As an Android user why does an arrow out of a square signify sharing something? (Also why is the apple share menu used for so much besides sharing things)
Three dots being connected makes sense though it isn’t intuitive.
The first time I saw the square with an arrow I thought it was to spit the screen vertically or to connect to a projector.
I see the Apple one as just showing that a menu will come up, it’s just visually showing what will happen when it’s pressed, and that happens to be the share menu.
As an iOS user the Android share icon makes no sense. How does that icon represent sharing? The iOS one is much clearer.
As an Android user why does an arrow out of a square signify sharing something? (Also why is the apple share menu used for so much besides sharing things)
Three dots being connected makes sense though it isn’t intuitive.
The first time I saw the square with an arrow I thought it was to spit the screen vertically or to connect to a projector.
The iOS one looks like the standard “exit” symbol you see in airports around the world. It doesn’t suggest sharing anything to me.
It suggests something (the content) being sent outside your device.
It’s sending something outside of your device (the box).
Like a phone call or a text?
The universal symbol for “input” on a TV remote is the opposite, a box with an arrow going in, simply because there can only be one source at a time
Two arrows makes more sense in the context of sharing
Why? Are you sending it to two people?
More frequently (percentage wise) than I use the Apple share button to get something to leave the device lol
Oh ok now I picture the ios one. I’ve grown up with both. I do prefer the android one more though. But I also dislike ios design elements.
Huh. The Apple one is new to me. It looks like an “upload” icon, which I guess makes sense.
The Android one looks like something being spread/copied from one point to two other points. Which also makes sense.
I see the Apple one as just showing that a menu will come up, it’s just visually showing what will happen when it’s pressed, and that happens to be the share menu.
I can see that. But that doesn’t help identify sharing! Haha
Icons generally dont have to make sense. The universal save icon being a floppy disk is a good example. It just needs to be recognizable.
It’s actually not Android specific, but even then they all make about the same sense to me (which is not a tonne)