“Why did the Apple engineer not do that” because he didn’t have to. It’s been ***years*** and no one has noticed until now. No reason to make it more complicated than it has to be.
2025-09-04 04:48:11
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That Florida Guy :
I saw on another video some "coding expert" saying that it would be impossible to code... this guy did it in 10 minutes 🤣🤣🤣
2025-09-04 17:41:52
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Beyoncetrolls :
It is a loop in iOS 26
2025-09-05 02:16:30
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Harlan :
iOS’s datetime picker isnt a list of numbers, it’s a projection onto a Unix timestamp. The datetime has a final value at +[NSDate distantFuture], and by scrolling the wheel you just keep adding hours and hours to the current time until you hit the end time. It could probably reset, but obviously it didn’t matter at the time given that this limitation didn’t get discovered for a decade
2025-09-04 03:25:36
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user47385939474828484 :
Not an iOS programmer, but I’d guess they’d have one team making reusable components and and another making the Clock app. They have a requirement for a looping dial (hour/minute) and a non-looping dial (AM/PM), but only one is implemented. Instead of implementing the loop they came up with a solution that is 100% as functional using a list.
2025-09-04 00:59:28
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Hussain Merchant :
I think they did this because when you go from 59 to 00 it automatically changes to next hour. so similar people would think that scrolling from 12 to 1 would make the alarm go off on the next day. A lot of decisions are made when designing the ui and the ux. A good ui and ux makes everything as less ambiguous as possible. This is a good ux as it doesn't make you guess whether it will go off on same day or the next day.
2025-09-04 14:00:22
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Luckydeals :
tidbit ai is down it keeps saying no credits 😿
2025-09-09 19:42:01
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Ethan Keating :
Linked list???
2025-09-04 00:54:06
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Tei-Chan :
Mine does scroll from 1-12 circularly
2025-09-04 16:05:18
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𐌔𐌀𐌕𐌀𐌍 :
Mine is on a wheel….
2025-09-05 02:33:48
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bex :
Have we considered different languages, fonts, characters, ios versions, apple versions, accessibility options, etc etc?
2025-09-04 09:18:14
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Ian 🇺🇸 :
If you rotate it 90 degrees and cut the view down to one item, it’s called a carousel or slideshow in web dev. We’ve known about them for a minute
2025-09-04 02:39:51
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Qasim :
Am I tripping or could a circular linked list have been used? If not y would it not work?
2025-09-05 05:33:57
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Ldubb :
My iPhone does it already ?
2025-09-04 22:00:38
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seaweed :
billion dollar company vs guy with PC
2025-09-04 13:02:48
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lowenslowe :
I think the reason for the list is because it’s sensitive to the UX input and speed of scrolling, with the haptic feedback so for that to not use any iteration or memory they just put it into a list. Because they need to judge how far it’s going to roll when you flick it.
2025-09-04 05:38:36
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janyewest :
The real tragedy is Apple going “list-like” for a value that could be simply represented in a flat dial like a clock face. Drag thumb over the flat circle for the time.
2025-09-04 15:03:12
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StarryM :
Facts it is more smooth 🔥❤️
2025-09-04 16:02:09
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Andrew C :
Can someone get a hold of a Job’s era phone/iOS and see if it’s also a list there?
2025-09-04 13:28:12
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user2761219869940 :
Try doing it with a UICollectionView and let me know how that goes
2025-09-04 04:36:02
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… :
Claude would’ve did it in 44 seconds
2025-09-04 22:42:17
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Another Old Dad :
If pac man could go out the back door and appear on the other side I d6see why this would be so hard. 🤷
2025-09-04 17:32:03
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Dat :
How does it perform on like an iPhone 3G. Maybe at the time it performs better to just have a list.
2025-09-04 05:20:13
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Chris :
I didn't believe it until I checked it on my iphone😭
2025-09-04 23:01:09
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