Irritations and annoyances

A thread for those irritations, peeves, irks, and annoyances that aren’t grievous enough to hate.

To start:
How iPhone won’t let you turn off WiFi or Bluetooth from the control panel, forcing you to unlock the screen and navigate into the settings subfolder.

Poor handwriting on important notes. See below, wtf does this say??

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I replaced my old Bosch dishwasher with an almost identical new one via AO.com. My old machine had a "quick wash" which was perfect for our needs. I had to download a fucking app to get the quick wash function and I have to tell the machine to do the wash via the app. Fucking progress.

…what happens when you drag down from the top right?

In my car, I know right, when I press the recirculate button on the heater it puts the AC on. Example: I’m driving behind a diesel vehicle which is filling my car with shitty stinking fumes and when I press the recirculate button on the heater to stop it sucking the shitty fumes in, it does that but also puts the air conditioning on. Because the people at the factory think I now need to be cold too?

😂 I’m annoyed on your behalf now.

@MarvHucker - it opens a control panel that lets me disconnect wifi or bluetooth but it keeps them on in the background, draining the battery and dropping bits of my treasured personal data.

Oof, this would go in the I Hate thread for me.

Probably intentional to control the humidity in a car full of people and their recirculating air

How people fundamentally use AC wrong.

They're hot, so they put the AC on to 16 degrees and turn it off when they get too cold.

You set a comfortable temp, turn it on and leave it on. Let it do it's thing.

Hang on, is this actually true?

I haven't had an iPhone for years, but are you telling me you can't use the quick menu to hit the BT and WiFi icons to turn them off? Or that if you do the phone just ignores the command?!?

Are you 100% sure you're not doing something wrong?

ah, read the clarification. You can press and hold the icons to jump to their settings rather than go through the menus

Or probably set up a shortcut and pin that

I use the AC in the cold weather to demist the car.

Threading already cut brake or gear cable into holes only big enough for said cable at difficult angles.

Dab of super glue on the tip and dip it in water so it sets straight away.

Apple figured out that most people’s usage of those buttons was akin to “I’m connected to a wi-fi that isn’t working / Bluetooth device I don’t want to be right now, please disconnect me” and changed them accordingly, so when you get to a different wi-fi network it connects to that rather than burning cellular data. They show a message telling you that’s what they’re doing. It’s not a secret.

Turning WiFi / BT fully off has negligible effect on battery life. Privacy is a more valid concern.

Turning WiFi/BT off has a massive affect on battery life in my experience.

You’re talking about every doctor ever.

Okay, I'll just delete your app then, which you spent money on developing? What's the point of this?

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Young managers with no real experience being in a position to really screw everything up at work.

They show a message telling you that’s what they’re doing.

Don’t recall ever seeing this message, and I only discovered it because one day the highlight around the icons turned white instead of reverting to grey. They made it more difficult to turn them off, which indicates to me that they want people to keep them on.

@ELbowloh - hard agree on WiFi and bt draining battery.

You could do a shortcut to switch off both wifi and bluetooth at the same time, then assign that shortcut to double or triple tapping the back of the phone (settings > accessibility > touch > back tap). Just tried it and it works fine

I have the triple tap assigned to screen orientation lock as that’s a mild irritation when watching anything

Oh thanks!

People talking about using or selling cars etc on a bike forum. A bike forum for chrissakes.

We’re a broad church.

Cheers. I have the taps assigned to other actions. I had considered one of those drawing across the screen shortcuts, but they weren’t dependable enough.

Maybe there’s a way of adding the wifi/bt action to the assistive touch button menu 🤔.

That reminds me of another iPhone annoyance that truly pisses me off: the inability to turn haptics off quickly and easily.