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Settings
Raised as a usability problem by 23 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2010–2026), in 21 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
- 1Settings hard to find and enumerateUnreviewed
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Settings hard to find and enumerateUnreviewed
20102026- Settings panes feel laggy and chunky when navigating with arrow keys2026-04-20
- Slow and crappy settings app, settings hard to find and enumerate2025-10-15
- Settings app keeps getting worse with each release, harder to navigate2025-10-15
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 23 complaints
- Red notification badges can't be turned off, cluttering Settings with AppleCare promotions2026-10-14
- Searching AirPods shows accessibility settings instead of the AirPods' own settings2026-09-21
- Done silently discards changes while toggles apply instantly, so users can't tell what gets saved2026-08-10
- Settings panes feel laggy and chunky when navigating with arrow keys2026-04-20
- UI mirrors underlying data, producing endless lists instead of user-friendly organization2025-12-29
- Slow and crappy settings app, settings hard to find and enumerate2025-10-15
- Settings app keeps getting worse with each release, harder to navigate2025-10-15
- Setting buried three levels deep under Touch ID, justified by search2025-06-10
- Desktop settings design and flow seem to be the worst they've been2025-06-09
- Clicking a settings menu item takes half a second or more to load2025-05-09
- New Settings panel is widely disliked; redesign made existing functions harder to use2025-03-03
- Too many options to go through, making configuration cumbersome and time-consuming2024-07-25
- No consistent way to discard unwanted changes in settings dialogs2024-06-03
- Settings window is awful and cluttered, hard to use on iOS and macOS2023-12-16
- Each settings section takes 500-1000ms to appear after clicking2023-07-09
- Details button stops responding after being pressed and closed, requiring app relaunch2023-07-09
- Notification Summaries feature is hard to discover in Settings2023-03-27
- Search returns many near-identical results, forcing click-through to find the right one2023-03-20
- Screen refreshes before user finishes copying the displayed command2023-03-04
- Changes take effect immediately, so invalid combinations can't be fixed before applying and the original state is lost2023-01-19
- Forced to make configuration decisions because good defaults were not designed2022-02-03
- Users cannot find a setting if they don't suspect it exists2015-09-12
- Nested settings dialogs make people forget what they changed2010-10-09