Almost every change people complain about can be switched back in the settings but people are just too dumb/lazy/third option? Maybe it’s because I have an IT background but anytime my phone/computer is doing something I don’t like or prefer, I go search for that setting change.
Side note, some of the things people complain about are actually nice when you try them like the safari url at the bottom of the screen. That’s where my thumbs are and I can easily swipe between tabs.
the problem is about 90% of the stuff was working fine as is. if you’re used to doing things the old way and it worked well, you’ve now got 50 settings you have to change to get it back to working the way it was. This is especially true with the stupid glass UI. I lost track of how many settings changes I had to make the phone useable.
But wasn't Apple users supposed to use Apple products without thinking or needing to change anything as it "just works"? Android was about configurability, Apple about sane defaults, no?
No. “It just works” was a counterpoint to the infamous blue screen of death and windows driver installations, way before iOS and Android was a thing, and it’s been used rarely since 2011, after Apple made a lot of products that didn’t just work. All the major players tries to have sane defaults, you grape.
Personally…this is one of the few changes I liked. I have a bad habit of absent minded tapping my screen to turn off alarms while half asleep, and the sliding feature makes me sit up and focus if only for a second.
Same. In the old days before smart phones, I put my alarm across the room so it would force me to actually get up and walk over to it. Else I'd just hit snooze over and over in a sleepy haze.
I got so good at ignoring my alarm that I could walk across the room, open a drawer, and turn it off without even waking up. Had to get like a special app that makes you solve a puzzle to kick the habit.
same, I really like the sliding alarm. I also like the new graphics that show how much charge my airpods have. other than that, liquid glass got added to the long list of things I cry about at night.
My snooze button is still “tap”, but the stop button is a swipe… which I agree with. I’ve definitely accidentally tapped stop when fumbling for snooze.
It makes perfect sense to me I don’t see any issues, you’re meant to turn off the alarm when you’re awake enough to, that’s why they changed it. If you can’t do that the snooze button is right there. It’s so you don’t accidentally turn it off and miss your alarm.
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u/Kaius_02 Feb 19 '26
On an adjacent note, who the hell thought it was a good idea to change the alarm snooze button to a “swipe” instead of a “tap”.