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Android 15 sideloading restrictions are a raw deal for users (www.androidpolice.com)

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[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For what it's worth, iOS sure has a lot of cons.

Camera app has icons at top of screen to control things like flash, but to adjust all the settings like "flash always on" you have to tap an arrow at the top, that then exposes another second flash control at the bottom with the same icon for the full menu.
Music app has a checkbox in albums and playlists that when tapped brings up a menu to delete your music, wat?
eSIM-only is terrible, cell service falls apart from time to time and you have to go deploy a new eSIM to make your phone be a phone again.
Dual-SIM support is convoluted. You'll find yourself accidentally calling people on the wrong SIM until you manually configure every. one. of. your. contacts. to use the line of your choosing.
Touch is anemic, especially if using a screen protector. Try to take that photo? It will be zero or three photos, thanks!
Their swipe UI is barbaric, difficult, and mostly stupid, twitch your finger wrong and you go directly back to the previous app, or go into app switcher view, or nothing happens. Trying to "go home" you're basically trying to give it an orgasm with all the up-swipes.
Missing common software buttons like Android's back/app switch/home buttons means you're constantly tapping at the very top, then the very bottom, or trying to use the back-swipe gesture, the UX is maddeningly inconsistent.
Left/middle swipe brings down notification drawer, right swipe brings down control center. Not nearly as consistent a behavior as swipe down once, or twice, for the respective drawers in Android.
New AI junk has added menus in settings for "Apple Intelligence & Siri" to every. single. app. that you have to switch 3 switches off per app to disable. Even if you don't have their AI crap installed.
The silly FaceID waste of space dent makes it so you can't see all icons like "am I on a VPN or not? Gotta check one of those top drawers to find out."
Lack of in-screen fingerprint sensor and use of FaceID makes the phone unlock on you without intent if your face is near and it wakes for a notification, and also not unlock when you actually want to use it, in general.
The screen randomly wakes during phone calls if you're using a headset and nowhere near the phone and just stays on for the duration of your lock timeout unless you manually force it to sleep, and then it'll just wake again.
Trying to swipe out of active phone calls to get to the lock screen or apps will take multiple swipes dangerously close to the call hangup button, godspeed!

Those are just the things I can recall off the top of my head.

We need more mobile OSes. This duopoly is pure stagnation.

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

Extra cons:
Sidelining is not a option(yes you can do sideloady way but it will get deleted later the sideloaded and libre app support (like a invidious client for ios)