@IanDresarie I actually like that because it made things specific. Tap on word to select the word, and use hold space bar to control the cursor. iOS cursor control is so great because it acts like a mouse compared to Android being fixed line by line.
Good news: You can! Just tap and hold (and the magnifying thingy pops up, then slide for exact location) I actually didn't know about holding the spacebar to trackpad... 😅 -edit: it's 'a' way to do it, never said it's better/smart. Just trying to help, geez.
This is something I didn't really understand for never having had an iphone. Say you made a spelling mistake 3 words back, do you not just click in front of the letter with the error and backspace it??
You don't realize how nice a back button is until you try to hunt for the little x in the corner of an ad. Most ads dismiss the ad on back press when their timer is up, and some terribly designed ones forget to lock that functionality for the delay!
I honestly hate gesture controls in general, because even if I know them well there are decent chances they may not work as intended. I enable classic three buttons on the bottom on all my androids and use them without thinking and without failing. And yes, having back button at hand at all times is great.
I'm glad someone addressed the landscape oriented problem. As a left handed person I somehow always opened something "wrong" showing the app upside down. The flip was almost every time from muscle memory. Just let me hold it how I want.
I don't have a an iPhone 16, but I do have iOS 18, and I have never run into it not "doing a barrel roll" to point the way I want it. I'm trying to figure out if its a problem with the 16 or maybe only with certain apps. I can even rotate it within some games and it will adapt just fine.
Yeah I have a Google Pixel and when You have auto rotate turned off and you flip your phone it will show a little circle in the corner with the rotation logo and if you click it then it will lock you into that orientation. It's very intuitive and it shows up quickly for a few seconds and then goes away if you don't to rotate your phone. This is what apple should do for orientation lock (The Google Pixel has Auto-rotation and Orientation Lock).
I have to say I've never run into my iPhone not flipping over to whichever way I'm using it might be an app issue To be clear iPhones do have problems with not letting you rotate some things other than portrate
@Luukjen Another leftie here, why should the user adapt to the phone, if its a stupid design choice? Just let the user rotate the phone whatever way he or she prefers!
As a convert-Apple user, I miss the little “do you wanna rotate your screen?” button that Android shows in the corner when you rotate the phone with rotation locked. Only being able to lock portrait and not landscape is stupid
I'm pretty sure that's relatively new but OMG it's so clutch! I love it! Also relatively new is the volume control mentioned in this video. Which is also super useful!
Audio is weird on iOS and I'm glad you acknowledged it. My keyboard tap sounds would sometimes go absolutely berzerk and blast at full volume. It's suuuper embarrassing especially if I'm sitting in line somewhere and all the sudden my phone goes TAP TAP TAP.
omg yes the keyboard sound also goes REALLY loud for me alot.... ive had my iphone on mute now for 2 weeks cause of it , why does this happen?? its insanely annoying.. gosh i miss my samsung flip. thinking about switching back, ive had my iphone for months now and i get more and more sick of it the longer i have it :(
9:20 I also enabled the Samsung feature that allows you to manage the sound of the apps individually, it's a game changer to not have every app under "media".
the ability to easily rotate the screen even though it's rotation locked by just pressing the one button that pops up in the corner of the screen is great
@450M3.7 Well it never felt much of an issue either on my older 14 Pro. But with android, it is not an issue on any games I have played so far and that is what makes me happy. Not having to face an issue at all is way better than facing it sometimes
As someone who went from Android to iOS to make communicating with my client base easier, I 100% agree with every single point you made, which is rare for me. Check your panic logs, does it show a "wifid" error causing the restart? Because this is a huge issue people (including myself) have been dealing with FOR YEARS that Apple has yet to acknowledge. Would love to see a deep dive into this.
Never really an issue for me, but I’d see the appeal to having a control center for different volumes. Do I want media volume to change? Change it while media is playing Do I want system volume to change? Change it while media is not playing
@_purge9488I get your point, but the thing is I don't want my phone to go full blast on opening a video in public, just because I forgot to turn the volume down last time I was watching something. I would like to adjust the media volume BEFORE I open a video. This actually explains why when I hear someone's go full blast in public, it's always an iPhone.
@MoxHex I'm genuinely flabbergasted that it's not a thing. Never spent a day with iOS, but was always taking it for granted. Just as other features like... Moving stuff around, which is, apparently, new
If you actually use an iPhone it becomes intuitive to go back, when switching to ios from android I felt the same way at first, but it actually ends up feeling a lot more natural on ios than androids implementation with time
You don't want to know how many times I've asked my mom or dad when I'm using their phone to do stuff (you know, the super child of household electronics thing) and I'm fiddling on how to go back, then have to ask: "How do you go back on this damn thing?" 7:23 and onward had me pointing at the screen non stop like leonardo dicaprio
@fidelityyyyy thats just silly to think, what did pixel do that pro cant, i got the 16 pro too after being on Samsung (but had iphone 12 for a while but smashed it) and i can say these facts: samsungs start off with more battery sometimes than apple but always degrade faster if both maintained the same level The display resolution is better on samsung comparing top tier but the colors better on iphone (16 pro is nuts oled and not slow hz display like i was used to) And the zoom is best thing about samsungs but pixel idk so would love to hear why
@trexyian Tbh, S24 Ultra costs the same as an iPhone 16 Pro at release, but the difference is that a Samsung is going to be discounted sooner and steeper than an iPhone.
There is no back gesture. SOME apps code a swipe-from-edge gesture to navigate backwards. But ALL apps will have an actual back button in the UI. If you struggled with navigating backwards on the iPhone, then you are remedial.
As an iOS user, this was a very fair critique. Not being able to tap to place the cursor in text infuriates me beyond belief, especially considering you used to be able to!! All it does is highlight the word, then you get stuck in a highlighting loop no matter how or where you tap. It's SO ANNOYING!!!
This is why i miss 3d touch. Being able to hard-press on the keyboard for the cursor instead of using the spacebar was so much better, and then hard-pressing again to select, a godsend. I hope they bring it back but i'm not holding my breath
My biggest grip with using an iPhone is the keyboard. I can't stand not having numbers and basic punctuation on the main keyboard. Installing SwiftKeys or GBoard seems to be hacky at best - often the phone will switch back to the standard Apple keyboard, or sometimes an even further stripped down keyboard. I just want my preferred keyboard layout all the time!
Yes! It makes texting so much quicker and easier. I have no idea why they can't add a keyboard that's not from 2008. It's hard for me to use apple. Feels so annoying to use.
Yeah I've switched back and force between Android and iPhone a few times over the last couple years and I keep coming back to android 95% because of that keyboard. Apple needs to either... Fix it so it's actually intuitive or allow third party keyboards all the time, and allow them to work the way their developers went them to 100% of the time. It's just such an unintuitive experience that it negates any other good positive feature it has.
Every year, I think about switching from my long term Android life to an iOS phone. Then I start thinking about all the points that have been mentioned in this video and I give up. I will never accept a phone that doesn't let me use it the way I want to.
Perhaps the most annoying thing about these issues is how easy they would be to fix. A handful of options and tweaks that don’t even have to be the default behavior; just something to opt into if it’s our preferred way of doing things.
Yup. The jailbreak community for forever had very very simple coded tweaks to fix all of these little annoinces and it made iOS fun. Now we can’t even get a jailbreak :(
The thing is, iPhones have a large user base. If you change something that has been the same for years, people are going to be angry about it. It's understandable why changes don't happen, I've never used an iPhone and I can't imagine ever switching.
It's the same as with apps and websites etc... If the UI was "fixed" and intuitive and quick and all good, the devs would be out of jobs apart from the security guys who work on sec patches. So they keep it broken to be able to tweak here and there with new editions. 😉
I was gonna say xiaomi rednote. Needed a new phone after mine was stolen and I got the xiaomi rednote 13 pro basically just cause of the headphone jack while also being a very modern smartphone.
I am so glad you brought up how terrible the back button is on the iPhone. It's insane the amount of effort you have to put into keeping track of how to go back
@Asniper the thing is, swipe back for Android ALWAYS works. With iOS its 50/50. And with a controlled ecosystem like Apple, I’m boggled why they wont address this.
