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What non native apps do you use and why? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I’ve been a iPhone user for ages and tried lots of different apps to replace the native iOS apps. As a casual user though I keep coming back to the native apps because they just work across all my devices. So I guess I’m curious what everyone uses instead from a casual point of view

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Notes and reminders are okay, but the rest of their native apps are too limiting. They don’t even add simple functionality on most apps.

For instance, voice recorder doesn’t allow bookmarking or pause/ resume recording. Good luck finding important moments in a 60 minute recording.

The camera app doesn’t allow you to pause resume video recording. Every camera app on other phones allows you to pause video recording so don’t have to take long clips or many short clips (for example steps in preparing a recipe)

Clock app doesn’t allow you to choose the snooze time. For some reason Apple decided you can Snooze for 9 minutes and if you don’t like it, find another app, which wouldn’t be integrated into Siri, etc.

Oversimplification of apps with few options ruins many apps.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think they’ve gone with the approach of will it work for the most number of people. Pausing video would a cool feature to have though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

It’s such a basic functionality that I wouldn’t even call it a feature. You can pause video on any Samsung phone and even a $300 Oppo phone. And just because apps works for most people, doesn’t they should limit features for people who want them.