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I hate gestures (self.apple_enthusiast)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by benfell to c/apple_enthusiast

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Why on God's green earth can I not have an #iPhone interface that works?

To say that Apple's "gestures" suck is entirely too kind. They are a fundamentally broken idea anyway, but that gestures have regions and therefore that a gesture may mean any of three different things, makes my phone desperate--and I do mean desperate--to do anything other than what I'm telling it to do.

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[–] benfell 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The pinch to zoom and scrolling features generally work fine. I did explore the accessibility features and found nothing that addresses my need for easy predictability.

The reason I like the buttons is because I know what they do. And they do it every time.

The reason I hate the gestures is that I'll think I'm doing one thing and get something completely different, often when I needed it to do the right thing five seconds ago.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

What specific gestures are you talking about?