Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore principles of design (2015)

Re:Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore princi... by kccqzy on Monday December 23, 2019 @02:38AM (#21862068)

Hold the App Store icon until a menu appears. Choose "Updates" and done.

I'm not defending Apple here. I only accidentally discovered this shortcut. I feel that designers these days expect users to explore a lot of things out of blind faith in order to discover functionality.

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Re:Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore princi... by emodendroket on Monday December 23, 2019 @08:39AM (#21863502)

Somehow we've unlearned all those lessons about styling links to look like text and making users play Minesweeper on the screen

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Re:Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore princi... by rogy on Monday December 23, 2019 @05:22AM (#21862688)

only works if you know where your app store icon is. i dont use the icons from the launcher screens anymore, everything goes in one folder bar the 'sticky apps'

find it much faster to just pull down and search for apps

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Re:Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore princi... by vladvasiliu on Monday December 23, 2019 @06:49AM (#21863052)

On the Iphone it works when long pressing in the search results too. (iOS 13.3)

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Re:Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore princi... by frank2 on Monday December 23, 2019 @12:40PM (#21865329)

Am curious what you mean by the 'sticky apps'.

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Re:Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore princi... by OGWhales on Monday December 23, 2019 @08:15AM (#21863384)

Thanks for the tip. I always forget how to do it the couple times I've updated.

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