User profile for user: David Robins
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New iOS 12 Stock app seem to be a step backwards

Tried the new iOS 12 Stock app for 2 days, but had to back out to iOS 11.4.1.


The new Stock app seems much less user-friendly. the prices and change are stacked one below theater, and the new numbers are much smaller and harder to see. I am used to looking at the price changes, but they are therefore mixed with the current price, so hard to scan. Yes, they do have the tiny new lightning graphs, but those really give little info, since there is no timeline shown.


The stock graph can't be turned to landscape mode to use the two-finger change-of-price feature. The portrait view graph is so small that two fingers can hardly be used, since they run into each other.


There is no swiping of the graphs to move from one to the other, either. Used to be, with the graph in landscape mode, I could see all my stocks one at a time by swiping. Now, I have to go the the stock list, pick the next stock down to look at the graph. Over and over.


I liked the news feed the prior app had, rather than the Apple News feed. For example, Tilray had no news available at all in the new app.


So, overall, I find this new stock app a step in the wrong direction from the usability standpoint. I vote to have the old one back, as long as they fix the bug in the landscape view where it gets out of sync with its time connection.

iPhone 6, iOS 11.4.1

Posted on Sep 20, 2018 4:22 PM

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User profile for user: drumtroll
drumtroll
User level: Level 1
26 points

Dec 5, 2018 8:12 PM in response to IdrisSeabright

It also no longer shows when the markets are open or closed. The old version had these both of these [actually useful] features, and the new one removes them, becoming less useful and less functional. Bad design.


In fact, even the list of stocks is now jumbled and cluttered. They took a simple, functional app that “just works” and rendered it almost unusable, now. I agree with David Robins: it’s junk, now.


Anyone have a recommendation for an app that [actually] functions like the old one?

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User profile for user: yvrrob
yvrrob
User level: Level 1
8 points

Feb 6, 2019 10:11 AM in response to David Robins

"The stock graph can't be turned to landscape mode to use the two-finger change-of-price feature. The portrait view graph is so small that two fingers can hardly be used, since they run into each other."


+10,000! Please put this feature back in the next release... Not being able to turn my phone sideways to get the large graph anymore is a big setback! Don't go the way of google finance website where they "dumbed down" to a version that is now useless. Stock news isn't that important.. stock price and the corresponding technical data is much more valuable.


For now I found "StockMaster" is a good replacement until Apple adds landscape full screen charts back in.



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