14:15 I just upgraded yesterday from iPhone 11 to 16 Pro…took me 20 mins to figure out how to add my various email accounts and calendars to the new phone. You were not alone Linus, and I’ve been iPhone since my Nokia N97!
Damn, from 11 to 16 pro must feel like a real upgrade though. Don't remember each iteration well, but it adds up over the years. Not to mention the new battery alone
the menu for adding accounts to mail/contacts/calendar is still there exactly in the same place it always was, but the settings for mail, contacts, and calendar have been separated. the accounts are still shared afaik though
60HZ does also just hurt Your Eyes if You had 90, 120 or even more HZ. That was a no go for Me after a Pixel 7 Pro and a S22 Ultra in the same Price Range as this 60HZ iPhones... Scrolling felt like My iPhone was stoned af
@AgentLokVokun unless you have normal size fingers, miss it and accidentally start or open something (JUST left of it) instead. For me what sums Apple up is "design and looks over practicality and flexibility". This is a topic throughout the whoe video. Apple dceides how you "should" use it. And if you don't like it, bad luck. IF you like it, apple is very nice and very convenient. But i like the somewhat messy freedom of Android (or Windows) over Apple.
17:40 The app dev can choose which landscape orientation the game supports. It's up to the devs and not Apple on this. Same thing with portrait or upside down.
@swiftrealm yeah.I might have to defend Apple on this one. I have the same issue with some games/streaming on my Galaxy. It’s either the devs or some error from changing apps.
Its apple. Because all of its app, has only one landscape mode (almost all) While my friends says, ALL apps on android has two landscape orientations. So? Shrug***
I had no idea I could long press the spacebar to easily reposition the cursor on my iPhone. That’s actually a game changer for me, trying to tap the screen to do it was so damn frustrating.
On Android I was trying to think of ways they could add in a way to swipe through letters and I thought "the space bar would actually work great for that since it's wide and has no swipe gesture" and then I tried it and it swiped through letters cause it was already a feature... Wish I learned about it sooner. But it was also kinda a surreal moment
11:00 didn’t even mention the fact that very, very often, even when you tell iOS autocorrect that yes, that is what I meant to type and click the x next to the suggested edit, the bubble goes away as if it’s heard, then *autocorrects to that suggestion anyway* when you hit the space bar. Absolutely infuriating.
@Fish_-ce6kk I was surprised he didn’t complain more about the auto correct. It’s one of my biggest gripes. Not only do I have to fight it to let me type a non standard word (or even just a different word than the keyboard wants) but often times when I’m one or two letter off for a misspelling it doesn’t auto correct and acts like it has no idea what word I could possibly be trying to type despite being so close!
@Fish_-ce6kk for me as coming from ios to android 1st the keyboard o the android phone for some reason feels smaller and I'm not used to how it auto corrects n I've miss typed alot on the android phone, I guess it's what you're used to at this time
I think that "landscape orientation" thing at 17:40 is something decided by certain app developers. Some apps do this (like the Viaplay app), but they are few and far between. So I deduct that it's a conscious choice made by the developer. (That is more logical than "every app dev besides these specific ones has clearly defined that screen orientation is always gravity based")
I’m surprised you didn’t notice how bad searching in settings is. Sometimes I search for something and it won’t show up even though I searched for the exact setting name.
Ohh yes i have faced the same issue idk whats wrong with search… i type the exact word and still it wont show… on the contrary in android even if you type something related to that thing it will understand and show you the required thing, even though you have not typed even the single word from that required results…. Such a blissful experience in android 😊
my favorite is having to be redirected from an app to update something buried in the Settings App only to find that the long list of apps aren't even in alphabetical order 😤
I did this a few years ago, my wife moved from an iPhone 8 to a new (13 I think) and I asked to borrow her phone for a month before giving to one of our kids. Most of the stuff you said I agree with, some basic tasks on Android were hard to do on the iPhone and that rotation thing, OMG after a week I was ready to give up. Going menus deep to find a single setting....really ? Can I really customize anything deeply? Nope, every iphone almost looks exactly the same, really? Yea, I went back to Android and will never turn back, and even the funnier part of it, I loved the interface of Windows Phone (who remembers that??), so I use a loader for that but, all the of the backbone is Android. I get the live tiles from Windows phone (new emails/texts show up on the home screen), the start menu with the list of apps (even new apps on the top to get rid of all the "added apps after an update") in order, you can even select a letter like in Windows to get right to an app and get all the Android advantages. It REALLY is the best of both worlds. Again, its' MY phone and how I like to use it and IOS is not and will never be for me.
As someone that switched to iPhone a little over 3 years ago when I’m listening to a song and then go on in a call the volume RAMPS UP TO MAX WITH THE MUSIC PLAYING FOR A SECOND THEN PAUSES THE MUSIC AND PLAYS THE CALL AUDIO. It driving me nuts, it’s happens every now and then but still.
A missed opportunity to wear the Steve turtleneck for this review. Last portion of the video made me wonder about whether dual running an iPhone 16 as the main and a Samsung A-series as the identity verification and more sensitive data backup device would fix some of the unintuitive issues listed.
At work I have to use an iPad and since I work in a french speaking environment as a non-french speaker, I am mixing my mother tongue german with english and a bit of french - on Android, no problem, just tell the Auto-COrrect that you are using these three languages and you're good to go. But Apple (just very recently) gives me the availability to choose just two languages for auto-correct, and of course I very often are in the wrong mode (geen, enfr, gefr) and some words get corrected wrongfully. The whole typing experience is horrible as an Android User for 13 years and it's nice to see that it's not just me.
Been using 15 pro for more than a year now, couldn't replace my 6x cheaper Realme with it, main reason - typing experience was horribly downgrade in iPhone, like unintuitive, unproductive and extremely dumb, very bad UX. I can't emphasize on how much I hate typing in iPhone, even with a purchased 3rd party keyboard and is the major reason why it's still my secondary phone which I use only for taking photos now and then.
This. Moved to Apple when my wife convinced me that her and kids already use it so why not me. Well... the correction seems to at times choose the language quite randomly whci can be a frustrating experience when it doesn't work as it should.
Autocorrect on iOS (and I assume iPadOS) used to be super good for multiple languages, but within the last 2-4 years it seems to have been completely broken. Right now the behaviour also seems to change significantly between every minor update, too. The other day I had the AUDACITY of trying to write a single sentence in French on iOS without going out of my way to switch to the French keyboard, and my phone decided that - in the middle of a full French sentence - autocorrecting "vrai visage" to "braindead visage" was a good idea. Yikes.
Considering everyone and their mother talks about how well tuned everything is on iOS/iPadOS, I find it appalling that using a non-English keyboard layout makes the split keyboard in landscape mode on iPad split in the wrong place (between H and J on a QWERTY layout).
@MrQwertyman111 Swiftkey on android works amazingly for this. I am learning German so I added it to my keyboard and it flawlessly works between both languages, even if I switch back and forth in the same sentence
13:30 i selfhost my own caldav server and yes, it is stupid having to go into settings, then calendar and then add a new account there and not directly from the app.
Migrating from Android to iOS was hell. If you miss the restore WhatsApp on the first pass you can NEVER RESTORE your Android WhatsApp chat history ever again. It’s insanity.
hey, are you sure about that? I just missed it from migrating my s22 to a new iphone, I was thinking on resetting the iphone again and make another try lol
8:50, nope, not an iOS 18 bug. This has been an issue with iOS for ages now alongside the keyboard click sounds going from inaudible to super loud in a split second. Apple has never fixed it and I don’t think they care to.
Trillion dollar company they need a few more years to iron out small bugs. I mean adding localization to all the countries where they sell their products took em 20 years
the keyboard in apple is shit, not being able to tap between the words, not able to have a separate num pad, period and comma above the keyboard, no long press symbols and even the gboard which is so much better in android be so bad in iphone. android allows you to customize the lag and delay in 0.1 ms accuracy and ios doesn't have anything
that "phone, teams, whatsapp" triple whammy was the equivalent of an anxiety nuclear bomb after hearing all three notification tones go off in succession
@monsterdav3004 Every Android I know of has the "back button" still implemented, even if only in software. It works either as the swipe from left or right side of the screen, or as the old style buttons on the bottom row.
