Re:New iPhone SE
by jedieaston on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @05:55PM
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Long pressing on the Bluetooth icon in iOS 13 gives you a device list now, if you wanted to know.
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Well, that's a life-changer. Though it's annoying that it only seems to work after a second long-press to go from the condensed version of that little window to the bigger one.
My ideal is that I can flip up and change the source in the time it takes for a song to change, which I used to be able to do seamlessly in Android. Though according to the sibling comment, Android got worse for that use since I switched too.
Ok I kind of feel like an idiot now, I just checked and apparently on Android 10 you can long-press as well to get a menu of available devices/networks. I'm not sure whether this was already there in Android 9 or whether they introduced it later but I'm quite sure that I read the release announcements (and reviews/articles[0]) at the time and turned up empty-handed.
Just wish both had some kind of UI indicator that there's a long-press action available... it's not like people are reading mobile phone manuals nowadays, even if they existed.
[0] For example no mention here https://www.xda-developers.com/everything-new-android-p-deve...
Re:New iPhone SE
by solarkraft on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @08:16PM
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A lot of this works on the basis of intuition and I think that's pretty okay for shortcuts. It becomes more problematic when it's an essential path, but then again right-click-abilityis also undiscoverable.
It's a totally intuitive thing, but after a few years of using something you stop trying to intuit as much and are just doing the things you know work.
True.
It works on my Android 8 device.
Are you saying you don't have a down arrow below the icon? I might be wrong as I said initially, I thought they removed the dropdown in 9 but might've been 8?
I do have a down arrow, which takes me to a sub-panel listing the devices, but also I can long press on the icon to go to the full list.
Personally I think the down arrow is way too small for me to press so I always just long press the icon anyway.
Ok then my memory was correct about the versions at least. Long-press or not, the arrow is still a great indication that there's an action besides a single click - wish everyone implemented something of the like.