1. try to copy email from Facebook app to add to email header of email I am writing, but Facebook app refuses to just let me copy the email and instead insists on opening IOS Mail app with new draft

  2. try to copy email address from opened new draft, but for some reason, email addresses in the “to” field won’t let you select them for anything other than deletion

  3. try to type in weird email address letter by letter, switching back and forth between Facebook app and iOS Mail app, but instead for some reason when you switch to another app, it “sets” the email so you can’t keep typing it. Gotta do it all in one go

None of these UX decisions make a goddamn lick of sense.

Why does modern UX seem so actively needlessly shit? Microslop is garbage, so my reaction to shit like the right click menu insanity in Windows 11 is more “I’m not angry, just disappointed.” But Apple are supposed to be the “it just werks” sleek UX focused people.

Also, the fact that you can search for the exact subject of an email you sent yesterday, but instead of that, the search function will find shit from 2009. Also the fact that plugging in an iPhone to the aux automagically decides that you need to hear the first song in iTunes (doesn’t even matter if you don’t have any music downloaded/haven’t used any form of Apple to play music since 2009 either - it will happily download just that first song to play on repeat for you!)

I just don’t get it. These are choices being made (maybe not the email thing). Fucking why?

  • JillSteinsPuckeredAnus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    92·
    15 hours ago

    The problem with iOS and most of the Apple iOS apps is that they try so hard to predict what you want to do that they end up getting in your fucking way. They try so hard to make your life easier that they make it even harder.

    They’re like an overly attached girlfriend who’s in your face all the time, or a cat constantly under your feet when you’re trying to make dinner.

    For apple, moving toward simplicity is a great marketing move when the apps are overly complicated. But once the apps are simple and effective and the talk dies down, apple then equates simplicity with boring, and then swings the pendulum in the opposite direction, making the apps feel cumbersome, un-intuitive, and unruly.

    • andros_rex@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      41·
      15 hours ago

      Along those lines, I’ve noticed autocorrect has gotten somehow worse in the past ten years - it’ll sometimes try to correct words that are correctly spelled but uncommon to completely random words.