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Comment by ChrisMarshallNY | Hacker News Reader

> but the sheet was broken

Apple's Web services have been a shitshow, for many years. I suspect that several iOS screens are little more than WebViews into their Web services.

It's worst, on the backend, in things like App Store Connect, or Developer Center.

Ironically, they tend to work better on Chrome, than on Safari, and my workflow for encountering issues, is to reopen the page in Chrome.

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Nope, they don't really rely on WebViews unless you're in Safari. They do have an extensive API surface, and a lot of Swift stuff consumes it directly.

Really? The "Apple ID" (and subscriptions) section in the settings in so janky and doesnt feel native at all.

Are you talking about the Mac or iOS?

I know that most of the infrastructure apps in all Apple operating systems, nowadays, are SwiftUI, so it makes sense that they aren’t WebViews. SwiftUI has a definite UX “flavor.”

I’m not thrilled with some of the choices they made, irt information architecture, and basic UX, but they are consistent.

Except isn’t the settings pane on Mac OS using react or something? I know it feels different and I kind of hate it.

Only the iCloud panel is

Yea that’s what I figured. The one that pulls data from the web with every click. It just bugs me when a view will sometimes render absolutely nothing, sometimes while checking subscriptions, other times in the middle of a flow like adding hardware keys. UI’s that fail to produce feedback need to disappear.

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