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The Share Menu is the worst. How a human being should figure that out?

If offers:

    * Contacts
    * Applications
    * Vertically
    * Horizontally
    * Other items below.
    * But only after you’ve figured out, that it needs pulled up.
    * It is always placed in a different locations of an app and the icon has nothing to do with “Share” or “Copy/Paste”.

People grown up with smartphones can handle it, as usual you can adapt as long as you weren’t older than 40/50 upon introduction. Most of modern stuff is horribly designed and often unreliable (Hello AppleTV. Can we speak today about changing a WiFi-Password? Why you don’t reboot when I press the ON/OFF-Button? It is needed to workaround bugs).

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I have the perfect example. In safari iOS, “Share” is where the “Search in the page” feature is located! Just, why?!

Oh, thank you! Twelve years iPhone user here. Never knew it’s there.

It is also in the URL/search bar, type whatever you want to find on the page instead of a website address and the bottom option will be “On this page”.

I used this option just a couple of times when I desperately needed to find something on the page. Most of the time I’m not sure where that option is, so usually I just google it right before using.

Oh wow, that’s also pretty hidden, I never noticed it

Oh. I’ve always used the URL/search bar. Only your post made me aware that there is also a “Search” hidden in the share-menu.

It‘s redundant placement. You can also just use the url box to search the page. Seems like a good pragmatic approach to me.

Could they also introduce some kind of page action menu? Maybe.

How do you search the page via the url box? I don’t see the option

Type a search term, results from the page will appear below the $search_engine suggestions.

You can see that it's draggable because there's a drag indicator at the top. That's what the small elongated oval is supposed to indicate.

Hm? I don’t recognize/see a drag indicator. There is a tiny elongated black oval at bottom (like always).

No you're right, I misremembered. It is android that has a drag indicator for bottom sheets

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