What funky little things have found?
I have OCD and am on the spectrum, this whole update make my hands feel unwell. I have no other way to put that. Usually after a few days I can cope with the changes but this situation has made my phone very stressful to use.
-The end of what I am typing in a text is blue and it is upsetting me. Is there any way to turn it off? Having the last letter I typed highlighted with a blue aura serves no purpose but to make my chest hurt.
-The way you would highlight and move the cursor around in texts is fucked and I cannot figure out what rules it play by now. I do the same thing I did before but sometimes I get a double bubble, nothing, or it goes to the end of my text. Help. I need to drop and drag to highlight again.
-When I type a long text and I go to proof read and I try to click something in the top lines, it expands my text box and hides my keyboard. You used to be able to scroll up and down within the box of text so you could type/with your keyboard up. Is that impossible now or is there another way to do it?
This likely seems whiney, I am sorry, I wish this stuff didn’t cause me the level of physical discomfort it does. Any help or basic clearly written articles linked would be endlessly appreciated. I have to use my phone to communicate (we all do, that’s a dumb statement) but I struggle with talking on the phone. I really am having a bad time and wish this update never happened. I could have sworn I had the auto update off.
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?
I didn’t know this. I just tried and it works. Thanks a lot.
That has saved me almost an hour a year of my life!
iOS has so many of these small things I have no idea about.
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.
When editing portrait photos, you don’t have to reach up to the top left to switch between depth and Portrait Lighting – you can just tap the F icon along the bottom tray to switch!
I liked that one too.
Thank you 🥹 I wish they would have left it how it was, but this is a nice compromise 🥹
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.
The Tips app is actually really nice at communicating what changes in each iOS update!
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.
Whao!!! Hold up… Spacebar to move cursor… can’t believe I went through life without knowing this.
Carplay doesn’t work right since the update. It will work some days and on others it won’t recognize it was plugged in.
I had a lot of problems with Carplay in my car. Got a loaner, totally different car, also a lot of connection problems. It was worse then my own car. Turned out that it was the cable I was using, which was not from Apple itself (but was MFi). Now with an official Apple Lightning cable 0 connection problems. Works every time, don’t have to fight anymore.
Sooooooooo… is it your cable?
It’s the cable that came from my phone when I bought it so doubt it’s the cable
Yeah I also doubt that when that is the case
r/LifeProTips
Just figured out the other day that if you hold down the Numbers button of the keyboard, it will switch back once you stop holding it down. Pretty convenient if you need to quickly switch to number input and switch back.
Oh shit! I never knew that! Thanks!
In the messages app, tapping the Clock in the top left scrolls you back to earliest downloaded msg.
I somehow switched the dictation button out of my text box back to voice recording. don’t know how I did that, but was happy to get it back since having two buttons for dictation was stupid.
I knew about the gallery trick though, just wish it didn’t take forever on my 12.