Any of the awful UX functions been rolled back? Notifications and the bluetooth menus are an abomination.
Prior to that BT devices would just drop the connection, AFAICT.
Bi-directional file transfer has never worked properly.
And that's only BT…
IDK what's actually that bad about the BT menu UI though? The recent UX changes on notifications have been bad, though. Especially where sometimes clicking the X doesn't dismiss the notification. (There's some bait&switch b/c there's like multiple notifications stacked up… or something.) And that (for a while now) Calendar hasn't reliably notified me, which has been great, as it results in lateness to meetings, since there's no longer an office mate to say "hey, it's time".
I use BT a lot, half a dozen devices I use every single day, and I have issues with every single peripheral on at least 1 (usually 2) of the 3 OSes I use.
BT itself seems like such a simple thing to get right too... not sure what I'm missing about it that makes it so technically hard to just work as expected.
> BT itself seems like such a simple thing to get right too...
good hn thread from 2017:
I got a calendar notification of a cancelled event. The notification itself had no buttons to interact with. A hover where the close button would be (top left of the nmotification) causes it to appear and also causes a "delete" button to appear in the bottom right. But if I move my mouse off the "close" button to click "delete" both the close and delete buttons disappear. The only way to delete it is to click it (opening the calendar) wait for the calendar to open (5-10s on a 2019 i7 MBP) then open the event itself to delete it.
It's an astonishing regression in functionality, even for Apple. And with Apple's recent UI "improvements" I'm not sure if it is a bug or deliberate. I'm probably holding it wrong but I can't figure out the combination of interactions to get that button to persist.
Shoving everything into a sub-menu made device statuses invisible and involved extra clicks to interact with them. It's user-hostile design.
to Apple?
Why can't this be a predictable hold and drag, like everything else?
They expect users to... what read a manual?
There is an alternative, make it so that users can intuitively discover features by playing around. I believe Steve Jobs told some pretentious story along that line when he launched the iPad.
And of course the technology hasn't evolved since then. Society hasn't gotten more complex. The problems we're solving are the same. Nothing has changed and people aren't asking for new things and demanding more convenience.
Everything is static.
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Maybe read again, no one said that. If anything it used to be the norm to have clunky products that require a manual. Many products these days don't need manuals.
I mentioned Steve Jobs to say he was full of shit, I don't believe for a second that Apple did actually pursuit that philosophy, let alone that they should stay doing it
https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/control-center-mchl...
(Note the Tip sentence.)
Always read, or at least browse, the macOS and iOS/iPadOS User Guide. Even advanced users will learn a thing or few.
https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/reset-mac-bluetooth-module/
That no longer exists on Monterey.
They might be referencing Control Center, though.
Unless they removed it entirely in a later beta and I'm simply unaware.
I'm sitting on catalina for as long as possible on my non-work laptop