@Tig Bitties Not to take this off track, what changes to iOS would you want/need before seriously considering an iPhone?
That's a long laundry list for me to put together, especially on the fly. But it's just overall how iOS operates differently than stock Android. Not that it sucks for others, seems most people actually prefer iOS, but I have been using stock Android phones since the Nexus-One days, I have become so accustomed on the feel, and way to use the phone, that iOS feels completely alien to me, and very difficult to get used to.
I was at Best Buy this weekend, just window shopping, I saw the iPhone 11 Pro Max, and played with it. First impressions were, WOW, super cool, beautiful display, I like the full screen almost bezel less display, and flipping through pages and opening and closing apps, so fast, so smooth. Just awesome. Very impressed for sure. But then after a couple minutes that coolness started to fade away, and my frustrations with iOS started pooping up, and after a few more minutes, I said F this stupid phone LOL. But I admit the 11 Pro Max is super cool, great smartphone, just not my cup of tea.
-Turn the phone on FaceID sees me, but I still have to swipe up to get to the home screen, With Android, it puts you right into the homescreen, even the fingerprint scanner. That swipe up is a little annoying and just adds more time to get to the home screen
-Using the phone, I swipe down to pull the notification shade down, but this is iOS it's not there like Android, but instead some really stupid search menu thing pops up WTF? So swiping down anywhere on the homescreen, I get some very odd and strange search thing, what the heck is this, and why is it even there? I would never use that in a million years.
-Moving app icons anywhere on the homescreen. Holy cow, for the love of God, it is 2019, and you cannot move you favorite app icons to the bottom, just above the dock for easier use? That's unbelievable.
-Default apps. I want to set which apps I want as default, not what Apple forces me to keep default.
-Phone app. Has Apple ever actually used their own phone app in the last ten years? LOL. It feels stuck in like the year 2008. No T9 dialer yet? Really? And if your in an app, like typing a message, or surfing the web, and an incoming phone call comes in, the phone hijacks the entire screen, kicking you out of what you were in. Come on Apple, really? It should come in as a Heads Up / Banner, with options to Accept or Decline.
-Widgets, I would like the option to maybe set some widgets on my homescreen, not just have them all on the left screen only.
If I had more time, I could go on and on, with how frutrating I find iOS to be in certain ways. Like it sometimes feels as if Apple compeltely forgoet about certain apps for years, and elft them untouched for a decade. But it has gotten better, seems every few years they make strides to improve it, like every 3 to 4 years there's much needed improvements. I'm thinking I'll like the iPhone 14.
and video seems to be taken more seriously by apple. I mean why the heck do I need to sign up for Adobe to just edit my lame video clips? other than that, I don't follow much Apple.
