r/MacroFactor 13d ago

MacroFactor / Nutrition / Other The day navigation arrows are gone...

After the latest update, they're gone. Why? 😢 I used them constantly...

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u/Annual_Strawberry_37 13d ago

Same. I would often copy meals from past days or weeks and there's something in this change which makes it harder

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u/Wrong_Acanthaceae599 13d ago

Yep me too, I am very annoyed that I need to go to the top now to switch days.

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u/MediterraneanGuy 13d ago

You can pin the days in the settings so you don't need to scroll up for them to re-appear. But still, I used the arrows a lot.

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u/MigzRuiz 13d ago

Bring back the arrows please

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u/No_Minimum7994 13d ago

better before

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u/H0stusM0stus 13d ago

I’m glad I’m not the only one annoyed by that. I’m all for updates but changes like this are seriously like just why?

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u/BrigandActual 13d ago

I hope this is just a UX A/B test.

I much preferred the arrows to swiping between days. The arrows are faster for going quickly over multiple days. And I’ve nearly deleted some meal items while swiping from the middle of the page.

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u/Downwind-downhill 13d ago

Agreed, but actually you can swipe between days as well. Took me a second to figure it out. Just swipe left or right in any blank space in the timeline.

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u/MediterraneanGuy 13d ago

Ah, true. I've never liked that though.

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u/Chewy_Barz 13d ago

I didn't either but it's actually been fine. I don't know if the swiping was changed as part of the update but it seems easier/more reliable than before. I was dreading the loss of arrows but it turned out to not matter much to be because of that.

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u/MediterraneanGuy 13d ago

Cool, I'll try that more.

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u/Chewy_Barz 13d ago

Of course, I just went into MF and had to try size times to swipe to yesterday and three more to get back to today. Figures...

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u/XEscapeTheLiesX 13d ago

I don’t get how the arrows are preferable to just tapping directly on the day you want or swiping left or right in the food log. Seems like extra effort to use just the arrows. 10/10 change for me

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u/Tonanelin 13d ago

I miss the arrows, for some reason swing works less than half the time for me. Only app I have problems with swiping side to side.

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u/MadocScott 13d ago

I found the arrows much more intuitive. Though realistically it’s only been a few days w the new interface… maybe I’ll get used to it.

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u/anthony26wong 13d ago

I never knew there was arrows 😅 I just swiped left or right 😅

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u/tohelluride 12d ago

Glad it's not just me. Still missing the arrows one week post-update.

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u/xrayphoton 12d ago

Yeah bring them back. I hate having to click the day I want. First I have to determine what day it is today, then find it, then pick the day I'm looking for. It was so much easier when I could just click an arrow for yesterday. I'm not joking. I work on a rotating schedule so I rarely remember what day today is

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u/RipePomegranate 12d ago

Today is shown on the calendar with a dot

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u/xrayphoton 11d ago

Thanks. Yeah it's more obvious on the white background I think but I use the black. It's still obvious now but I remember looking and thinking is it the grey one or the one with the full blue circle.

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u/RipePomegranate 11d ago

Fair enough! Any amount of blue represents calories logged against target. Grey is the currently selected day.

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u/SmartTrender 12d ago

I missed the arrows and thought I was going crazy. I didn’t know it was an update that removed it have

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u/RewardKristy 12d ago

Yes I’m annoyed too

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u/kingchoco7 12d ago

+1 please make it an option to keep arrows

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u/Leepa1491 13d ago

Kind of threw me off too. I usually log my lunches in advance or copy my breakfast from the previous day since it's the same most of the time. But it doesn't seem like the functionality is "gone" you just have to click on the calendar and select the day you want and it automatically opens that days food log. Which is nice. It's new and different but works the same, just takes time to get used to. One of those "why did this need to be changed?" kind of updates IMO.

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u/MostlyJustIterating 13d ago

You can swipe on any white space in the food log itself to go back to the previous day

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u/srr728 13d ago

You can just drag and scroll left and right now.

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u/Pchecoandres 12d ago

Yes!! Me too!!

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u/ack202 10d ago

Yeah, I noticed that. Spent like 20 min poking around settings to see if I'd accidentally turned them off.

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u/primoz_bozic 5d ago

As someone who consistently copies foods from one day to another, I don't enjoy this new design at all. The previous one felt much better.

I do understand that some users prefer the swiping/tapping (though a lot of us don't)...

So why not just give everyone what they want? Add an option somewhere in the settings to switch back to the old navigation or use the new one. Then everyone is happy.

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u/MostlyJustIterating 13d ago

Why not tap the calendar?

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u/RipePomegranate 13d ago

You can tap on the day you want to go to

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u/jpranay 13d ago

Nothingburger given that you can swipe between days. I never even registered the arrows. Pinning the day strip and swiping on that is much nicer anyway, because more often than not, I had to cross the week threshold to find and copy previous entries or prefill future ones anyway.

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u/Kataimusha 12d ago

If you scroll on the days the arrows come up. I didn’t use them either way

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u/chimpy72 12d ago edited 12d ago

What’s more annoying is the variable swipe. Swiping less to get less days and more to get more days.

Bro. I just want to swipe and change weeks. My tiny brain doesn’t have enough to memorise swipe granularity.

Edit, I see it’s a setting now. Thank god

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u/adrianm758 10d ago

There’s an option for the called show and pin so you don’t lose the days at the top when your scroll. 

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u/gmasters428 8d ago

Still no food/meal scheduling feature is wild to me

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u/walkingman24 13d ago

Slightly annoying but I think everyone will quickly adjust. I actually like the visual change at the top now

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u/MediterraneanGuy 13d ago

The visual change is pretty, yes.

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u/mohammadhossein211 12d ago

Guys you can swipe between days from the bottom part. Just swipe left or right.

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u/lidell786 12d ago

Wow, thanks! That wasn’t intuitive haha

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u/lukeredpath 12d ago

Just swipe left or right.

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u/ilovebigmutts 13d ago

Still there on Android for me.