piefed.zeromedia.vipios ui
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@thermia@sk.girlthi.ng đ https://sk.girlthi.ng/notes/a2nkps7px6f10jlf - everyone says iOS is easy to use until this UI walks through the door:
/lh, thermia also uses an iphone
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1- âthe call waiting UI sucksâ
2- âyou have call waiting?â
3- âyou guys get calls during other calls?â
4- âyou guys get calls?â
You guys answer calls?
You guys have someone to call you?
The extended warranty folks have you covered
Recently I answered exactly 3 calls, all local, when expecting important messages from doctors, and all 3 of them were telemarketers from India. The doctors texted me. I am regret.
If itâs important theyâll leave a message
If itâs a scammer they often leave a message too :)
Then I can also ignore that
The only thing I dislike about this is that the end call button is in the same spot as the decline call button. So if you mean to decline the new call, but you accidentally double tab and now youâve hung up on your 40 minute hold.
What in the actual heavenly fuck is going on here
I guess youâre in a call and get an other call. Your options are:
End call one, accept the new call
Decline the new call
Put call one on hold and accept the new call
This is correct. And the larger option is what will happen if you do nothing
This UI seems⊠fine? Those are the three reasonable options, and the UI reasonably presents them. Am I missing the joke?
Its an Australian phone.
âRing ring, wanna talk to Bill?â
âNah, yeah.â
Yeah, nah
Someone cropped a picture to make it seem like itâs less informative than it is.
A call came in when youâre already on a call and the phone gave you 3 straightforward options.
Can people not read?
Understanding what a button does does not equal good ui design though
Exactly, the icons should be self explanatory or at least follow a consistent logic that is supplemented by the labels.
The first and third icon both show the action for the current call on the left and the incoming call on the right, but the decline button throws that out the window. It should be the opposite of the 1st button, with green on the left and red on the right, to indicate that youâre staying on the current call and rejecting the incoming one.
I see your reasoning here, but if I get a call I donât want - whether or not Iâm in another call already - Iâm gonna find and click the big red âfuck offâ button ASAP. IMO this is the most time-sensitive (and kinda default) operation, so it should have the larger and visibly different button
You could make it big and still in the middle, but keep the pattern the same like the person suggests
It should be a play button in the back left (opposite of the pause), and the bigger hang up button as shown.
As it is, the dismiss button looks exactly the same as the end call button does in an uninterrupted call, and without reading the labels, thereâs a very real confusion that it will end the current call, just like that button normally would.
That pattern would be wrong though, as the green phone icon means answer the call.
The left button has 2 icons as it performs 2 actions:
The right button has 2 icons as it performs 2 actions:
The middle button therefore only needs 1 icon:
The middle button is currently ambiguous, as it is the same signal for hanging up (horizontal phone). When i have seen that (rarely have i ever), i have not wanted to hang up on the existing call, so i havenât pressed it.
That makes no sense. The middle button is fine as it is because itâs just to decline the incoming call and leave everything else as is. The other 2 buttons perform 2 actions, hence 2 icons on each.
The decline button is visually inconsistent with the design of the other two buttons, which show how both the current and incoming call are each affected.
The decline button is also in the same position as the end call button normally would be and uses the same icon, which invites further confusion especially for the less technically competent.
Differentiating the design of the decline button to be visually distinct from the end call button and align with the design language of the other two buttons would improve the user experience in this situation.
The decline button only performs one action, which is why it only has one icon.
It is visually consistent with the incoming call screen that every iPhone user knows. When you are on a call and another call comes in, you get the incoming call screen - not the existing call screen, which has completely different buttons like the number pad and speaker phone etc.
I think thatâs where the confusion is coming from for most people - they donât use iPhones and they donât know what the âincoming callâ screen and the âcurrently in a callâ screens look like.
When you do, you see why this isnât an issue.
Ok but this mindset leads to terrible UIs where you have to look up what each picture means.
Whatâs wrong with this design?
For one it needs text to explain it, which makes the text superior to the icon. That could be ok, an icon can be as a support, but the text is so small you can barely read it. That could be ok, if you could start reading it before it becomes relevant or if you can take your time to read it. In this case the icon acts superior, but can be very confusing. For example there are two âend callâ buttons, but one ends the current call while the other ends the incoming call, you need the visually inferior element to understand the difference. Second is the meaning the big red button, which changes function once you got an incoming call (it no longer means end current call, but now means reject incoming call). You need to guess by the context what the current function is.
