Are our phones becoming too smart to do dumb stuff?

Re:Are our phones becoming too smart to do dumb stuff? by onemoresoop on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @04:51PM (#32075516)

On IOS I find it a tad more difficult to edit parts of urls (eg remove www and add old for reddit or remove facebooks clid to posts) . We still have the ability to modify the url, Im grateful they haven't taken that away yet but I'm getting that some some things slowly become less usable, for some people at least. Also the main app for photos gets in my way with a lot of things I do not need, all those smart films of the month, face tagging and making albums out of tags is really something I wish I could turn off.

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Re:Are our phones becoming too smart to do dumb stuff? by Nextgrid on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @05:35PM (#32075983)

At some point on iOS they deprecated the "magnifying glass" that appeared when you held down on a piece of text, instead making your finger "pick up" the cursor. They've eventually re-introduced a similar (but worse, as it automatically starts a selection at the current word) functionality it but during that time it was very annoying.

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Re:Are our phones becoming too smart to do dumb stuff? by comprambler on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @07:17PM (#32077045)

Hold spacebar, acts as a primitive horizontal touchpad.

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Re:Are our phones becoming too smart to do dumb stuff? by onemoresoop on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @11:49AM (#32084368)

I was aware of holding the spacebar and it somewhat works but it is clunky too when having to scroll right on the url. It is not completely broken but it used to be easier, that was my point.

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Re:Are our phones becoming too smart to do dumb stuff? by marapuru on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @04:03AM (#32080096)

Kudos to you. Why was this not explained in iOS...

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Re:Are our phones becoming too smart to do dumb stuff? by tmm84 on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @09:42PM (#32078070)

I thought I was the only one who felt frustrated with editing parts of copied urls or editing the url in the taskbar. I like to think it's because so many people just copy URLs or enter new ones instead of editing what is there. I believe the use case is that 99% of the people wouldn't have thought to edit them but instead enter a new one or copy it to share so why make editing them a main mode.

As for the albums thing, my mother in law loves that so much. As an elderly lady she loves creating videos of photos taken based on time periods and the like so for her that's a killer feature. I'd be willing to bet that they have this feature on by default because it would require an index to be built if it was re-enabled and showing a blurb about it needing to build up an index is something they didn't want.

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Re:Are our phones becoming too smart to do dumb stuff? by the_only_law on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @10:55AM (#32083585)

Text editing on mobile is a horrendous experience, slightly worse on iOS than Android.

Why the hell did Android switch to a gesture system though. It's so bad. I've been unable to change the volume on a video when volume controls on a web page are too far to the left because the swipe motion triggers the "back" gesture in the browser. Never once have a had isues with the old Android bottom bar or iOS gestures.

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