Users Underwhelmed by iOS 15 and iPadOS 15, Survey Suggests

[chad5871]

I just want to know if iOS 15 will finally give me an option in Messages to "skip to first unread" or something similar. I'm so tired of having to scroll back up through a ton of messages in a group chat trying to figure out where I left off if I'm unable to check my phone for a couple hours. It's such a basic function and it boggles my mind that it hasn't been included in iOS in the past.

 

[pasamio]

when people like max tech are angry and returning it you know apple screwed up

Max Tech uses click bait and hyperbole to create multiple videos about the same topic with minor variations between them. He’s gotten plenty of basic stuff wrong the few times I’ve stepped in with the most amazing being “OMG I didn’t realise that WWDC is more than just the keynote and you won’t believe what else they talked about” to get even more clickbait content out. The dudes got plenty of energy but I wouldn’t say he is representing anything meaningful.

Just my opinion, but Apple has locked themselves into this update cycle and now they are stuck. A full X.0 release every year is not as sustainable as it once was. How much more can they do beyond tweaks at this point? And then there is the problem with creating change for the sake of change

Part of the point is to have an easy schedule to remove devices from the supported list for the new operating system. For that reason I don’t see them dropping that approach.

All I want for iOS 15 is a podcast app that works.

What annoys me is that the built in podcast app used to work properly and well with each year they seem to make it worse.

I don't know if it's an Apple no-no to have interactivity or not. Been an Android thing almost from the beginning...

The first gen of Apple’s widgets enabled interactivity and then they swapped to pregenerated everything which cut off their usefulness to information that can be handled that way.

 

[Osxguy]

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[falkon-engine]

Let iPadOS with M1 chips run full OS X when docked with an external monitor.

Or if not macOS something with far better multitasking and window management and that uses up the whole 16x9 aspect ratio of the monitor.

 

[genovelle]

“32.3 percent said that there should have been interactive widgets, 21 percent said that there should have been always-on display features, 14.9 percent said that there should have been Pro apps such as Xcode or Final Cut Pro for the ‌iPad‌, and 13.2 percent said that there should have been better external display support for the ‌iPad‌.”

This was the part that showed this survey group is not Representative of 95% of Apple users. Most user would careless about any of this, if they even know what it is.

 

[DeepIn2U]

since 2013 iOS 7 the overall look is the same we are bored, this update done nothing to change the way we use our phone for the better just gimmick things

iOS 14 looks a HELL of a lot better than iOS7. I’m curious if the uptake of iOS 7 was the Slowest thus far?

 

[DeepIn2U]

Bruh, tell the whole story

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/7pp01a

Deleted post on reddit from 3y ago to something current? Uh-huh.
Also if the pictures of said business or address is ONLY been uploaded via Yelp then that’s users and Yelp, not iOS Maps lol.

You kid says the dog ate homework - is that the dogs fault or the kid not finishing homework and keeping in the knapsack as not to forget in a rush to get ready and head to school. Ok kids may actually have a dog that eats homework - but if YOU don’t complete your work - is that your dogs fault or you?

 

[esdunbar]

“32.3 percent said that there should have been interactive widgets, 21 percent said that there should have been always-on display features, 14.9 percent said that there should have been Pro apps such as Xcode or Final Cut Pro for the ‌iPad‌, and 13.2 percent said that there should have been better external display support for the ‌iPad‌.”

This was the part that showed this survey group is not Representative of 95% of Apple users. Most user would careless about any of this, if they even know what it is.

Wait what? Interactive widgets and always on are two of the best parts of Android OS. People are very well aware of these. And who wouldn't want to use their iPad with an external monitor?

I think you're very wrong. These would be huuuge adds to iOS imo.

 

[lazyrighteye]

Neither update looked very exciting, and iPadOS was downright a disappointment for anyone hoping to really use an iPad as their main machine.

If everyone used their iPad as their main matching, how would Apple sell them their main machine?

Jokes aside, I've not installed iOS 15. Only from what I have read/watched does it seem fairly meh. But OSes can be one thing on paper, and another thing in daily use. As always, I'll withhold any tangible perspective until I have had a chance to live with it for a bit. But at this point, there's not a lot that has me overly excited at the moment. We'll see.

 

[Bluetoot-]

Siri is pathetic. What an absolute shame. Google Assistant kills it. Siri should have gained at least 25 IQ points this time around.

 

[Shirasaki]

Who would've thought... Apple needs to stop covering their eyes and take a look at the criticism here.

They will continue to cover their eyes and pretend they don’t see anything. That’s just very apple.

 

[Mcckoe]

People are pretty hard on Apple… I haven’t seen any major changes in android for years!!!

 

[silentdevotion]

I think these people forgot to watch the video below.

Too early to make any judgements. Apple introduced well over 500+ changes this year come on now. Just look at the new weather and map App!

The attention to detail Apple is hitting is crazy.

I already watched it but if I have to watch a 50 video and I can't find 10 features I will use every day something is Seriously wrong. IOS 14 brought a lot of features I use every day. 15 is very underwhelming to me.

 

[Heat_Fan89]

Siri is pathetic. What an absolute shame. Google Assistant kills it. Siri should have gained at least 25 IQ points this time around.

Its not that Siri is bad, its just that Google Assistant is a more “advanced product”. Apple dropped the ball and should have beefed up Siri. There wasn’t anything like Siri when it first started out and Google just developed their voice assistant to where it’s the standard.