What does decline do? Decline current or incoming call?
How could you decline a call that you already answered?
Incoming
Incoming.
âEnd and acceptâ will end the current call and accept the new one.
How to decline current and then ignore incoming?
Iâm not sure if this is an âEnglish as a second languageâ thing, but you canât decline a call that youâve already answered. You would end/finish/hang up.
Decline means to say âno I donât want to answerâ.
Yeah that might be the only option not available here - to end the current call without accepting or declining the new one.
Those are pretty self explanatory even without the text literally saying what they do.
Yeah whatâs confusing about this? Do yâall need your phone to flash âYOU ARE CURRENTLY IN A CALLâ in big, friendly letters too?
Can the big friendly letters also flash âDONâT PANICâ on incoming calls?
I dunno
As a lifetime android user, for me it is much easier to understand how to use the crappiest of the chinese vision on how the mobile ui should look like, then understand âwhy i cant swipe screen edge to go backâ?
TIL that you can do that.
That is an iPhone feature though. If for example youâre in a text chat you can swipe back to the full list of text chats. Same with navigating in their browser. Itâs been like that for quite a while. I think almost since they dropped skeuomorphism, but that may be incorrect.
iOS isnât that usable and I am legitimately qualified to comment on interfaces.
I was recently trying to set some stuff up on my kids iPad. It infuriated me to no end trying to use it, until I started to act like a boomer using a new device, then it a started to work itself out. You canât just quickly go through things to get it done, you have to slow down and watch all pretty animations and move your fingers like you have arthritis and your brain works at that same speed.
Things get better when youâre in settings, but God damn itâs still like a Fisher Price toy for adults.
I found it very easy to use and Iâm a first gen android adopter, did custom roms on all my phones, the works.
I tried my partnerâs new iPhone 4 and fell in love. Iâm used to gestures for everything since switching to Opera in the early 00s when they implemented mouse gestures, so memorizing gestures for everything was easy.
I donât feel itâs over-animated at all. It feels very natural for me to navigate and I love it. I donât have to fuck around with bootloaders or custom roms and they last like five years. Our iPad Pro is like seven years old and beats the shit out of a shitty laggy Wacom tablet for art.
I wish the file explorer was better, that would be a boon for me and navigating my servers, but most of the stuff I do on the iPad or iPhone is simple enough, and airdrop is even easier than saving something to my servers to transfer to another machine (I donât use cloud services.)
Does it take you more than a few seconds to figure out?
These are all options I might want to have if someone calls while Iâm already on a call. What would you suggest instead?
They get a busy tone and I get notified once Iâm finished.
I think itâs confusing because A) you donât see this screen very often unless you are on the phone a lot with incoming calls and B) two options have the hangup option but they refer to hanging up different calls.
I think this could be improved by changing the text on left option to âHangup & Accept Incoming.â Change the middle to âDecline Incomingâ and so on.
Itâs implied of course but multiple buttons having the same hangup symbol with different meanings is part of the reason people struggle with this. That and you encounter it unexpectedly while already focused on a phone conversation so your attention is divided.
The phone functionality of the iPhone is not great.
If your phone rings, and you want to reject the call, the only option is to slide to answer the call. There is only that one control on the whole big screen, they didnât find place for a second, red button or slider to reject the call. At least in the screenshot, apparently when youâre in another call, at least thereâs a decline option.
in the lockscreen call ui (the one thatâs full screen), you can also press the power button to decline
not the most intuitive thing ever but you donât have to pick up the call just to decline afterwards
And if you donât want the other party to know youâre ignoring the call but also want the vibrating to stop, use the volume buttons.
IIRC pressing the power button once silences the call (but doesnât reject it) and pressing it again rejects the call.
Also if the phone is already unlocked, thereâs a button to decline. I donât know why it doesnât appear when the phone is locked.
Theoretically thatâs only if itâs coming in while The phone is locked so you donât accidentally answer or ignore it while trying to fish your phone out of your bag or pocket. If you have a call come in while using it there is a separate button. As the other commenter said, you can technically still press the side button to ignore a call, but I get that it doesnât address your issue.