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by FumblingBear 820 days ago
One of the most important and key points I hope Apple iterates on in an upcoming version is some type of universal undo action.

It's immensely frustrating to be watching a video in the photos app and swipe a tiny bit wrong only to lose all current progress in the video even after you swipe back. Even scrubbing controls for long videos (1+ hours) can be super finnicky and it's tough to select accurately. The traditional scrubbing method of holding while moving vertically to scrub at slower speeds doesn't seem to work either.

As a result, I'm often catching myself in frustrating situations where I'd like to just __UNDO__ whatever action I previously took was. Either jumping around a video to the previous timestamp, or undoing the close safari tab button I didn't mean to select, or any number of other things I accidentally press due to the options being just a little too close to each other.

It's just a mild annoyance, but it's something that would massively improve my experience with using the device, as someone who has spent a LOT of time in it nearly every day since release.

2 comments

The gesture could be a fist clench, naturally occurring when you angrily realise you've deleted the wrong thing.
Or you could use Vision Pro Sounds
Some iPhone apps have a "shake the phone to undo", but I've never ever seen anyone use this feature. So, perhaps not a useful precedent.
But I've seen plenty of people being confused by the popup about undoing when they just as shake their phone a little bit for other reasons (moving around for example).

I always disable this feature.

It's really funny when apps use the shake gesture to file bug reports