About 2.5 years ago I left behind Android and went to the Dark Side. Bought an iPhone. It was frustrating to use at first because changing OS is a pain in the ass, but I got used to it and actually really like it now.
But I still have two big complaints:
There ought to be some kind of icon in the toolbar to show me I have unread notifications. I miss this very much from Android, which would show icons for the apps that have notifications. The Apple Watch solves this by having a notification icon, but I shouldn’t need to buy a separate device for that functionality.
I cannot stand that I can only go back by swiping from the left side of the screen. On Android the swipe in gesture from either left or right side could be set up to be the “back” action. I understand why this is, Android developed with a dedicated back button and thus has an OS-level back command, whereas iOS is highly contextual and you flow through apps and menus differently than Android, and it has no dedicated universal “back,” so swiping in from the left is back and swiping in from the right is forward. It makes using a large screen one-handed unnecessarily difficult.
Making me feel like a freak for asking for the freaking
sudo.If you can’t do any software change you want, you are not the owner of the device.
Generally: That I can’t mount my network samba shares into local folders without rooting the whole damn thing.
That I can’t force my device to stay in wifi if no internet connection is available (to access local network only).
Device specific: That sometimes volume control is very buggy while putting in a headphone jack and I have to navigate into sub-sub settings hell to set everything back.
Battery life is a little short, and the software support ends in about a year. Really wish I could keep this phone going for another 3 or 4.
No headphone jack, and having to deal with Samsung’s bullshit. This will be my last phone from them.
- No good operating system preinstalled by default
- No headphone jack anymore
This plus no way to replace battery yourself or upgrade storage.
Battery life
Keeping too many things running in the background, making things laggy. (I do close out apps when I’m done using them, and I solve laggy times with the Optimize widget. I just wish it would automatically optimize)
Makes we wonder what OS you’re running. Most modern phone software “freezes” the app state when it’s in the background and frees up the memory for the frontmost app.
I have the opposite issue with background apps - I have 12 GB of RAM (16 on the tablet) and it still closes utilities sometimes and forces me to relaunch them (in some cases going back into settings and re-enabling accessibility services for example. That should never happen, in case it’s Really for accessibility)
My fingerprint scanner was on the back, but now it’s on the front, and can’t identify me as regularly as it did before.
I’ve gotten used to the new location, but I can’t forgive making it less accurate than it used to be.
why on earth are people so comfortable giving private companies their fingerprint and face scans?
The fingerprint is stored on your device. You don’t give it to a company.
Knowing how Lemmy is, I’ll probably catch shit for this, but it’s the truth:
I just don’t care.
I won’t say you’re being paranoid because, I don’t know for sure that there won’t be repercussions, but I don’t see a realistic downside considering the cops and FBI already have mine for clearances.
My god, I upgraded from an S9 to an S22 and seeing the fingerprint scanner on the front baffled me. With a screen protector on I unlock it on the first try maybe 25% of the time
There’s a setting you can turn on that increases the sensitivity, which should fix the issue. It works perfectly fine for me with a screen protector
I went from a Pixel 3 to a Pixel 7. I hold on to my phones as long as possible.
Spam and ads
I’m relatively content with my Pixel 4A running LineageOS (with root), but that’s an experience that’s really only suited to very technical users, in large part because some apps actively resist running in an environment the device owner actually controls.
My complaint is with the smartphone ecosystem as a whole: it’s designed to empower the OS vendor and app developers over users. The entire tech world (outside Microsoft and maybe some corporate IT types) saw Microsoft Palladium as a nightmare scenario a couple decades ago. Now we’ve let Apple and Google do the same thing with barely a grumble out of the mainstream tech press.
A rare Lemmy thread that has more comments than kicks.
How do you know how many in here are wearing shoes?
It’s still 2 comments for every kick, fresh.
The constant UI changes that fix nothing of importance and make using it less enjoyable.
A recent update changed the options for navigation from being able to hide the three icons at the bottom and swipe instead to make it like an iphone where you have one swipe up and it does things based on whether you hold or let go immediately and now the sides are go back swipes. They kept the option to show buttons, but apparently keeping the two options and adding this new train wreck as a third option is too hard. So to use my fulll screen real estate I have the joy of accidentally going back a page dozens of times per day, holding or not holding the swipe up the wrong amount of time dozens of times per day, and when I crop photos I constantly catch the stupid edge go back thing and have to cancel. At least it asks first I guess.
Why couldn’t they keep swipe up for three things if they kept the buttons in the same spot anyway? I am still trying to get used to the new stupid thing after a few months because the bottom buttons are such a waste of space.
That is the worst offender, but changing icons, how notifications work, and several other things are just annoying enough tl not drive me away but feel like change for the sake of change. I know some changes can require a lot of maintenance to have multiple options, but keeping a basic navigation option when adding a third should not jave been a big deal.
I dislike most of it, everything but paying contactless, making calls or SMS. I have a 2020 SE because it is small but I want a tiny dumb phone, being able to store my bank card on it to pay anywhere, and phone or SMS someone. The rest to me is useless, I very dislike it when I am somewhere and everyone is on their phone (mostly with the volume on 10 too), I don’t even bring mine when I visit someone just to make a point how disrespectful it is when I am invited to your home and whipping out a smartphone.
The undocumented proprietary SoC and Modem. I want complete bit register level documentation of ever piece of silicon used.
Samsung S22 Ultra. Probably battery life, specifically that 15% means “you have 5 minutes left”. And how long it takes to open the camera app and take a photo.
OS is okay, performance outside of the camera issue is okay, size, camera quality, screen, s-pen… I could have changed it this year and chose to skip. I might change it next year or even try to make it to 2026. New battery might be needed for that.
Probably battery life, specifically that 15% means “you have 5 minutes left”.
I’m assuming that unless this is some kind of 3D gaming thing, that you can’t deplete your battery from full in 33 minutes. So I’m guessing that the battery estimation is just off, reads a higher percentage remaining than it should at that point.
There are some power monitor software packages other than the built-in one that can do their own prediction that might be more-accurate. I have BatteryBot on my phone, and I’d bet that there are others out there.
Yes, it’s specifically the estimation. It takes like 1 hour to go from 100 to 90 and mere minutes from 15 to 0. Given that I only charge to 80% to protect the battery, it feels like only having 65% of battery usable.
Interesting, I don’t start to worry until I reach 5%. But I keep my brightness pretty low. How long does it take for yours to pull up the camera?
About 2 seconds, maybe 3. Eons in kid time.
Snapdragon or Exynos?
Exynos :(
