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oceanwest

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Sep 7, 2005
19
14
the new controls for FaceTime is the worst user experience.

single tap on active session reveals a bottom sheet that gives you the new 'effects' emoji and filters, getting out of that view is not obvious,

in the middle is the end call button

to the right there is a "..." more button this is where they buried the flip camera - something that you would like to quickly do in a conversation not have to hunt to find a button to tap.

if you hit the "..." button a huge sheet comes up and covers the entire video. there you again get the "effects, end call flip, mute, speaker, camera off, and i am assuming where you will have multiple parties to the video (once that is active)

when you try to flip the camera there is no affirmative action that you did so you ave to carefully swipe down to get back to the video without hitting the end call button.

I have made 3 bug reports with apple about over the beta periods but this terrible interface still exists.
 

C DM

macrumors Sandy Bridge
Oct 17, 2011
51,392
19,461
the new controls for FaceTime is the worst user experience.

single tap on active session reveals a bottom sheet that gives you the new 'effects' emoji and filters, getting out of that view is not obvious,

in the middle is the end call button

to the right there is a "..." more button this is where they buried the flip camera - something that you would like to quickly do in a conversation not have to hunt to find a button to tap.

if you hit the "..." button a huge sheet comes up and covers the entire video. there you again get the "effects, end call flip, mute, speaker, camera off, and i am assuming where you will have multiple parties to the video (once that is active)

when you try to flip the camera there is no affirmative action that you did so you ave to carefully swipe down to get back to the video without hitting the end call button.

I have made 3 bug reports with apple about over the beta periods but this terrible interface still exists.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/facetime-butchered-in-ios12.2138987/
 
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