Comment by DidYaWipe

1 year ago

Exactly. I was thinking through how I would want this expressed in the UI, and

Time zone: Local

was exactly what I came up with.

The absurd thing about Apple's approach is, as you point out, that it serves the tiny minority of use cases. Who the hell looks up the time zone of everything they're going to do when they're traveling around? I just want it to use the time shown on the phone!

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hedora  1 year ago

Edit event -> tap the time -> time zone -> type the city name.

(No need to look up the timezone.)

I agree that calendar’s UI is a bit of a tire fire. One of Apple’s core UI design tenants is that you should be continuously surprised and delighted when you use iPhone, and then share your discoveries with friends to build up an Apple user community.

I don’t want the phone to surprise and delight me, or hide major features like a 1990’s microsoft excel easter egg.

For instance, why in the hell are “magnifier” and “scan + ocr document to pdf” not in the camera app?

  • DidYaWipe  1 year ago

    "One of Apple’s core UI design tenants is that you should be continuously surprised and delighted when you use iPhone, and then share your discoveries with friends to build up an Apple user community."

    Ha ha ha, I do remember this catchphrase and it so perfectly sums up what's wrong with a lot of Apple (and, to be fair, other) UI today. I want to get shit done, not play with an Advent calendar.

    Friendly FYI: The word you're looking for is TENETS. Tenants would be renting space, and I haven't received any checks yet.

    Actually, not true... those AAPL dividends might count.

  • robertlagrant  1 year ago

    > why in the hell are “magnifier” and “scan + ocr document to pdf” not in the camera app?

    Because a lot of people intuitively think a camera is different to a magnifying glass or a scanner.

    • amluto  1 year ago

      And the result is that there is no non-tedious way, intuitive or not, to scan a document to either Photos or to Files, which is how one would generally want to save a photo-like thing.

kristjansson  1 year ago

TBH who enters their events manually? Most important events (flights, meetings, …) get on my calendar via invite (or ics download for eg flight) and have all pertinent timezone info set correctly

  • lotsoweiners  1 year ago

    Id say 75% of the events in my personal calendar are doctors appointments for the family which were manually entered based on the reminder card that the receptionist handed me.