I get that some people are annoyed when different phones have settings in slightly different menus, but we should just be teaching people to rely on search in settings rather than memorizing where each phone puts individual settings.
Why have they got three separate areas for it? That seens really counterintuitive IMO
Searching on stock Android gives a handful of results, but they’re all under one dedicated system area called “Gestures” 🫠 not spread out across several like what Samsung has done
It’s a double edged sword. DO we want Android to be more like Windows? That’s the only way you won’t have OEMs making their own unique hierarchy of menus in settings. It’s all a part of a “familiarity” strategy. Get someone used to the way one phone is organized, then they will complain that another phone isn’t “intuitive”. Either we teach people to lean on search, or we ask for Google to take over more of the “unification” of Android.
I get that some people are annoyed when different phones have settings in slightly different menus, but we should just be teaching people to rely on search in settings rather than memorizing where each phone puts individual settings.
Problem comes when settings are called different things in different phones
I’ve almost exclusively used stock android and was trying to turn gesture control on for a Samsung phone the other day
Boy did that one take a lot of looking even with using search
Like this?
Why have they got three separate areas for it? That seens really counterintuitive IMO
Searching on stock Android gives a handful of results, but they’re all under one dedicated system area called “Gestures” 🫠 not spread out across several like what Samsung has done
And why is, what I presume to be gesture control with the navbar, under “Sound and Vibration”
If settings organization made any sense, the (far from perfect) search wouldn’t be necessary.
Hell, even top-level settings aren’t sortable, and whatever order they’re in makes sense only to the person who ordered it that way.
It’s a double edged sword. DO we want Android to be more like Windows? That’s the only way you won’t have OEMs making their own unique hierarchy of menus in settings. It’s all a part of a “familiarity” strategy. Get someone used to the way one phone is organized, then they will complain that another phone isn’t “intuitive”. Either we teach people to lean on search, or we ask for Google to take over more of the “unification” of Android.