iOS 15

I’ve given up on Safari. The tabs on iPad and the bottom bar covering up content in iPhone just kill it for me.

Fingers crossed they see sense but I get the feeling they’re going to stick with it. Feels very Apple to me to expect every website to adapt to them rather than the other way around.

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Just joined the iOS 15 public beta and I’m really struggling to enjoy it. I feel like Apple has gone in the opposite direction. My main issues are:

Safari: Looks horrible. Simple as

Notifications: I hate the new notifications. With a passion. They are all different sizes which annoys me and the text seems smaller

Time Sensitive: this is just silly. Just display the reminder or calendar notification as normal

Focus:
Personal focus is the wrong way round. Instead of choosing what you want to hear from you should be able to block out work apps.

Work focus:
Very silly again. Over complicating the operating system. Takes to long to choose all the people you want contact from during work time

Spotlight on Lock Screen is very frustrating when scrolling through notifications before unlocking the device

I can’t continue.
Does anyone else feel the same way as me?

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Definitely agree with this, doesn’t make any sense.

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I have done for each and every point @ndrw
I even made a screen recording of how bad safari handles scrolling on pages. The floating bar gets in the way all the time!

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I’m not sure actually. I haven’t got any non-Pros to try it with.

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I feel like I’m forever going to be in the “erm… the address bar is at the top not the bottom” group of people :grimacing:

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People need to grow bigger hands to adapt to larger phones, instead of forcing these annoying UI changes where everything gets shoved to the bottom of the screen.

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Or just provide an option? I tap to change web address far less than Apple seem to think. It’s never been a particular issue and I’ve never heard of anyone ever complaining about it.

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I’d like something truly innovative. Take URLs: their place is at the top of the screen. But, as a right hander, I’d like to swipe or pull out a drawer for the right hand side, then tap an address button, which lets me amend or enter a web address from whenever my finger is over the screen…

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Think I’ve said a similar thing in another thread but Opera’s FAB (fast action button) in their mobile apps is pretty great and kind of like this.

It disappears when scrolling down, reappears with a tiny scroll up, barely blocks anything on screen. You can then click it for new tab, or hold it and access: back; close tab; search/enter new URL; new tab; your three most recently used tabs; and sending to Flow (Opera’s cross device sharing thing) - all without tapping again or lifting your finger.

Really do think it’s some of the best mobile browser design.

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Firefox is super buggy on beta 3. Constant crashes.

I’d say it’s unusable but I still prefer it over Beta Safari!

So for the past few weeks I thought there was a really really annoying bug which kept enabling do not disturb on my device around 6pm every single night. I even reported it on the feedback app.

Finally figured it isn’t a bug and that my spare iPhone SE 1, signed into my iCloud account, that we use as a white noise speaker for the baby was the source of the problem.

“Focus” was shared across devices, so my wife would enable it when she put the baby down, which toggled it on my phone, I’d disable it, she enabled it, repeat a few times.

Feel pretty stupid right now :man_facepalming:t3::man_facepalming:t3:

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Hmmm I thought it did but you’ve made me question myself now.

Mine refreshes any time I go back to the top, even if I’ve interacted with the page.

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Been in Chrome for a while. It feel’s half pointless in a browser where the direction of scrolling is downwards. Perhaps pull to refresh from the bottom of a webpage would make more sense?

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What does the icon between the Wi-Fi status and battery status mean? (iPadOS 15)

I can answer my own question: it means the “work” focus is active.

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Has anyone yet really found summary to be useful? I initially set it for 08:00 :clock8: each day thinking it would summarise everything from overnight but it just means I didn’t receive any alerts from some apps all day until 08:00 the next day.

I honestly can’t find too much of a reason for it so far. If I can wait 24 hours for an app to notify me of something then generally I won’t need the app in the first place.

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Which is essentially an app I really wouldn’t keep on my phone. If I don’t use an app for a while I’ll delete it.

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I think it kinda works for those apps where the notifications might be interesting, but often aren’t. For me, that’s new episodes of podcasts, Google news headlines, Strava notifications, and a few other things. I still use the feature but agree it’s not revolutionary.

I went through a vaguely similar process when I got my watch, when I realised that most of my notifications were not in any way time sensitive, didn’t need to come through to my watch, and that I could read them in my own time when i picked up my phone

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