[the_sleaze_]

Am I the only one who -hates- these springy animations? I feel it introduces an artificial lag. When I tap I want instant response, I don't want to have to wait a half second for the boxes to complete their scale transforms.

My canonical example is deleting message threads out of iOS Messages app. For every row in the list you need to swipe allll the way over to the left, wait for the stupid animation, click delete, wait for the stupid animation, click the confirm. Maybe it would improve if the component was responsive during its animation cycle. But ugh.

[pirates]

You can use the three dots menu in the top right corner to Select Messages, drag or tap the buttons that appear, then Delete in the bottom right. That said you are definitely correct that in general this is a thing in the OS and sometimes there’s nothing you can do but wait.