"indicator only shows up when you happen to hover over it. WTF."
My wife and I had this conversation the other day. There are things in iOS you only get or see if you long press. How the hell are you to discover these things?
My wife and I had this conversation the other day. There are things in iOS you only get or see if you long press. How the hell are you to discover these things?
I hate it.
There's nothing you can do. Computing stopped being about expert users the minute the rest of the world got online. Now the giants control all the devices, platforms, and mindshare. They will never cater to you. Informed users aren't the ones clicking the ads or buying the things as intended.
We've crossed into the gravity well of user hostility, and there's no longer any escape.
I hate it too.
I spent several minutes bashing around, double tapping, longpress, force press, went into settings to look for toggles. Had to google it eventually. Turns out you do this by swiping left. And i had actually tried to swipe sideways before, but only right.
Once you know it it's actually very convenient, but discovering it is near impossible.
Sometimes by accident, sometimes from hearing about it from others, sometimes from searching on Google for how to do something.
I miss the days when software actually came with very detailed documentation for the user. They had their hidden features too, but at least there was documentation for them.
Of course, hiding everything behind that is not good, but when I look at apps like FairMail that try to show you what you can do directly, it just gets very confusing and the space left for the actual content becomes miniscule.
The same way power users discover e.g. keyboard shortcuts, I imagine.
At least keyboard shortcuts are visible directly in the menus, for both Windows and Mac.