auriali @auriali

just gonna say it, but I think in a lot of ways iOS is a poor UX experience. some reasons:

  1. back button isn't consistent & is annoying to reach, it's at the top of the screen a lot, making it hard to reach one handed. sometimes the button is somewhere else depending on the app you're using.

  2. for some reason safari settings are shoved into system settings, so you have to dig through to find it to configure basic things like extensions

  3. you can't turn Bluetooth off via control centre, you need to go into settings to do that too

I could go on if it thought about it more, but yeah. I've used iOS a good amount for years as I have owned 2 iPads and having used android phones for a long time as well I just find I have to go through more hoops to do things on iOS than android.

jeffalo @jeffalo

to elaborate, my whole life i’ve thought iphones were supposed to be easy to use and stuff. i spent an embarrassingly long time trying to change my wallpaper. or delete a shortcut automation i accidentally made.

jeffalo @jeffalo

i am under the impression im actually too dumb to use an iphone

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Or how the battery is so bad that even the phone doesn’t know how dead it is. My parents used to have iPhones and sometimes they would randomly reboot at 45% only to discover its now down to 7%.

yeah i’ve had poor battery issues with apple products too

So true, but I gotta point this out cuz why not:

…a poor UX experience

“User Experience experience” lol

i be spittin’ double entendre’s

i agree, but isn’t #3 not true, or do you mean turn bluetooth off permanently

you can’t turn it off permanently, which is what i and i think most people would expect an off button to do lol

why do you use safari 🥹but yeah all of these are pretty valid criticisms. android universal back button is a great feature

a large part of apple stuff (that’s come up a lot more recently due to lawsuits and stuff) is how they “lock” you into their ecosystem through their ios/macos only features, to which it’s difficult to switch off if it’s been your main device

every browser on iOS is safari anyways so it doesn’t really matter

why use another browser its just safari with a different logo and more annoying because they’re so restricted