Photos app new interface sucks.
this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2024
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I dig it
I like it, I already sort my newest photos at the bottom so seeing the extra albums by scrolling down works better for me
YOU STILL CAN’T MOVE THE LOCKSCREEN CLOCK. FUCK.
Is this really a major problem?
It’s literally making me consider a different operating system. If there were more options than just android I would probably unironically switch largely due to this.
^not guaranteed to be a true fact^
It might be time for you to pick up a hobby.
Unfortunately that’s the key reason why the clock position is bugging me
I don’t usually install major Apple OS updates on launch; there seem to be major bugs often enough that I try to wait until the first bugfix release.
Okay 👍
I’ve updated on launch since iPhone was initially released. I can’t recall any time I ever had an issue with bugs; not to say others hadn’t. After seeing what this OS looks like, I will be holding out on iOS 17 (on my 12 mini) for as long as possible. Apple has gotten into the habit of breaking things that previously worked perfectly well for no apparent reason. Meanwhile, we can’t get basic things like smart folders or a decent music app. I’m really fed up with the crap this company puts out.
They finally nuked the "special" widget section on the left fully... which screwed up a couple useful widgets that I was using and haven't found a replacement for... so that sucks.
New homescreen positioning is cool, but breaks one of the workarounds I was using without a replacement either (smart stack with a background that made them invisible until I scrolled them). Minor thing, but annoying. We can position icons slightly better now... but I still can't have 5 items in my dock? I still can't have different grid sizes? I still can't add custom icons? Sad.
No more mandatory camera app on lockscreen? nice. Hasn't been needed in forever... even less with the newer models having a hardware button.
Drag n drop for control center? Better late than never. Hate the round icons though... I like squarcles. When I still had an android and they tried to move to circles for everything, I applied a custom icon set to make them revert. Dislike the circles. Also the fact that the larger size is still a squarcle... makes it mismatched and stupid looking.
Like always... feels like a step forward and a step back. :/
Wait, where do I disable the lockscreen camera? I haven’t yet found that option unfortunately.
It’s one of my most hated “features”, to the point where I just completely disabled the camera itself to get rid of it.
You can go into the edit lock screen area and where you customize the background and widgets etc the bottom two things (flashlight and camera icons)are now editable.
Thanks! Seems there still isn’t a way to disable the left swipe camera though?
Nope.
Gawd... I just opened the photo gallery app... that redesign is awful. I don't want a bunch of "we're pretending to be facebook so here's a bunch of 'memories' for you" pushed at me. I know what photos I took... I took them. Go away.
The configurable control center pages is nice in theory... but what it does in practice is you open it to use it and try to swipe it back up so you can go back to your homescreen, but instead you end up swiping up the stupid control center page and seeing your media controls instead. That's going to take ages to get used to.
The new more fluid feeling fade in for notifications on the apple watch is nice though. I still hate the redesign from the last version. Reduced functionality for me, as usual.
Remove the additional pages in control center, then you can swipe up to close.
Just as a heads up, you can edit the sections that show and where they show in the Photos app and you can always swipe control center away if you start at the very bottom of the screen like an app.
Yeah I saw the edit button for the gallery. It’s classic Apple though. Just let you move around their generated nonsense but the app is fundamentally changed interface so might as well just get used to it.
Same thing with the control center. I know I can swipe from the very bottom to clear it. But the point was I didn’t have to do that before so it’s less convenient for someone we didn’t need and wasn’t implemented well.
Guys, what do you think about the Home Screen personalization tint? Do you like the new control center?
I’d like to hear y’all!
Do you like the new control center?
I love the ability to launch OmniFocus Quick Entry from control centre. Had that for Todoist on Android and couldn't believe this wasn't possible to do at all when I switched.
The tint sucks because it tints the widgets too. I use the dark icons. The new control center is like a bootleg chinese phone. I would expect better keyboard language understanding and more fluid gestures for ease of use (still struggling with opening control center after using Samsung’s one hand operation)
Lmao, the part about the control center feeling like from a bootleg phone made my day. I felt like something was off the whole time but couldn't tell what was bothering me
I’ve been running the beta and have no issues with 1:1 chats. But the group chat (3 people) I tried didn’t switch to RCS until the other iPhone user sent a message.
Does the other iOS user have 18? I'm the 1 android user in a 3 person group chat and I'm wondering if I should try to get one of them to update.
Everyone needs iOS 18.
I seem to remember vaguely that iOS 18 was supposed to have a feature but was left out in the end. I do not mean the AI stuff, there was some other major part. Something like handoff but not handoff. I completely forgot what it was and searched online but searching without knowing what to search is a...challenge :-)
Anybody here have any clue what it was or am I imagining things?
Ah! Found it!
iPhone Mirroring
That was the one. Sadly, not available in the EU for now :-(
Yeah and I can't get my head around why it won't be available here in the EU. This is so fucking stupid! Like how is the DMA or any other legislation supposed to prevent them from implementing iPhone mirroring? They literally offer every other continuity-related feature over here. This is just Apple being upset they're actually being regulated in the EU.
I honestly think it’s just because their lawyers work through other stuff first. They’ll get to it eventually
I tried it out today! Works decently with most apps, but lags a bit with others. I’ve run into one app that doesn’t scroll vertically, but hopefully that is an easy fix on the developer’s part.
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