Greetings all. A new iOS version was released today (v 2.1.17). Although it is early, I wonder if anyone has any insight about it. What are the pluses to it, what are the negatives, or is it just the same ? (I did notice the new icon, but that is all I saw on the update blurb).
I used to look forward to updates, but lately the trend has me worried. I don’t want to lose some functionality by updating to what they used to say in the trades is “new and improved”. So does anyone have any insight they can offer ? Many thanks.
The app still doesn’t respect your settings if you don’t want to use daily goals or the daily reminder.
The new layout is still a user unfriendly mess.
All the settings are still reverted to defaults if you log out and back in.
There is a new completely useless feature: During review there are purple flashes (probably thought of as encouraging since they appear at 3, 5, 10, 15 and 25 correct words in a row) annoying you and slowing down the review even more.
I wish you could turn off visual effects like these, as you can with the sound effects.
@helmer ~ thanks for the feedback on this. Looks like I will skip this update then. No real incentive that I can see from your review. Have a good day !