bunher

Will it change iOS Settings for me that are hard to find by me just describing what I want? Or things like: delete every app I haven’t used in 6 months?

What is a bit missing in this discussion is that many frontends are very bad, user hostile or non-intuitive. This has nothing to do with LLMs or frameworks in my opinion just bad decisions of the designer. It is not only web apps or websites filled with e.g slow cookie warnings, terrible navigation, or dark patterns. Also the UX of Android, iOS, MacOS and Windows became at most average but not at all better (many things are just worse, buggy and inconsistent). If I had thought in the early 2000s how we interact with devices in the 2020s I would never have imagined thr mediocrity that those market leading billion dollar companies release and get away with it. LLMs obviously don’t help here since they are trained on all of this.

Especially elderly people who rarely use devices suffer from this (and their relatives who do IT support :-))

Is there a place where one can post examples of in-the-wild bad UX? Such as a choice of „yes“ and „later“ without the option of „No, never“

Had the same terrible experience. Opting out from the passcode is only possible for people who know that words can also be a button. It’s a dark pattern urging you into a passcode, and another dark pattern for using numbers and letters in said passcode. And it happens every stupid iOS update. I used to tell my parents: please make these updates! Now I say: please don’t. Honestly, it was years ago when iOS updates made the device better. Now it is always worse. Not a single feature in the last 5 years was added but you have to update so often.

I switched from Android to iOS and I must say: both UX are completely enshittified. For me (IT person) not a problem, but for elderly rare occasion users it is absolutely terrible.

On one hand you can now talk to ChatGPT in natural voice, but figuring out how to make a cell phone call on iOS on your own: impossible (spoiler: WhatsApp calls are also in the phone app‘s call list).

Sure, you could buy them a dumb phone, but for online banking etc you do need a smartphone. Good luck tackling the App Store if you only use it once a year….