Calculator Functionality Change After Update

I HATE this change!!! I used to love it displaying the percentage amount before the final result.

It now makes invoicing twice as long. SO ANNOYING.

Apple, please revert it back to how it was!

This is a mess the update is meant to make the functionality better not worse now you need to do allot of math to figure out the currency in percentage when it used to be one click :( can this be fixed?

It’s driving me insane!!! Apple tries to give you total control and customization with its products. How can you mess up a stinking calculator app? At least we should have an option.

I have the same problem! I calculate money quantities and distribution on the go, the previous calculator was so useful because it showed me the value of the percentage I wanted to subtract!! Now I am REALLY FRUSTRATED!! It was so quick and easy, I know how to do the extra steps but I don’t want to, I want the function as it was, is there any other app that shows it????? I don’t fn care if it can be done in excel or in a MacBook, I need it done in the iPhone on the go, easy and automatic that’s why I’m on apple side because everything just works… or it’s supposed to.

Another thing that has gone is on the iPhone you used to be able to swipe left to quickly remove an error it was like a back space that’s gone too, I don’t understand how that works add functionality and then remove it, people get used to the functionality and then apple devs remove it making the product worse not better….

come on guys do this right

Agree why do Apple developers not read these posts and make the software better and not worse :(….

Confirmed behavior in older Calculator:

$831.26+25% after press percent key it displays 207.82

prior to you pressing = then it shows the total 1039.074.

Confirmed new behavior in macOS Sequoia:

Where the value 207.82 is not displayed at all.

Pcalc alternative App store Calculator (powerful so many features and customizations):

Original % behavior matches earlier Calculator App pre-Sequoia

It even puts the value in the paper tape unlike the older macOS Calculator!

If you enable Settings -> General -> Show ticker tape then you can see this:

You can stretch and resize Pcalc's window, below I stretched it wider to not almost cut off the 8 from the previous screenshot.

Here is the default look out of the box

And Dark Mode

Many more themes and features too numerous to post here. It supports Reverse Polish Notation RPN.

You can edit the layouts customize every button and control, etc.

Best $9.99 I've spent on any App. I love Pcalc.

No, he wants to see the value of the Percentage amount. In your equation the value is 5.

Useful for when you get a bill at a restaurant and it has tip amount section.

You now have to do

100-5%=95

100-95= 5 to get the 5 value of the percentage amount

Use a spreadsheet is not a helpful response as this functionality was used on the fly and also on an iPhone it’s a mess lots of people are having this issue,

I used to use the calculator to calculate discounts several times a day on the fly. With the new update it has become unusable for me. Annoyed to have to look for an alternative.

I found it: calculus doodlus

https://apps.apple.com/de/app/calculus-doodlus/id465916328

its cheap, it’s easy and it works like a charm!!! I can rest % after % after % knowing what those values are, it’s so easy!!!

miro79 wrote:

This is a classic case of “if it’s not broken - don’t fix it”!!!

The corollary is “If it is broke, FIX it"

To hordes of users it WAS broke, as evidenced by a steady stream of complaints, so Apple fixed it to answer years of those complaints.

Sin69 wrote:

Useful for when you get a bill at a restaurant and it has tip amount section.

Personally I've never taken a Mac to a restaurant to figure out tips.

It crosses over to ios 18’s new calculator as well