@4nlimited3dition_4n3d I found out that iPhone users take the word "back button" literally and then completely misunderstand the point you are trying to make. So whenever you talk about the universal back button you have to include "or universal back gesture".
There's one particularly frustrating issue (or perhaps an intentional feature) If iCloud storage runs out while Photos Sync is enabled with the "Optimize Photos" option selected, things get tricky. If you happen to turn off Photos Sync in this situation, you lose access to your backed-up photos (on that iPhone) because storage is full. You can't re-enable Photos Sync unless you either clear storage or purchase more. To make matters worse, you also can't switch from "Optimize Photos" to "Download Originals" unless Photos Sync is turned on. This leaves you with only two options: Buy more iCloud storage. Manually back up all the non-synced photos elsewhere, delete them from your device, and then re-enable backup. This is just 1 of the issue (Maybe a feature from Apple's perspective) i noticed Note: I used iPhone few years for the work related. I can never imagine using it as personal device.
If your using cloud storage of any kind, for anything, especially your personal stuff, you have MUCH bigger problems. Anyone who has a basic understanding of security, (along with a functional brain) does NOT use ANY cloud storage (Unless its self-owned and operated)
@TTURKI same even when I had an android (around 6 years or so ago) I always backed my important photos and files up to a physical hard drive rather then cloud storage. I feel like that is basic security stuff especially now that I have a kid I don’t want some weirdo having access to any of that.
Longtime iPhone user here: The volume of notifications and sounds are constantly going up. Sometimes one day later, sometimes one month later. This is what I experienced since I bought the 13 Pro fairly new, and I now have a 16 Pro Max for around two weeks, and on the new phone, I already had to turn down the volume twice. It's making me furious sometimes. I don't like loud alarms for waking up, so you can imagine my face when in the morning my alarm suddenly goes off full volume. Yikes. BTW good video, thx for sharing your thoughts. :)
This is one of those things that just never even occurred to me, because the last time I tried to turn on sounds on my ip13 the button was stuck because it'd been turned off for who knows how long. Media volume seems to just crank up by itself so now I'm just instinctively clicking the volume down button every time there might be sound coming from whatever I'm viewing.
Im pretty sure you misclick on the volume button outside of media so the ringer goes up but you dont put it down. Just my theory bcs this never happened to me
@Borovski213 no, I'm pretty sure, I don't. My phone is always in silent mode (bc I have an Apple Watch on my hand), and I never set all the way up the volume of the notifications and alarms. In fact, I always set it back to around 1/3, but after some time, it climbs back to max.
In settings you can set individual volumes for system sounds vs media. If you don't do this. they will go up the volume gets turned up. Sometimes from software bugs with third party Apps like Facebook or Instagram, but also because you have turned the volume up during a phone call or music playback etc
17:23 as an iOS Developer, this is a setting we can control and set to lock a specific rotation. We have 4 checkboxes, which are, portrait, upside down, landscape left and landscape right. In theory, you could lock it to be only upside down. In this case, this seems to be a decision made by the developers of Jetpack Joyride to lock it to a landscape orientation, presumably to stop it from automatically rotating on accident when playing the game. (Which would play a whole animation, therefor stopping the game flow) As a long time iOS fan and developer, I do however not see any reason why they shouldn't have a landscape mode for lock orientation, so your point still stands. But I just wanted to make this case clear.
not sure if that's true. He showed it in landscape in the other orientation. It's only when he goes to another app, and then back into JJ does it get locked to the other one.
@mattlokk360 yes, my point still stands. The game has it locked to landscape right. So if you open it in landscape left, because the game set it to only work in landscape right, it will be “upside down”. If you as a developer set it to work in both landscape directions it would flip the game.
@pareshpadhi2454 yes, that’s what I said at the end of my comment. I agree with him, I just wanted to make sure that people know, that this option exists for developers and why they might have made that choice. (The game developers in this case). Like I said, I totally agree that this should be a system setting. I can probably guess why apple did not do this, because they like basically everything to be in portrait mode. However who cares, they should implement it, just so it’s an option if you need it.
Came here to add this comment, many games for some reason are checked landscape "right" or "left" only, that was a dev choice. Not defending the issue with other apps and etc, but this would be the reason for this issue in many situations
As an apple only user forever, thank you for calling out the orientation lock thing at the end as the most important change. I've been wanting it changed for so long
As Linus said, give the other side of the fence an honest try and you may be surprised. You can't appreciate features that you've never been exposed to in the first place. Your phone life could explode with QOL.
The two things that annoy me most about iOS is the fact that you cannot tap to put the cursor in the middle of a word and the abysmal app icon placement (which they made WORSE) with their half hearted “fix”
@krim7 you actually can put the cursor in the middle by: - tap and hold the cursor, then you can move to anywhere, or - tap and hold the space bar to navigate the text
The wild part is that, it was possible in iOS to tap in the middle of a word. I did it in my 3GS and first few months in my X. Then suddenly after one update, I can no longer do it.
@krim7 you must have the tiniest fingers that uses a smart phone. There’s not a chance I could ever tap and put my cursor exactly where I want it. Tap and hold and then drag puts it exactly where I want every time instead tap, damn not there, tap again, crap, tap.
That suddenly loud audio in Carplay! My wife's iPhone 13 does that, too. It happens in our Subaru and Toyota, so it does seem like an Apple-side issue.
@CarsSimplified if you have Amazon Alexa app installed try removing that... I bet it will resolve your issue.... Ask me how long it took me to work that out 😕
I don't even remember, is the volume adjustable on the phone while connected to CarPlay? It's been set and forget for me. I always just make sure my phone volume is cranked to the max when connected over bluetooth to my car and rely on the car's volume to actually adjust the volume. Haven't noticed any volume issues in my VW or Jeep.
This video is absolutely fantastic! These are things that have caught my attention for a long time but often go unnoticed. I've been using an iPhone 13 Mini for 1.5 years now. Before that, I was a Samsung Galaxy S10e user. As someone with ADHD, I usually can't multitask while talking to someone-like sending a file or typing something. But Samsung's UI was so intuitive and fast that I could quickly send a file or jot something down in just 5-10 seconds, even while talking to someone. The back button, faster animations, and full support for SwiftKey's suggestions made this possible. Plus, the audio quality was much better. The iPhone, on the other hand, delivers a terrible experience. It feels so sluggish.
I don't know if Linus ran into this one but my girlfriend and I both ROLL OUR EYES every time either of our iPhones start clicking REALLY FKIN LOUD while typing. And that's pretty often.
You can turn it off. I turned mine off and made it to where each click gives me haptic feedback. Sort of like a real click. Idk just my preference for click feedback.
I hate the random loud clicking. Happens randomly on my 15 pro max ONLY if Discord is running. If I kill Discord, max volume typing noise instantly stops.
17:35, as an iOS user for 10 years and plays a lot of mobile games you can 100% put in both possible land scape orientation, must be a jet pack joy ride lock or an iOS 18 bug, I have never experienced this
@7:05 The "going back" on iOS is so incredibly non-intuitive. But putting all the different types of calls in one place is a GREAT idea. And @18:20 whenever I talk about "I want it my way," all my Apple fan's tell me "why are you so caught up about xyz customization?" But you nailed it. After I walk away from the store, it's MY phone.
if only there was a button, say at the bottom of the screen for example, that acted as a back button no matter the app. just a idea tho doubt it will ever happen
@hansangb The point you make about "why are you so caught up about.." is THE line I always hear from my friends using iOS. They always say it's amazing, intuitive, makes so much sense etc. But when you point out annoyances - which there are plenty of - the answer is always that it's a non issue because you will just have to get used to it or just don't expect to use the device this way
My brief experience with attempting to daily MacOS was basically exactly this. "How do I...?" questions greeted with mocking "why would you want to do that, idiot?" responses
15:15 oh God, so silly, but this was the literal reason I went back to Android. Why oh why, Apple, don't you fix the scroll on your OS? The weirdest part is scrolling on macOS is brilliant.
just out of curiosity, do you know about the scroll bar? that you can press it when it appears and go as fast as you want? (I know its a pretty unknown feature, very "intuitive")
Haven't touched iOS since the iPhone 4S and was genuinely unaware about the scrolling I already wasn't really planning on buying an iPhone anytime soon but your comment is probably the nail in the coffin that guarantees I never buy one ever lol
Linus sold me fent behind the walmart the other day
which walmart? asking for a friend.
