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iOS AppStore Search Menu doesn't have list view anymore. Please Fix It ASAP

There is no list view in Search Menu in the iOS 6 AppStore. They need to fix this ASAP as not being able to view the search results in list format make searching for new apps slow, painful after so many swipes, and nearly impossible. Because after so many swipes it starts to lag and eventually crashes. But most of all it makes finding the apps you want extremely time consuming and hard, as you have to swipe through apps that have nothing to do with what you are searching for. Here's an example...


Say you want to find an app that can mark where you park your car.


On the iPhone using iOS 6. Go to the AppStore > Search (you know the little icon at the bottom that says search.) Now type in "Parking" and search for that.


It brings up games... Ok this would not be an issues except, you have to swipe through each game as opposed to looking at a list of apps and tapping on one that has a name that doesn't indicate it is a game. So now this causes you to end up swiping through 10 or 20 apps before finding even one app that has to do with what you are looking for.


I'm telling Apple now. If I was a developer I would sue. This has made it very difficult and even discourages some people from searching for Apps. I personally gave up searching after swiping 200 times only to find 4 apps that had anything to do with what I actually was searching for. The old list view worked much better and was drastically more user-friendly. Now I don't even like to look for new Apps because I spend more time swiping through Apps that have nothing to do with what I want and less time reading about the ones I do. All because AppStore search menu doesn't have a List View.


Fix this so it's more user friendly please and I can actually enjoy searching for new or random Apps in the search menu.

iPhone 3GS, Other OS

Posted on Sep 22, 2012 2:01 AM

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Sep 24, 2012 9:42 PM in response to KellyLS

Totally agree. It's extremely time consuming viewing just one app at a time. And if you try to swipe again before the sliding animation completes, it lags up. Fire the guys from Chomp that built this interface. It's completely unusable. When you're 20, 30, or 40 apps deep into a search, and you want to go back to the first few apps, you have to swipe again the SAME amount of times. Whereas before you could just tap the very top of your screen to shoot you back to the first results. In the time it takes me to view 10 app results in this new version, I could view 100 apps in the previous version. Side-scrolling is tedious gimmick. Go back to the list view. People are guaranteed not to buy apps if they can't see as many of them. This new UI is tiring.

iOS AppStore Search Menu doesn't have list view anymore. Please Fix It ASAP

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