_My Top 5 iOS Annoyances

  1. Add To Home Screen – When I browse to a web site using mobile safari I might choose to add it to my home screen since it can be a nice way to launch the web browser.  When I do that task, Apple (for some reason) decides to leave the Safari window and show me where the icon is being placed.  How nice…and annoying.  Now I have to go back to my Safari Icon and open it back up, which will now RELOAD the web page (in some cases)…argh!
  2. Push Notifications – Not sure if this is an iOS thing or just certain apps.  Let’s take ESPN Scorecenter for example, a score happens, I get a push notification alert sound.  I go to my phone and see the notification.  I then do anything and “poof” it goes away.  Why not open the app?  Why not give me an option to close or open the app?
  3. Auto Correct – Wow.  I really hate this one.  Why not an Auto Suggest?  I might want the incorrect word?  Why should I perform another action to NOT correct the word.  I should type away, it should ‘suggest’ a new word, if I want to use the word then I can initiate it otherwise ignore it.  Right now, if it suggests a word it uses it unless I tell it not to…which is slower…argh.
  4. Installation of Apps – similar to Add to Home Screen.  When I install an app, it leaves the app store to show me the icon and the installation process.  Wow…how exciting.  Why?  Makes no sense.
  5. Multitasking – It really is a joke.  Your telling me there is no way to quit an app unless I go to the multitasking screen?  Obviously you do not have kids.  They open up 20-30 apps and quit them all the time but they are still running?  Why not prompt for a ‘quit’ when you ‘quit’ an app?  C’mon.
Dec
23
2010