This has been fixed! Option to load images is at the top of the message.
Observed in iOS 8 (β 3).
I typically configure my email apps to not automatically load images. On occasion a spam message gets through the winding maze of spam filters put in front of them and I'd rather not reward the sender with any kind of verification that their arrow met it's mark.
When I do want to look at the images in an email message, I click a button to do it. For the Apple Mail app, that button is at the top-right corner of the window. Load Images, it says, and that's what it does. For iOS, you get a message with images and it just looks kind of broken. Large patches of the email are missing content and with no explanation to be seen... not until you scroll aaall the way to the bottom. Ah, there it is:
...a "button" to load images for this message. OK. Tap. Now, scroll aaall the way back to the top and start reading again with the context of the images.
Why is this button at the bottom? If there are suppressed images, shouldn't I be given the choice to display them at the top of the message? Maybe like this:
Observed in iOS 8 (β 3) and iTunes/Mac (11.2.2 (3)?).
Both the iOS Music app and the iTunes app on OS X suffer from this bug: you can't order your playlists. No, I'm not talking about the songs in a playlist, but the playlists themselves. I'd like to have easier access to some of my more frequently used playlists, but they're unhelpfully ordered alphabetically:
Oddly enough, my "90's Music" smart playlist is at the top in iTunes, but at the bottom of my smart playlists on iOS. But nevermind that-- I want to order them manually.
Here are three different screens on iOS. All of them allow you to control whatever media you have playing (in my case, an excellent remaster of Distintegration):
From left to right: the Music app's "Now Playing" screen, the iOS control center and the lock screen.
Three contexts. Three very different locations for the play controls. Can this be a little more consistent? At least keep them on the bottom half of the screen so they're easier to reach?
I'd also appreciate some distance (or simple removal) of the volume controls.
The iTunes Store has a really annoying usability bug around swipe gestures. Go to the home tab of the Movies part of the store and you'll see a number of content "wells"... many of these are side-scrolling areas where you can view the movie posters. For each of those, you are able to use two-finger swipes (on a trackpad, single-finger swipes on a Magic Mouse) to scroll these left and right to view more content.
But, the very same gesture is used to navigate backward and forward through the store (similar to how it works in Safari for browser history). What makes this so bad is that the gesture does different things based on where your mouse cursor is.
Here's a screen shot to illustrate the problem a little bit:
There are three regions highlighted above:
This one will cause you to navigate backward to Music, since the scrolling region can't scroll to the right any further.
This area does not scroll, so swiping here will also make you navigate back to Music.
This area can scroll some more (you can see there's more content to the left), so a swipe here will scroll that region and will not navigate back to Music.
This is madenning. It means I have to pay attention to where the mouse cursor is resting any time I use these gestures. And if it is resting on a scrollable region, I need to also observe where the scroll bar position is, so I know whether the gesture will result in scrolling that area versus moving me to a different page (and even more tricky, since OS X doesn't show the scroll bar in a resting state).
Apple's Multi-Touch Gestures article documents all of them and even calls out the exception for the "Swipe to navigate" gesture:
Note: If there is horizontal content to scroll, this gesture will first scrolls (sic) to the end of content and then it will move to the next page.
So what's the solution? I would recommend following the pattern used on iPad: drop the forward/backward history navigation for the iTunes app and switch to tabs for different areas of the store or just simple forward/backward buttons if necessary. Stop doing two things with the same gesture.
I made a short video to further illustrate the problem:
(This video should be viewed full-screen so you can see what's going on a little better.)