@Carl-le6po you too ?
@eanyon2 the one
Only geeks find this funny
not again :(
He wants the LG wing back
best he will get is a 2000 style flip if reddit has a say in that.
Well, there's also Sharp now
Been using the R8s Pro for a while now. Gotta say, it's pretty good, especially since I got it at a discount
Bruh you wild for saying that lol!
I want LG back, but you can keep the Wing.
I only went to Samsung when my LG V30 got ran over by a car. At that point LG stopped making phones. I now have a Samsung A33, but I still miss my LG.
OMG THAT WHOLE "you can't tap the cursor into the middle of a word" THING DRIVES ME INSANE
@IanDresarie I actually like that because it made things specific. Tap on word to select the word, and use hold space bar to control the cursor. iOS cursor control is so great because it acts like a mouse compared to Android being fixed line by line.
Good news: You can! Just tap and hold (and the magnifying thingy pops up, then slide for exact location) I actually didn't know about holding the spacebar to trackpad... 😅
-edit: it's 'a' way to do it, never said it's better/smart. Just trying to help, geez.
wow that is still a problem 10 years later, common Apple L
This is something I didn't really understand for never having had an iphone. Say you made a spelling mistake 3 words back, do you not just click in front of the letter with the error and backspace it??
I long press the space bar to allow me to move the cursor like a trackpad
I will never think of an iPhone unless all android companies are gone😂
You don't realize how nice a back button is until you try to hunt for the little x in the corner of an ad. Most ads dismiss the ad on back press when their timer is up, and some terribly designed ones forget to lock that functionality for the delay!
I've encountered those. They must do that so that they get accidental clicks to thus get paid.
I honestly hate gesture controls in general, because even if I know them well there are decent chances they may not work as intended. I enable classic three buttons on the bottom on all my androids and use them without thinking and without failing. And yes, having back button at hand at all times is great.
Wait, you don't have adblock on your phone? That would be an instant dealbreaker for me.
i’ve had ads have the X button in the top of the screen where i can’t click and have to close the entire app and reload
@falsemcnuggethope android has adblock? that’s a game changer…
That camera dip maneuver is honestly hilarious.
If I dip, you dip, we dip.
@ollimartikainen indonesia banned iphone 16
@Teddyponsel2626 who cares
@icephoenix5466 you care
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I'm glad someone addressed the landscape oriented problem. As a left handed person I somehow always opened something "wrong" showing the app upside down. The flip was almost every time from muscle memory. Just let me hold it how I want.
As a fellow leftie, I 1000% agree with you. It can be so annoying.
I don't have a an iPhone 16, but I do have iOS 18, and I have never run into it not "doing a barrel roll" to point the way I want it. I'm trying to figure out if its a problem with the 16 or maybe only with certain apps. I can even rotate it within some games and it will adapt just fine.
Yeah I have a Google Pixel and when You have auto rotate turned off and you flip your phone it will show a little circle in the corner with the rotation logo and if you click it then it will lock you into that orientation. It's very intuitive and it shows up quickly for a few seconds and then goes away if you don't to rotate your phone. This is what apple should do for orientation lock (The Google Pixel has Auto-rotation and Orientation Lock).
I have to say I've never run into my iPhone not flipping over to whichever way I'm using it might be an app issue
To be clear iPhones do have problems with not letting you rotate some things other than portrate
@Luukjen Another leftie here, why should the user adapt to the phone, if its a stupid design choice? Just let the user rotate the phone whatever way he or she prefers!
Love my iPhone but I'm glad you ripped them a new one for the settings menu and back buttons it's honestly baffling after they innovated multitouch
As a convert-Apple user, I miss the little “do you wanna rotate your screen?” button that Android shows in the corner when you rotate the phone with rotation locked. Only being able to lock portrait and not landscape is stupid
Why did you convert to appleism?😢 What's wrong with Android?
One of my favourite useful features. I used it thousands of times by now.
I'm pretty sure that's relatively new but OMG it's so clutch! I love it!
Also relatively new is the volume control mentioned in this video. Which is also super useful!
Oh yes. I have rotation turned off since this feature was introduced in Android
@AgentOrange96 yeah those were introduced in android 11
It's wild how every RUclipsr ALWAYS makes a Disclaimer "Please chill, Please don't kill me" before they talk about the tiniest negative thing.
It's sad what society has come to, so this is basically required to say nowadays.
Because Apple fanboys act the same way as Democrats 😂
@ElvisChibunduChrist dude you literally went and did the thing
@Leo9ine Did I lie?
@xyoxus It's not really a new thing, there's always been fanboys with strong opinions
I was 5 minutes into the video before I realised Linus' sleeves shirt sleeves are different colours...
must be saving on energy as well, non ironed T Shirt and a body warmer
@nemesisgaming8360 it’s just ‘shot on IPhone’
what the hell I just realized
I thought half of my screen is in True Color.
@nemesisgaming8360 its the Mac Address shirt
I tried iOS but the back button thing was a complete non-starter.
Audio is weird on iOS and I'm glad you acknowledged it. My keyboard tap sounds would sometimes go absolutely berzerk and blast at full volume. It's suuuper embarrassing especially if I'm sitting in line somewhere and all the sudden my phone goes TAP TAP TAP.
omg yes the keyboard sound also goes REALLY loud for me alot.... ive had my iphone on mute now for 2 weeks cause of it , why does this happen?? its insanely annoying.. gosh i miss my samsung flip. thinking about switching back, ive had my iphone for months now and i get more and more sick of it the longer i have it :(
This is interesting to hear/read. my iPhone is a on mute 100% of the time so I would not have known this would be an issue for people.
Lmao, so it is an iOS bug affecting ppl globally and not just me
I thought I was the only one!
I’ve only noticed this in the past couple of weeks. Will probably be fixed soon
9:20 I also enabled the Samsung feature that allows you to manage the sound of the apps individually, it's a game changer to not have every app under "media".
same, great for playing music with RUclips going as well
@jaxon_hill I use it for games and duolingo with spotify playing. Also disabled auto-mute for duolingo. Gotta love having options.
Same, my partner has a pixel and it's crazy how far ahead Samsung is on software
@WimmleI have this on a Motorola which claims to be stock android 13, strange a pixel wouldn't have it
What tool let's you do that?
I had never thought about the screen rotate issue until I switched to Android recently and I just cannot look at my iPhone the same anymore
@normaneshuchi5474 enjoy the big library of open source apks
the ability to easily rotate the screen even though it's rotation locked by just pressing the one button that pops up in the corner of the screen is great
Oh my God I never knew this! I usually leave my phone on auto rotate. Knowing this is such a game changer!
I only have that issue on certain games…. So I don’t believe it’s completely an iPhone issue. I daily a 15 pro max
@450M3.7 Well it never felt much of an issue either on my older 14 Pro. But with android, it is not an issue on any games I have played so far and that is what makes me happy. Not having to face an issue at all is way better than facing it sometimes
If Apple made a car, it would not have a brake pedal because a car is meant to drive not to stop
It’ll use Apple Intelligence to determine if you’re on a highway for coasting, and automatic braking is obviously just as reliable as you braking
Does the car have windows or not? 😂
@hellionsmith You killed me here🤣
And the apple purists will convince us that "that's how it's supposed to work"
As the only Android user pretty much in my life, this made me cry-laugh🤣
As someone who went from Android to iOS to make communicating with my client base easier, I 100% agree with every single point you made, which is rare for me. Check your panic logs, does it show a "wifid" error causing the restart? Because this is a huge issue people (including myself) have been dealing with FOR YEARS that Apple has yet to acknowledge. Would love to see a deep dive into this.
