The reason I was curious about the number dial direction is because of how Live Activities animate numerical fields changing. iOS has chosen that the next number comes from above for "count up" and from below for "count down", which feels natural to me...but according to initial results of that poll about half of people think the opposite way.
@_Davidsmith I voted “below” but seeing this demo, agree it looks most natural. Above for counting up and below for counting down makes a lot of sense…
@_Davidsmith I will say that the way iOS does it does feel natural but when I think of an analog(u)e counter, I feel like they always rolled up from the bottom.
@_Davidsmith I answered down but it’s a counters versus clock thing in my experience. I bet someone at Apple wrote a six page memo, don’t pay attention to opinion polls!
@_Davidsmith if you take a look at time pickers, bigger numbers are down below as well. So they slide up, not down.
Also checked my Golf VII (digital) odometers (trip as well as total): both values increase with the new/bigger number coming in from below.
Maybe Live Activities is being overly clever or just wrong?
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