Hi Mary and Apple Accessibility, I agree that there is a bug, but the work-around is easy and one can’t really say it “breaks” accessibility in any way. I wonder if a sighted user can drag an app into a folder in the dock when the dock is full. Emphasis here is on “when the dock is full” because if there is even one space in the dock and you have one or more folders in the dock, there is no problem with adding/dropping apps into them. Anyhow, here is how this works, I tested this on my 6S Plus and would expect it to be consistent:
If the dock is full, i.e. you have 4 apps, 4 folders or a mix of apps and folders for a total of 4 then you can’t add anything to the dock, you can’t add any more apps or folders and, you are correct, you can’t add an app to a folder, either. This latter issue can definitely be considered to be a bug since there is no reason why one should not be able to put an app into a folder regardless whether said folder is on the home screen or in the dock. What is not a bug is the fact that if 4 items are in the dock you can’t add anything else, the dock can only hold 4 items. On the home screen even if a home screen is full, if you add another item the last item at the bottom right will simply move over to the top left of the following home screen, in the dock there is no place for an app to go so instead of bumping the rightmost app out of the dock Apple obviously simply decided that if you want to add an item to a full dock you first have to take one of the existing 4 items out. Now, what I tested is this: I removed two items from the dock and then put a folder into the dock so that now I had 3 items in the dock, 2 apps and a folder. This still left one empty space. I now put an app on the home screen in editing mode, started dragging it and now with focus on the app that was second in the dock and had a folder to the right I now had the full selection of options available, drop to the left, drop to the right and make a folder with the two apps. If I put focus on the folder in the dock instead of on one of the two apps, I again had all options available, I could drop the add to the left of the folder, to the right of the folder or I could drop it in the folder. This means only if the dock is full you can’t drop an app into a folder and the work-around is to take an app out so the dock has one space available.. Again, I think Apple can probably fix this so that even if the dock is full you can at least drop an app into a folder that is in the dock. I am actually CC’ing Apple Accessibility so they also get this message since it outlines the different scenarios and anybody who wants to use all or part of my description and testing is free to do so. I would never place a folder in the dock, to me the dock is for the 4 apps I use most and it is not logical to me to put a folder there which I first have to open to get to the apps in it. But everybody is different and since I agree that it should be possible to drop an app into a folder even if said folder is in a full dock I’ll support you in reporting it. Moving one of the apps out of the folder might be easier than moving the folder out of the dock because if the folder is in the dock and you can drop apps into it you can do so with apps on any home screen. I would simply go to the first home screen where you have an empty spot at the bottom and put one of the dock apps there, then put whatever apps you want to add to the folder in the folder which is now possible, then put the app back. Of course this is now even easier because if you want to put 2 or 3 or 8 apps into the folder in the dock, you can go from home page to home page, add all the apps to the drag session and drop them into the folder all at once. Best regards, Sieghard -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: [email protected]. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
