Comment by Andaith | Hacker News Reader

Comment by Andaith | Hacker News Reader

They need a Snow-IOS too.

- Ever since I've updated to the latest iOS 18, my watch complications(weather doodad) stop working randomly because they just lose the location services permission. Then in settings, the location services permission list acts like the weather app isn't installed.

- The new Mail app now automatically classifies your email, but still gives you the "All Mail" option. But the unread count badge on the app only works off of what they classify as your "Priority" mail. There's a setting to change that, so that it shows you the unread count of ALL mail, not just priority mail, but when you change that setting nothing changes. This is my biggest problem with new iOS.

- Keyboard sometimes doesn't get out the way any more when it should.

These are just off the top of my head. It used to be such a nice, polished experience. Their competition was just outclassed. Now, when my phone dies I'm going to have a good look at all the other options.

> - Keyboard sometimes doesn't get out the way any more when it should.

Depends on where you were seeing this of course, but this could very well be an app problem instead of a system problem.

Native UIKit/SwiftUI do a little bit of keyboard management for “free”, but there are many circumstances where it falls on the developer’s shoulders to do this. For cross platform frameworks, some do keyboard management others don’t even try. For web apps it’s a coin toss and depends on which of the gazillion ways the dev built their app.

It’s not actually that hard, usually just a matter of making sure that your scrolling content either resizes to match the keyboard-shrunken viewport or adding bottom padding equivalent to the height of the keyboard and then and adjusting scroll position accordingly, but it’s not unusual to see this partially or fully absent, especially on poorly built cheapest-bidder-contracted apps.

In modern UIKit it's as simple as constraining to the keyboard layout guide. That gives you full animation support for free as well, no more need to listen for the notification and manually set up animations with the same timing and curve. On iPads the keyboard guide can even help you avoid the split keyboard, it's really nice.

Of course SwiftUI gives you almost none of this control, forcing you to hope the magic automatic support works how you expect.

But then neither help you with any of the other interactions, like any background dimming you may want, or tapping away from the keyboard to dismiss. That has to be done manually.

Permissions needs a complete rewrite. Layers and layers of permissions screens. To get anything done takes 4-5 forward and reverse UI stack traversals

Absolutely. And turning off Siri's "Learn from this app" should not require the user to navigate to every single app's menu, when Siri has a top level page in Settings.

The division of per-app vs app list in general is bad.

I think they should just throw in the towel and duplicate settings. Meaning, we can turn off Siri learning from an app or from the Siri page. Or we can turn off banners from the app or the notifications page.

The recent Photos app update was a major regression.

my iPhone gets into a state lately where a pane will suddenly lose the the ability to _scroll_. it can happen in any app, but I see it a lot in Safari. Like, what is even happening, this is a fundamental UI interaction. The only way to fix it is to close the tab or force-quit the app. Super weird.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com