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Where is Delete Playlist?

Rafagon

Rafagon

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Where the f is Delete Playlist on iOS 26.5 developer beta? Is it gone? I'm following the directions precisely, yet I can't find Delete Playlist.

This shouldn't be happening on a paid subscription service on an almost a-grand-and-a-half phone.

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Try tapping Edit first? I’ve seen that convention in some apps.

It would be rather a silly change to make in a dot-update but there were a lot of internal menu changes in 26.4 too, e.g. in App Store. Beta isn’t “documented” so if they’re making that change, it won’t hit documentation until 26.5 is released.
 
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Nope, nothing. I can't delete my own manually created playlists or the ones I created using Playlist Playground.

FreakinEurekan said:
Try tapping Edit first? I’ve seen that convention in some apps.

It would be rather a silly change to make in a dot-update but there were a lot of internal menu changes in 26.4 too, e.g. in App Store. Beta isn’t “documented” so if they’re making that change, it won’t hit documentation until 26.5 is released.
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VineRider said:
Can you scroll up on the dialogue box after the long press? Delete is at the very bottom
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Yes, that worked. But it took several attempts. First, it thought I was trying to move the Playlist into another Playlist so it was trying to help me do that.

That menu is very poorly implemented:

 
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VineRider said:
Can you scroll up on the dialogue box after the long press? Delete is at the very bottom
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Endless frustration, could not have done it without your help. You were probably also able to see in the video that after I made one attempt, the next two attempts failed to show me the menu entirely!

What has happened to Apple's perfectly polished user interface of yesteryear?
 
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I find the tap and hold menus infinitely better than what came before (hiding things who knows where). At least it’s somewhat standardized now. Took me all of 2 seconds to locate delete, it’s where I expected.
 
Rafagon said:
iOS 26.5 developer beta?
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Rafagon said:
This shouldn't be happening on a paid subscription service on an almost a-grand-and-a-half phone.

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While I understand your complaint, you really shouldn’t be saying things like “this shouldn’t be happening on a paid subscription service on a grand and a half phone” when running a *developer* beta, not even the public beta, but the developer beta, on that same “grand and a half” phone.

Rafagon said:
What has happened to Apple's perfectly polished user interface of yesteryear?
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There was a macOS beta that moved the Apple menu to the center of the menu bar to wide complaints, so again, maybe don’t try to compare Apple‘s current betas to prior official releases.
Literally, if this post was absolutely identical word for word, but said “iOS 26.4.2” maybe you would have a point, the second the word “beta” enters the conversation all of the “Apple was so much better in 2001” arguments get thrown out the window.
And yes, before someone points it out, I know other comments say that this is a UI element that is absolutely identical in the latest public release. It doesn’t matter.
You simply cannot say things like “This shouldn't be happening on a paid subscription service on an almost a-grand-and-a-half phone” and then admit that you are running an unreleased, opt in, unfinished version of beta software.
It’s a bit like complaining your Mac got a virus, but you turned off system integrity protection, gatekeeper and you’re still running Catalina. At some point you have to take responsibility for your actions.
And by the way, this is coming from a person who also installs beta software pretty regularly on my devices. When an issue or bug pops up, what do I do? I don’t go complaining about how “back in my day”, instead, I report the bug, or if it’s severe enough, I restore my device back to the latest public version of software.
If you went to Apple with this exact same issue outside of the feedback portal, what’s the first thing they are going to tell you to do? Restore to the latest public version of software.
 
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Lounge vibes 05 said:
While I understand your complaint, you really shouldn’t be saying things like “this shouldn’t be happening on a paid subscription service on a grand and a half phone” when running a *developer* beta, not even the public beta, but the developer beta, on that same “grand and a half” phone.


There was a macOS beta that moved the Apple menu to the center of the menu bar to wide complaints, so again, maybe don’t try to compare Apple‘s current betas to prior official releases.
Literally, if this post was absolutely identical word for word, but said “iOS 26.4.2” maybe you would have a point, the second the word “beta” enters the conversation all of the “Apple was so much better in 2001” arguments get thrown out the window.
And yes, before someone points it out, I know other comments say that this is a UI element that is absolutely identical in the latest public release. It doesn’t matter.
You simply cannot say things like “This shouldn't be happening on a paid subscription service on an almost a-grand-and-a-half phone” and then admit that you are running an unreleased, opt in, unfinished version of beta software.
It’s a bit like complaining your Mac got a virus, but you turned off system integrity protection, gatekeeper and you’re still running Catalina. At some point you have to take responsibility for your actions.
And by the way, this is coming from a person who also installs beta software pretty regularly on my devices. When an issue or bug pops up, what do I do? I don’t go complaining about how “back in my day”, instead, I report the bug, or if it’s severe enough, I restore my device back to the latest public version of software.
If you went to Apple with this exact same issue outside of the feedback portal, what’s the first thing they are going to tell you to do? Restore to the latest public version of software.
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Yes, I agree, you have a good point. Can't put an unfinished OS on my phone and then complain about the bugs.
 
VineRider said:
Yep, that scroll up is not intuitive
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Apple’s vaunted “User Interface Guidelines” cover this. Not sure why it isn’t being used here:

Make it apparent when content is scrollable. Because scroll indicators aren’t always visible, it can be helpful to make it obvious when content extends beyond the view. For example, displaying partial content at the edge of a view indicates that there’s more content in that direction. Although most people immediately try scrolling a view to discover if additional content is available, it’s considerate to draw their attention to it.
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Source: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/scroll-views. (Red emphasis mine)

Annoyingly, I have the same usability issue on my 11” ipad running the latest iOS production release. What’s worse, there’s plenty of room for the entire menu, but “Delete” is still hidden, off-menu, with no visual cue it’s there. 😡

If users react emotionally to a bad UI, that’s on Apple, not the user.

It’s also in Apple’s best interest to fix it (or at least read their own Pubs.)
 
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