Delightful
Every time I open WYWH it puts me in a delightful space: I’m thinking about a new or different place or thing I’ve photographed, and I’m communicating about that thing to someone I care about, and they’re going to get their own pleasant surprise in the near future. More apps should generate this sort of feeling, most can’t. So grab this and send a postcard!
Great but…
To send a postcard you NEED to use a contact from your Contacts app. The contact NEEDS to be formatted exactly as the developer wants: first name, last name, correctly filled out address.
You cannot make a postcard without first adding a correctly formatted contact from Contacts.
I understand the logic but it’s so stringent and unfriendly. It’s not clear to me why I simply couldn’t manually enter a contact’s information. Yes, I have this information but no I’m not so organized that my Contacts app is correctly formatted. Disappointing!
Response from developer
It’s a very fair criticism, and I don’t fault you for it. I’ve received it, and will offer an update after the forthcoming international release. Part of the reason I do this is to help with ensuring the address is valid, and also to help with a privacy-focused quick send process: 1. If you use contacts, you can easily choose the same contact again to send another card. I don’t need to keep track of a customer address book and hold on to user data. 2. If there is a free entry form, to make it quick to re-send I need to either a) keep track of who you’ve sent things to and make my own address book (which means I’m holding onto contact data), or b) allow you to save an entered address to an existing contact (which means I need more broad permissions to your contacts). The trade-offs of having a privacy-focused approach, where I have as little data as possible, means that these edge cases exist. I may choose to do 2b, because at least that way it will use normal iOS permissions you could revoke, but TBD. I hope this helps explain at least the WHY of this friction. It’s intentional, and makes it better for your data… even if it is a less-than-optimal user experience.
This needed to happen!
Response from developer
❤️❤️❤️🥳💌
