Very minor request.
As the size of my Full Backup is now 8.5GB, using cloud services to moves files around is near impossible.
So, today I was testing my new DR solution - USB thumb drive. Old school, but it works. 32GB thumb drive, formatted exFAT so it can handle files >4GB and be read/write on my iPads and Windows PC (obviously, if you were all in on Apple you'd just go with AFS).
Now, I plan to have 2 iPads as DR solutions - 1 I'll be using as my main lyrics iPad, and the 2nd (an older smaller capacity one) just a pure spare iPad for anyone to use in any situation. This smaller one only has 32GB and so there wasn't even room for me to copy the ST3 backup files off the USB drive to the local storage, to then test restore. So, I figured I'd just test restoring directly from the USB drive. This would be the fastest path anyway to have it running my latest ST3 backup.
So I start the restore of the 8.5GB backup from the USB drive....
ST is just unresponsive. No indication of anything... but equally no indication of anything NOT happening.
Knowing it would take a few minutes, I just left it. Sure enough, when I came back to it 10 mins later, all good.
But it highlighted a small UI feature that would be a nice-to-have - a progress indicator. Something to indicate something is happening. I know having a reliable time estimate (or graphical representation) opens a can of worms, but no-one expects those things to be accurate. Ballpark accuracy would be fine, anything better is a bonus.
I'm not sure what the standards are for iOS apps when it comes to file copy/backup/restore progress indicators, whether this is something the OS can provide, or whether Steve Jobs decided it was "too Windows-y" and outlawed them, or whether they can be part of the app. But just thought I'd ask as it would be a small quality of life benefit. I also appreciate that if you are performing backup/restore to local storage then the time taken is seconds and therefore an progress indicator has little value. But still, just thought I'd throw it out there in case I'm not the only one having to resort to USB devices for direct backup/restore of my ST data.