Niche app for iOS: Backing out of in-app Facebook/Twitter share options results in lingering animation

iOS 13.4.1
Niche colleges app for iOS (version 2.6.0)
Date: 04/29/20

Description:

Here's a minor complaint with the Niche app for iOS.

Once again, this is easier to show than to describe, but I will try to brief summarize.

Once of the first things I noticed was the lack of sharing options - I basically couldn't find a way to activate the iOS share sheet. There are some options to share things like articles from inside the app using Facebook and Twitter share options.

I tend not to like these options for a number of reasons.

One of the biggest reasons is this:

.@NicheSocial .@joeyrahimi .@lukeskurman

Users who back out of in-app Twitter and Facebook share options get stuck looking at this animation pic.twitter.com/HB85SDGYNV

— Random iOS Bugs (@RandomiOSBugs) April 29, 2020

If a user backs out of these options (which is what I always do when I am sent to the Safari Mobile Twitter/Facebook circle of death) the app simply hangs forever with an animation swirling on the screen. The user can get out of this, but tapping the home or back arrows. But you're still stuck staring at an animation on screen that makes the user think that the app is doing something.

Always a pet peeve of mine with any app.

99% of users equate an animation like this with the app actually doing something that you need to wait through!

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Download the Niche app for iOS
2. Type "Skip"
3. Select some option that's displayed on the landing page
4. Select the side bar and select something like "College Guidance"
5. Select something like "Your No-Nonsense, No-Stress Guide to the FAFSA"
6. Select either the Facebook or Twitter share options
7. Sit and watch the animation

Result: Backing out of the in-app Facebook or Twitter share options results in animation remaining on screen

Expected: Backing out of Facebook or Twitter sharing shouldn't result in an intrusive animation on screen

Head to an article like this, under "College Guidance"....

Select either of these options...

Scratch your head as to why the Twitter app on the phone wasn't opened...

After I have backed out, I see swirling animation on screen.

Niche app for iOS: Easy way to disable the zoom-in/zoom-out option on the map

iOS 13.4.1
Niche colleges app for iOS (version 2.6.0)
Date: 04/29/20

Description:

This one will be much, much easier to show than to describe. Today, I download the Niche app onto my iPhone 8 running iOS 13.4.1. I like the design and purpose of the app!

Basically, as a first time user, I managed to easily get the zoom in/zoom out options on the map to not work.

I'm stuck on a map that looks like this:

When I tap on the zoom buttons. The "Copy/Look Up/Share..." options all appear when I tap on the zoom out. The app has highlighted the mile indicator, and when I select "Copy" in actually selects the miles listed about "mapbox."

I think there's a pretty simple root problem as to how this happens.

However, I am not speculating on the root cause problems, I am writing about the less than optimal functionality I see as an end user.

Here's a video of the problem that I posted to twitter:

.@NicheSocial .@lukeskurman .@joeyrahimi

Problem with the map in the iOS app. Easy way to disable the zoom-in/zoom-out options... pic.twitter.com/1iWXgTiiYf

— Random iOS Bugs (@RandomiOSBugs) April 29, 2020

(I actually got this through random "clumsy finger" user, but here's an easy way to reproduce it)

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Download the Niche app
2. From the landing screen, select "Skip"
3. Select any of the options listed (go to a result with a map option)
4. Select a map option
5. Tap the "i" button once (note that the dialog flashes quickly)
6. Tap and hold the "i" button again

Result: Tapping and holding (that's what she said) the "i" button on Niche maps seems to disable the zoom-in/zoom-out options

Expected: Tapping and holding the "i" button on Niche maps should not disable the zoom-in/zoom-out options for the map