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iOS 15 Lets You Drag and Drop Images and Text Across Apps

Theyayarealivin said:
Such a nice and helpful feature.

Thank you again Apple.

We don’t owe Apple just money 💰 we owe them our loyalty to the brand.
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my first Apple was the 1984 Mac 128k, I still have it and the inside was signed by Steve Jobs and the Pirate Mac team. I have had all Apple ever since.

You could NOT be more wrong. Apple is a business not a charity. THEY EARN our business and our loyalty by supplying us with the best products for our hard earned money, WE OWE THEM NOTHING. At such a time as Apple stops providing me with the best solutions to my life I'll move on, thankfully for them despite some missteps over the years that hasn't happened yet for myself or many.
 
canyonblue737 said:
my first Apple was the 1984 Mac 128k, I still have it and the inside was signed by Steve Jobs and the Pirate Mac team. I have had all Apple ever since.

You could NOT be more wrong. Apple is a business not a charity. THEY EARN our business and our loyalty by supplying us with the best products for our hard earned money, WE OWE THEM NOTHING. At such a time as Apple stops providing me with the best solutions to my life I'll move on, thankfully for them despite some missteps over the years that hasn't happened yet for myself or many.
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Careful, these words are heresy on this site. Now say 5 hail apples and watch 3 WWDCs
 
contacos said:
Anyone else feel like iOS has become super unintuitive with its weird and almost random gestures and stuff by pressing on invisible areas on the screen with different amount of fingers on top or am I just getting old? It can’t be that cuz half the people I know didn’t even know multitasking was a thing on their iPads 😅

edit: Cross-app drag and drop has been available on the iPad since 2017

i didn’t know this was a thing either!
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Yes, look up how you delete all your photos at once. There's no "delete all" button. To select them all without tapping each one individually, you have to do some weird, multi-touch gesture that required instructions and several tries to execute properly. Like learning to wavedash in Melee.

"Swipe up" is also used for too many things. Say you're in Maps. Swipe up is both the map options and Control Center. They're slightly different, but I can't reliably do the right one, just retry till it works. It gets worse on an iPhone X since swipe up is ALSO the app switcher, but I think that one is more different.

Oh well, it's pretty rare. Android is a whole lot worse.
 
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RowellE said:
Wouldn’t copy and paste be easier and faster?
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We've been able to drag and drop text in Mac Mail forever but it's such a mess that copy and paste within the body of the same email message is still easier. On a Mac. With a mouse.
 
contacos said:
Anyone else feel like iOS has become super unintuitive with its weird and almost random gestures and stuff by pressing on invisible areas on the screen with different amount of fingers on top or am I just getting old? It can’t be that cuz half the people I know didn’t even know multitasking was a thing on their iPads 😅

edit: Cross-app drag and drop has been available on the iPad since 2017

i didn’t know this was a thing either!
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There’s only so many fingers available and Apple tends to release hundreds of features and changes every year but they really only focus and advertise 8-10 of the more high profile ones.
 
hot-gril said:
Yes, look up how you delete all your photos at once. There's no "delete all" button. To select them all without tapping each one individually, you have to do some weird, multi-touch gesture that required instructions and several tries to execute properly. Like learning to wavedash in Melee.

"Swipe up" is also used for too many things. Say you're in Maps. Swipe up is both the map options and Control Center. They're slightly different, but I can't reliably do the right one, just retry till it works. It gets worse on an iPhone X since swipe up is ALSO the app switcher, but I think that one is more different.

Oh well, it's pretty rare. Android is a whole lot worse.
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This probably stems from the thousands if not millions of support tickets each year from users who accidentally deleted all their photos or their child playing with their phone did it weeks earlier and they are gone now.
 
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RowellE said:
Wouldn’t copy and paste be easier and faster?
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Welcome to the 21st Century. Dragging content has been supported between apps on macOS for decades. iOS and iPadOS are just catching up.

The problem with Copy-Paste is that it doesn't work in every context. Some "destinations" where you might want to paste something don't have a way to "focus" the paste, but when you drop content, you can precisely specify exactly where you want the content to be inserted.

Believe it or not, Copy-Paste is many more steps than this drag-drop approach, hence it is slower and clunkier.
 
JosephAW said:
It would be nice after you paste text the clipboard would clear.
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There are times when I'd find this useful, too.