Yeah, a video on the issue would be nice
The greatest technician that's ever lived
Could this be the greatest technician, you have ever seen?
ITS THE GREATEST TEHXNICITION THATS EVER LIVED
not even his tiny raccoon-like fingers can solve that problem
As a prior android user and a current iOS carrier, the volume adjustability issue is my biggest pet peeve and haunts me daily
If I recall rightly, that's an OS X weakness too - you need a third party app to be able to independently adjust the volume of different programs.
I’ve never had an issue
Never really an issue for me, but I’d see the appeal to having a control center for different volumes.
Do I want media volume to change?
Change it while media is playing
Do I want system volume to change?
Change it while media is not playing
@_purge9488mean, u need to change it all time plus the animation that smooth and slow
@_purge9488I get your point, but the thing is I don't want my phone to go full blast on opening a video in public, just because I forgot to turn the volume down last time I was watching something. I would like to adjust the media volume BEFORE I open a video.
This actually explains why when I hear someone's go full blast in public, it's always an iPhone.
The universal button is the single greatest thing Android has over Apple.
@MoxHex I'm genuinely flabbergasted that it's not a thing. Never spent a day with iOS, but was always taking it for granted. Just as other features like... Moving stuff around, which is, apparently, new
If you actually use an iPhone it becomes intuitive to go back, when switching to ios from android I felt the same way at first, but it actually ends up feeling a lot more natural on ios than androids implementation with time
You don't want to know how many times I've asked my mom or dad when I'm using their phone to do stuff (you know, the super child of household electronics thing) and I'm fiddling on how to go back, then have to ask: "How do you go back on this damn thing?"
7:23 and onward had me pointing at the screen non stop like leonardo dicaprio
@MoxHex but Android "back" looks like shit( very bad
even there gesture control back button is miles better than whatever apple cooked
I went from Pixel 7 to iPhone 16 pro this week. The regret is strong.
@fidelityyyyy then just give it to me
@fidelityyyyy thats just silly to think, what did pixel do that pro cant, i got the 16 pro too after being on Samsung (but had iphone 12 for a while but smashed it) and i can say these facts: samsungs start off with more battery sometimes than apple but always degrade faster if both maintained the same level
The display resolution is better on samsung comparing top tier but the colors better on iphone (16 pro is nuts oled and not slow hz display like i was used to)
And the zoom is best thing about samsungs but pixel idk so would love to hear why
i went from one plus 8t with custom firmware to pixel 7 and oh boy xD what is that phone
@KrupekXD Pixel has a non braindead system on it xD
I went from S22U to 16 Pro Max. The regret is immense.
A lot of features are missing.
The CEO being in the background in that design is kinda funny
And it has hope written on it from that obama poster
15:30 ah, that's how they hide 60 Hz
Dealbreakers:
- Apple keyboard
- inconsistent back gesture
- orientation lock
you forgot the back button and more...
@mutebivation yeah... and no clipboard history is crazy. I use that all the time.
And no volume mixer...
And the price
@trexyian Tbh, S24 Ultra costs the same as an iPhone 16 Pro at release, but the difference is that a Samsung is going to be discounted sooner and steeper than an iPhone.
If you've never had something you won't know you're missing it.
The back gesture not being consistent is what got me to go from a 16 pro to a pixel 9 pro after only 2 days on the iphone
wow
thats been on iphone since the first iphone though lol
The back buttons annoys me, i hope the just add swipe to go back instead of trying to find the back button in each apps
There is no back gesture. SOME apps code a swipe-from-edge gesture to navigate backwards. But ALL apps will have an actual back button in the UI. If you struggled with navigating backwards on the iPhone, then you are remedial.
@Applest2oApples Of course people like this that use iphone and defend it
Wan show gonna be lit
As an iOS user, this was a very fair critique. Not being able to tap to place the cursor in text infuriates me beyond belief, especially considering you used to be able to!! All it does is highlight the word, then you get stuck in a highlighting loop no matter how or where you tap. It's SO ANNOYING!!!
Agreed
Never thought it was a problem, just hold down. Makes it more accurate too.
Wow I just learned this. Thank you kind stranger.
This is why i miss 3d touch. Being able to hard-press on the keyboard for the cursor instead of using the spacebar was so much better, and then hard-pressing again to select, a godsend. I hope they bring it back but i'm not holding my breath
@minargeI've never been able to get that to work. Is it an iPhone thing only or does it also work on iPad and just disabled in settings
Most of the feature he mentioned i already use in my android with android 15
My biggest grip with using an iPhone is the keyboard. I can't stand not having numbers and basic punctuation on the main keyboard. Installing SwiftKeys or GBoard seems to be hacky at best - often the phone will switch back to the standard Apple keyboard, or sometimes an even further stripped down keyboard. I just want my preferred keyboard layout all the time!
@SchusterLagoon 💯 agreed
Yes! It makes texting so much quicker and easier. I have no idea why they can't add a keyboard that's not from 2008. It's hard for me to use apple. Feels so annoying to use.
Its also bad for multi-language texting
Yeah I've switched back and force between Android and iPhone a few times over the last couple years and I keep coming back to android 95% because of that keyboard.
Apple needs to either... Fix it so it's actually intuitive or allow third party keyboards all the time, and allow them to work the way their developers went them to 100% of the time.
It's just such an unintuitive experience that it negates any other good positive feature it has.
Every year, I think about switching from my long term Android life to an iOS phone. Then I start thinking about all the points that have been mentioned in this video and I give up. I will never accept a phone that doesn't let me use it the way I want to.
@fhreire 😂😂 We Love You ... We Android Community
Good move. Apple is such hot garbage im amazed people even use it. That's the power of marketing
Just own both
@vagabond1845 Gimme the money
@rickyrat42069it's a pocket PC with a phone built in tho..
9:25 anyone else turn of keyboard sounds 15years ago and never looked back?😂
My friend with an iPhone never uses punctuation besides periods in his texts. I think I know why.
2:09 that teams sound made heart rise 😅
@adithk855 I was thinking the same thing!!!
Me too. Litrally looked at my desktop 😅
OMG, me too. Though I already shutdown my pc but the reflex to look at it when I heared that. Hahaha
Perhaps the most annoying thing about these issues is how easy they would be to fix. A handful of options and tweaks that don’t even have to be the default behavior; just something to opt into if it’s our preferred way of doing things.
Yup. The jailbreak community for forever had very very simple coded tweaks to fix all of these little annoinces and it made iOS fun. Now we can’t even get a jailbreak :(
The thing is, iPhones have a large user base. If you change something that has been the same for years, people are going to be angry about it. It's understandable why changes don't happen, I've never used an iPhone and I can't imagine ever switching.
It's the same as with apps and websites etc... If the UI was "fixed" and intuitive and quick and all good, the devs would be out of jobs apart from the security guys who work on sec patches. So they keep it broken to be able to tweak here and there with new editions. 😉
Apple only has 28% of the market share worldwide.
@jessecv saying “only” to 28 percent is crazy
It's finally here! After countless rants on WAN I've been so hyped for this video (and the WAN after it)
agreed, I like the WAN rants but this "condensed" video in comparison is very nice
Yep! Really looking forward to the WAN tomorrow!!
Jonathan looks different somehow.
@ArturoTabera lolll
Watching this I realised, hold the space bar to move the cursor when messaging. Excellent!
The lack of a real file system on the phone drives me absolutely flipping insane.
“I don’t struggle with fine motor control”
Editors the drop montage please! 11:24
Hey!! in his defense, he fails in coarse motor control, not fine. 😂😂
18:52 a smartphone with a HEADPHONE JACK? In 2024? Must be a Sony Xperia...
Maybe Xiaomi Redmi Note series
Yes probably 1 mk V or mk VI
What's wrong with a sony xperia?
I was gonna say xiaomi rednote. Needed a new phone after mine was stolen and I got the xiaomi rednote 13 pro basically just cause of the headphone jack while also being a very modern smartphone.