 

[AxiomaticRubric]

I'll gladly accept greater stability over more features for this round. Let's hope that is the focus at Apple this year.

 

[BugeyeSTI]

Considering a lot of the "new" features are only available on phones with A12 and newer also makes this update less exciting IMO

 

[Darth Tulhu]

I get the disappointment (kinda) with iPadOS 15, but I don't get the complaints against the M1 iPad.

Regardless of whether or not the hardware (primarily RAM) changes are used by the OS (and they are, just not the way we really want it to), we get an objectively better iPad for the same price as last year.

I concede there is no need to upgrade from 2018-2020 version, but for those of us coming into iPad for the first time or those that held out since only-thick-bezelled-iPad times, this is a KILLER machine.

I almost wish Apple hadn't said it was M1 and/or advertised the RAM this time so we could focus on the OS improvements and not the machine itself.

This is an iPad, not a Mac. As an iPad, these changes are dope and in many ways overdue, as has ALWAYS been the case with the iPad. Slow-as-hell-trickled features.

I'm just glad they're here, and that my M1 iPad will handle WHATEVER future updates may come.

I waited ten years for THIS iPad hardware.

I just got a few more to go for the software features I want, but c'mon, what else is new in iPad-land?

 

[psxp]

If they only had the courage to make a better iPodOS with a filesystem.. something closer to MacOS..

 

[JKAussieSkater]

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but as few as 19.3 percent are "extremely" or "very" excited about them.​

17.3 percent are most excited about enhanced Spotlight search

When asked what features respondents thought should have been added in iOS 15 and iPadOS 15, 32.3 percent said that there should have been interactive widgets, 21 percent said that there should have been always-on display features, 14.9 percent said that there should have been Pro apps such as Xcode or Final Cut Pro for the iPad, and 13.2 percent said that there should have been better external display support for the iPad

Interestingly, most responses indicated that the devices should not be called the "iPhone 13." 38 percent said that Apple should call its next smartphone series simply "iPhone (2021)"

It seems to me that the participants of this survey were grossly misinformed or don’t have a particular interest in what the upcoming iOS actually provides.

Also, I suspect this was a multiple-choice survey, which strongly steers the participants into choosing answers that haven’t been thought about deeply. For example, “more interactive widgets”? Who is actually complaining about this? The 3rd party developers seem to have done a great job at implementing widgets. Another example, “Final Cut Pro”? Probably most people said that because they thought Apple should provide it for free with iOS 15, not that Apple should provide it for $300-400 (a more likely scenario).

With over 19% of participants being very or extremely excited, this simply means they’re not informed enough to realise how lacklustre the next update is — they just love updates for the sake of updates.

And what exactly is wrong with the external display implementation? HDMI cables are perfectly compatible, and AirPlay works fine.

And seriously, being excited about enhanced spotlight search? Do people really have trouble finding things on their phones or iPads? Is the current spotlight search unusable somehow?

I think the survey and/or the participant selection was flawed based on these statistics.

 

[robjulo]

That's neither here nor there to the statement: "apple maps requires me to have yelp", which is factually incorrect.

Lol. Just….wow.

 

[topmounter]

I'm just excited that I'll finally be able to rename folders and reorganize apps in App Library so I can find what I'm looking for without having to use search or duplicate App Library on a Home Screen page.

 

[sjsharksfan12]

I'm just excited that I'll finally be able to rename folders and reorganize apps in App Library so I can find what I'm looking for without having to use search or duplicate App Library on a Home Screen page.

That’s a feature in IOS 15? That might be their most exciting feature and they didn’t even mention it.

 

[amartinez1660]

(…) When asked what features respondents thought should have been added in iOS 15 and iPadOS 15, 32.3 percent said that there should have been interactive widgets, 21 percent said that there should have been always-on display features, 14.9 percent said that there should have been Pro apps such as Xcode or Final Cut Pro for the iPad (…)

Heck, according to that let’s also forget about XCode or FCP coming next year then… if Apple wants to please the users crowd, interactive widgets and always-on display features are first in line!

 

[0924487]

Well, in Chinese because of sound of their language and coincidence, 4 means "death", 1 means "forthcoming", 2 means "dumb", 5 means "I" or "me", 6 means "lucky", 7 and 9 mean "very long time", 8 means "getting super rich", 13 means "stupid".

Now, 13 means "stupid", and 14 means "a forthcoming death". They would take 13 over 14. Buildings in China don't have a 14th floor, they may skip it or use it as a storage, electrical or server room, but to them, 13 is fair game.

15 is okay, 16 is super good, but would be a wait.

 

[BC2009]

I think that iOS 15 will be one of the most useful updates in quite some time. It fully bakes so many features that have fallen short for some time. iPad OS 15 could have gone a bit farther but the whole deal of being able to control your iPad with an adjacent Mac was unexpected and incredibly impressive.

The whole photo stacking in messages and “shared with you” feature is going to be so useful to me every single day, multiple times per day.

the tab groups in safari is going to match my workflow in a big way.

Searching text in images system wide — so useful for anybody who takes pictures of documents

and on-device Siri is going to be so so so much better than having to go to a server. I use Siri every day and to have it respond without having to wait for network lag especially when pulling out of my driveway and the phone is still deciding whether or not to switch to LTE from WI-FI. So useful.