[HN Gopher] The unbearable sorrow of Apple Weather
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The unbearable sorrow of Apple Weather
Author : zdw
Score : 16 points
Date : 2024-06-23 22:08 UTC (53 minutes ago)
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| c-hendricks wrote:
| > Several readers on Mastodon told me the alignment was fine on
| their phones and suggested Larger Text/Dynamic Type as the reason
| the charts on my phone are messed up. They were absolutely right.
|
| So, nothingburger?
| lynndotpy wrote:
| I don't think it's unreasonable to expect consistent design in
| first-party apps for users who use larger text on their phones.
| nemetroid wrote:
| "Larger Text" is a built-in basic accessibility feature.
| cratermoon wrote:
| Failing at accessibility is not nothing.
| devwastaken wrote:
| I want a weather app that shows the NOAA forecast graph neatly so
| I know specifically the predicted conditions for the day.
| JZL003 wrote:
| Meteogram from meteoblue is not the same, but plots thd output
| of different models. Even for slightly technical users, I find
| weather so underwhelming in how it's presented
|
| Just high and low numbers not graphs, no sense of variance
| (time or intensity). Without dark sky hard to get minutely
| predictions, even with large error bars
| theideaofcoffee wrote:
| It looks like the poster realized a global setting messed
| everything up but there's still... everything else about that
| wretched app. Even on the best, cleanest, fastest, newest, pick
| your adjective, connection, it's still so... bad. Nothing loads
| quickly, I stand there for what seems like ages to get
| temperatures for my city, every time. I hate opening it and
| trying to get info from it. The map for clouds or precip is even
| worse, failing to load the one part of the map that I want to
| see.
|
| It's by far Apple's worst built-in app on the iphone, by far. I
| wish they'd give it some love, moreso after having bought out
| Dark Sky.
| snailmailman wrote:
| I was eager to install apples new "sports" app on my
| grandmother's iphone. Figuring it would be simple and won't have
| ads or anything. But the app was unusable with the larger text
| size my grandmother uses. Crazy that Apple doesn't test
| accessibility features.
|
| The app was brand new at the time. I wonder if it's improved at
| all since then
|
| Edit: app seems fine now at least. Glad it's improved
| gaudat wrote:
| Hate to say that but it works for me. I am using the largest
| regular* font size on an iPhone SE and there's no issue on the
| exact same page in the weather app.
|
| Perhaps OP is using one of the extra-large font sizes hidden
| behind the "Larger Accessibility Sizes" toggle. It can be
| expected users at that font size value accessibility over
| aesthetics. As screen space is limited there is of course a point
| where things start to look broken.
|
| The weather app could include a TV or clock-like layout for
| extra-large text sizes but that doesn't really fly with Apple's
| UI/UX consistency.
| cratermoon wrote:
| A failure to account for accessibility modifications is endemic
| to mobile devices.
| masspro wrote:
| I noticed a couple months ago this same issue with the vertical
| alignment of the temperature numbers in the first summary bar at
| the top of the app. I too have text size increased. Days with a
| different weather icon pushed their numbers down a bit. Gives me
| the feeling of janky HTML box flow issues.
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