Comment by socalgal2

Here’s an unpopular opinion. almost all ui customization should be buried in settings menus and not available as easy to do my mistake gestures.

The first time I want into this was when MS word would let you drag icons off the toolbar if you pressed slightly too long. suddenly your toolbar loses a feature because you accidentally dragged the icon off which was the gesture for removing the icon. Absolutely no one needed that shortcut gesture. People who wanted to customize, which is rare, could have dug into some customization setting. Instead, for every one person that wanted to edit their toolbar, 100 others got frustrated when their app stopped functioning

Unfortunately designed love these bad designs. Mac and iOS are full of them. I did some gesture just a few days ago that magically pulled the left shortcuts off the finder. Something I never wanted to do.

So many of my family member have lost the picture of their loved ones on their iPhone lock screen because of the stupid gesture to set it as it’s too easy to do by accident. Leaving as a settings option only would be much better.

Same with the charging clocks that appear and their stupid swipe to change. Several times a week, reaching for the phone when I wake up, the clock gets swapped even though I have a choice I want and then I have to go spend time putting it back. Worse, it’s not even intuitive because up/down change one thing and left/right change another. No user needs this shortcut. It probably exists so the clock designer can check all their designs. No fucks given what’s good for users. I’m sure they misinterpret their metrics as positive feedback