iOS fixes

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Books

  • The bug where the title of the book occasionally fails to disappears and overlaps with the text should be fixed.
  • Searching for a book that exists in your library should match on that book before its Book Store equivalent
  • The landing page for Books should not be a store front.
  • The landing page for Books should not be a promotion for erotic romance novels and ephemeral self-help.
    • Perhaps the store front recommendations could be tailored to the books in your library.
    • Alternatively the store front could recommend books that the people at Apple would be happy to recommend to someone in their community.
  • There should be an option to download a book permanently, like you can with a song in Spotify or Music. Secondarily, the automatic download management makes strange (arguably buggy) choices for which books to make available and could be improved using a simple last-read-first-out strategy.
  • On the Library tab the triple dot menu should be aligned with the “Library” text, matching the layout on the Home tab.

Notifications

  • The ban on advertisements in notifications should be enforced.
  • Apps should be required to add an option for turning off recommendation notifications (such as “x celebrity just posted.”)
  • (MacOS) the setting to disable the dock icon bounce should be fixed.

Settings

  • Semantic search should be available (so “airplane” matches “aeroplane mode”).
  • Category names should be searchable.
  • The “Apple Music Free for 3 Months” option should not appear after the offer has been accepted.
  • Advertisements should not be presented as options on a settings page (the “Apple Music Free for 3 Months” offer should be relocated).

Photos

  • “Favorites” should be accessible from the landing screen by default. Currently it is four scrolls away.
    • It is currently in Utilies which is an awesome block full of helpful features like automatically generated categories (“Receipts”, “Handwriting”). My belief is that this block has been relegated to the second-to-last place because it contains the “Hidden” folder, which is supposed to be discreet. The Utilies folder should be broken up so that the “Hidden” folder is somewhere discreet, surrounded by boring utilites, while the fun categories like Favorites are allowed to shine.
  • You should be able to scroll down to get to older photos.
  • Honestly this app makes me feel a bit nauseous. I think it needs a professional’s help.
  • Feature request: tool to identify duplicate photos, select the best one/s for approval, and delete the others.