My mother’s upgrading from a Huawei P9 to an iPhone she received as a gift (don’t know which model it is).

She doesn’t know how to use iOS and I’m finding it difficult to teach her, since I don’t know how it works either, so I was wondering if it was possible to install some version of Android on it.

Sorry if it’s the wrong community to post this in

  • NightAuthor@lemmy.worldEnglish
    197·
    10 months ago

    I’m not sure that’s so true nowadays, I’m very tech literate, and find iPhones still quite filled with bugs and weird design choices that make me have to actually TRY to be able to use them.

    Take the browser for instance, why do I have to click the share button to use the “find on page” option? Well I learned from another dev that it’s actually the “action” button… but it’s almost exclusively used as a share button.

    The mail app has some oddities. The pull down to search function is fucking stupid. I can’t quite remember all of them, but there are so many horrible UX decisions made for the sake of a “clean” interface.

    And then there are the bugs, my AirPods won’t connect… they take forever to attempt, and then nothing happens. I after a couple of other troubleshooting steps, I figure out that toggling Bluetooth on my phone allows the AirPods to connect immediately.

    Lots of bugs, with workarounds that I can figure out… but they’d drive someone else up a wall.

    And we had a horrid time trying to use FaceTime on AppleTV to AppleTV. Apparently it was stability issues on my phones iOS version. And my phone wasn’t updating, despite updating multiple times on 17, the latest wouldn’t download until I went and removed an old ios16 beta profile. But I guess that’s kinda on me.

    • joekar1990@lemmy.worldEnglish
      113·
      10 months ago

      Other things that irritated me when I recently switched from android to iOS:

      The keyboard doesn’t have the numbers along the top. Didn’t realize how much I used digits when typing stuff out so switching back and forth is annoying.

      When typing long text messages I find it impossible to just click higher or scroll up to reread what I typed

      Speaking of messaging the fact I can only do emoji reactions with such a limited range is really amazing especially in 2023-2024

      The calculator doesn’t show you what you typed in….maybe I’m the idiot but I can’t figure it out

      No ability to do Picture in Picture especially with FaceTime, so everytime I leave the app to look at another window it always blacks the video out

      Printing things from my phone is so difficult now

      Apple Pay for some reason only works when I double click the side button before placing the phone near the reader rather than scan and then double click

      Speaking of wallet I can’t transfer in a local public transit commuter card from android….i need a physical card or number to scan. There is no option to manually enter that I can see

      The action button why can I only do 1 action and not multiple with a click and then a hold option?

      Speaking of action button I have mine set to silent bc if I keep clicking the volume down button it doesn’t automatically put the ringer on vibrate and then silent

      Which leads me to why in gods name can I not turn off send noises from any app? I don’t need to hear the swoosh sound every time.

      The Notification Center in general bothers me

      Also I really miss the back button and menu buttons on the bottom.

      I’m sure there’s more I forgot about but those are little things that have bugged me.

      • Kalothar@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        You can download a free app called pass2u wallet and it will allow you to add any image to your Apple wallet. That might be able to help you with your transit card issue

    • astrsk@kbin.social
      2·
      10 months ago

      You can just type in the address bar to search, you don’t have to share. It’s always been that way since page search was introduced. It shows up under its own suggestion category as “Find on page (results number)”

      • NightAuthor@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        What a wonderful example, there is a feature, but it’s in absolutely no way obvious, not if you look across your screen thoroughly, or if you’ve got a few decades of computing experience guiding you.

        If I don’t scroll down, how would I ever know that the “found on page” is down there. I’ve been using iPhone and safari for years and didn’t know about this method. Other things like that have come up before, hidden features that no one in their right mind would naturally discover.

        I wonder if safari on macOS has the same functionality, I bet it doesn’t. But even if it did…