Search results are different for different people. On my try i got the obvious link to apple, some diy stuff, and mail in third parties. I also could have searched "phone repair" in maps and just looked up local shops. My point being, there's lots of ways to search for a battery replacement without turning up warnings about the perils of non-genuine parts.

Those would bring up lots of good info but i would question whether "aftermarket" or "3rd party" are terms most people would know to check for. How would someone unfamiliar with right-to-repair/genuine-replacement issues know to search for those? Further, why would a non-certified repair shop bring up that they're using anything other than certified parts unless asked?

Out of curiosity I just now tried searching "replacement iphone battery" and saw no references in the blurbs next to the first page of links about loss of functionality/features, but lots of 3rd parties quickly mention how their replacement does have higher capacity than three original battery did. I wouldn't be surprised if that was the extent of most consumers search process.

A person making that search would still need to know that there is something that needs to be searched in order to take that 5 minutes and make the search. What exactly do you think they should have put in the search bar?

Yep, unfortunately they probably foods know this less than perfect replacement would be the result, but they aren't going to tell you that exactly because of what you said here. If you knew they would use 3rd party parts without full feature compatibility instead of genuine apple parts you would have taken the extra time to go through apple certified repairs, and you definitely would not have paid more for these 3rd party parts. Unfortunately you don't know what you don't know until you learn about it.

Only apple fans and tech enthusiasts would know that. The average consumer still often thinks 'a phone is a phone' and is unaware of the anti tamper measures some companies like apple use to make 3rd party repairs more difficult.

Paging u/MrL09 since itt looks like you already loaded it.

Is this the update where they're stripping out the option for always on Air Drop? Can someone who already has it check?

I read that they are disabling Airdrop's recieve from anyone always on for "security reasons" in the next update, but I can already turn it off myself when I want it off (which is most of the time) and I'd rather have the option available to receive random stuff at concerts or gatherings.

Fair question. I've seen some comments from older model owners that they lost features they liked having when updating to 16.x. particularly missed was something about how the lock screen displays the time/date and notifications.

Yeah, the persistent notifications to finish setup are kinda annoying. There's some things i just don't want to turn on apple!

Sorry it didn't work in this case, but this comment needs to be higher! The key combo is so unintuitive that you need to learn it so you can use it when needed. No way I would have figured the reboot sequence on my own.

Also to clarify for anyone trying to reboot their iphone the combo is tap Vol+, then tap Vol-, then hold power until the apple logo comes up.

This comment needs to be higher! I just learned about the hard reset key combo yesterday. Worked for my sister's iphone, just press and hold power doesn't do anything on iphone.

Spell check strikes again!

Especially the temporarily silence notifications from a particular app or single conversation in text. When my family gets going about something while I'm at work I used to just silence that conversation until end of day so I would still get my work texts without getting pinged every 30 seconds for 2 hours.

Edit to add: I know iMessage can hide alerts on an individual text string but I can't do it from the notification itself.

Sounds like you, like me, are looking for a more Android like experience in this area. Almost everything listed by op are things I miss about managing notifications on my pixel.