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Calculator app is unusable
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Or maybe the target audience who needs the calculator on a daily basis just uninstalled it a long time ago and downloaded an alternative app. I notice the third party apps don’t have this problem? Are they making it wrong?
Home button delays, this calculator lag, battery drain, stuttering while scrolling in widgets and a barrage of notifications. Everything has been reported by me but so far not a single one of my issues has been completely fixed.
They developed it for 99.9% users but apparently the third party apps developed for the minority?
Pretty sure for work like that dedicated devices with actual buttons get used and not something on iOS. And again, most of that doesn't apply to most typical consumers.
Yes we use actual buttons. But the old calculator app on ios 10 worked fine. If this was Android, this calculator app would be updated through the Play Store. iOS needs an OS update to fix a basic calculator.
Why are you excusing Apple’s bugs? Just stop please, it’s a bug that needs fixing, not defending. There are millions of users and use cases, even a small amont of affected users which I estimate is much larger than you think warrants the bug fixed, period.
A bug would affect everyone. It doesn’t. Therefore it’s not a bug
Can't believe some seem to be arguing it only affects people who type super fast? Just typing at a fairly standard speed for me sees the bug occur.
Given that iPhones are v popular among teens who are more likely to be savvy with this kind of thing, don’t think it doesn’t affect a lot of people.
[doublepost=1508574123][/doublepost]Just accept it’s a bad bug that should have been fixed a while ago.
Also, alternative calculator apps can’t be quickly launched from CC.
Given that iPhones are v popular among teens who are more likely to be savvy with this kind of thing, don’t think it doesn’t affect a lot of people.
[doublepost=1508574123][/doublepost]Just accept it’s a bad bug that should have been fixed a while ago.
Also, alternative calculator apps can’t be quickly launched from CC.
I've said for years that the in-built apps need to be decoupled from the OS so they can be updated via App Store.
Is it in the release notes for 11.0.3? Most people aren’t beta testers although it could be argued that we all are. Apple has a hard deadline for every years iOS release which is tied to the new iPhone, so the iOS gets released no matter the amount of bugs/issues.
The iPhone calculator has always been an issue with me. There has always been something I cannot quite put my finger on as I never made more mistakes than on the iPhone calculator. After iOS 11, it is much worse and I can now see it.
Wow, I use the calculator app to add up cash at work and always ended up with crazy numbers (until I slowed down). I thought I was just rubbish at hitting the touch targets.
Why are people constantly trying to misinterpret what I'm saying just because it's convenient for them to fit it into their narrative? I'm not excusing anything, I'm simply talking through of potential reasons why the issue hasn't been addressed so far. Nowhere do I say that it doesn't exist or shouldn't be fixed or that it's good or anything of the sort. And yet people keep on twisting it that way because it fits what they want what I say to mean.
It's whiny Macrumors where users think their opinion/experience is all that matters rather than the group of users as a whole.
Now can I reproduce the bug? Yes 1+1+1+1+1+1 sometimes yields 1+1+11+1 going semi quickly. The + button clearly does not light up as pressed sometimes.
But have I ever had it happen using the calculator real life? No. I dont pound on the calculator keys in succession in real usage and have that extra .1 seconds for it to register.
Or use a 3rd party free calculator, there are plenty. And unlike mail and calendar there are no hooks to it in the OS that REQUIRE the stock calculator app to be used for any reason (and ipads dont even come with it).
Im sure it's VERY low on the list compared to getting the iphone X portion of the OS ready and genera usage bug free; top priority right now.
This is kicking a dead horse now.
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Lol. You sound like one of those users that you are complaining about. It’s a dead horse if it dont affect you, yet you feel compelled to keep posting in this thread. There are many productive use cases for adding numbers fast in succession. Just be glad it doesn’t bother you and move on rather than stirring the pot. (Or kicking a dead horse )
The iPad was created before the iPhone.
https://thenextweb.com/apple/2010/06/02/steve-jobs-the-ipad-concept-came-before-the-iphone/
Concept is fairly different from the company actually working on and predicting the actual thing. That said, not really what this thread is about.
This thread isn't about the calculator app?
“When they were prototyping the iPad, they ported the iOS calc over, but it was just stretched to fit the screen. ... A month before the release, Steve Jobs calls Scott Forstall into his office and says to him, “where is the new design for the calculator? This looks awful.” He said, “what new design?” This is what we are shipping with. Steve said, “no, pull it we can’t ship that.” ... It has been such low priority since then that no one cares to work on it since there is more important things to work on.”
https://www.cultofmac.com/421893/why-the-ipad-has-never-shipped-with-a-calculator-app/
This thread is about the calculator app that some people are having issues using in iOS 11. The iPad doesn't have that calculator app, so those issues don't apply to it.