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Nikita Karamov Mar 9, 2025

> Third-party iOS apps don't do it that way

They used to! I remember how, in the early iOS versions, having settings in the respective apps was considered an anti pattern. You want settings for XYZ => you go to "Settings" and look for "XYZ" there. But third-party developers didn't care much, and I believe there are even some Apple's own apps that gave in and moved their settings inside themselves.

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Rodrigo Araújo

@kytta @dgi @gruber this is something that made sense when design patterns still hadn’t emerged on the platform. Apple was doing its best to get a completely new UX to click with everyone. The problem is they barely improved the settings app as the platform matured. Having at least a link to get to that settings section from within the apps would be great