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0 pointsintergalplan5y ago0 comments

iOS discoverability/usability tanked when iOS7 came out and hasn't recovered. It went from being the only OS I'd happily give to my 80-something can-barely-email grandma, to "um... well, shit, I guess we'll get you a Chromebook... but it's gonna suck."

Too many ways to accidentally make crap pop up or get stuck in weird states on iOS, now. Even the old folder behavior, that "split open" the screen to reveal the folder, made it much, much clearer to navigate for non-tech-geeks. Lots of little things like that, plus tons of gesture-initiated overlays and switching-about.

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sundvor5y ago

Thanks, yes it's almost like a cult thing - you're supposed to stab and poke and just _discover_ the hidden features.

One example to prove your point was that I needed to disable/restrict the fingerprint auth as he was using that to get himself more time; his old device that died didn't have one.

Everything said yeah just go to "Face ID & Passcode" under settings. Except it wasn't there. An inordinate amount of effort later I learned there was a setting knee deep in Screen Time > Content & Privacy Restrictions that would allow it to be displayed.

Why TF not just display the Touch settings tab still and then a message saying its use is disabled in that part of their jungle hell? I mean that'd actually be user friendly.

(Setting up Docker in WSL2 is a breeze compared to the guesswork that's becoming their new norm.)

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