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Apple UI design
Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 5 years (2022–2026), in 9 threads.
People raised many different problems with Apple UI design, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 11 complaints
- Phone takes an extra second to unlock because of icon animations2026-01-05
- UI trends copied from Apple make things worse and harder to use2025-08-23
- Clickable (i) icons look like plain text, so users can't tell they are buttons2025-07-24
- Hidden menus, multi-tap navigation, and small unclear touch targets that don't look tappable2025-07-23
- Thin fonts hard to read, links don't look clickable, animations cause motion sickness2025-06-13
- Newer interface designs are horrible to use compared to older ones2025-06-10
- Actions require precise hold durations and button combinations that are hard to remember or hit reliably2025-03-28
- Can't figure out how to do what they want or predict dialog outcomes2024-09-09
- Commenter found the Apple laptop interface unintuitive and disliked it deeply2023-11-04
- Things aren't obvious and look and behave differently across Apple apps and screens2023-11-04
- Modern Apple software feels devoid of functionality and information density2022-11-24