WORLD'S STUPIDEST PROBLEM:
my mum loaned me her iPhone bc my android isn't working right, and I can't exit the settings because iPhones apparently no longer have home buttons, and there's no obvious other way to do it
I did, in fact, try swiping up from the settings, and nothing happened. Presumably I'm Swiping Wrong. It works from other apps, but not from Settings.
I'm increasingly not a fan of this "get rid of every button and only use gestures" thing, because I'm finding that my movements are apparently "wrong". I remember my friend with essential tremor who did many things on her phone with voice commands. Buttons are easy to use. A click from a button is something that doesn't need super fine motor control. But I cannot tell you the number of times my current phone thinks I'm swiping up when I intend to swipe down. It happens multiple times a day. The number of times when swipe text (because tapping a screen repeatedly makes the joints on my hands hurt) returns nonsense, because it didn't like the way I'd moved my finger across the keys.
I'm increasingly of the opinion that touchscreens are not the amazing boon they're supposed to be. I suspect they're something that is increasingly going to lock out disabled people, many of whom could manage switches or dials or buttons just fine. This is just one particularly obnoxious example of it.
I was also using an iPad when they added some other new swipe option where I had to remember to swipe up on my iPhone for something, and down on my iPad for the exact same thing. Or vice versa; I don't remember anymore. I've noticed that Apple has this tendency in their design these days where you have to memorise a bunch of secret handshakes to do anything, and if you stop using their devices and come back to them later, it's going to be completely unintuitive what you're supposed to do. I'm not a fan.
... I just had to look up how to turn off the phone.
I HAD TO LOOK UP HOW TO TURN OFF THE PHONE.
Can you imagine the kind of user experience FAILURE that is??? Pressing the same button I used to turn it on DIDN'T WORK.
WHY IS APPLE LIKE THIS. How is this supposed to be an improvement over before, when a phone behaved as you would expect, based on the previous twenty-plus years of experience with similar devices?
Blackberry were done dirty by a world who wanted the present to look like the prettiest future sci-fi had to offer.
A few weeks ago I accidentally trapped myself in a Corvette at the car dealership.
I was waiting around for non-Corvette-related reasons and decided to sit in the cool new supercar that they had unlocked on the display floor, got in, shut the door, enjoyed myself for a few minutes, went to get out and couldn't find a fucking door handle.
Cue about a minute and a half of me frantically trying to figure out how to open the door and weighing if it was worth the embarrassment of googling the dealership number and calling to ask them to come let me out, all while experiencing claustrophobia worse than in any cave I've ever been in.
Eventually I googled "how to open corvette door" because that seemed like the more discreet option, and, following instructions, discovered a tiny-ass button that, when pressed, opens the door. It was way too tiny and too easy to press for it to have a mechanical effect on the door, meaning it was probably electronic in nature.
A few days ago I got into my own car, shut the door, and found out the car wouldn't start because the battery was dead.
The trunk didn't have a keyhole and required a button to be pressed, which did not work because, again, the battery was dead; I had to fold down the rear seat to access the trunk and worm in and reach through to pull the emergency trunk release (again, less claustrophobic than Suddenly Trapped In Corvette).
Apparently it is now the fashion for any electrical problem in one's car to come with the Free Second Problem of being trapped in the car (or out of it, as I've seen cars with outside handles being clearly electronically assisted).
I do not fucking approve.
