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Most Annoying iPhone 4 Annoyances
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The inability to see a photo's metadata--at the very least, the date the pic was taken.
Also the white-balance problem (photos WAY too yellow) under certain (dim) lighting conditions.....
Also the white-balance problem (photos WAY too yellow) under certain (dim) lighting conditions.....
Yes thank you! I can't stand multitasking. I admit I like the ability to stream music and have save state games but having to use the task bar is a major pain. I miss os3 when the close button quit the app
if you don't like the task bar, don't use it, it baffles me why people that don't like it just don't use it, you don't need to go in and manually close everything all the time, just if there's a problem with the app. if anything, its much better for closing apps that hang, rather than holding home for however long, or whatever way you do it on the 3GS before 4.0, you just close it in the task bar
The point is, sometimes I WANT to start at the beginning of the app. I don't want to come back to where I was last. Like FaceBook... I like to open it and see the widgets, not to a photo I was last looking at.
No...I don't want the apps running. I want them to quit on exit. Example: I was listening to NPR today and I needed to turn it off quickly...but no I hit exit and the audio keeps playing. Yes it's a feature, but its frustrating. If they had some kind of feature like double click to kill it I'd be cool with that
well i pretty much leave an app wherever i want to start it, call it OCD or just common sense, but works fine for me.... plus if you really want to want to do that with the odd app, then close it manually. doesn't take that long, my point was more at the people who moan they have to close every app that has been running like every hour as they obviously don't understand that the iPhone can handle the memory fine.
well when i'm listening to something, i stop it before leaving the app, just some common sense. if it's playing in the background then i just double click my headphones. it's not rocket science and it's not like it takes forever or that it's complicated! some people are just not going to be happy unless the device can read the users mind i swear! either that or they're just lazy.
This.
Any guy who thinks the size of his smartphone somehow provides a measure of his manhood, clearly doesn't measure up in other areas and is desperately overcompensating.
Lots of annoyances, though it might be just that I haven't figured out how to solve them yet. Also, this is my first iPhone, so I don't know if these problems were in previous iterations or not --
* The fact that the phone will wake itself up from sleep to inform me of a call. My old phone used to let me set times for it to automatically turn off and then back on. Very handy, and when the phone was off, it was OFF. Now I'm being woken up from my very important real-life sleep so that my phone, which should itself be sleeping, can tell me that someone's calling me. If I wanted to receive calls, my phone wouldn't be sleeping!
Turn the phone off
* The inseparability of date formats and telephone number formats. When you tell the phone what country you're in (so that it can format phone numbers correctly), it also makes you format dates in that language. It looks pretty silly in my case, where the menus are in English but the dates, including names of months and weekdays, are in Japanese. I could switch that to UK or US, but then my phone numbers would be formatted wrong. I can't decide which is uglier.
Agree
* Relative dates (like "Thursday and (worse still) "yesterday") in my e-mail history. How do I get rid of them?
You cannot
* The fact that the phone locks itself whenever it goes to sleep. When I wake it up, I want to use the phone right away, not awkwardly push my finger across that silly slider again and again
Seriously? It takes one second to do
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cramped song list format
I'm downloading songs from my iCloud list and have found it's nearly impossible NOT to hit either the alphabetical list on the right or the song title itself. You'd need infant fingers to hit that tiny cloud icon.
I'm downloading songs from my iCloud list and have found it's nearly impossible NOT to hit either the alphabetical list on the right or the song title itself. You'd need infant fingers to hit that tiny cloud icon.