iOS 18 Calculator Dissatisfaction, Especially With % Percentage Calculations

sparksmac wrote:

I honestly prefer the way the app was before. I shouldn't have to go find "another" app.

Every year, we get the new iOS and things change. Sometimes for the better. Sometimes, not. Ultimately, we get used to the new tools and kind of forget how it was previously.

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I don't honestly remember it doing that previously, so your memory may be better than mine. All I honestly care about is the answer, which the calculator app does give a correct answer.

You can certainly go out to the App Store and check other calculator apps, which may better meet your needs.

To check, I opened the calculator app on my iPhone 16 Pro Max running now iOS 18.1 (which was released today) and I did the following:

100+20% = and I got 120 as I would have expected.

I agree, this is just so annoying that it does not give the actual number!

The calculator always has, and still does, give the the result when you multiple, not add.

100 X 20% = 20

or 65 X 13% = 8.45

Is this what you are trying to get at?

If you want to get the resultant percentage amount, use the multiply key. Doing that now on my iPhone does this:

100x20%=20

If I use the plus key, I get what you're describing:

100+20%=120

I don't use the percent key much, as I'm used to doing the math with a decimal number for the percentage manually, so I don't recall what it did under iOS 17. None the less, the two examples above make sense to me.