What’s the tiniest thing about iOS / iPadOS / macOS that really bugs you?
What’s the tiniest thing about iOS / iPadOS / macOS that really bugs you?
As much as I don’t like negative threads, there’s one thing in iOS that really irritates me, and I want to air it…
Pressing and holding the tab button in Safari to access tab groups, should have a haptic response.
Because it doesn’t, I often end up opening the tab view instead, so I have to huff a little, hit Done, then try again. I don’t know why it annoys me that it doesn’t because none of the other buttons in Safari do, but I feel like it should.
No, I have not contacted Tim Apple about this. Yes, I probably should.
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What bothers me is that Apple doesn’t document its features very completely. Here’s an example:
In CarPlay, I do a lot of navigating using Apple Maps. I discovered years ago that I could say “Details” to Siri to get the map to zoom in to allow me to see upcoming turns. I could say “overview” to get it to zoom out to show me the whole trip on the map. Very useful! I had to discover this feature by accident, though. As far as I know, there’s no button in the interface to do this, and there certainly isn’t a list of commands that Siri users can use, CarPlay or otherwise.
Even more infuriating is that this feature was removed about six months ago. Does it exist under some other spoken command? Who knows? Apple doesn’t document anything!
I wish I'd known about the Siri command but the details/overview navigation option still exists. It's toggled by tapping the button on the top-right of the screenshot shown on this support page: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/get-turn-by-turn-directions-iph215b053f6/ios
I've used this button before. I swear it does something slightly different than saying "details" did. Like it doesn't preserve North-up map orientation or something. Without having the old voice command, I can't check to verify. Thank you for taking the time to highlight the button, though!
Just don't rely on Siri for anything and you won't be disappointed. I finally said "enough is enough" when she stopped even letting me rate the song that was playing.