Adam Kos With each version of the iOS operating system, it gets new and new options, but many users do not actually use them. It is of course good that Apple is trying to bring new functionality even to older devices, but its genius idea, at least in these five cases, rather missed its effect.
Of course, I don't have to be the target group for the given functions, maybe you have a different opinion and these are important functions and applications for you, without which you cannot imagine using your iPhone. So this list is purely based on my experience and experiences around me. One way or another, in every respect, these are very specific matters that have somehow been forgotten. Either for unclear labeling, or complicated or actually unnecessary use.
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Amaya Toman Slofis
This designation was introduced by Apple together with the presentation of the iPhone 11, and it was supposed to be a big feature, because in this case Apple cannot be denied the effort to present it in a certain way. He also released a few ads for it, but that was really all. In fact, these are only slow-motion videos taken with the front camera. Nothing more, nothing less. But even Apple probably didn't take its designation seriously, because Slofi is nowhere to be found in iOS. So if you want to take them with your iPhone, simply switch to the TrueDepth camera in the Camera environment and choose the Slow-Motion mode.
Animoji
And the front camera once again. Animoji came with iPhone X, later evolved into Memoji. This is one of the examples where Apple had a really fun idea to bring something completely new that looked really cool, and many copied it (eg Samsung with its AR Emoji). From the beginning, it looked like a successful trend, because it clearly distinguished the owners of bezel-less iPhones from the rest. Personally, I don't know anyone who actively uses them, at most Memoji only as their profile photo, but that's where it starts and ends.
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Pavel Jelic Stickers in iMessage and App Store
Animoji and Memoji are also tied to their use in iMessage. Here and there I tried to send a funny likeness of myself to someone, but usually I actually forget about such reactions, and I only use classic emoticons or reactions to messages. Since I don't even like any stickers from anyone else, it's easy to actually forget their presence. The same applies to the entire App Store for News. Apple tried to copy chat services here and proved that where one is successful, the other may not be successful. The App Store in iMessage is thus completely out of my use and I have never even purposefully installed an application in it.
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Tap on the back of the iPhone
V Settings -> Disclosure -> Touch you have the option to define a function Tap on the back. You can do this for double-tap or triple-tap. There are a real number of things to choose from that your iPhone will do based on this gesture. Whether from launching the Control Center, Camera, Flashlight to taking a screenshot or turning off the sound. The feature sounds quite usable, but I don't know anyone who actually uses it. Honestly, even though I'm writing about it now, I don't need to try it. People are used to certain mechanisms, and if they accidentally make such a gesture, they don't really want their phone to react to it.
Compass, Measure and Translate apps
Apple offers a wide variety of its applications. E.g. I have actually never used such Shares, even though they have been present in the system since its inception. However, I believe that many users may be interested in them. It's different with Compass, Measurement and Translate, at least in our region with the last one. This submission application only supports 11 languages and Czech is not among them. This is also why the title has a poor rating of only 1,6 out of 5 stars in the App Store. And really, no one I know uses the title, even if they have it installed just for the sake of it.
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Vratislav Holub On the other hand, Kompas already has a rating of 4,4, but that does not change the fact that its functionality is more likely to be used by navigation applications, which is why it is only really rarely used. And then there's Measurement with a 4,8 rating. Although it is the most usable and relatively smart application, it comes across the simple fact that few people have the ability to use it, and if they do, they usually prefer to reach for a proven tape measure. After all, this is believed 100%, whereas relying on artificial intelligence is always question marks.
It's a mistake to call it features that no one uses. People use them. Sure, Translate isn't a feature for our end, but measuring is a great thing when you don't have that tape measure or ruler handy. How else do you want to measure something? Well, if someone confuses a compass and navigation, there is probably no point in commenting on it. Although I can still understand that the city flutist probably barely ever held a compass in his hand, so he might not even be able to use it. If you use it and don't have it in your pocket, a compass in your mobile phone will come in handy from time to time. Stickers in iMessage seem like a normal thing to me. It would probably like to broaden one's horizons.
I use Compass and Measurement quite often, they are great and useful things.
Young commonly use Animoji, stickers, and me pats on the back. This makes it much easier to take, for example, screenshots. It's more likely that people don't know or have forgotten that something like this can be set up.
A Muslim thinks that it is an attempt to pass off subjective feelings as objective reality
That really sounds like passing off your own feelings as objective reality. I personally used it a few times as a blind compass, spirit level and pat on the back. On the other hand, I would like to defend the author in the fact that he points out right at the beginning that not everyone may feel that way, that maybe he is just not the right target group and that it is only his own impression or an observation in the surroundings. If someone does not know how to read this introduction and allows himself to be infuriated by doubts about something that he himself uses, then it also lacks insight and objectivity.
So you want to pretend that users can't read something "according to your interpretation"? Then you probably can't read the headline. If the title sounded a little different, then the reactions would be different too. As you can see, there was no one here who agreed with the author. However you interpret it, it says something.
Yes, the title is poorly chosen, that's right. I can't completely agree with the article myself either, I'm just trying to support the author in that he doesn't strictly claim that it's facts, but right at the beginning he tries to clarify, despite the title, that it's his own impressions. I don't want to attack users for disagreeing with the author, but for the form of that disagreement (city flute and the like." It's simply an article about features that didn't catch on much, nothing more. But the title is really not well chosen. And to the fact that here no one disagrees with the article, yes, of course it says something, but I'm also more likely to feel the need to respond to statements I disagree with than to an article where people just nod in agreement.