Apple does this, a lot. The number of times I have incorrectly called somebody on FaceTime because I clicked on a contact at the same time FaceTime decided to update the list should be embarrassing for them. I have zero idea how this doesn't get fixed. It should be a trivial change to make sure the list is updated however they'd like before showing it to the user. As it is right now, given that it's slower or about as fast as me clicking something on the screen, it seems updating the list is the very last thing they do.
I came here to complain about Apple's autocompletion feature: probably 30% of the time when I start to type a long word, the exact word I want comes up in the suggestion box at the top; only by the time I click the box, the word has changed to something else. It would have been faster to type all 7 characters out with my thumbs than to delete and re-type everything again.
I have Sublime Text and Sublime Merge installed on my Mac. Trying to launch them through Spotlight is an exercise in frustration. Each successive letter typed in Spotlight alternates the selection between Sublime Text and Sublime Merge, so when I press Enter to launch, it’s almost certainly the wrong one of the two.
Yes, my trick is to avoid the global search and go for a specific search, e.g. on the iPhone I go to the apps library and only then swipe down to get the search. That search is for apps only, so it's instant & responsive.
I was thinking about this problem in the context of Telegram. I have a lot of chats and they constantly jump around. Way too often I misclick because the list has updated in the split second between me stopping my mouse/finger and actually clicking/tapping. It's not really doable on phones, but at least on computers one could pause the updating while the user is moving the mouse over the list.
