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Built-in features
Raised as a usability problem by 16 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2016–2026), in 15 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Built-in features, 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 16 complaints
- Built-in TV app interfaces lag and feel generally slow to use2026-07-03
- Built-in maps move very slowly and need a USB stick to update yearly2026-07-03
- Inconsistent rendering and interaction patterns across browsers make them unusable for client projects2025-09-16
- Backing up passkeys has a hidden, horrible interface, hard to find when phone dies2025-08-07
- Opens its own window every time, with no way to capture silently to the clipboard2025-07-23
- Built-in conversion steps are non-obvious, requiring web lookups and many hidden steps on iPhone2025-04-19
- Built-in OS search doesn't find relevant files, unlike Google Desktop Search, and fixing it is hard2023-10-13
- Beginners can't set up the debug run configuration, so they give up and use print debugging2023-02-25
- Built-in keyboard is flaky and a pain to use on small screens2022-10-19
- Can only show one previous expression while editing, forcing copy-paste or memorizing2022-09-20
- No start button; visitors try to push the knobs to start it2022-05-30
- Built-in smart TV software is unbearably slow to use2021-09-11
- Built-in VNC client asks for a password and rejects every value entered2020-08-27
- Antivirus slows npm install until it crashes, forcing the user to disable it2020-06-02
- Built-in antivirus is slow and gives useless notifications2020-05-22
- Cannot exclude a closed road, so routes keep passing the blockage2016-10-12