iPad is one of my life’s constant love/hate relationships. Its OS gets better every year and I keep improving the profit I take from it, but Apple is reaaaally slow to fix (sometimes very obvious) stuff.
This one is probably the most stupid issue I found with iPadOS, so stupid, that it actually encourages me to uninstall apps as much as possible. Whenever you visit a site on Safari, the browser checks if there’s an existing app installed for that site, and if so it recommends you to open the app directly, instead of staying in the website.
In theory I guess that should be a «feature». If you took your time to install a native application, it makes sense that the OS prefers you to use it. But in practice it encourages me to uninstall any application that could collide with my daily browsing.
The thing is, for many applications (like WordPress or Twitter X), the web is the best possible user experience you can get from them. And for some reason Apple in its immense wisdom determined there should be no possible way of disabling the popup that suggests us to open an app. The only way of hiding it is *scrolling* down the site, which doesn’t always work, and on top of that causes the browser top UI to hide.
The result is an incredibly bad user experience and the only real solution is to uninstall the app, stopping Safari from suggesting such an alternative.
So it’s one of those rare cases where to get the best possible experience you need to do exactly the opposite of what the OS manufacturer would like you to do.
Daniel Barca 