• PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk
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    7 months ago

    I know I’m speaking for an older and non-Apple hill here, but why the fuck is undo mapped to a gesture?

    Speaking anecdotally now, I can’t remember the last time I used the undo feature on a mobile device that wasn’t in an image manipulation app, and there’s usually an onscreen button for that.

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      7 months ago

      Shake your phone and undo everything you just typed? Faster than selecting and deleting or backspacing.

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      7 months ago

      For me personally, I use it when I’m using speech-to-text and unable to type/use the keyboard because of whatever else is in my hands, and I’m walking somewhere.

      It’s a very niche feature tbh, but convenient to have when I’m in the niche.

      • PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk
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        7 months ago

        Nah that’s cool, I’m not wholly against the feature - in fact it’s great to hear real life use cases. I hadn’t even considered the accessibility element of things either, so that’s cool too.

        It just seems from the outset to be an over engineered answer to a question nobody asked.

        Cheers for your insight though!

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      7 months ago

      By default, it’s just undo text input when you either do a special swipe or tap the back, useful in e.g. the web browser. However applications can hook into this functionality to do their own stuff when the gesture is called.