Despite the iPhone X being over 9 months old, it is still among the best and most premium smartphones in the market. As a long time Android user, I am always amazed at just how restrictive and annoying using an iPhone can be in certain regards. Below, I have shared 25 such iPhone annoyances which might make a long-time Android user think twice about switching to an iPhone. This might be a personal preference but the iOS home screen is extremely limited and does not do justice to the hardware it runs on.
The iPhone home screen has remained the same right since its inception in terms of functionality — its all about icons. On a smartphone with a 5. But on something like an iPad Pro, which Apple is aggressively promoting as a computer replacement — a home screen filled with icons is nothing but a huge waste of space.
Imagine an iOS home screen where you can have widgets alongside app icons on the home screen. At least on an iPad, the information density on the home screen needs to increase.
Having widgets a swipe away works on an iPhone but not on the iPad. The iOS Share sheet has improved a lot in recent years, but it still pales in comparison to Android.
While I can share links, pictures, and other such data from one app to another in iOS, the whole process is convoluted and extremely limited.
For example, Direct Share in Android provides quick access to contacts with whom I frequently share media files and other information. On iOS, I need to share the media file to WhatsApp or any other preferred messaging app, search for the contact and then share it with them. Widgets on Android are overrated. I, for example, must have a calendar widget on my primary home screen to remind me of important and upcoming events otherwise I will simply forget about it.
While iOS does have widgets, they are not a glance away — it is more like a swipe and a glance away. This might seem inconsequential to many, but once you have to swipe to access the calendar widget every single time, it adds up fairly quickly.
If you are not heavily invested in the Google ecosystem, this might not bother you much. But in the part of the world where I live, Siri is barely usable while Google has made huge strides in ensuring its products and services are available to the next billion people slated to come online over the next few years.
On an Android device, the Google Assistant experience is far, far better than what you get on an iPhone with the standalone Assistant app. In just a tap or swipe , I get a quick overview of all the latest happenings in the world, the topics I am interested in, stocks that I am following, the status of my orders from Amazon, and more.
On an iPhone? If you have used Google Assistant extensively on your Android device, you will know just how good it is. The latest results might show that Siri has improved dramatically since last year but that improvement is primarily for users in the United States. The lack of integration with third-party apps and services greatly limits what the digital assistant can do.
In my part of the world, Siri fails to understand the local accent properly and a slightly complex command is enough to trip it up. I asked Siri to set a reminder in Todoist and this is what followed:. Compared to Google Assistant, Siri also understands fewer languages especially complex commands in any other language. If Siri is a joke, the less said about Apple Maps, the better.
Heck, I uninstalled the app from my iPhone months ago and have never missed it since. Similarly, I prefer using Chrome as my go-to browser but every time I open a link from the Twitter client, I am forced to use Safari since I cannot set Chrome as the default browser in iOS.
The inability to set any other app or service as my default choice also means that I cannot use any other music streaming service other than Apple Music on my iPhone. Android wear and the Apple Watch came onto the scene at more or less the same time and the difference has been stark.
Apple's dominance in the smart watch sector is clear and defined. When comparing the Apple watch and an Android Wear smart watch the differences are clear. While the Android Watch may have more features, or gimmicks or both, The Apple Watch is polished and overall provides a much better experience. These intangible differences have been reflected in sales. If the iPhone went the same lets customise everything route iOS would be more buggy than it already is.
Maybe being locked inside a walled garden is a good thing. You never know what lurks outside those gates. Labels Apple iOS iPhone. Labels: Apple iOS iPhone. Unknown October 17, at AM. Digital Marketing April 23, at AM.
September 19, Its September and like every year like clockwork Apple has come out with new iPhones and would it be an iPhone launch without some controversy. The iPhone X had the notch and the iPhone 7 didn't have a headphone jack. In true Apple fashion this year's iPhones have stirred up controversy, Well one of them. With the two S models being the premium pricey phones that we've come to expect.
The real wild card was the iPhone XR but in my personal opinion it is the best possible phone that we could have expected. Yes on paper they both have the exact same specs. The cheapest iPhone is still way beyond the reach of people in poorer parts of the world — places whose phone networks are likely to be expensive or unreliable, if they exist at all. Way to bring the world together. Even when you could have sworn you switched your phone to silent. Dodgy home button? Cracked screen?
Need a new power adapter because that magnetic bit on the end broke when it got bent back too much? How much, Apple Store? Plain black phone bumper that you could get down the market for a fiver? Every upgrade of iTunes becomes a game of hide and seek. How do you make a playlist now? Having to wait for 20 minutes after coming out of the shower before our iPhone fingerprint scanner recognises us.
Which converts your elegant, slender, hopelessly underpowered iPhone 6 into an ugly, clunky monstrosity of a phone. You take a picture with your iPhone. You import it to iPhotos. Now you try to attach it to an email. Instead, you have to find the photo, save a copy on to your desktop, then attach THAT version.
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