What do you think the chances are of Apple providing some sort of progress bar when copying files to and from iOS / iPadOS devices from the finder?
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Repeat the process with while holding the option key - do you see a copy progress bar then?
Also, please explain where you'd like to see a progress bar...in the Finder, on the device...?
Here is an excerpt from their own devolper recomendations.
"Favor progress bars over activity indicators. If activity is quantifiable, use a progress bar instead of an activity indicator so people can better gauge what’s happening and how long it will take"
Apple can you take your own advice and five us that? The spinning circle means nothing.
1 To fix this. It's crazy make this kinds operations without progress indicator. Apple is
Another possibility was to use "iostat 5" and monitor transfers from a mounted disk.
It's pretty crazy to have to guess like this (not been fixed for over a year, across two MacOS major versions). Where's the file going? Did I drag the file into the right folder (no indication until all is complete). How close to capacity am I while copying? Who's the manager in charge of this utility? Enquiring minds want to know!
Same here. I cannot understand how one can implement a long operation and not giving the user a way to know when its over or how much as been already done. Progress bar have been here for decades. Who forgot them in this case and why has it not been fixed already?
I think chances are extremely small. Apple usually don't give a damn about user's complaints. If Apple devs made a bug - it's not a bug, it's a feature.
We do care about user complaints and feedback. Also, I checked in our internal issue tracker, and this feature has been discussed as recently as this month. I can't comment on the status of this feature, but the Files team is aware of this request.
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glad to see something from Apple. I have been an Apple user since the IIe (c. 1980), and am constantly amazed at how often Apple now seems to turn their back on the decades of experience and UI design. This is one such feature - with all the complexity of Apple systems now, the underlying assumption has to be that the user expectation is worst case, thus designing with re-assurance in mind is paramount. Even with my experience, I assumed the first few times that I was using the new "drag and drop" that I had made some mistake. Seriously, no progress bar?!
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Ehy what's the status on this? It's a lacking feature since years! Time to fix!
With Monterey beta same problem.
I don't understand Apple.
No news ?? Just to add a poor bar Graph ? ah ok i know, it's just available from iphone 15 That's it ?
when I was a kid in college I remember in the last lecture of the UI/UX fundamentals course that showing Progress indicators of ongoing tasks is one of the most important basics of good UX.
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Progress bar is all but progress, move on people!!! dont transfer files to your Mac, buy the 1TB iPhone Pro and edit there, when is full, just buy another 1TB and so on. Progress is no cheap.
You sound like poor/android people playing rich.
I have PURE SPECULATION, no idea if true, BUT:
What if a "progress bar" or "progress indicator" is some kind of patented technology that apple can no longer use without paying someone. So they intentionally removed it. They do get lots of lawsuits. OR... Apple has been moving away from allowing you to save/use your OWN CONTENT that you copied or made yourself and play it back on your apple devices. They have pushed really hard to make you use subscription services like Spotify or Apple Music so that they can turn everything into a stream. They really don't want you to collect or use any media, cept maybe pictures or home movies you make on the device.