Here we go, the Great Switch is starting! Or something.
> I'm getting sick and tired quite frankly of iOS at this point. I got the 18 Pro recently, and for the first day or two I was totally fine with the device. I loved how much smaller it was, the unibody aluminum design, everything about it was great, until it wasn't.
Apple makes some of the nicest feeling hardware on the planet, but the software always just leaves a horrible taste in my mouth after a little while. Just on this new phone alone, here are a few things that have driven me mad, to the point of potentially wanting to switch:
When using Direct Touch Typing, my VoiceOver will decide to play a sound as if I'm swiping, making me miss the tap, and not put a letter in, and disrupt flow entirely.
Discord calls now make YouTube videos incredibly quiet, to the point where I can no longer watch them while in a call with anyone. Not just Discord, but also FaceTime Audio as well.
The entire audio stack seems fucked. I had to call emergency services to let them know there was a fire on the freeway when I was driving somewhere with my girlfriend, and I shit you not, the audio was doing this strange auto adaptation to my environment or something, so it would make the dispatcher super quiet, so I would turn the phone up, then it would suddnely get normal again, making her excruciatingly loud, and rinse and repeat. This happened constantly, and continues to happen. This is not just limited to the phone call, either. This happens everywhere.
Suddenly, without warning, VoiceOver will stop responding when a video is playing on a webpage like YouTube through the Brave app. If I try to focus elements, they simply won't read the entire element, at all. It will begin reading, but cut off after the first word.
When using Siri, in the one in a million chance she understands what I'm asking, she will cut her speech off at the tail end of what she's trying to say. This is the least of the problems with Siri, however, because she can hardly understand what I'm asking half the time.
Dictation is a total ass dump. It misunderstood Siri for Fury yesterday. And like, Fury makes no sense in context to what the rest of the sentence was. Weren't they susupposed to have this new fancy dictation feature? lol.
Like, I'm just not sure what to do at this point. I just got this phone, and traded in my iPhone 15 Pro Max for it, and I'm stuck with it at this point. My only option would be to sell the iPhone, and get an Android if I wanted to go that route, but the problem there lies with me using iCloud for virtually everything. Storing old images, keeping passwords via the Password app, my email that's connected to every account I own, etc etc. Not to mention the fact that I have Apple peripherals too, like the AirPods Pro, MacBook Air, etc. Just thinking about all of this sounds like a nightmare.
Thoughts? Have any of you transitioned to Android? How was the process? Did you also have a MacBook Air or AirPods, or do emailing and such through iCloud?
From iOS to Android, what di dyou notice most.
https://forum.audiogames.net/topic/60534/from-ios-to-android-what-did-you-notice-most/