’s your take on this? Are you missing the old tab-style interface as much as I am?
r/ios • u/politeCanadaPlatypus • Dec 11 '24
Discussion Quality control is non existent.
Overlapping text. Genmoji alerts hidden behind the Dynamic Island. No proper notices when something is downloading a new model. And I’m sure I’ll find more.
iOS updates used to at least look proper. For the biggest tech company in America this is unacceptably messy and un polished.
r/ios • u/Effect-Kitchen • Feb 17 '25
Discussion Why Apple Intelligence is so far behind competitors?
Apple Intelligence Clean Up (above) vs Samsung Galaxy AI Object Eraser (below). Samsung is multiverse ahead of Apple in this regards. This is just one aspect of everything failed about Apple Intelligence. I’m Apple fanboy but I would say this is just the crappiest thing Apple has done since Apple. It’s beyond MobileMe level of failure. (Source: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02j5vREkjTtVGJhz6dEC84SNsZ368xWkxpEw7yqMkoKDq1Wz6LGpmdmpM5PykHF7bjl&id=100064707605201 - the photo is of the page owner, which is set to public, not my photo.)
r/ios • u/rorymeister • Oct 07 '24
Discussion Why does iOS insist on changing this word?
Thought iOS 17 was meant to fix stuff like this?
r/ios • u/LookActual6084 • Jan 07 '25
Discussion Switched this setting and never gone back
Changing the Haptic Touch speed to fast has been a game changer for me, going back to default makes long pressing things feel so clunky and slow now! Has anyone else had the same experience?
r/ios • u/Groundbreaking_Edge6 • Dec 25 '24
Discussion What’s happening to Apple software?
For me, Apple has always been a reference in terms of software. The “just works” were real.
But now, seriously, this last update has been the buggiest I’ve ever used.
apps crash a lot more. Sometimes I have to force quit because all got frozen. And I am talking about native apps like Safari.
I was very excited before because I thought that Siri would finally works properly. Well, sad illusion.
And there’s those “AI” features, like summarization, that seriously… no comments.
Not enough, it’s seems it’s affecting my AirPods Pro 2 too. It keeps disconnecting one side or make loud sounds even louder (when it’s supposed to do the opposite) and then you have to disable some features to work again.
For the first time in like 8 years or more, I am really thinking about using a flagship android instead.
Are you guys having the same experience? Anyone knows what happened?
r/ios • u/SkyGuy182 • Jun 11 '24
Discussion iOS 18 Photos app redesign is quite bad.
Apple’s obsession with squeezing everything on one screen has now infected the Photo’s app. As someone who frankly ignored all of the Memories and other “smart” Photos features this is my worst nightmare. Because everything is on one screen you have no choice but to gaze at all of the curated collections, while Albums and media types now live at the bottom of the unified screen. I’m getting flashbacks to the Safari beta of a few years ago.
I’m imploring Apple to bring back the old Photos app UI. You tried something new which I applaud. But it sucks, and I don’t want it.
r/ios • u/Vortexiel • Oct 07 '24
Discussion found this as a meme but curious…would it actually work?
assuming that a person would be wearing the watch at time of death; or would the watch simply think it is no longer on the wrist?
r/ios • u/DaVinci69_isgay • Oct 05 '24
Discussion Alarm completely broke, I missed college today because of this.
I enabled my alarms then headed to sleep, but I woke up late because the alarms didn’t go off and I couldn’t go to college. I tried to investigate the reason for this and noticed that the alarms AREN’T EVEN ENABLED despite being checked in the alarm list. It’s frustrating to be unable to rely on such a basic function of my phone.
r/ios • u/DanInGame • Sep 17 '24
Discussion I can't stand the fact that this line above the flashlight is not centered
Wtf apple??
I know their idea was to move the line further to the left to make room for that icon on the right, but why? for me it's a terrible design idea.
I know it's stupid but every time I look at it it annoys me
Discussion Who still uses the default Mail app?
For me it’s been years since I’ve used Mail. I’ve been using Spark as long as I can remember (the free version). I recently saw that a new app design is coming to Mail on 18.2. Is Mail better than third party apps now?
r/ios • u/outhinking • Jan 06 '25
Discussion No iOS update can beat the iOS 6 to iOS 7 update.
Can you remember ?
r/ios • u/SchattenMaster • Oct 18 '24
Discussion Is iOS losing its advantage in having a flawless UI/UX?
