Any feature that you don't want will be constantly getting in your way.
One of the best examples of this is the Safari Sidebar. I don't know anyone who likes this, but Apple keeps trying to make it the default, and in your face, as much as possible.
In my case, I use a relatively narrow monitor on my kitchen table because there isn't much horizontal space available. I use large typefaces because my eyes have floaters and somewhat imperfect focus at the monitor distance. This means the safari sidebar renders the rest of my browser window very narrow. It's terrible.
So I wonder, does Apple keep trying to stick this in my face because...they want to sell a newer bigger Apple monitor??? Usually these endless features have some purpose like that; they're either part of planned obsolescence of some kind (a new monitor every 3 years as we add needlessly add more pixels) or part of some other kind of sale (your personal media viewing and listening habits, or a lifelong relationship where you can keep on being gouged long into the future with additional offers for additional relationships).
So I remember many many times turning off the Safari sidebar. Often I just dive into the Safari preferences. Curiously, there isn't any control for the sidebar there, though it obviously seems like something which might be considered a preference. I seem to recall there was a preference for it many years ago, and then that preference item went away. I might be mistaken about that, and confusing it with similar features, but it seems to me at some point Apple removed that preference item and thereby invalidated innumerable pages found by Google telling you how to turn off the sidebar--that kind of invalidation is happening all the time for all such troublesome features for sure--and any given Google search for any such features is likely to first unearth 10 useless descriptions of how it was/is done in some earlier/later version of the software/OS involved.
So now that turning the sidebar off disappeared from Safari preferences, it did sorta often seem like it remembered the way I liked Safari (without the Sidebar). But then, sometimes possibly after Safari updates, or OS updates, the sidebar comes back on, persistently, and I have to struggle to find useful information on how it can now be turned off in permanently or at least semi-permanently in future windows, not just the one I'm looking at now.
Then there are the features like the innumerable different modes the iPhone camera app lets you do photography. Most of the time, nearly all the time, all I want to do is take a simple snap shot. Not a video, not a panorama, etc, etc. But often I'm trying to take this photo holding the phone at a distance where it's not easy to see what part of the screen I'm contacting or how. So I end up twirling through the various photo options that are always there, always reminding me of how clever Apple is, cleverly providing features that are constantly getting in my way of just trying to do simple things.
One of the best examples of this is the Safari Sidebar. I don't know anyone who likes this, but Apple keeps trying to make it the default, and in your face, as much as possible.
In my case, I use a relatively narrow monitor on my kitchen table because there isn't much horizontal space available. I use large typefaces because my eyes have floaters and somewhat imperfect focus at the monitor distance. This means the safari sidebar renders the rest of my browser window very narrow. It's terrible.
So I wonder, does Apple keep trying to stick this in my face because...they want to sell a newer bigger Apple monitor??? Usually these endless features have some purpose like that; they're either part of planned obsolescence of some kind (a new monitor every 3 years as we add needlessly add more pixels) or part of some other kind of sale (your personal media viewing and listening habits, or a lifelong relationship where you can keep on being gouged long into the future with additional offers for additional relationships).
So I remember many many times turning off the Safari sidebar. Often I just dive into the Safari preferences. Curiously, there isn't any control for the sidebar there, though it obviously seems like something which might be considered a preference. I seem to recall there was a preference for it many years ago, and then that preference item went away. I might be mistaken about that, and confusing it with similar features, but it seems to me at some point Apple removed that preference item and thereby invalidated innumerable pages found by Google telling you how to turn off the sidebar--that kind of invalidation is happening all the time for all such troublesome features for sure--and any given Google search for any such features is likely to first unearth 10 useless descriptions of how it was/is done in some earlier/later version of the software/OS involved.
So now that turning the sidebar off disappeared from Safari preferences, it did sorta often seem like it remembered the way I liked Safari (without the Sidebar). But then, sometimes possibly after Safari updates, or OS updates, the sidebar comes back on, persistently, and I have to struggle to find useful information on how it can now be turned off in permanently or at least semi-permanently in future windows, not just the one I'm looking at now.
Then there are the features like the innumerable different modes the iPhone camera app lets you do photography. Most of the time, nearly all the time, all I want to do is take a simple snap shot. Not a video, not a panorama, etc, etc. But often I'm trying to take this photo holding the phone at a distance where it's not easy to see what part of the screen I'm contacting or how. So I end up twirling through the various photo options that are always there, always reminding me of how clever Apple is, cleverly providing features that are constantly getting in my way of just trying to do simple things.
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