I know that with the rebuild of iOS Photos (last year?) there was some criticism about the user experience but I haven't really been paying much attention lately. Nor have I been as invested in using my phone as I used to (everything just seems worse and frustrating).
What prompted me to ask the forum is the face recognition in Photos. This used to be the single best feature of Photos for me. It would easily, without prompting, recognize faces and match it to people I've already defined.
I was just at a party yesterday and took about a dozen pictures. Of the dozens of faces in these pictures, it acknowledged two. Not that it matched two faces to existing people in Photos - of dozens of human faces clearly visible in about a dozen pictures - it acknowledged two faces. The lighting is clear. Most of the people in the pictures are already in Photos. So, I know there isn't a setting that's disabled because it did acknowledge two faces and matched those two people.
Also, it's just a pain in the balls to navigate around this app. I can not tolerate apps that are constantly bouncing UI elements in and out of focus and thinking for you. This often means I'm tapping things that weren't there a second ago.
I open the Photos app and on the bottom I see [Library] [Collections] _ [Search]. Above that is my photos organized by month. There is no obvious way to simply see all of my pictures organized by most recent. This is just horrible user experience design. I mean, I get that I can click around and figure out how to do the one thing that I want to use this application for but I shouldn't have to. It should be the first and primary interface. This was not a problem before the redesign.
It's also just bonkers how little is displayed on the screen at once. I have an iPhone Air - it's not a small screen. Why is it that I only see four tiles on the Collections view?
Anyway... this used to be one the best apps on iPhone and now I just don't want to use it because it seems its primary objective is to get in the way of what I want to do. Nowhere in this interface is it obviously presenting me the pictures I just took. Nor is it recognizing the people I just took pictures of.
What prompted me to ask the forum is the face recognition in Photos. This used to be the single best feature of Photos for me. It would easily, without prompting, recognize faces and match it to people I've already defined.
I was just at a party yesterday and took about a dozen pictures. Of the dozens of faces in these pictures, it acknowledged two. Not that it matched two faces to existing people in Photos - of dozens of human faces clearly visible in about a dozen pictures - it acknowledged two faces. The lighting is clear. Most of the people in the pictures are already in Photos. So, I know there isn't a setting that's disabled because it did acknowledge two faces and matched those two people.
Also, it's just a pain in the balls to navigate around this app. I can not tolerate apps that are constantly bouncing UI elements in and out of focus and thinking for you. This often means I'm tapping things that weren't there a second ago.
I open the Photos app and on the bottom I see [Library] [Collections] _ [Search]. Above that is my photos organized by month. There is no obvious way to simply see all of my pictures organized by most recent. This is just horrible user experience design. I mean, I get that I can click around and figure out how to do the one thing that I want to use this application for but I shouldn't have to. It should be the first and primary interface. This was not a problem before the redesign.
It's also just bonkers how little is displayed on the screen at once. I have an iPhone Air - it's not a small screen. Why is it that I only see four tiles on the Collections view?
Anyway... this used to be one the best apps on iPhone and now I just don't want to use it because it seems its primary objective is to get in the way of what I want to do. Nowhere in this interface is it obviously presenting me the pictures I just took. Nor is it recognizing the people I just took pictures of.