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Pet peeve: I really don't like this.

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sola77

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Sep 18, 2014
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Taking a photo while in a text message....so now there is only a tiny box in the lower left-hand corner to look through to take a photo?

Am I doing something wrong or is this the new way? It's terrible.
 
Wow! For all the praise Apple gets for ease-of-use, this shows they still get things wrong.

I would have never noticed that the camera and photo library options were to the left there had I not read this thread!

Thank you for that!
 
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marty1980 said:
Wow! For all the praise Apple gets for ease-of-use, this shows they still get things wrong.

I would have never noticed that the camera and photo library options were to the left there had I not read this thread!

Thank you for that!
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Yeah I don't not I now want hat
Apple is thinking lately. There's an arrow pointing to the left indicating more options.. but people barely notice that and there's no indication as to what the purposes of it is, what's over there, how to get there, etc..
 
XTheLancerX said:
Yeah I don't not I now want hat
Apple is thinking lately. There's an arrow pointing to the left indicating more options.. but people barely notice that and there's no indication as to what the purposes of it is, what's over there, how to get there, etc..
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you think that's bad? You have to force touch and swipe up to save an image from a web site. I didn't even notice the arrow until I tried it like 4 times. Why is force touch even required here when non-force touch enabled iPhones can just tap and hold and choose "save image"?
 
marty1980 said:
Wow! For all the praise Apple gets for ease-of-use, this shows they still get things wrong.

I would have never noticed that the camera and photo library options were to the left there had I not read this thread!

Thank you for that!
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I guess it's not super intuitive, but there's an arrow indicating that there's more content if you swipe left...
 
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s2mike said:
I guess it's not super intuitive, but there's an arrow indicating that there's more content if you swipe left...
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I'd go further and say that it is intuitive. It's obvious that you can swipe left to see more photos, and the arrow pointing left clearly says you can also swipe right for more.
 
On a related note, pictures taken in Messages don't save to Photos - has this always been the case? Or an option controlling it?

I wish they did.
 
Armen said:
you think that's bad? You have to force touch and swipe up to save an image from a web site. I didn't even notice the arrow until I tried it like 4 times. Why is force touch even required here when non-force touch enabled iPhones can just tap and hold and choose "save image"?
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Tapping and holding a picture and saving from there works just fine on my iPhone 7.
 
sola77 said:
Taking a photo while in a text message....so now there is only a tiny box in the lower left-hand corner to look through to take a photo?

Am I doing something wrong or is this the new way? It's terrible.
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this is hilarious because I just made a thread saying this was my favorite feature lol
 
Armen said:
you think that's bad? You have to force touch and swipe up to save an image from a web site. I didn't even notice the arrow until I tried it like 4 times. Why is force touch even required here when non-force touch enabled iPhones can just tap and hold and choose "save image"?
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No you don't.

Touch and hold (don't force touch), and the save image option comes up. If you force touch, it'll bring it up separately, and then, yes, you'll have to swipe up.

Basically, you're being too forceful and making extra work for yourself.
 
GreyOS said:
On a related note, pictures taken in Messages don't save to Photos - has this always been the case? Or an option controlling it?

I wish they did.
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If you take photos from the little window they won't get saved, but if you expand to go into camera view then they will be saved.
 
Small White Car said:
Press-and-hold works just fine on my force-touch-enabled iPhone 6S.
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I have my force touch set at the lightest touch. I have to literally barely touch the screen to get what you described to work.
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Ntombi said:
No you don't.

Touch and hold (don't force touch), and the save image option comes up. If you force touch, it'll bring it up separately, and then, yes, you'll have to swipe up.

Basically, you're being too forceful and making extra work for yourself.
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It's almost impossible to use that if your force touch is set at the lightest touch. Guess I'll have to adjust it.
 
C DM said:
If you take photos from the little window they won't get saved, but if you expand to go into camera view then they will be saved.
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Interesting. I'll report this as a bug just in case it's unintended
 
C DM said:
If you take photos from the little window they won't get saved, but if you expand to go into camera view then they will be saved.
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I did not know this. That's awesome. A lot of the time I hold back on taking an unimportant pic to send to someone because I have to go to the camera roll and delete it later and make sure it didn't sync to google photos. would love the throw away pic idea.
 
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