Thanks for this great tip. Again, another totally non-intuitive way to make Music 10x better.
Tangent: I wonder if people who work at Apple browse HN and see these kinds of complaints regularly? It would be weird to work at a big company that gets a lot of press on HN and stealthily get direct user feedback from a tech forum.
For me - yes. I had never needed to use "Restrictions" before, and it would seem much more obvious to be able to customize the display of the application from within the app. It also doesn't make all that much sense that by turning off one of the tabs, it would be replaced with an actually useful tab - playlists.
I don't work in UI/UX and I'm not an iPhone power user, so perhaps it's just me.
You have to have some reason to think a setting might exist before you'll go looking for it. If it's unintuitive to think that a particular piece of functionality might be controlled by a setting at all, the fact that it would be easy to find the setting if you knew it existed is of little help.
There is an obvious line between being non-intuitive or unobvious and reasons to think something exists or not. A UI cannot rely solely on intuition alone; investigation must be encouraged too.
Tangent: I wonder if people who work at Apple browse HN and see these kinds of complaints regularly? It would be weird to work at a big company that gets a lot of press on HN and stealthily get direct user feedback from a tech forum.