[neor]

I fully agree, there is a steady decline in usability and its a bloody shame because for years the usability is what set Apple apart from the others.

A few things which hugely annoy me;

- Saving a photo from iMessage.... the option has disappeared. I get a popup to airdrop the file, interact with some apps and a huge copy button. In fact, I can scroll down in this menu but there is not a single visual indicator that I can scroll. No scroll bar, no icon... nothing. I've had to read somewhere online that I could scroll there, and I work in IT. How is this usable for people who don't work in IT.

- After updates I'm frequently asked to provide my Apple ID password, and yet iOS doesn't allow me to interact with Password Managers at this moment. I've got a 36 random character password, and it is a pain in the ass to enter this.

- 3D touch has been removed in newer iPhones. Fine, but why cripple older phones which still have the hardware to use 3D touch... Now it takes me an extra action to re-arrange my icons.

[nicwolff]

And 3D Touch on the virtual keyboard, which used to turn it into a trackpad with which you could move the text cursor freely and 3D Touch again to select text has been replaced with "Haptic Touch" which lets you long-touch the space bar to move the cursor but offers no way to select text so you have to revert to the old "touch the word you want to edit" UI.

[tornato7]

Aand I just learned that long-touching the spacebar was a thing. Seems like something that should be more obvious from the design.

[ikurei]

Now the trackpad is enabled by using two fingers on the keybard. To select, you can long-touch where you want the selection to start, and select more by using this trackpad gesture.

At least that's how it works on my iPad Air 2, which is a bit outdated, but has the latest iOS.

[marrone12]

1Password works natively with iOS... In the standard iOS keyboard when you are in a password field, click on the key icon that pops up and you can select to fill the password from 1pass.

[c1yd3i]

Not for system dialog boxes, like signing into the App Store. I know exactly what he's talking about.

[jackson1442]

Must be brand new, since I just set up an iPhone 7+ on the latest OS and I got a password autofill suggesting from Firefox Lockwise on the system Apple ID prompt (not during the setup flow, it was an alert dialog from Settings, if I'm remembering correctly).

[Accacin]

If you don't click on the image in the 'message view', but instead click and hold you can select save from there.

I'm the opposite, I didn't even try to click on the image and save from the screen that appears.

[artimaeis]

> "Saving a photo from iMessage"

I feel like I see the root of this problem everywhere in "card"-based UIs. The share button opens a "card" on top and you can move the card up in the view. There should definitely be some consideration for how to represent that there's more "card" outside of your screen.

[ascagnel_]

The simple solution is to design the card so that, at all display layouts, the last visible item is cut off -- it goes a long way toward saying "there's more in this list".

The new share sheet in iOS/iPadOS 13 is not great -- the two rows of horizontal scrolls (one for contacts, the other for apps) was much more discoverable.

[mrguyorama]

Or, you know, a simple scrollbar always worked

[stetrain]

I believe we came up with something for this in the 70s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrollbar

[costcopizza]

The lack of a visual scroll indicator is a problem with the Apple Music app too.

'Repeat' and 'next up' are below the play/pause button. But the spacing makes it look like there's no possibility to scroll!

[ascagnel_]

Not any longer -- now they're tucked into an "unordered list" icon to the bottom-right of the play button, in a row with buttons to toggle display of lyrics and to select the output.

[SebastianKra]

#3: just hold and drag immediately. This is how d&d works anywhere in the system. No need for a special action.

One caveat is that you have to drag away from the context menu.

[Dim0N]

Idk about everything else but I just tried to save a photo from iMessage and it is literally the second option (Save). Tried on my Mac and phone, no problems at all.

Edit: nvm I think this is an issue on ios13. Definitely weird design choice, wonder what is the story behind this decision.

[ceejayoz]

Yeah, it's an iOS 13 issue. Illustrated here: https://imgur.com/a/giqdiAR

First screenshot: "Wait, why is 'copy' the only option?"

Second screenshot: What shows if you scroll past "copy", for which there's no visual indication showing that's even possible.

There's no rational reason for "copy" and all the other options to be visually separated, either. They could've been obviously part of one continuous set of options and it'd be a lot clearer to people.

[m463]

> Saving a photo from iMessage....

I hate that apple doesn't let you export your iMessage history.

It's self serving on many levels.