The greatest phone series ever made
The sound goes super loud sometimes and it happened when watching this video.
I am so glad you brought up how terrible the back button is on the iPhone. It's insane the amount of effort you have to put into keeping track of how to go back
... its always at the top left? unless you're using an app that isn't following the HIG
@AsniperAndroid users complain that iOS isn’t Android. What else is new? 😂
Android's swipe to go back functionality is incredibly underrated. Especially on a bigger screen device.
I’ve never had this issue 🤷♂️
@Asniper the thing is, swipe back for Android ALWAYS works. With iOS its 50/50. And with a controlled ecosystem like Apple, I’m boggled why they wont address this.
20:00 lol that 2025 bit was hilarious
14:15 I just upgraded yesterday from iPhone 11 to 16 Pro…took me 20 mins to figure out how to add my various email accounts and calendars to the new phone. You were not alone Linus, and I’ve been iPhone since my Nokia N97!
Accounts are inside Contacts app settings
@PhantomSklyneLet's go against common design language
Damn, from 11 to 16 pro must feel like a real upgrade though. Don't remember each iteration well, but it adds up over the years.
Not to mention the new battery alone
didn't you backup and restore? When I get a new phone, I don't have to setup accounts again from scratch.
Really? PEBKAC.
the menu for adding accounts to mail/contacts/calendar is still there exactly in the same place it always was, but the settings for mail, contacts, and calendar have been separated. the accounts are still shared afaik though
I'm happy that Linus addressed the scrolling speed issues. It drove me crazy when i switched to an iphone.
60HZ does also just hurt Your Eyes if You had 90, 120 or even more HZ. That was a no go for Me after a Pixel 7 Pro and a S22 Ultra in the same Price Range as this 60HZ iPhones... Scrolling felt like My iPhone was stoned af
@M1U5T0N3 but pro model
You can press and hold the scroll bar when it pops up and scroll at any speed you want.
@AgentLokVokun unless you have normal size fingers, miss it and accidentally start or open something (JUST left of it) instead.
For me what sums Apple up is "design and looks over practicality and flexibility". This is a topic throughout the whoe video. Apple dceides how you "should" use it. And if you don't like it, bad luck. IF you like it, apple is very nice and very convenient. But i like the somewhat messy freedom of Android (or Windows) over Apple.
@AgentLokVokun that's just DUMB apple fanboid. you can easily do the same in windows why even invent a scroll wheel or two finger swipe in trackpads.
17:40 The app dev can choose which landscape orientation the game supports. It's up to the devs and not Apple on this. Same thing with portrait or upside down.
@swiftrealm yeah.I might have to defend Apple on this one. I have the same issue with some games/streaming on my Galaxy. It’s either the devs or some error from changing apps.
Its apple. Because all of its app, has only one landscape mode (almost all)
While my friends says, ALL apps on android has two landscape orientations. So? Shrug***
2:26 Linus you also have APT stuck in your head 😂
Main thing samsung being apple
I had no idea I could long press the spacebar to easily reposition the cursor on my iPhone. That’s actually a game changer for me, trying to tap the screen to do it was so damn frustrating.
Still sucks using the trick you will notice it takes a bunch of swipes to move though a single word
On Android I was trying to think of ways they could add in a way to swipe through letters and I thought "the space bar would actually work great for that since it's wide and has no swipe gesture" and then I tried it and it swiped through letters cause it was already a feature... Wish I learned about it sooner. But it was also kinda a surreal moment
Does Swiftkey for iOS not have arrow keys (or the default keyboard for that matter)? That's such a simple thing to implement imho
It doesn’t have to be just the space bar either, the entire empty space below the keyboard works as well!!!
@jadinc77 Android you can swipe or tap on letter you want to change easily. It was there for decades before even apple implemented.
18:37 average Apple fanboy activities
As an Apple fanboy, can confirm.
@MillennialMidwest 😂😂😂
11:00 didn’t even mention the fact that very, very often, even when you tell iOS autocorrect that yes, that is what I meant to type and click the x next to the suggested edit, the bubble goes away as if it’s heard, then *autocorrects to that suggestion anyway* when you hit the space bar. Absolutely infuriating.
@Fish_-ce6kk I was surprised he didn’t complain more about the auto correct. It’s one of my biggest gripes. Not only do I have to fight it to let me type a non standard word (or even just a different word than the keyboard wants) but often times when I’m one or two letter off for a misspelling it doesn’t auto correct and acts like it has no idea what word I could possibly be trying to type despite being so close!
Is this still existing? I'm using an iPhone 5 for my job that is frustratingly doing the same.
@ndew7 iPhone 13 Pro running the latest iOS 18. Yes.
@Fish_-ce6kk for me as coming from ios to android 1st the keyboard o the android phone for some reason feels smaller and I'm not used to how it auto corrects n I've miss typed alot on the android phone, I guess it's what you're used to at this time
@zaddyofcourse thing is you aren't limited u can do whatever u want it your keyboard 😁
I think that "landscape orientation" thing at 17:40 is something decided by certain app developers.
Some apps do this (like the Viaplay app), but they are few and far between. So I deduct that it's a conscious choice made by the developer. (That is more logical than "every app dev besides these specific ones has clearly defined that screen orientation is always gravity based")
I’m surprised you didn’t notice how bad searching in settings is. Sometimes I search for something and it won’t show up even though I searched for the exact setting name.
Ohh yes i have faced the same issue idk whats wrong with search… i type the exact word and still it wont show… on the contrary in android even if you type something related to that thing it will understand and show you the required thing, even though you have not typed even the single word from that required results…. Such a blissful experience in android 😊
@dans-afkno he’s entirely right here, the search in settings is often useless
Any proof which setting you guys couldn’t find , just for me to re try and validate .
Maybe Microsoft built that search feature for them? That's a standard feature in the start menu etc.
my favorite is having to be redirected from an app to update something buried in the Settings App only to find that the long list of apps aren't even in alphabetical order 😤
Linus Technological Tips
I did this a few years ago, my wife moved from an iPhone 8 to a new (13 I think) and I asked to borrow her phone for a month before giving to one of our kids. Most of the stuff you said I agree with, some basic tasks on Android were hard to do on the iPhone and that rotation thing, OMG after a week I was ready to give up. Going menus deep to find a single setting....really ? Can I really customize anything deeply? Nope, every iphone almost looks exactly the same, really?
Yea, I went back to Android and will never turn back, and even the funnier part of it, I loved the interface of Windows Phone (who remembers that??), so I use a loader for that but, all the of the backbone is Android. I get the live tiles from Windows phone (new emails/texts show up on the home screen), the start menu with the list of apps (even new apps on the top to get rid of all the "added apps after an update") in order, you can even select a letter like in Windows to get right to an app and get all the Android advantages. It REALLY is the best of both worlds.
Again, its' MY phone and how I like to use it and IOS is not and will never be for me.
you can undo changes by shaking the phone, kinda like a back button
what?
As someone that switched to iPhone a little over 3 years ago when I’m listening to a song and then go on in a call the volume RAMPS UP TO MAX WITH THE MUSIC PLAYING FOR A SECOND THEN PAUSES THE MUSIC AND PLAYS THE CALL AUDIO. It driving me nuts, it’s happens every now and then but still.
I am so happy you addressed how sluggish iPhones feel. I have felt that way for years.
strangs, i've always found it to be the other way round
Same. The worst part is that it's so random. Sometimes it's just fine, sometimes... The animations seem to drag down.
@DeckedSneeze709it feels slow because of animations and unnecessary animations.
@hasanagera Not to mention only 60 refresh rate
@SKK329the pro has 120hz….
A missed opportunity to wear the Steve turtleneck for this review.
Last portion of the video made me wonder about whether dual running an iPhone 16 as the main and a Samsung A-series as the identity verification and more sensitive data backup device would fix some of the unintuitive issues listed.
this is great until you realize that splitting your time between two phones is a total headache
His older thumbnail was that (channel icon thumbnail)
So run two phones and two phone bills to achieve what one device can do on it's own? Apple users are hilarious...
or get a decent android and you don't even need the iphone anymore?
