Thank you for your response. Those are all things I like about Apple Music. I have a One subscription and love that it’s not just showing me my music. I can understand how that’s a problem if you just want a stand-alone player.
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Apple Now Lets Customers Rate and Review Pre-Installed Apps on the App Store
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The podcast app has been a worsening clusterbang of decisions since evil overlord Forstall got the boot and took his goofy Revox reel-to-reel ui with him. It's probably the iOS app I use the most and it is a continual source of rage every time I pick up the device. It's like Apple hired the Skype ui designers to sabotage their own UX and give their competing developers a leg up. If I even start on a review, it's going to reach limit before I've even finished a basic outline.
Hopefully opening up reviews will help Apple realize how hated some of their apps are and find motivation to try some new approaches. It's too easy to simply assume "if people didn't like [this or that individual thing] they wouldn't buy into our ecosystem" and end up dangerously insulated from constructive criticism.
I found it odd when the Fitness app that didn't ship with iPad could be downloaded for inclusion of Fitness+, but no ability to rate that app. Surely having the reviews and star ratings available are a good consideration, though wonder when the star ratings will transition to Like/Dislike as suggested in Music.
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Well that makes sense, considering Apple is technically an Irish company now lol. I mean really you guys should have full & unfettered access to Apples bleeding edge tech ahead of the rest of the world.
Hah, Safari is late to the party as usual. Podcasts' brave pioneering spirit paved the way for that fugly mess years ahead.
I had no idea what the 15 second bug is but just looked it up. I’ve not had that happen. That’s frustrating for those who have it.
I literally can’t play some albums in high quality. The bug sucks but it’s outrageous that Apple don’t give a **** about it for months. I mean, I pay for the service but it doesn’t work. That’s great. I already stopped paying for and using iCloud because of those gross spying practices that assumes everyone is a creep and if I update to ios 15 someday and the bug will be still there I will cancel Apple Music too. That’s the last remaining service from Apple I’m using and will be the last.
Seems to be.
Moreover CORE iOS Apps like iMessage which deserves a proper flogging still cannot be reviewed. The diaper app has improved but with iMessage and iCloud features cannot be reviewed.
My 2 BIGEEST gripes:
Still no full true sync of sms and iMessages on WatchOS it’s 1-way sync only which is stupid!! Oh you can download apps directly but you cannot clear or sync your messages bidirectionally.
next - calls and messages from other iOS device users CANNOT be blocked. Sure you can click the Block button but guess what they still can message you over iMessge and still call you which removes the block altogether.
Concerning the missing iPad Calculator app ... Apple said they only release apps they think are perfect... therefore I wonder where the 2 star rating for the Podcast app comes from 🤔🤔
This is my biggest issue. Syncing across devices used to work well. Not anymore.