What funky little things have found?
Good to know. Thanks OP!
Apple really needs to communicate these kinds of shortcuts in a better way.
I literally learned in the last few years you could hold down the spacebar to move the cursor around way easier.
Apple refused to support “long press” as a standard input model for years and years because the UX sucks and it still sucks today. There’s zero discoverability and the contextual nature of the input means every app (and different elements within the same app) all do something different with the input. Apple compromised with a standard context menu that pops up when you long press an element (e.g. the copy-paste menu), but when 3D touch was introduced iOS went full Android.
Why bother constraining actions to standard UX models when you can create nice, clean interfaces and hide functionality behind long-press inputs that the user will never know exist unless they read documentation (if it exists) or stumble upon it.
The spacebar thing has been there since 3D touch was still a thing… But yeah, agree, they should at least explain these neat little tricks in the Tips app instead of just showing off the obvious stuff.
3D Touch wasn’t restricted to the spacebar though. You could deep press and slide your cursor from anywhere on the keyboard and I miss that.
Same. I miss 3D touch as a whole, it was really neat
I still press down on the screen to move the cursor around. I haven’t had 3D Touch for years on my phone.
That’s how intuitive and effective it was as a feature.
The Tips app is actually really nice at communicating what changes in each iOS update!
Whao!!! Hold up… Spacebar to move cursor… can’t believe I went through life without knowing this.
Yes, welcome to the party.
I think that button should automatically pop when you long press it. Right now you have to guess when it’s okay to let go because it will currently let you hold it forever.
Yeah I’m getting the same thing. Has to be a bug right?
The message input moves and stretches outwards to indicate when you can let go.
It stretches immediately and if you let go too fast it will open the normal menu
Thanks!🙏
But you still can’t attach files🤦🏻♂️
Could you ever attach files to sms?
When watching something on Apple TV, long press the Dynamic Island and use the volume buttons to lower/raise the volume. Don’t have to swipe to find the remote, can stay in your current app. It’s so funky!!!
I love you! Thank you!
Merci…Love you too.
Yay! You just made my life sooo much easier :D
r/LifeProTips
I didn’t know this. I just tried and it works. Thanks a lot.
iOS has so many of these small things I have no idea about.
That has saved me almost an hour a year of my life!
I abs hate the new box list and ui of iMessages text box and where voice memos is now. Idk why they refuse to copy or be inspired by the way whatsapp with voice messages it’s so much better and easier to use. Even ios 16 iMessage was better than this iteration with the exception of the newly added voice message transcription. This iOS 17 iMessage user experience is just too many taps to get where u need and so clunky.
OK thank you !!!🙏
Would be nice if hitting that + button gave you a little feedback vibration when opening the gallery.
It does on my phone. Do you have haptics turned off?