“Buy a different phone” to solve an intuition issue on one device is *crazy*
Oh my god the landscape orientation thing is f****n crazy.
Now it’s time to switch to a Nokia.
HMD now.
At work I have to use an iPad and since I work in a french speaking environment as a non-french speaker, I am mixing my mother tongue german with english and a bit of french - on Android, no problem, just tell the Auto-COrrect that you are using these three languages and you're good to go.
But Apple (just very recently) gives me the availability to choose just two languages for auto-correct, and of course I very often are in the wrong mode (geen, enfr, gefr) and some words get corrected wrongfully.
The whole typing experience is horrible as an Android User for 13 years and it's nice to see that it's not just me.
Been using 15 pro for more than a year now, couldn't replace my 6x cheaper Realme with it, main reason - typing experience was horribly downgrade in iPhone, like unintuitive, unproductive and extremely dumb, very bad UX. I can't emphasize on how much I hate typing in iPhone, even with a purchased 3rd party keyboard and is the major reason why it's still my secondary phone which I use only for taking photos now and then.
This. Moved to Apple when my wife convinced me that her and kids already use it so why not me. Well... the correction seems to at times choose the language quite randomly whci can be a frustrating experience when it doesn't work as it should.
Autocorrect on iOS (and I assume iPadOS) used to be super good for multiple languages, but within the last 2-4 years it seems to have been completely broken. Right now the behaviour also seems to change significantly between every minor update, too. The other day I had the AUDACITY of trying to write a single sentence in French on iOS without going out of my way to switch to the French keyboard, and my phone decided that - in the middle of a full French sentence - autocorrecting "vrai visage" to "braindead visage" was a good idea. Yikes.
Considering everyone and their mother talks about how well tuned everything is on iOS/iPadOS, I find it appalling that using a non-English keyboard layout makes the split keyboard in landscape mode on iPad split in the wrong place (between H and J on a QWERTY layout).
@MrQwertyman111 Swiftkey on android works amazingly for this. I am learning German so I added it to my keyboard and it flawlessly works between both languages, even if I switch back and forth in the same sentence
13:30 i selfhost my own caldav server and yes, it is stupid having to go into settings, then calendar and then add a new account there and not directly from the app.
was nopt ready for the mama linus jump scare
0:34 Mama Sebastian 😂😂
Migrating from Android to iOS was hell. If you miss the restore WhatsApp on the first pass you can NEVER RESTORE your Android WhatsApp chat history ever again. It’s insanity.
hey, are you sure about that? I just missed it from migrating my s22 to a new iphone, I was thinking on resetting the iphone again and make another try lol
@pingyburrito yes, it’s only possible once during setup. I missed that one too
That issue also exists for android to android. That’s a whatsapp problem
@jimmyboy1582 exactly.
This gets me crazy when I think about it
8:50, nope, not an iOS 18 bug. This has been an issue with iOS for ages now alongside the keyboard click sounds going from inaudible to super loud in a split second.
Apple has never fixed it and I don’t think they care to.
Trillion dollar company they need a few more years to iron out small bugs. I mean adding localization to all the countries where they sell their products took em 20 years
i never really liked keyboard clicks so i just have it disabled,
but man, that would drive anyone insane
@JaceKeller pretty sure they'll fix it after 5 years and announce it as a feature
the keyboard in apple is shit, not being able to tap between the words, not able to have a separate num pad, period and comma above the keyboard, no long press symbols and even the gboard which is so much better in android be so bad in iphone. android allows you to customize the lag and delay in 0.1 ms accuracy and ios doesn't have anything
Yes, but when they become laud, the keyboard lag disappears. :D
All the major Android manufacturers do the same exact thing.
As in?
that "phone, teams, whatsapp" triple whammy was the equivalent of an anxiety nuclear bomb after hearing all three notification tones go off in succession
Customise your notifications sounds. I don't know what the normal WhatsApp notification sound even is
10:09 Apple does do something really similar to that, just only on the iPads for some reason
not having universal back button is the reason i don't buy iphones
Like every other phone today? xD
@monsterdav3004 what do you mean?
@monsterdav3004 Every Android I know of has the "back button" still implemented, even if only in software. It works either as the swipe from left or right side of the screen, or as the old style buttons on the bottom row.
@monsterdav3004 my android allows me to have the classic 3 button layout and i fk love it
@4nlimited3dition_4n3d I found out that iPhone users take the word "back button" literally and then completely misunderstand the point you are trying to make. So whenever you talk about the universal back button you have to include "or universal back gesture".
It also drives me nuts that I can’t quickly turn off the vibrate function for notifications
6:00 just tap "Build Number" seven times to go into developer settings and...oh wait, you cant
There's one particularly frustrating issue (or perhaps an intentional feature)
If iCloud storage runs out while Photos Sync is enabled with the "Optimize Photos" option selected, things get tricky. If you happen to turn off Photos Sync in this situation, you lose access to your backed-up photos (on that iPhone) because storage is full. You can't re-enable Photos Sync unless you either clear storage or purchase more. To make matters worse, you also can't switch from "Optimize Photos" to "Download Originals" unless Photos Sync is turned on.
This leaves you with only two options:
Buy more iCloud storage.
Manually back up all the non-synced photos elsewhere, delete them from your device, and then re-enable backup.
This is just 1 of the issue (Maybe a feature from Apple's perspective) i noticed
Note: I used iPhone few years for the work related. I can never imagine using it as personal device.
If your using cloud storage of any kind, for anything, especially your personal stuff, you have MUCH bigger problems.
Anyone who has a basic understanding of security, (along with a functional brain) does NOT use ANY cloud storage (Unless its self-owned and operated)
Knowing apple, I'm fairly certain they did it intentionally to make you spend more money.
i personally only sync contacts and notes and i think that's how anyone should use it if they aren't willing to pay for extra storage
@TTURKI same even when I had an android (around 6 years or so ago) I always backed my important photos and files up to a physical hard drive rather then cloud storage. I feel like that is basic security stuff especially now that I have a kid I don’t want some weirdo having access to any of that.
@Hharvey12700any recommendation for hard drive, preferably long term wise
Longtime iPhone user here: The volume of notifications and sounds are constantly going up. Sometimes one day later, sometimes one month later. This is what I experienced since I bought the 13 Pro fairly new, and I now have a 16 Pro Max for around two weeks, and on the new phone, I already had to turn down the volume twice. It's making me furious sometimes. I don't like loud alarms for waking up, so you can imagine my face when in the morning my alarm suddenly goes off full volume. Yikes. BTW good video, thx for sharing your thoughts. :)
This is one of those things that just never even occurred to me, because the last time I tried to turn on sounds on my ip13 the button was stuck because it'd been turned off for who knows how long. Media volume seems to just crank up by itself so now I'm just instinctively clicking the volume down button every time there might be sound coming from whatever I'm viewing.
Im pretty sure you misclick on the volume button outside of media so the ringer goes up but you dont put it down. Just my theory bcs this never happened to me
@Borovski213 no, I'm pretty sure, I don't. My phone is always in silent mode (bc I have an Apple Watch on my hand), and I never set all the way up the volume of the notifications and alarms. In fact, I always set it back to around 1/3, but after some time, it climbs back to max.
In settings you can set individual volumes for system sounds vs media. If you don't do this. they will go up the volume gets turned up. Sometimes from software bugs with third party Apps like Facebook or Instagram, but also because you have turned the volume up during a phone call or music playback etc
don't forget they don't even have a close all apps button
Looks like LTT notifications are working great today
17:23 as an iOS Developer, this is a setting we can control and set to lock a specific rotation. We have 4 checkboxes, which are, portrait, upside down, landscape left and landscape right. In theory, you could lock it to be only upside down. In this case, this seems to be a decision made by the developers of Jetpack Joyride to lock it to a landscape orientation, presumably to stop it from automatically rotating on accident when playing the game. (Which would play a whole animation, therefor stopping the game flow) As a long time iOS fan and developer, I do however not see any reason why they shouldn't have a landscape mode for lock orientation, so your point still stands. But I just wanted to make this case clear.
not sure if that's true. He showed it in landscape in the other orientation. It's only when he goes to another app, and then back into JJ does it get locked to the other one.
