They say that travel brings new perspectives, and that's absolutely true for
anyone visiting Argentina. But in my case, it's also so far generated two
feature requests for Apple.
Yesterday, I asked for
universal OCR capability
across all apps for instant translation .
But spending a month in another country has also underlined the absolute
user-interface disaster that is the process of rearranging your apps on an
iPhone.
This is nothing new, of course: it's been a truly horrible process forever.
In an effort to minimize the need for it, my approach to date has been to
have
context-based home screens.
My main home screen is for the apps I use most frequently when I'm at home.
The next screen has those apps I use most frequently when out and about in
London. Another screen is apps I use while actually traveling - airline
apps, FlightRadar24,
Hotels.com,
and so on.
But there are a number of apps I'm using so frequently here that it makes
sense to have them on my main home screen. This includes Azimo (the cheapest
way to get cash here), Translate, and Maps. I now have everything set up the
way I want it, but boy was it a pain!
It's easy to accidentally drag an app past the screen you want. Or into the
wrong position. Or accidentally create a folder.
If your home screen is full, then adding a new app will knock an existing
one - which you may still want on the main screen - onto the next one. So
the
workaround I use is to first drag out the ones I don't want to keep, before
adding the ones I do.
In theory, you can move multiple apps at once, but I find this super-fiddly,
so it really doesn't make the process much easier.
The whole process is so bad I often put off any significant reorganizing I
want to do, and most of the time it's simply not worth the hassle to rejig
things
on a temporary basis. What I'd like to see Apple do is go back to the
drawing board on this one, and create a process that is a UI dream rather
than the
current nightmare.
By Ben Lovejoy
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