{"id":46592,"date":"2025-01-30T14:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T19:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=46592"},"modified":"2025-01-30T14:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T19:14:09","slug":"repeating-calculator-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/30\/repeating-calculator-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"Repeating Calculator Operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/01\/21\/ios-18-3-calculator-app\/\">Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/01\/21\/ios-18-3-calculator-app\/\">\n<p>When you tap the equals sign twice, the app will now repeat the last mathematical operation.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Repeating operations were an option in the Calculator app prior to iOS 18, but  iOS 18  removed the functionality.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder what the story is here. This has been a standard feature of every physical calculator that I can remember. It&rsquo;s not in <a href=\"https:\/\/infinitemac.org\/1984\/System%201.0\">System 1<\/a> or even <a href=\"https:\/\/infinitemac.org\/1991\/System%207.0\">System 7<\/a>, though. Was it added with Mac OS X 10.0?<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/27\/macos-15-3\/\">macOS 15.3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/27\/ios-18-3-and-ipados-18-3\/\">iOS 18.3 and iPadOS 18.3<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juli Clover: When you tap the equals sign twice, the app will now repeat the last mathematical operation. [&#8230;] Repeating operations were an option in the Calculator app prior to iOS 18, but iOS 18 removed the functionality. I wonder what the story is here. This has been a standard feature of every physical calculator [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-01-30T19:14:11Z","apple_news_api_id":"0a9cfdd3-7ee4-4c0c-9154-a7453c449ff1","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-01-30T19:14:11Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ACpz9037kTAyRVKdFPESf8Q","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1364,31,2586,30,2598,922],"class_list":["post-46592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-calculator","tag-ios","tag-ios-18","tag-mac","tag-macos-15-sequoia","tag-system-7"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46593,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46592\/revisions\/46593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}