I do think that iOS's clipboard does clear itself over time. I've noticed that content that I've copied is no longer available the next day if I try to paste it, for example.
 
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contacos said:
Anyone else feel like iOS has become super unintuitive with its weird and almost random gestures and stuff by pressing on invisible areas on the screen with different amount of fingers on top or am I just getting old? It can’t be that cuz half the people I know didn’t even know multitasking was a thing on their iPads 😅

edit: Cross-app drag and drop has been available on the iPad since 2017

i didn’t know this was a thing either!
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Exactly what I thought even before this iOS update. It seems there is less and less really helpful things to add to OS and they keep pushing and pushing random stuff just for the sake of it. Clock and Reminders apps are such a mess they are barely usable.
 
contacos said:
Anyone else feel like iOS has become super unintuitive with its weird and almost random gestures and stuff by pressing on invisible areas on the screen with different amount of fingers on top or am I just getting old? It can’t be that cuz half the people I know didn’t even know multitasking was a thing on their iPads 😅

edit: Cross-app drag and drop has been available on the iPad since 2017

i didn’t know this was a thing either!
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I've felt this way for a long time. I'd take an iOS lite as I'm sure 90% of things I don't use (/know or care about)
 
Further converging desktop and mobile experiences without actually pushing that button.
 
contacos said:
Anyone else feel like iOS has become super unintuitive with its weird and almost random gestures and stuff by pressing on invisible areas on the screen with different amount of fingers on top or am I just getting old? It can’t be that cuz half the people I know didn’t even know multitasking was a thing on their iPads 😅

edit: Cross-app drag and drop has been available on the iPad since 2017

i didn’t know this was a thing either!
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I think it's more a case of these fringe features being non-intuitive. The core iOS usage continues to be straightforward tbh. Very few of my workflows have required "necessary" knowledge that I had to google. Though, good chance there are several such non-intuitive features that I don't ever use. Like, force touch has come and gone... and i never figured out if it was helpful or not. Same with widgets. I mean, I don't know if there are any apps that can pack enough in a widget that will be enough so I don't have to open the whole app. So what's the point of a widget if I anyways have to open a widget. Then there's shortcuts. I am all for automation... but haven't used it at all.

And iPad OS multi-tasking... most people don't know it because they don't need it. 90% of non-pro use cases do not require two windows to be side by side. It's the quick alt-tab thing that's really required in most cases.
 
contacos said:
Anyone else feel like iOS has become super unintuitive with its weird and almost random gestures and stuff by pressing on invisible areas on the screen with different amount of fingers on top or am I just getting old? It can’t be that cuz half the people I know didn’t even know multitasking was a thing on their iPads 😅

edit: Cross-app drag and drop has been available on the iPad since 2017

i didn’t know this was a thing either!
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When you think about it all the conventions we use now (ctrl-c , Ctrl-v etc) are not intuitive either. We just have had them for 40yrs!

Using computers is not really intuitive. It’s about learning behaviour and convention and building on it. That’s why people are scared of change. It’s not like the iPad can’t do most things that a MacBook could do it’s just that people don’t want to learn a new way because it’s frustrating to learn.

there also doesn’t seem like there is a reward for learning to do something you already know how to do. So people don’t want to try.
 
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himanshumodi said:
I mean, I don't know if there are any apps that can pack enough in a widget that will be enough so I don't have to open the whole app.
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Weather, battery, clock. Transit app that shows nearest stations/stops. Basically, apps that display information I just want to glance at.
 
threesixty360 said:
Using computers is not really intuitive. It’s about learning behaviour and convention and building on it. That’s why people are scared of change. It’s not like the iPad can’t do most things that a MacBook could do it’s just that people don’t want to learn a new way because it’s frustrating to learn.

there also doesn’t seem like there is a reward for learning to do something you already know how to do. So people don’t want to try.
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Yeah, Right? :) When my phone had a home button, it was intuitive to tap it to return to home. Now that it doesn’t, it’s intuitive that I swipe up from the bottom. I actually know someone that used accessibility to put a button on the screen simply because they were just against learning to swipe up from the bottom! And, since that was something they had to google, they learned how to go into accessibility and enable that setting RATHER than learn how to swipe up from the bottom :D
 
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