Calculator App Issues in iOS 18

icterusgularis wrote:

There are other recent changes too. The balls of these people who think they can just change how calculators have worked for 50 years. But what would you expect from Gen Zers who probably never even used one.

There are hundreds of calculators, and they all work differently from each other. So it is meaningless to say anything about “how calculators have worked for 50 years”. I’ve been using calculators for more than 50 years, from Frieden mechanical for solving engineering problems, to a Sony with a Nixie display that could do square roots, to the HP-35 (the first scientific calculator), over many others to the HP-12C, a model that was first introduced in 1981, is still in production and is regarded by many as the best calculator ever developed. I have 3 located in different workspaces, as well as an emulator on my iPhone and iPad. In addition I have several calculators both hardware and on iPhone emulations, because each has features that I want at different times. And yes, I have a calculator with a real paper tape.

So cut the nonsense on “how calculators have worked for 50 years.” And BTW, the latest Apple calculator was updated to meet the requests of many users over many years.

Here are my earliest calculators (the yellow one is the same model carried by US astronauts on Space Shuttle missions, the one on the left was used by my stepfather when he designed the human centrifuge for NASA):

icterusgularis wrote:

There are other recent changes too. The balls of these people who think they can just change how calculators have worked for 50 years. But what would you expect from Gen Zers who probably never even used one.

The Calculator app on the Mac (or iPhone) is not fifty years old. Tim Cook, who currently helms Apple, is, in fact, part of the Baby Boom generation. Not that I subscribe to this nonsense that everyone born between certain years behaves in certain ways.

I’m really unhappy with the calculator too. The previous version gave a subtotal as you entered your calculations now it doesn’t so it’s absolutely no use to me. Do you think they might change it back 🤔

I agree. I was working on my budget and the calculator kept rounding up the total. Why 😩

Please can someone at Apple please add this functionality back to the calculator app, this is something I use very regularly, for compounding over months or years as part of my job.

thank you

Six-digit numbers behave as they always have. 123,456 pastes as 123,456.

And someone got a promotion for it. Love big-tech's customer focus.

Don't bother using the Calculator in iOS 18. It gives you wrong numbers for totals. The Calculator on Mac's are accurate.

Please get rid of the scientific notation default for million dollar numbers. The calculator app was great until now. Can I go back to IOS17?

I found when I use the scientific calculator I do not get the scientific notation nonsense. One would think it would be the opposite. Please fix and update this app to back to the future

I still get scientific notation when copying and pasting from the scientific calculator.

Did you try the calculation on a iPhonr running iOS 18 and on you Mac?

AlWeir wrote:

Did you try the calculation on a iPhonr running iOS 18 and on you Mac?

No. Why would I? The calculation wasn't wrong.

Yep! It’s a junk copy of android! So awful! Sure showing the previous numbers is great. But come on! This a major downgrade! Looking for a new app. Glad I bought a 16 pro. 🤦‍♂️

Sorry about the way my list of issues is not parallel grammatical construction. Hopefully people can follow what I mean. More coffee!