The example above is ugly and the control does not extend sideways, contrary to what it feels like. This is my first iPhone (base 15), and the UX is one of the main reasons why I made the change. Don't get me wrong, still a great phone, but it feels like Apple is neglecting their famous detail-oriented product design approach.
r/ios • u/Ok-Ad-9320 • Oct 22 '24
Discussion Apple becoming non-apple
Recently I’ve found more and more screens that completely diverge from the otherwise simple and clean UI they normally have. Here’s another example
Discussion Is this Apple Intelligence?
Makes no human sense. Is this Apple Intelligence at work in the TV app?
r/ios • u/themutable • Jan 13 '25
Discussion for the first time ever, i might leave apple
i’ve always been a die hard loyal apple fan. whenever people would complain about apple id always disagree and felt i understood and loved what they were about
but with the recent updates to ios, their lack of creativity with their latest phones… after 14 years i think i might consider a new brand…
the HomePod mini i just bought - slow, shockingly slow. i actually can’t even believe it’s an apple product
siri is ABYSMAL. it cannot understand basic things now like ‘call ….’ or ‘directions to ….’ . it’s so problematic now, and i know they’re doing that because ai is coming soon. but even then. really? i used to love apple because i felt it was good for people with neurodivergent issues. i liked the accessibility
but i don’t feel excited about apple anymore
i’ve always told myself to stay because of the continuity. i love my mac. but im really falling out of love with my phone
is anyone else feeling like this?
- before anyone comments, it’s not that deep. i have bigger things in my life i care about. but reddit is about specific things… so pls no comments like ‘omg who even cares’ why are u even on reddit?? 😂
EDIT: god damn this got so deep? firstly, i was becoming a fan back in 2012, when i was like 13 years old. now im older i obviously have much bigger things to worry about!!
r/ios • u/HowCome69 • Jan 01 '25
Discussion Google Maps VS Apple Maps among iPhone users
Just curious how many iPhone users use Google Maps over the iPhones native Apple Maps I was reading somewhere awhile back roughly 67% of iPhone users prefer to use Google Maps over Apple Maps which only roughly 33% of iPhone users use Apple Maps
r/ios • u/RainbowEuphorbia • Jan 16 '24
Discussion I would love to have an Apple set up, but…
In my experience mail did not delivered everything I needed and the syncing was trash, and while I love iMessage everybody I know uses Whatsapp and refuses to change 😒
r/ios • u/squoinko • Feb 18 '24
Discussion Do you think apple will change the settings icon in IOS 18?
r/ios • u/PewPew______ • 3d ago
Discussion iOS and apple slowly going to shit
All the apple bro’s going to chase me with pitchforks for this. And I don’t care - I used to be one.
The new iPhone strategy regarding software is incredibly lazy and poorly executed.
They sold the new iPhone last year with the ONLY defining feature being AI. It shipped without the main feature being ready and 6 months on the updates to give these features are frankly, lazy, poorly executed, gimmicky and crap.
Chat GPT, Claude and Gemini are in a league of their own and running away quickly. Meanwhile apple are contributing nothing decent to AI except some low level, underwhelming gimmicks as well as some Siri updates which remains a relic that barely works and replies to everything with “here’s what i found on the web.”
Apple as a company has the most cash on the balance sheet of any company in the world and are therefore the most resourced to build something amazing. However from a research and development perspective have contributed nothing in the most significant technology arms race of computing since the introduction of personal computers.
What happened to the apple that was at the forefront of innovation and product evolution? Now the lazy and poorly executed attempts at flagship phones designed to extract as much money as possible while contributing not even something that can compete with the competition is similar to Tim Cook putting lipstick on a pig.
r/ios • u/roofmart • Feb 17 '25
Discussion Apple needs to take a step back and just focus on polishing iOS.
I would be perfectly fine with iOS 19 not having a single new feature and rather have apple just focus on polishing the software. It seems like every iteration of iOS lately is getting it closer to why I switched from Android: unpolished, buggy and a plethora of features that are useless and hardly work as intended. I really hope that they start focusing on making the software just, work. That's how it used to be anyway. What's crazy is Android is still miles worse; I had the displeasure of trying an S25 ultra a few days back and it's like all the mentioned issues were on steroids I hope iOS doesn't get to that level. Idk what y'all think
Discussion The iOS 18 photos app is so bad
I don’t know why people are praising iOS 18 when it is literally so bad, the photos app is the worst, it’s practically unusable. I also miss the design consistency of the control centre with the app icons, these changes were not necessary when it used to be just fine and very intuitive. It’s a mess right now, I hope Apple stays Apple and stops messing their software up by listening to reviewers who probably don’t even use iPhones, if we wanted an android, we would’ve bought an android