User Experience Poll on the new Control Panel

[C DM]

HEY! I've never used the Night Shift button either! NOT ONE TIME. NOT ONCE!

He's right. He's absolutely right!

And you know what? I guess Apple never got the memo that Night Shift serves no purpose... as reported by numerous online publications.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/29/11326194/apple-night-shift-blue-light-sleep

The problem that night shift tries to solve is actually better solved with the new Display Accommodation Settings in Accessibility Settings.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

But of course Apple doesn't know any of this.

This all falls down on the fact that their LCD screens are truly inferior.

Except that it can serve a purpose: http://justgetflux.com/research.html

Display Accommodation Settings are somewhat different as they are not something that change at a particular time but just a setting that applies the whole time (which is perfectly fine, but not the same thing).

 

[freepomme]

It's not warm light that helps me fall asleep faster... it's less light. The whole reason night shift is even needed is because these LCD screens are just too damn bright. Which is what I've been trying to tell y'all.

So I'm all in the display accommodation awtyings trying to figure out how I can tune down this backlight on these LCD screens on these iPhones.

 

[Ntombi]

Can anyone provide a valid reason for needing a huge Night Shift button in Control Center? Who the hell is switching Night Shift on and off on a regular enough basis to even justify it being in CC at all? I thought the whole point of Night Shift was to possibly provide better circadian rhythm by adjusting the screen temps during certain times every day? How could it possibly provide any benefits if someone is switching it on and off every other day? Just leave it in the settings menu where it should be and move the music controls back to the single card CC. Or at the very least make the damn button smaller. There's no reason the flashlight button should be 1/8th the size of Night Shift when it actually serves a very useful and valid purpose in CC.

I adjust night shift manually, because having it on a set schedule doesn't work for my life.

If it weren't in the control panel, I'd probably never use it, which would be bad for my brain. You want my brain to suffer?

 

[maxsix]

50% of respondents so far agree that there's a problem.

Yes indeed.

Buggy Apple release. Give em six months or so, perhaps it'll get sorted.

 

[beernut]

Not sure if it's been mentioned here but it's really really REALLY dumb to have the separate cards/panels in iPad, especially ipp 12.9 landscape. Whereas before you saw everything across the bottom of the screen when you brought up control center, now you just have what you can see in iPhone and huge unused empty space around it forcing you to swipe to next panel.

It's like, in previous iOS(es), they knew there were two different user experiences due to screen size and they coded accordingly making the most use of space for each. Now in 10, they just coded for iPhone and did a half-assed port to iPad.

 

[trifid]

Not sure if it's been mentioned here but it's really really REALLY dumb to have the separate cards/panels in iPad, especially ipp 12.9 landscape. Whereas before you saw everything across the bottom of the screen when you brought up control center, now you just have what you can see in iPhone and huge unused empty space around it forcing you to swipe to next panel.

It's like, in iOS(es), they knew there were two different user experiences due to screen size and they coded accordingly making the most use of space for each. Now in 10, they just coded for iPhone and did a half-assed port to iPad.

Great point, I thought Apple was trying to specialize the UX better for each screen format not keep nonsense stuff like that.

 

[stevemiller]

The volume slider on the music panel suffers from the same problem. Anything other than a direct hit right on the dot, with a very firm unwavering press, is interpreted as trying to slide the entire panel.

This behavior is contrary to 7 years of slider control programming in Apple touchscreen products.

No one is a bigger fan of iOS than me, but this new control panel is a major fail. It's nearly unusable on the go, which is exactly when I need to adjust brightness, etc. All those saying it works great, try walking down the street dodging pedestrians and other obstacles while you do it.

yay we're in agreement on this one!

yes it is technically user error, but if enough people accidentally make the error despite their best attempts, maybe its not the best design.

i just don't understand how people can simultaneously say "the old control centre was bad because it had too many controls crammed into one space" and "your complaint that the new control centre puts a slider on a sliding panel is invalid." they're both manifestations of the same challenge, using an imperfect pointing device on a set of fiddly controls. either that or they just think a ginormous night shift manual override toggle is an aesthetic win?

 

[M. Gustave]

...a slider on a sliding panel...

It seems so obviously stupid, when you put it like that.

 

[marty1980]

Both volume and brightness sliders give me trouble.