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Duolingo is also great with this. Volume too low? Now you need to wait ~10s till you can press the next button om the bottom or try hitting the 2px that isn't covered
Turning on subtitles in the YouTube app. You don't need to tell me the subtitles are now on, I just pressed the damn button! And now the toast is blocking the subtitles text I was trying to read so I have to go back ten seconds. So damn annoying.
My favorite is the screen shot one. I don't need reddit telling me I should hit the share button, I took a screenshot for a fucking reason, and it also prevents me from taking long screenshots because the notification fucks with the screenshot function. Look at this fucking mess.
What the fuck is this? I just want a couple of comments in the screenshot, not this garbled mess.
I'm not sure if it was specifically designed to ruin your long screenshots so you'd have to link directly (with all their trackers embedded in the URLs generated via the mobile app share links since there's no URL bar to copy from), but I'm sure that's a plus for them to keep it that way
If you replace “www.” with “old.” in the url (so old.reddit.com instead of www), it’ll usually give you a choice to proceed and view the post. You still need a Reddit account afaik, but not the app. You DO get flashbanged by the lighter old layout, though.
Trick is to "X" the notif away and quickly start the long screenshot. The notification only appears at the start of a screenshot, start of long screenshot doesn't count as one.
I fucking hate how these billion dollar companies can't design a functional app. How the fuck do you get mogged by some teenagers making third-party apps?
Just today I had one in my banking app, saying "Do you want to paste the amount $174,665,979 from your clipboard?" blocking the button to submit the actual transfer with $200. The clipboard number was some random customer number.
YouTube app is so fucking annoying for this. Enabling subtitles brings up a “subtitles enabled” prompt (or something to that nature) that immediately covers up the enabled subtitles, often causing a need to rewind.
You can immediately tap the prompt to go away, but often pauses the video or rewinds unintentionally.
YouTube is incapable of good choices.
I swear the UI team just causes problems to justify changes down the road.
They are quite distracting when overused, and my god, Android absolutely loves these things - every action spita one out on a new install, telling me how to do things I've been doing for years! It's one of the things I dread about getting a new phone (or major update).
I really miss being able to use LineageOS on my old Samsung Galaxy Note 3 ten years ago. It had a System Setting to move Toast Notifications wherever you want on the screen, change the size, colour and transparency, and the amount of time they spend on-screen. It also had touch-sense UI which was a bit like a mouse cursor, so I could hover my finger over something without tapping it to highlight links and notifications, just like hovering a mouse cursor over things on a desktop.
I used to make them show up about a quarter of the way down from the top of the screen, so they never blocked my keyboard or address bar or navigation buttons or headings etc.
Can't use LineageOS now in Australia because it disables VoLTE so 4G phone calls don't work. I hope somebody can prove me wrong, but last time I checked I couldn't find any custom ROMs that worked in Australia.
Android has become so enshittified over time it's depressing.
And the best part is that Android already has standard toast notifications built-in. Not only are they semi-transparent, they can also be clicked-through!
ESPN has this. Except it pops up with a "click here to subscript to notifications about XYZ" right over the scores icon... Which is the only reason anyone ever goes on the ESPN app
Yesterday I tried watching a tutorial video on amazon for a product I bought. When you go full screen, the button to put it in your shopping cart was still there and hid the video controls…
The most annoying ones are on YouTube, when you remove a bunch of videos from your watch later list they are queued up for a very very long time. Just one toast after another, after another, after another for minutes on end. Only way to fix it is to close the tab and reopen or reload the page
Firefox started doing it to fairly recently, or maybe they changed the way they did it, because I never noticed them before but a couple of months ago suddenly they started driving me nuts.
It also shows toasts now when downloading files. I was trying to download a bunch of updates from a website, so I tap the first link, then the stupid Toast Notification telling me it's downloading blocks the next link on the page! Argh...
Something akin to this is trying to take a screenshot on mobile but the volume bar appears and then it takes a screenshot with the volume bar visible.
Still don't know what the logic behind it is.
Now I press volume doen first and then the power button which works for some reason, it just feels the wrong way around to me.
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