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Mobile operating systems
Raised as a usability problem by 14 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2013–2025), in 14 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 Mobile operating systems, 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 14 complaints
- Updates move features and settings, so older users can't find or toggle what they used2025-12-16
- Switching back to a web page reloads it and clears entered information2025-01-17
- Commenter doesn't know how to manage firewall settings on mobile devices2024-11-04
- Constant notifications and pop-up dialogs keep interrupting and pulling attention from tasks2024-10-12
- Updates hide routine actions, so older users can't find steps they once memorized2022-11-24
- Storage is an abstracted black box, so users cannot tell where files live2021-09-22
- Mobile OSes are extremely unintuitive for people to learn2020-08-14
- Changing app permissions means digging through Settings, so people rarely bother to adjust them2020-06-25
- Filesystem is hidden, making files cumbersome to access and manage2019-07-10
- Cannot choose a different browser with better controls for links opened from apps2018-04-26
- Can't easily view two emails side by side while writing one on mobile2017-07-24
- Files can only be managed through built-in apps, which makes sharing them between devices hard2016-09-04
- Transitions are too long and teleport users between pages without clear spatial navigation2015-06-18
- Sandboxing stops users from opening arbitrary files in the app they want, such as reading a PDF in any app2013-02-02