{"id":1129,"date":"2021-12-16T08:52:45","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T05:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/files2.tojikon.net\/files-cloud\/2017\/10\/23\/the-ios-calculator-might-not-be-adding-numbers-correctly\/https:\/\/files2.tojikon.net\/files-cloud\/2017\/10\/23\/the-ios-calculator-might-not-be-adding-numbers-correctly\/"},"modified":"2021-12-16T08:52:45","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T05:52:45","slug":"the-ios-calculator-might-not-be-adding-numbers-correctly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tojikon.net\/en\/1129-the-ios-calculator-might-not-be-adding-numbers-correctly\/","title":{"rendered":"The iOS Calculator Might Not be Adding Numbers Correctly"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When you\u2019re adding or subtracting lots of numbers, there\u2019s always a chance you might make a mistake. If you use the stock iOS calculator app, the chances are greater. If you don\u2019t believe it, try adding 1+2+3 quickly. Chances are the answer you get is 24 which is obviously wrong.\u00a0 This appears to be a long standing problem with iOS and the culprit in this case is an odd one; animations.<\/p>\n

Animations are what make iOS look so good. They\u2019re normally very smooth and give the OS a very cohesive feel. As you move from one app to the other, or even navigate within an app, everything looks and feels very well put together. So, why is it causing problems in the iOS calculator app, and why with the addition function?<\/p>\n

iOS Calculator<\/h2>\n

The problem isn\u2019t with just the addition function. This is just one simple way to catch it. As for animations, if you look closely at buttons for the mathematical functions in the app, you will notice that they \u2018light up\u2019 when you tap them. This simple little effect is an animation. As it slows down over the years with the release of a new iOS version, the slow animation starts to effect the calculator\u2019s function.<\/p>\n

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What happens is, when you tap the Plus button after adding 1 and 2, the animation takes so long to register and run that the addition key isn\u2019t registered at all. Only the 3 is registered. Hence, you\u2019re adding 1+23 which is 24. The maths is correct but the time the app is taking to respond is throwing things off.<\/p>\n

The thing with this is, a user is more likely to blame themselves than to think there\u2019s something wrong with the calculator app. While adding or subtracting etc, it\u2019s believable that we might tap the wrong number or forget to tap a key. Reddit user\u00a0ryanpaulfan posted this and quite a few people who tried adding the three numbers realized it\u2019s not them, it\u2019s the app.<\/p>\n

The Solution<\/h2>\n

There\u2019s no solution to this problem unless you jailbreak your iPhone and disable the animation. If you\u2019re not too attached to the stock calculator app, you can just install a third-party calculator app. The App Store has loads of them and you will be spoiled for choice. More importantly, you\u2019ll probably be able to find an app that does more than the stock app, for free.<\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t mind spending $5, you can probably find a calculator app that far exceeds the normal functionality of the stock app. Alternatively, if you absolutely must use the stock app and do not want to jailbreak your phone for something so small, you can tap the numbers and others keys in the app a little more slowly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Related Articles When you\u2019re adding or subtracting lots of numbers, there\u2019s always a chance you might make a mistake. If you use the stock iOS calculator app, the chances are greater. If you don\u2019t believe it, try adding 1+2+3 quickly. Chances are the answer you get is 24 which is obviously wrong.\u00a0 This appears to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tojikon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tojikon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tojikon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tojikon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tojikon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tojikon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tojikon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tojikon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tojikon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tojikon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}