Marco ArmentOct 6

"The new Slide to Stop button is still as large as the Snooze and Stop buttons, so Apple keeps its updated design, while solving the problem that it introduced. In iOS 18, the Snooze and Stop buttons were much smaller and had a significant degree of separation, so it was difficult to hit stop when you meant to hit snooze.”

The Alan Dye era: a new design creates problems, requiring more hacks and complexity to evade, ending up less usable and elegant than the old design.

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/10/06/apple-fixes-alarms-in-ios-26-1/

Apple Fixes Alarms in iOS 26.1

With the second beta of iOS 26.1, Apple updated the design of alarms set on the iPhone, making them harder to dismiss than before. Stopping an...

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Show threadMarco ArmentOct 6
(Tesla should hire Alan Dye to design its door handles. A perfect fit.)
Show threadChad C.Oct 6
@marcoarment Why so hateful man? Every post now of days is filled with venom and “i know betterism” as if your farts don’t stink.
Show threadApolloOct 7
@dominocollege @marcoarment because it is refreshing to see Apple users actually critizing what is obviously broken. The same broken as Teslas crappy door handles.
Show threadChad C.
@apollo @marcoarment You must be new here. Tribalism and Criticizing Apple is sport here— inability to look past their own experiences and subjective tastes.
Oct 7 at 9:28amMona for iPhone