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		bangonkeyboard on March 12, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Vintage technology and why some people still use i... I maintain a clutch of pre-iOS 7 devices to remind myself what good design was.

hc-taway on March 12, 2021 [–]

Agreed that iOS7 was a big UX downgrade. It went from being the only OS I'd be halfway-comfortable turning older tech-illiterate relatives loose on, to yet another OS that would leave them confused and lost much of the time. Discoverability and intuitiveness plummeted with 7.

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