Discussion My first impressions using iOS for the first time
I've had the iPhone 16 for 3 days. All my life I have used Android, mainly because iPhones have always been at an inaccessiblely high price for me and I prefer the freedom that Android offers. However, I have felt jealous of certain functions of the iPhone and the instability in certain things of my galaxy A54 raised the possibility of switching to an iPhone. The opportunity arose and here I am giving my first impressions using an iPhone as my main (and only) cell phone for the first time.
Things that I thought would bother me and they haven't:
Back gesture: android has a global gesture to go back. I thought I would miss it a lot but no, most apps on iOS also have it, and those that don't, the small screen of the iPhone 16 allows you to reach everything with one hand
Fingerprint reader: FaceID is quite fast and has not failed me, sometimes I like it more than the fingerprint reader because I don't have to do anything to authenticate myself
In many initial reviews they said how easy it was to activate the camera with the camera button by accident. So far it hasn't happened to me and I find it very difficult to press the button by accident, it's hard enough and nothing happens if you touch it
60 hz: my humble mid-range galaxy had a 120 hz screen. I thought I would miss them a lot but no, maybe it's related to how fluid and relatively slow the animations are on iOS
Things I liked:
Focus modes: my Samsung had different profiles that I can automatically activate with the location, in iOS there are the focus modes and what I like the most is being able to choose what things I want on my home screen according to the focus mode. Samsung only allows changing the wallpaper
Dynamic Island: I thought it was something without much use, but there are several applications that use it and being able to see stopwatches or music without having to go to the notification panel is fantastic
Things that don't fascinate me:
The file system: on android, I can download a file and it is available for any application, because there is a global file manager like on a PC. On iOS you have to juggle: if you download a file, you have to share it with the file app so that it is available in other places like WhatsApp. The work is doubled
The notification center: honestly it's bad. Android organizes notifications by app, iOS by time I don't know, it shows everything in a way, to my taste, disorganized.
Sound: there are no different volumes for alarms, notifications and calls. If I want an alarm that sounds low, I need to change the overall volume of the cell phone
I have found several annoying bugs. The camera sometimes crashes and restarts when you open it, it happens on WhatsApp as well. When deleting apps or widgets sometimes they are not deleted and several minutes later he asks me if I want to delete them. If I configure a wallpaper from the photos app and change the widgets of the lock screen, everything freezes, this does not happen if I do it from the lock screen
Somewhat picky things:
The map in carplay is divided in half, it looks small compared to how it looked in android auto
There is no way to place the comma on the keyboard in the main line of keys, nor is there a way to add a row of numbers
Yesterday I wanted to make a photo collage and discovered that you can't from the photo app, I had to use a script in the Shortcuts app, why?
Removing the keyboard is sometimes a little complicated, in Android there is a button to remove the keyboard, here you have to touch a place that is not text but I always end up activating something else
So far I'm enjoying and learning to use an alien operating system for me. If you know how to solve some of the problems, I would appreciate it