• Carnelian@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Thank you! The following negativity isn’t directed at you in any way, because this is very helpful (for now).

    But something that annoys me about apple is they like, move settings around constantly and change the names of settings. So if you’re having some issue, guides like this with specific detailed instructions end up outdated and lead to dead ends, and not even the search function helps. Almost every issue I have I end up having to look up a second guide on how to find the modern location for whatever toggle I need lol

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      1 day ago

      My favorite is when you know what setting you want an you try searching it and the app acts like you don’t know wtf you’re talking about

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      24 hours ago

      Android does this too. And every iteration of reorganizing is still bad. In android 4, it was hard to find anything, and it still is. The search function does help but it’s not nearly as smart as it should be.

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      18 hours ago

      Not to dismiss this because it’s real but at least for this specific instance search for the title of that view, “Apple advertising” goes right to the setting.

      My main complaint with settings are the things found only in setting but searching settings does not surface them.

      This happens a lot with family and iCloud+. Passwords was broken out of settings recently and it’s well past time for iCloud and family settings to come out too. Especially family settings which aren’t really device settings so why do they cram them in with my device’s settings when I can’t even consistently access them with setting’s search.

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        18 hours ago

        Not sure what you mean? Search works today to find the setting that was screenshotted today, of this there can be no doubt, but I’m talking about two years from now when they rename it to “Unified Marketing” and relocate the setting to “Continuity”

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      23 hours ago

      You should see it on Android where not only does every version move everything around, but every manufacturer seems to re-implement the entire settings screen as well.