In another developer's comment, Linus replied that he still needs this as a system setting wide implementation.
@mattlokk360 yes, my point still stands. The game has it locked to landscape right. So if you open it in landscape left, because the game set it to only work in landscape right, it will be “upside down”. If you as a developer set it to work in both landscape directions it would flip the game.
@pareshpadhi2454 yes, that’s what I said at the end of my comment. I agree with him, I just wanted to make sure that people know, that this option exists for developers and why they might have made that choice. (The game developers in this case). Like I said, I totally agree that this should be a system setting.
I can probably guess why apple did not do this, because they like basically everything to be in portrait mode. However who cares, they should implement it, just so it’s an option if you need it.
Came here to add this comment, many games for some reason are checked landscape "right" or "left" only, that was a dev choice. Not defending the issue with other apps and etc, but this would be the reason for this issue in many situations
I love the visual of all the apps going into the pocket like that. Thank you whoever thought of that!
9:32 I miss the volume menu
As an apple only user forever, thank you for calling out the orientation lock thing at the end as the most important change. I've been wanting it changed for so long
As Linus said, give the other side of the fence an honest try and you may be surprised. You can't appreciate features that you've never been exposed to in the first place. Your phone life could explode with QOL.
As an Apple only user, you should be prepared to continue waiting 😊😂
I could’ve sworn I used to be able to landscape lock my iPhone years ago, but I guess I just mixed it up with the iPad I had
@martineriksson03not on the iPhone, only with jailbreak
@martineriksson03The old Plus models with a home button had that feature. I miss the home screen rotation on iPhone.
And one more thing, WHY TF IS THE AUTO BRIGHTNESS SETTING HIDDEN SOMEWHERE IN THE SETTINGS
The two things that annoy me most about iOS is the fact that you cannot tap to put the cursor in the middle of a word and the abysmal app icon placement (which they made WORSE) with their half hearted “fix”
@krim7 you actually can put the cursor in the middle by:
- tap and hold the cursor, then you can move to anywhere, or
- tap and hold the space bar to navigate the text
The wild part is that, it was possible in iOS to tap in the middle of a word. I did it in my 3GS and first few months in my X. Then suddenly after one update, I can no longer do it.
@ I know that. I think it is more complicated & less efficient than just tapping where you want the cursor to go. :)
It would be nice if it took user input, instead of rejecting it.
@krim7 you must have the tiniest fingers that uses a smart phone. There’s not a chance I could ever tap and put my cursor exactly where I want it. Tap and hold and then drag puts it exactly where I want every time instead tap, damn not there, tap again, crap, tap.
The screenshot share then delete function has been on my huawei phone for the last 4 years.
That suddenly loud audio in Carplay! My wife's iPhone 13 does that, too. It happens in our Subaru and Toyota, so it does seem like an Apple-side issue.
It's not just with carplay, noticed my girlfriend's iPhone doing this frequently with Tesla over a standard Bluetooth connection
It is happening with my Iphone SE 2022 in my 2018 Volkswagen. Does not happen with my wifes iphone 12. Hate those jumpscares when someone calls.
@CarsSimplified if you have Amazon Alexa app installed try removing that... I bet it will resolve your issue.... Ask me how long it took me to work that out 😕
Me too on my 15 PM in my Mitsubishi Outlander and my sister Honda CRV smh
I don't even remember, is the volume adjustable on the phone while connected to CarPlay? It's been set and forget for me. I always just make sure my phone volume is cranked to the max when connected over bluetooth to my car and rely on the car's volume to actually adjust the volume. Haven't noticed any volume issues in my VW or Jeep.
Was going to click off when I saw it was an Apple video, but Mama Sebastian kept me going 😂
This video is absolutely fantastic! These are things that have caught my attention for a long time but often go unnoticed. I've been using an iPhone 13 Mini for 1.5 years now. Before that, I was a Samsung Galaxy S10e user. As someone with ADHD, I usually can't multitask while talking to someone-like sending a file or typing something. But Samsung's UI was so intuitive and fast that I could quickly send a file or jot something down in just 5-10 seconds, even while talking to someone. The back button, faster animations, and full support for SwiftKey's suggestions made this possible. Plus, the audio quality was much better. The iPhone, on the other hand, delivers a terrible experience. It feels so sluggish.
This is screaming the 4GB of RAM they have on that phone.
I never used the Android multiple audio source volume control honestly
I don't know if Linus ran into this one but my girlfriend and I both ROLL OUR EYES every time either of our iPhones start clicking REALLY FKIN LOUD while typing. And that's pretty often.
You can turn it off.
I turned mine off and made it to where each click gives me haptic feedback. Sort of like a real click. Idk just my preference for click feedback.
@ Yeah I did for a few years but I like the sound now lol
@ToniLeys ya i like the sound too lmao. But i do wonder why it gets super loud randomly also
@artoro8 old bug like from 10 years ago or so
I hate the random loud clicking. Happens randomly on my 15 pro max ONLY if Discord is running. If I kill Discord, max volume typing noise instantly stops.
17:35, as an iOS user for 10 years and plays a lot of mobile games you can 100% put in both possible land scape orientation, must be a jet pack joy ride lock or an iOS 18 bug, I have never experienced this
18:52 Hot Wheels? That’s so beautiful to see!
I feel like there should be little shower curtains attached to those ear rings Linus wears 😂
2:04 you know your mind is cooked when your body responds to these sounds, clenching teeth, closing eyes, looking to the side...
I paused the video to check the messages LUL
My blood pressure noticeably rose when I heard the Teams sound.
Teams sound gave me mild PTSD
I always look for this comment. I literally wince when I hear that sound.
the teams sound is gonna be a non insignificant cause of heart attacks in like 20 years im sure
The back button has been the primary reason that for years I have preferred android. And I carry both phones since the 5s.
The one thing that kills me is the sound cranking up crazy on my headphones for no reason
1:49 I am actually jealous of how many missed calls and texts Linus has. It's actually an intimidating amount, even ignoring the 998 emails.
Those are rookie numbers. Try 14K emails.
8:43 Imagine trying to escape a killer and your iPhone exposes your location in the dead silence against your will lmao
@alexphelps7042 lmao 🤣
in that case you probably can't sue them cuz you use an iPhone
@alexphelps7042 no they didn't. they just started to allow you to change the function of the switch.
@7:05 The "going back" on iOS is so incredibly non-intuitive. But putting all the different types of calls in one place is a GREAT idea. And @18:20 whenever I talk about "I want it my way," all my Apple fan's tell me "why are you so caught up about xyz customization?" But you nailed it. After I walk away from the store, it's MY phone.
if only there was a button, say at the bottom of the screen for example, that acted as a back button no matter the app. just a idea tho doubt it will ever happen
And this is why apple is inferior to Android
@hansangb The point you make about "why are you so caught up about.." is THE line I always hear from my friends using iOS. They always say it's amazing, intuitive, makes so much sense etc. But when you point out annoyances - which there are plenty of - the answer is always that it's a non issue because you will just have to get used to it or just don't expect to use the device this way
My brief experience with attempting to daily MacOS was basically exactly this.
"How do I...?" questions greeted with mocking "why would you want to do that, idiot?" responses
@conormurphy4328 cool story bro. I view most phone owners as people, and you as a tool
15:15 oh God, so silly, but this was the literal reason I went back to Android. Why oh why, Apple, don't you fix the scroll on your OS? The weirdest part is scrolling on macOS is brilliant.
just out of curiosity, do you know about the scroll bar? that you can press it when it appears and go as fast as you want? (I know its a pretty unknown feature, very "intuitive")
Haven't touched iOS since the iPhone 4S and was genuinely unaware about the scrolling
I already wasn't really planning on buying an iPhone anytime soon but your comment is probably the nail in the coffin that guarantees I never buy one ever lol
if you want to auto scroll to top of a window tap on either of the two wings at the very top of the screen (clock icon or status icons)
So many employees and not one put the link to the WAN Show video mentioned at the end.