The bars were reinstated on iOS 11. That would be change for the sake of change, but that change doesn't affect usability, unlike others.
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iOS12 changes for the sake of changes
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You don’t have to slowly swipe up. You can swipe up at any speed to bring up the task switcher. I miss the red minus signs. It was easier to close apps rapidly. The two-step process was never annoying for me since I knew how to use it.
It undoes a dumb change in ios7 that should never have happened. So here it was a chance for the better in 11. The dots were hard to tell apart. But they were different than what Forstall and co. did, which is what Jony wanted. To be different than Forstall’s rather intuitive and efficient UIx that just worked.
Btw - before iOS 12 - when did ios volume get screwed up? I swear at one time, the volume controlled by the slider was universal. Slide it low and EVERY app’s volume was low. Now, even if I slide the vol to zero, often a podcast is roared at high volume. In Settings I have the “change with buttons” selected even tho that seems to apply to ringer and notifications only. What happened? When did this change?
https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/7/15757734/ios-11-new-volume-indicator-iphone
The dots were hard to tell apart?
I’m over half a century old, and I could see the dots.
The volume controls were separate for quite some time. It's not that they are separate by app, but that there's a volume for ringer/notificafions (the one you can control in settings), volume for Siri, and volume for apps/media.
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It's more likely that the dots weren't practical in that they were taking up more space than was really needed for something like that (and weren't really following a fairly established standard when it comes to cellular signal strength being in the form of bars).
Yes the FaceTime flip was downright embarrassing when I couldn’t figure it out and the messages photo insert comes quickly but I liked the way it was.
Why no Library button on the iPad when writing a message and bringing up the camera? Here the only option seems to be to use the app bar
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Same here. I could see them. But 5 circles of same height, some filled at times and some not, were not nearly as easy to discern as the bars, which held 4 obvious functional advantages.
1. Only active bars were shown, which allowed quicker understanding at a micro-moment’s glance.
2. They raised in height as signal got stronger, very helpful as a secondary indicator for quick acknowledgment.
3. They took up less space.
4. They were universal across makers.
The change to 5 circles was unnecessary change for the sake of change and poor design.
Thanks. I thought I remember that at one time, there was one volume control to rule them all. It was amazing to me to FINALLY be able to turn down all volumes across apps or iPad with the side buttons. No more surprise jolts of loudness, no more competing volume controls like when feeding an iPad/ipod/iPhone into a sound system or car stereo via cable, where you have both the radio and iPad volume controls to balance.
So I see if I select “change with buttons,” then only the finger and alerts change with the side controls, and I must use control center for app volume. If I don’t select that option, then I can change the app volume and control center volume with the side buttons.
What a pain imho! I need to change both often throughout the day. It’s this “need to press/click/swipe more each year to do what used to be instantaneous” that is so frustrating to me. Steps backwards, not forward.
It’s these speed bumps that erode Apple from being the “it just works” option to just another option along Microsoft and Android.
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What you’re saying is you can’t read or comprehend or both.
I like only good, meaningful change for expensive technology, especially with Apple’s take it or leave it few-options-approach. Change for sake of change can stick out like a sore thumb when there’s no discernible functional gain coupled with at least some new functional pain. Apple’s been exercising this option much too much since 2013.
I love change in less durable, less important things, or things where many consumer options abound so that workarounds exist when functional pain is felt. Things like fashion or food menus or vacation spots. Apple is so not the “customer is always right” company, that things felt as bad changes sting for a long time until someone wakes up (i.e., the return of the linear signal bars).
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Hoping you're defining the change to dots as the change for the sake of change, and then defining the return to signal strength bars as being change for improvement in function (even if it's just undoing the dumb former change), which should be the basis for design changes when no option is given for user's preferences.
(I would have had no issue with the introduction of the dots if Apple allowed the discerning user to return to the signal bars, even if Apple buried the option under "Accessibility" as their back-handed way of saying only stoopids need button shapes, normal-thickness font, non-low-contrasty font colors, and signal bars instead of dippin dots).
Where there is no discernible functional improvement, that’s the base definition of change for the sake of change.
Most everything in ios7 was change for the sake of change. I am Jony. I am here. Scott is out. Every nook and cranny must change. Add reverb to the off function. Add parallax instead of touchable pretty looking buttons. Goof up the calendar and Music apps beyond belief. Change for the sake of change.