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Anyone who hasn't uploaded the new OS excited for Tuesday?
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I would do that too, but the constant nagging that 11.0 is available will most likely cause me to cave in simply to avoid having to deal with those pop-ups on a daily basis.
I seem to be the only person with this opinion, but I am seriously considering taking my 9.7" pro back to 10.3.3 before Tuesday.
All the discussion online is about how great iOS 11 has made iPad productivity... but it feels the *complete* opposite to me. I totally welcome anyone who can help me see how I'm doing things wrong because I want to make it work... but it all feels waaaay slower and more cumbersome.
having to pull the phone into a full multitasking mode in order to quickly adjust brightness or something else in control centre feels so disorienting, like when Microsoft changed the start menu to that full screen metro interface anytime you wanted to do anything. its no longer a quick flick up and down. in fact its this super exaggerated drag you have to do to get past the dock. and then you have to explicitly select the application to return to from the task switcher.
and speaking of the dock, its supposedly improves multitasking, but whereas previously you could drag the secondary app into a scrolling vertical dock of all multitasking available applications, now you get to choose from a limited set, or completely leave your primary app to go find it in the home screen and set everything up from there? I'm also finding the "slide over" window really hard to dismiss. you can only do it from the little grabber all the way up at the top and even then it seems to take multiple tries to get it to respond?
again, if there are techniques that I'm just not employing that make the process more streamlined I'd like to know. but if its just "oh don't be picky who cares if action 'X' takes longer or is more complicated" then well... I guess we just disagree on what constitutes "improvement"
also... and god I'm sorry this rant just keeps going... it feels like most of this reshuffling wasn't even necessary for any of the the added functionality. why did control centre and multitasking get combined? they don't really have anything related. you don't drag apps onto any of the toggles do you? and gesture wise, don't we already have a 4-finger swipe up / double tap home to enter multitasking? why did it need a 3rd entry point that overloads control centre's functionality? I'm just so confused what the logic is behind the UX decisions anymore...
All the discussion online is about how great iOS 11 has made iPad productivity... but it feels the *complete* opposite to me. I totally welcome anyone who can help me see how I'm doing things wrong because I want to make it work... but it all feels waaaay slower and more cumbersome.
having to pull the phone into a full multitasking mode in order to quickly adjust brightness or something else in control centre feels so disorienting, like when Microsoft changed the start menu to that full screen metro interface anytime you wanted to do anything. its no longer a quick flick up and down. in fact its this super exaggerated drag you have to do to get past the dock. and then you have to explicitly select the application to return to from the task switcher.
and speaking of the dock, its supposedly improves multitasking, but whereas previously you could drag the secondary app into a scrolling vertical dock of all multitasking available applications, now you get to choose from a limited set, or completely leave your primary app to go find it in the home screen and set everything up from there? I'm also finding the "slide over" window really hard to dismiss. you can only do it from the little grabber all the way up at the top and even then it seems to take multiple tries to get it to respond?
again, if there are techniques that I'm just not employing that make the process more streamlined I'd like to know. but if its just "oh don't be picky who cares if action 'X' takes longer or is more complicated" then well... I guess we just disagree on what constitutes "improvement"
also... and god I'm sorry this rant just keeps going... it feels like most of this reshuffling wasn't even necessary for any of the the added functionality. why did control centre and multitasking get combined? they don't really have anything related. you don't drag apps onto any of the toggles do you? and gesture wise, don't we already have a 4-finger swipe up / double tap home to enter multitasking? why did it need a 3rd entry point that overloads control centre's functionality? I'm just so confused what the logic is behind the UX decisions anymore...
Well that scares me. I'm already pretty techno-challenged (which is why I generally love Apple products), so now you have me afraid...
for what its worth, looking around I don't see much discussion about this, so it doesn't seem to be a large point of frustration for anyone. for whatever reason it all just rubbed me the wrong way. but like I said, maybe I'm approaching it wrong?
You're not "approaching it wrong" you're, "thinking different". (in a good way)
I expect iOS 11 to fall significantly short of what I'm needing iOS to do. The iOS 11 Files.app is essentially Apple's version of Readdle's Documents. Documents fell far short for me, I expect Files to do so as well.
Regarding split-window multi-tasking, I expect iOS 11 to be better... it would be virtually impossible for something to be WORSE than iOS 10's method of choosing the 2nd app.
Things like Copy-n-Paste will be a welcomed addition, and perhaps the benefits of the other additions will become evident with actual use.
I'm trying to temper my expectations, because I'm not actually looking for a 'pc replacement' device. I mostly use it as a drawing, reading and communications tool.
I want to like the multitasking in iOS 11 better, too. I mean, I appreciate some things like it can swap panes left to right, the primary app remains active under slide over, etc.
but its just these little things, like... I want to quickly adjust brightness while I'm watching a youtube video... and it "feels" like I'm exiting the app to do it. or I am in mail and say want to check some dates from calendar, but its not in my recent dock so now I have to fully leave mail and open calendar and then re add mail in multitasking, and it almost just feels like I might as well just uni-task.
The current app picker is one of those things that very quickly got worse once app developers decided to support it.