Submitted by paulrudder t3_y9f4fs in iphone
I am a long time android (Samsung) user, but decided to try iPhone for the first time and got the 14 Max Pro. There are a lot of things I like:
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keyboard is fairly good (even though swiftkey on android is still my favorite, and has numbers/punctuation by long holding keyboard buttons instead of having to hit the 123 button like on the iPhone, which cuts down on unnecessary button tapping and feels more fluid imo)
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great battery life
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amazing camera
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iMessage is a lot of fun and way more interactive and fluid than standard texting
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all around reliable and seamless and smooth combo of software and hardware
The things I really miss right now:
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navigation on Samsung just feels SO much more intuitive and consistent. The lack of an invisible back button on the iPhone screen is tough. Some iPhone apps let you swipe from the left to go back, others make you tap a back button in the top corner. Some make you drag from the top corner. The lack of consistency is just a little hard to wrap my head around and not having a consistent home / back / menu function on the screen seems odd to me. Makes me feel like I never know exactly what I need to do to move around in apps.
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flipping between apps is soooo much faster and easier on android. One tap of the menu button and I can bring up all my tabs . Double tap immediately switches to my last open app. Great when scrolling between banking apps etc.
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no clipboard to copy more than one line of text at a time. On android I can copy a link and copy something else and then go back hours later and pull up that link from my clipboard. Sounds minor but comes in handy a lot day to day
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no ability to long scroll screenshot. On android I can screencap an entire text exchange or web page by holding down the screen capture button and it will scroll down gradually and capture as much as I want as a single image. Somehow iPhone doesn’t have this …? Tried to send a friend a screencap of a webpage earlier today and had to take two separate screenshots and send them to him, it sounds trivial and dumb but it’s one of those big little things that you don’t realize how much you rely on it until you don’t have it.
I dunno… there are a lot of cool things I’m enjoying with the iPhone but I’m missing a lot of the practical utility of the basic android / Samsung functions. The snappiness of navigating and being able to flip between different apps is just unparalleled and the iPhone is leaving me feeling slowed down.
Anyone have any input or opinions or advice on any of the things I’ve outlined above?