Not all changes are always for the better. Is there anything that you liked and is now gone?

      • garretble@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        11 months ago

        Older iPhones had a screen that could interpret the pressure of your touch, giving the ui the ability to do multiple things based on how hard you press.

        The best feature was pressing hard into the keyboard to get a cursor and then pressing lightly again to highlight text, all with just one thumb. It was super good. There’s an alternative to that now, but it pales in comparison.

        • Celestus@lemm.eeEnglish
          5·
          11 months ago

          Yes! That feature alone kept me from upgrading my iPhone X until the 12 Pro came out. The alternative is severely limited, and annoying to use

          • garretble@lemmy.worldEnglish
            5·
            11 months ago

            What I don’t understand about what we have now is that you can’t “undo” your highlight like you used to be able to. So if you overshoot the highlight using the new system and select too much text, well, screw you.

            With the 3D Touch way you could really dial in your selection back and forth. It seems like you should still be able to do that with this new space bar version, but, alas, no.

            • Celestus@lemm.eeEnglish
              3·
              10 months ago

              3 years, actually. It may not seem like much, but many people upgrade every year. Especially those of us who are into tech

        • oKtosiTe@lemmy.world
          1·
          10 months ago

          There’s an alternative to that now, but it pales in comparison.

          Walt, is there a better way than long-pressing on a word and then clumsily moving the little markers to where you want your selection to start/end? If there is I need to know, because I hate how janky selecting text often is.

    • Kekin@lemmy.world
      1·
      10 months ago

      I don’t know if you’ve tried it yet, but setting the “Haptic Touch” option to “Fast” gets you a bit closer to what you could do with 3D touch.

      It’s under Accessibility -> Touch -> Haptic Touch

      Personally I like it better vs the default setting.

  • fer0n@lemm.eeOP
    12·
    11 months ago

    I dearly miss the precision video scrubbing and I have no clue why they removed it. It was absolutely amazing and it’s now just replaced by… nothing. I miss it every day.

  • Donebrach@lemmy.world
    71·
    11 months ago

    This isn’t really an answer to your question but it is related, and sticks in my mind as one of the biggest red flags of Apple’s constant enshitification after Steve Jobs’ death:

    At some point in the Big Cat line of MacOS they either changed or forgot to implement a simple UI label change for a function—that being ejecting a “disk” (be it external usb device, optical media, application installer, etc.) the usual way to do it is of course dragging it to the trash—this has been the way in MacOS since time immemorial, and in the big cat series of the mid 2000’s when you performed this function the label “Trash” would change to “Eject” (the trash can would also change to an eject icon—icon may still change? I only have a Mac at work these days so can’t double check)

    Anyway, this has been the case since about… 2011? Nowadays it just says “Trash” regardless of what you are either trying to delete or eject.

    Other things like the angled corners of the new iPhones not really jiving with the swipe up of the buttonless models: this gesture made sense with the rounded edges of the iPhone 6–not so much the 12 and on.

    The little touches that are missing these days just show that the company does not hold itself to the same QA standards it once did and clearly has some very disconnected / dysfunctional interdepartmental communication.

  • Majestic@lemmy.ml
    61·
    11 months ago

    The music app has gone downhill and been badly degraded ever since ohhh IOS 10? When they moved to streaming services they prioritized that and removed clear ratings, access on Home Screen to volume and progress of currently playing song and many other things.

    • cholesterol@lemmy.world
      2·
      10 months ago

      I miss the easily accessible album view. Back in the day you could tap to ‘flip’ the cover. Now it’s hidden in a three-dot menu item.

  • HeartyBeast@kbin.social
    4·
    11 months ago

    Not iOS , but on MacOS, I hate window design in recent versions. The old versions had a clear distinction between single contents and the great/darker ‘chrome’ that made up the window header and toolbar.

    These days everything is a blinding white (in daylight mode) both virtually no contrast between the two.

    With multiple overlapping windows it is a complete pain to use. Loads of times I’ve gone yo grab the top of a window, only to hit the window behind and above.

    Form over function.

    I didn’t realise how bad it was until I used my wife’s old Mac running an old version of the OS and everything was just easier