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Oh, it gets better. On Android (at least, LG-flavored one — never used any other android phone) I have an issue with inter-app "Share" button popup. It somehow manages to re-shuffle all the suggestions (apps/recipients) exactly in the same amount of time that is natural for me to spend before clicking on the desired contact. Which several times made me send something to a wrong person, which resulted in extremely awkward situations. I don't know how common that is, since it was never fixed after all the updates, but I still have to be very careful and to make an unnatural pause waiting for UI to update every time I use this feature.

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I'm on Samsung and it doesn't re-shuffle as you're looking at it, but it's in a different order every time.

It's so irritating if you're doing the same operation many times, ie sending the same picture to multiple people separately.

Also the share menu has a different layout according to what app you're using. I understand that it's up to the app developer to get fancy with it, but it would be really nice if you could have a setting for "use standard share menus", or something like that. Or even better if there was some way you could make it be the same every time, like choose your favorite apps to share to.

It's unbelievable that these billion dollar companies can be satisfied letting this garbage represent their product.

I'd make sure to fix these if it was my hobby project, let alone a "finished" product that's on sale by a giant multinational.

Same here, every time I share something from YouTube --> NewPipe, the icon is in a different place, even when I'm adding multiple videos to my queue one after another. Every. Damn. Time. So frustrating.

Yes, it seems to be random order. Not even "most recently used" or "most used", or anything.

Just completely random - "fuck you, user - hunt though this random list".

It boggles the mind who would ever think that would be a good idea.

Username checks out ;)

Glad I'm not the only one suffering through this misery!

The inconsistency of the UI is ridiculous too.

There's countless examples, but the one that really annoys me every day is when the alarms go off.

I have alarms to wake up in the morning, and on the alarm screen you have to swipe to dismiss, but to snooze you have to tap the other button.

Sleepy me has a lot of trouble remembering which one's which, even though I've done it probably a thousand times at this stage.

And even though it's a big 6.7" or whatever it is screen, they make the buttons absolutely microscopic.

I have a similar problem. I can't open the eyes at all that time of the day so I just try to feel my way to the phone. Most of the time I manage to turn off instead of snooze and wake up a lot later. My solution was to put the phone with the screen down and slightly lift it so the screen protector opens upp. When it closes again, it activates snooze. Took me a few times to figure that...

Mine had what actually was a cool feature, and the only thing I've ever used voice commands for - you could say, "snooze" or "dismiss". Worked really well.

Then they took it away with an "update", so now I'm stuck with only the crap UI.

Thanks Samsung.

Those machines have a hard time recognizing my voice already when I'm awake, doubt it would work any better in the morning :-)

This still happens and it's the absolute worst, it gets worse the more apps you have. It's also just incredibly strange how it choose who to show in the share menu and there's no way to exclude apps.

No, I never want to share anything ever at all to #company-all on Slack. Do not show it in my YouTube share menu when I want to send a dog video to my partner.

This is so so so so bad. It's always such a risky situation too. The instant-send shortcuts pop up right as I'm about to tap something else, causing me to send something directly to the wrong person with no intermediate step. What if I'm sharing something confidential or sensitive? Way too much room for error.

The Android share menu was trash for many years, but it's definitely been getting some love lately. (If you don't have a Pixel you might still be rocking an older Android version.)

Perhaps a year ago they drastically improved load times, but the recommendations became much more stupid, and in recent builds I feel they've actually struck a good balance.

Also the fact that there are choices presented which I have never selected and never will.

I've seen that share-selection-reordering on numerous devices, including Onyx BOOX, which seem to otherwise mostly provide their own Android interface. So whatever's driving that seems to be deep in the environment.

Share is the worst. It is incredibly slow to appear and update.

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