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iPhone is a nice piece of hardware, but the OS has lots of room for improvement.
3 and 8 are actually mind blowing to me. Like I’ll give Siri some benefit of doubt but how are you a multi trillion dollar company and still miles behind everyone else. This isn’t just iPhone but also the HomePod. The functionality is impressive… if it were 2011.
As for moving the apps. It is an unholy nightmare, especially with widgets now.
What I also love to see is that you can mark a missed phone call as unseen. Sometimes i’m coming out of a meeting and missed several calls but i have to call someone back and because of that the notification disappears and i forget to call the missed calls back…
Apple needs to adopt all the pixel calling features. I miss them so much.
The calling features, particularly call screening, is what has kept me on Pixels for so long but I've reached a point where I can no longer ignore the rest of the failures/problems with Pixels/Android. Pretty well hae made up my mind to switch to iPhone because Pixels have turned to crap since Google switched to Tensor.
Yup me too.
Get a Pixel
10 would be impossible, it’s still up to developers to implement what the gesture does / where it takes you.
Which is dumb because it should be an OS level gesture. Android has a swipe from the edge of any screen and it recognizes it as back. I would love to have an iPhone but the 14 Pro I had earlier this year just baffled me on how to go back a page sometimes and the dynamic island needs to open a quick response on messaging apps. And I just hate faceid. Other than that, better battery life is important. I currently have a zfold 4 and it's absurdly expensive but other than it's mediocre 7 hour screen on time, it's just so much easier to use.
Just from an RSI point of view, Android does gesture-back much better than Apple.
On Android it’s still up to the developers to implement where the back gesture takes you, just like it already is on iOS.
You're kind of right but I mean where the back button is more so then what it does. I've used iOS apps where the back button is top left of the screen, I've used them where bottom left is, very rarely I've seen it in the top right. Android, it's baked into the OS. If I try to go back, I just do the back gesture and I go back. Doesn't have to be on a specific part of the screen.
It’s not “baked into the OS”, though. It still has to be implemented by the developer of the app. Apple could enforce stricter approval rules, but there is nothing they can change at the OS level that would make it just work.
That's going to require a cpu that's 10 years from now if they want to keep the highest performance year after year
5 would be extremely nice but IMO those options purposely bury the ‘talk to human’ to the underworld, which a lot of people calling customer care are looking for. If it were visual, I feel most people will just use that (I know I would). Happy to be proven wrong here.
Idk these sound like minor inconveniences to me
Back gesture what
Swipe back from edge.of the screen to go back. Everywhere. In every app, to close modals and even to close apps if back takes you home.
Better phone and calculator apps, coming from android the these built in apps not being as good was really unexpected from Apple
What’s the difference with the calculator app?
I miss how my Samsung would show all the values I’m adding or subtracting and also show the answer before I hit “=“, whereas in the iPhone calculator as soon as you enter the next number you can’t see the previous ones. Really helps when you’re adding a long list of numbers and don’t have to keep a mental note on where you are in the list at all times
I’d settle for an Android-like notification system, and call screening.
The hell is call screening
So run android?
a better file system, whats the point being able to record video to a extenal HD if you manage and copy between internal and SSD with easy.
You just described everything I miss about using Pixel phones. Apple adding those things would be a game changer for my experience.
This is all software. I believe OP is referring to hardware
Better UI scaling that allows for more information density so you don't feel like you're using one of those TV remotes made for old people
More options for selecting default apps
Faster charging
Side loading apps
Allow me to put my icons wherever I want.
More homescreen customization options
A more usable and feature rich file manager
Split screen multi-tasking
Better camera zoom
More detailed options in camera app
I agree with 1-3, and #8. #10. I just tried this. Swipe from left edge to center works in a lot of apps; News, Music, Safari, Notes, Reminders, Mail, Messages, Phone, Settings, Reddit.
how are 6 8 and 10 not in ios already?
RCS is getting added next year already
So basically a pixel phone lmao
Most on your list Android already has and does very well. In addition, A full time numbers row on the keyboard. Different individual notification volume controls for calls, texts, alarms, etc. RCS is coming.
Cool thing about my reply. Very few people realized pixel does all this. Made an impression, which is never a bad thing.
Agreed. I’ve had the P2, P4, P6 Pro, and P7 Pro. This 15 Pro Max is definitely lacking.
Might aswell get an Android at that point lol, I miss my old S21
Wouldn’t 1 depend on the carrier to actually mark the call as robo? And since they often use random number generators now, it’s even harder to do. I get calls from Iran and it’s Chinese saying I have a package at the embassy.
5 would need the caller to provide the tree or a database maintained and updated by the carrier no?
You could build 5 by analyzing calls on-device and sharing that information with apple. It might be difficult to make sure personal information does not get included in the shared data though.
Sideloading MacOS style
The ability to change app icons without shortcuts
13.the ability to change the Notification dot from red to another colour
14.Split View
15.more free background activity (be able to download a movie from telegram or Netflix while the app is in background )
Coming from android after a decade, I was shocked 15 wasn’t a thing.
Also
17: T9 dialing 18: under-screen Touch ID
A possibility to paste the numbers in the clipboard to call.
PLEASE #19 LDAC SUPPORT AT LEAST OH MY GOD, HOW DO YOU SELL A LOSSLESS STREAMING SERVICE WHEN THE MOST POPULAR HEADPHONES THAT YOU ALSO MAKE CAN’T SUPPORT IT???
#20. There is an option in settings for Siri to announce notifications when wearing headphones only.
You just named the pixel with all these lol. Loving my P8P except for battery life.
Text message management still sucks, especially junk text messages. If you have a DOT number the phone you have tied to that number which is required by law gets spammed with texts and calls so bad that the phone is unusable, it just sits on a desk.
So everything that android and pixels have achieved. Now, the pixels need to do what the iPhone does in other areas.
1.) It already silences calls from spammers 2.) what are you asking for 3.) I agree, Siri is lacking in many places 4.) what 5.) what is a phone tree 6.) maybe, but I’d hope RCS enabled devices work with Apple on a universal end to end encryption (that’s not owned by google) 7.) how would you improve the current system 8.) I could take it or leave it, I put everything on one screen for the most part anyways 9.) you can already set a default maps app, and have been able to for a while now (iOS 15?) 10.) back like going back a page? Swipe right from the left edge of the screen
3 is the big one for me. With the amount of talent and resources at Apple, the current state of Siri should be a searing embarrassment.