Not all changes are always for the better. Is there anything that you liked and is now gone?

    • abhibeckert@lemmy.world
      82·
      1 year ago

      As far as I know, if you have an iPhone X or older, 3D Touch is still supported on current software.

      • fer0n@lemm.eeOP
        4·
        1 year ago

        I’m pretty sure they removed it even on the devices that had it. The watch definitely lost it. But I might be misremembering.

        • WFH@lemm.eeEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          3D Touch is still working on my XS Max.

          I’m gonna sorely miss it when I upgrade.

          • LazaroFilm@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            The con of Force Touch is when using gloves, you need to press harder to trigger opening apps and that triggered the menu instead. The other Force Touch I loved was hard press on the keyboard would enable moving the cursor around. But you can do that by long pressing the space bar. No significant loss in my opinion.

    • Kekin@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      I don’t know if you’ve tried it yet, but setting the “Haptic Touch” option to “Fast” gets you a bit closer to what you could do with 3D touch.

      It’s under Accessibility -> Touch -> Haptic Touch

      Personally I like it better vs the default setting.

      • garretble@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        Older iPhones had a screen that could interpret the pressure of your touch, giving the ui the ability to do multiple things based on how hard you press.

        The best feature was pressing hard into the keyboard to get a cursor and then pressing lightly again to highlight text, all with just one thumb. It was super good. There’s an alternative to that now, but it pales in comparison.

        • Celestus@lemm.eeEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          Yes! That feature alone kept me from upgrading my iPhone X until the 12 Pro came out. The alternative is severely limited, and annoying to use

          • garretble@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            1 year ago

            What I don’t understand about what we have now is that you can’t “undo” your highlight like you used to be able to. So if you overshoot the highlight using the new system and select too much text, well, screw you.

            With the 3D Touch way you could really dial in your selection back and forth. It seems like you should still be able to do that with this new space bar version, but, alas, no.

            • Celestus@lemm.eeEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              3 years, actually. It may not seem like much, but many people upgrade every year. Especially those of us who are into tech

        • oKtosiTe@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          There’s an alternative to that now, but it pales in comparison.

          Walt, is there a better way than long-pressing on a word and then clumsily moving the little markers to where you want your selection to start/end? If there is I need to know, because I hate how janky selecting text often is.

          • garretble@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Hold down on the space bar and you’ll get a cursor. Then if you tap — while still holding space — on the keyboard with another finger it’ll start to select the text.

            Having to use two hands to do the same thing you used to be able to do with one is what I don’t like. But it’s at least something.

            • oKtosiTe@lemmy.world
              1·
              1 year ago

              Hold down on the space bar and you’ll get a cursor. Then if you tap — while still holding space — on the keyboard with another finger it’ll start to select the text.

              Thanks. I use the space bar to move the cursor a lot, but didn’t know it could select text too. Feels pretty damn clumsy though.

  • BURN@lemmy.world
    192·
    1 year ago

    3D Touch. I used it all the time

    Physical Home Buttons - my iPad still has one and I love it compared to the swipe up gesture

    • fer0n@lemm.eeOP
      52·
      1 year ago

      I liked 3D Touch, but I’m really glad we moved on from a physical home button. For one things like the app switcher feel so much faster and more fluent with the swiping. And for another I always feared the home button would break, no matter how well built.

    • cheese_greater@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      You can still have it. Just get the 2022 SE. why do people need supercomputers in their pocket, or why does it have to be the camera-iest or titanium etc?

  • fer0n@lemm.eeOP
    14·
    1 year ago

    I dearly miss the precision video scrubbing from iOS 16 and I have no clue why they removed it. It was absolutely amazing and it’s now just replaced by… nothing. I miss it every day.

  • Majestic@lemmy.ml
    61·
    1 year ago

    The music app has gone downhill and been badly degraded ever since ohhh IOS 10? When they moved to streaming services they prioritized that and removed clear ratings, access on Home Screen to volume and progress of currently playing song and many other things.

    • cholesterol@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      I miss the easily accessible album view. Back in the day you could tap to ‘flip’ the cover. Now it’s hidden in a three-dot menu item.

  • HeartyBeast@kbin.social
    3·
    1 year ago

    Not iOS , but on MacOS, I hate window design in recent versions. The old versions had a clear distinction between single contents and the great/darker ‘chrome’ that made up the window header and toolbar.

    These days everything is a blinding white (in daylight mode) both virtually no contrast between the two.

    With multiple overlapping windows it is a complete pain to use. Loads of times I’ve gone yo grab the top of a window, only to hit the window behind and above.

    Form over function.

    I didn’t realise how bad it was until I used my wife’s old Mac running an old version of the OS and everything was just easier