Like many others, I eagerly installed the public beta with glee. I played with it for a few weeks but the more I used it, the more I realised that I didn't like it. Yesterday evening, i uninstalled it nad went back to 8.4. Here's why:
I do not like the swipe left from the home screen to get to another search screen. The swipe down search is plenty good enough for me (and I liked that) and I failed to see why there should be another screen to the left of the home screen for me to access unintentionally (like I did day in, day out). It was a pet hate for me on Android and one of the reasons I installed an after-market launcher like Nova Prime on my devices.
For some reason that I honestly just cannot fathom, iOS9 has merged the notifications into one alphabetic list. On iOS 8.x and previous versions, Notifications are split into 'Include' and 'do not include'. In iOS9, every app is lumped in together, so you have to scroll down the list of all your apps that include a notification function (and many of them do for no appreciable reason) looking for the apps you have set to be included, amongst all those you have set to be not included. It takes more time to look, I invariably miss one and it just seems confusing.
The previous method of separating out the apps you have allowed to be included in notifications and the ones you have disallowed, seems to be a far, far more cleaner way of doing things. For a lot of changes, i can understand why Apple have done it but for the two above, it just seems needlessly confusing, time consuming and not what i would expect from a company that prides itself on streamlining the user experience.
The other issue is that two of the apps I use the most were not playing well with iOS9 (that's the chance you take and I accept that) and one of them was the primary way I chatted to my good lady wife who reside in another country. That, alone, was a deal breaker for the public beta for me.
I've submitted feedback to Apple for both of my gripes above. I doubt they will listen to one small voice in an ocean of many but there you go.
Honestly, if those feature stay in without a way of disabling them, I won't be installing iOS 9 when it goes live.
Anyway, there you go.
Have you uninstalled the beta? If so, taking out of the equation the fact that obviously not every app will work out with the beta, for what other reasons did you uninstall?
I do not like the swipe left from the home screen to get to another search screen. The swipe down search is plenty good enough for me (and I liked that) and I failed to see why there should be another screen to the left of the home screen for me to access unintentionally (like I did day in, day out). It was a pet hate for me on Android and one of the reasons I installed an after-market launcher like Nova Prime on my devices.
For some reason that I honestly just cannot fathom, iOS9 has merged the notifications into one alphabetic list. On iOS 8.x and previous versions, Notifications are split into 'Include' and 'do not include'. In iOS9, every app is lumped in together, so you have to scroll down the list of all your apps that include a notification function (and many of them do for no appreciable reason) looking for the apps you have set to be included, amongst all those you have set to be not included. It takes more time to look, I invariably miss one and it just seems confusing.
The previous method of separating out the apps you have allowed to be included in notifications and the ones you have disallowed, seems to be a far, far more cleaner way of doing things. For a lot of changes, i can understand why Apple have done it but for the two above, it just seems needlessly confusing, time consuming and not what i would expect from a company that prides itself on streamlining the user experience.
The other issue is that two of the apps I use the most were not playing well with iOS9 (that's the chance you take and I accept that) and one of them was the primary way I chatted to my good lady wife who reside in another country. That, alone, was a deal breaker for the public beta for me.
I've submitted feedback to Apple for both of my gripes above. I doubt they will listen to one small voice in an ocean of many but there you go.
Honestly, if those feature stay in without a way of disabling them, I won't be installing iOS 9 when it goes live.
Anyway, there you go.
Have you uninstalled the beta? If so, taking out of the equation the fact that obviously not every app will work out with the beta, for what other reasons did you uninstall?
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