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People still use ringtones?
Honestly its on vibrate all day at work and usually i just forget to turn it off that when I get home. Back when I used to change ringtones based on my mood or favorite song of the week this was annoying. On android I had tons of options, apple yea i have a few i bought a decade ago but beyond that most i do is whatever's built in for those moments i do have it on loud.
Apple might not because they dont want to lose money. But carriers still have them and they mark them down.
Yes, but if you are getting a new phone you will need a service - unless the goal is to export. So pay for the phone and after some cool off period, you request an unlock.
No; admittedly it's not exactly the most important missing feature (classic phone calls? What's that?), but it is a bit frustrating that you have to go through a couple of hoops to add a custom ringtone.
magnets are in the phone for sure i am not 100% certain if they are in the chargers as well or not. Id have to look the magsafe spec up but i just checked for magnets in my iphone. Probably have to be because it centers its position, that would require another field present.
Yep. Thats my thing. I remember it being really restrictive to re-arrange icons.
Yep. Thats my thing. I remember it being really restrictive to re-arrange icons.
I have been using it the weekend coming from my Samsung S24U and I have very few complaints. I got the Pro because I simply got tired of having a giant phone after 9 months. I miss being able to keep my phone in my pockets while driving instead of having to take everything out.
The big things I noticed:
I don't understand how everyone can have their own take on mail in 2024. iOS Mail, Gmail and Outlook all do the same thing all three look and feel different. iOS mail being the most janky, in my opinion. I cant figure out which I like more Google Maps or Apple Maps but ill probably end up using Google just because its familiar. Photos is another story, Apple photos seems to be a bit better through out. Yeah, so overall, unsurprisingly, I am very happy.
- Great size and light weight. Build seems great too but its so light its hard to tell what you are paying for exactly. I wouldn't say its built any worse than the Samsung though. One small difference is the screens. With the iPhone the screen seems closer to the surface vs the Samsung. I don't know if that's because they use thinner glass or something else.
- Face Unlock is impressively fast (though admittedly its the first time I have used it on any device since the Lumia) and I am surprised at how many apps or functions are checking to grant access.
- Screen has really nice color reproduction.
- But it has a lower max brightness than the galaxy; will need to compare in direct sunlight.
- Stacking notifications. I remember when they just gave you a million individual ones. Too bad you cant individually clear them or interact with them from the lock screen. Don't worry Apple, I have faith in you, you're almost there.
- Happy it allows you to use Chrome password manager to Auto Fill right along side its native password manager.
- Too bad you cant import passwords from another password manager into 'Passwords' without a Mac. Not that I would, but its an interesting limitation.
- Google apps all (except Assistant and Pay - both understandable) work including background sync of Google Photos
- Some of my other apps do not work in the background and I can live with that. The photos are a bigger deal.
- Without a doubt and I expected this, some apps look nicer on iOS. Not all, but to a varying degree between a lot nicer and identical. The bigger the company the smaller the difference between the apps.
- I am still not satisfied with the way it handles 'back' actions. For example. On android, I can open a picture in discord or facebook and flick from either edge to go 'back' and it will close the image. iOS requires me to hit an X in the corner. In some apps, and I really should write out the steps, there is no apparent 'back'. Unless I am dumb and cant figure out how to swipe right consistently.
- I appreciate iOS asking me to "not to track" after every install.
- Besides that, it seems like it has nearly all the same features found in Android one way or another, granted I am not as much of a power user anymore but there's nothing important I am missing at the moment.
- Still find it interesting how it doesnt have an 'app drawer' it has an app page and on that page it categorizes the apps on its own and doesnt let you re-arrange them.
- So it does baffling things like put "Windows" (the new RD Client) into its own category called "Productivity and Finance". Meanwhile, it has separate folders for both of those categories. But it doesn't pick productivity or even utilities even though it has other similar apps.
Now I just need to figure out how to get my ring tones on it.
I need to compare them side by side.
Yeah, I know, but... come on.
Cause everyone else has AI so gotta hype.
Because it likely was meant for ios17 and the iPhone 15 pro but they missed that by a mile, and they don’t want to keep people waiting any longer.
Apple decided to make its move soon after ChatGPT exploded in late 2022. My guess is that it was just too short an interval to have a polished release in sync with iOS 18. Better this than a Rabbit R1 situation where the functionality is simply broken.
Dustiness and fingerprints are why I always get the white phone.
15 Pro is better for photography. The 3x optical zoom is closest to "what eye sees". It's stupid that they seem to concentrate on everything except the "right" zoom level lol. 1x, 0.5x and then skip right to 5x.
Yes and no. 5X does force you to step back for some close-ups and portraits, but it also means you can capture photos that simply aren't possible with 3X. I can see 5X being very appealing at concerts.
Depends on what you take pictures of ultimately. However, the 16 Pro is better on the average as a 3x lens ain't doing what the 5x lens can do, and the 0.5x camera is higher resolution now.
I already love the ultrawide for the macro quality. You can spot the finer grains of pollen on a flower, and it looks superb unless you zoom in so close that it’s borderline absurd. And yes, other phones can do this, but the color reproduction and overall performance is better than I’ve sometimes seen.
Been trying to use Siri and it's shocking how dumb it is compared to google. My guess is whatever apple has up it's sleeve has to be better or else its going to be a joke.
I've been on the beta of iOS 18 and Siri is astronomically better. Siri will be using AI from this point forward. Siri has been utterly useless garbage up until this point.
What does this even mean? Google assistant vs Gemini is nearly indistinguishable except for needing to give Gemini even more access. The fact that Siri isnt up to par with Google or Alexa is just weird.
I think it's almost up to par. It's also going to be a lot more tightly integrated into the OS with more updates and being able to do actually useful tasks the same way Google Assistant can. I think it will be on par or better than Google Assistant by the time iOS 18 is completely flushed out in a year. It's off to an extremely good start.
You literally just push the 123 button. Becomes second nature and it easier than long pressing keys, faster for me for sure.
I still recommend slowly moving off of Google. Mostly for privacy reasons, but the big thing is that once the iOS AI features roll out the more you're using that is part of iCloud the better the Apple AI will be, and I really like how the Apple AI runs as much as it can on the device itself before reaching out to the cloud.
I’m impartial on it. It replaced the 5g antenna window, so it’s whatever. At least it means you’ve got another button to open the camera and the action button can be something more useful like flashlight.
