iOS 18 Feedback

I have updated my iPhone 13 with IOS 18 and I have apple watch se II connected to my iPhone, I am get the iMessages on my watch and it is not showing on my iPhone

Prior to iOS 18 I could interact with my touchscreen when my phone was in standby mode. This was perfect because I could check weather, time, date, pause and play music, change songs, all at my desk, all without picking up my phone from the wireless charger. This feature is now gone in iOS 18 and I would REALLY like it back. It was super useful all day at work and now I’m constantly fumbling with my phone for every little thing.

Prior to upgrading to iOS 18 I was able to type text in French directly from my English keyboard with text and suggestions working perfectly but now I’m having to switch between my different keyboard depending on who I need to speak to. It’s quite annoying to have lost that ability and having to switch between different keyboard, as English and French are my 2 main communication language.

there truly was NO REASON for apple to even touch the photos app. The videos being receded are becoming corrupt and won’t play! As a content creator this is beyond upsetting. I’m losing out on videos that I can’t re-record. There is a whole reddit thread with people complaining about the same thing.

The photos app was almost perfect in iOS 17. The changes to the photos app in iOS 18 are a true regression to one of your best apps. Too cluttered and clumsy. photos app in iOS was much cleaner and more intuitive. iOS 18 photos app has gone against Appl’s ethos of making apps clean, intuitive and easy to navigate. One of the worst “upgrades“ to our beloved photos app

I’m not loving the new photos app. I dislike having everything on one screen, I prefer the menu/taskbar separation available on previous versions of iOS. I would also love the ability to 1. Remove the “key photo” that takes up half the screen when I click into an album. I don’t need it, it takes up so much space, and it’s annoying to constantly be shown a poorly formatted slideshow of my pictures. It‘s visual overload. 2. Sort the Favorites folder with the newest pictures at the bottom (as you can do with every other album and could do prior to this update). 3. Double tap to actually zoom in - the latest update makes it so that the double tap only brings the photo in until the edge has reached the limit of the screen which is kind of useless given that i’m trying to zoom. I would prefer to have the old double tap functionality back, as it was much more useful for quickly checking whether photos are blurry, etc. Thanks guys.

Is there a way to have it in Dark Mode without making all the apps on the Home Screen black too? like it was before? :(

Big emojis, photo app and control centre are a huge fail

IOS 18 is the worst update yet, and I hope that the developers at Apple see this and make notes. The most egregious features are definitely the new control panel, emojis and the photo app.

I am largely disliking the changes to the control panel: the exit button is WAY too small, and instead of swiping at the bottom to enter the new categories, would it have been difficult to instead have the user swipe left? The format is also incredibly overwhelming—whatever Apple had before was perfectly fine, I’m not sure why they touched it.

The new photo app: I’m not sure why everything needs to be in the same page. It’s unnecessary and unneededly clunky. I’m not sure if Apple was going for a ’minimalist aesthetic vibe’, but the new format gives me a migraine. Please revert these changes.

And, finally, the new emoji panel. I am also unsure as to why this was messed with: the old one was perfectly fine. The sizing of the emojis needs to go back to how it was before. Right now, I feel like a grandmother with -10 vision trying to operate the new emoji control panel. Maybe make this a toggleable feature for the real grandmothers with -10 vision.

Other things that I dislike heavily:

• ‘Genmojis’ being added to the emoji home. I think this is unneeded and should be a seperate tab, perhaps, and I know close to zero people who have ever used this feature.
• The newest additions to most apps just seem to be pure sensory overload. Having multiple tabs and groupings is a good thing, guys. It seems like every IOS update is one step forward, three steps back.

Things I like:

• The changes to the calendar app.
• The changes to the ‘tabs‘ interface.
• Being able to lock and hide apps.
• Being able to personalise your home screen. This is really cool.
• The changes to the Messages app.
• The additions to the Maps app.

Thanks, guys, I guess(?).

I think this update is one of the most inefficient and weak updates from Apple. This UX/UI is really disappointing. As a UX designer, you’re supposed to think of the user of the product first, and it’s clear this team didn’t. The change to the photos app and removing the tabs just made it harder for people to use the app effectively. The “movie” option added into the albums was unwarranted and unnecessary. Now we are spending more time looking for what we need than enjoying the app. The emoji’s being mixed with the stickers and Gemini’s instead of just keeping it at a separate tab is again just making us user have to do more work. The separate passwords app was not needed. The settings app keeping recent searches is unnecessary. Settings are for something quick for most users, not something that needs a dedicated recent searches section for. Adding all these unnecessary updates just shows that this UX/UI team clearly failed to solve the problem. This is what puts Apple behind and Android ahead.