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+1 to Apple's track record for user privacy. I do not regret switching from Android to iOS (even if siri is woefully behind the voice assistant game)

irrational 7y ago
Also autocomplete. I had a samsung phone running android that was almost omniscient in knowing what I wanted to type or keeping track of what I had just been reading or searching for and giving me suggestions based on that (like if I had been reading about a restaurant and then went to send a text to my wife it would give me prompts about the restaurant, which is exactly what I wanted). iOS autocomplete is woefully subpar in comparison.
- airstrike 7y ago
  Just install SwiftKey. The native iOS keyboard is absolutely appalling, I don't wish it upon my worst enemy...
  - buzzert 7y ago
    Why is it appalling? Can you be more specific?
    - smallbigfish 7y ago
      That even today many European languages don't even have a basic dictionary. I'm not talking about the "guess the next word" feature. All I want is a dictionary that could suggest a correction to a misspelled word. Use two languages at once? No way! I guess they need to invent a new chip or something. Swipe to type? Hehe. The keyboard in itself is fast and good but it lacks features.
      - kalleboo 7y ago
        > Swipe to type? Hehe That's finally coming in iOS 13
        Hitton 7y ago
        Wow, Apple is ahead of its competition again.
      - giovannibajo1 7y ago
        Typing in two languages works since iOS 11 (IIRC). I’m routinely typing in either English or Italian without ever manually switching language
        djhn 7y ago
        But only two languages are supported, with no easy way to type in three or change the character set of the keyboard, which one can do with one swipe on SwiftKey Android. One of the main reasons, in addition to lack of dual-SIM, I realised switching to iOS simply wasn't worth it for me. Having a private number for my SO, closest friends and select high-retainer-fee clients to reach me 24/7 while also having an easily discoverable public phone number for business hours increased my response time when it matters while simultaneously tuning out the noise and anxiety of being constantly connected.
        dijit 7y ago
        On iOS you can switch the keyboard with the small “globe” key between the “123” button and the dictation button on the lower left hand side of the keyboard, it’s one key press- assuming you added the keyboard in settings.
        djhn 7y ago
        That's still too many steps - the trouble with bi/tri-lingual life is you often interject words (places, addresses, proper nouns) in the local language into sentences in any of the other two languages. Constantly opening and closing settings dialogs gets on your nerves in the long run.
        dijit 7y ago
        Adding a language to your phone (once) is too much work? Or is a “button” press to swap out the keyboard too much? I don’t understand. I use English, Swedish accents and Russian with no issue. :s
      - zbrox 7y ago
        The state of auto-suggest and auto-correct for anything but English (or maybe French, German, not a speaker so I don't know) is appalling. Auto-suggest is either not even an option or if it is it takes you to type almost the full word before suggesting something sensible. The auto-correct is way worse though. It sometimes suggests corrections to a wrongly spelled word even on basics like pronouns and such. But also let's not forget iOS/macOS don't even have all languages of the EU (when speaking of Europe) available as a system language. For the world's largest tech company it's beyond me why can't they put a team of 1-2 people per language to take care of properly localizing their software.
        efdee 7y ago
        Those teams existed, but were disbanded and those people are now drawing up new emojis.
    - amaccuish 7y ago
      iOS doesn't even have an Estonian translation after all these years.
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charlesju 7y ago
What voice assistant features do you miss? I've never used Android so I'm curious.
- aylmao 7y ago
  In my experience Google Assistant has better voice recognition and seems to be faster. I've had it recognize things like titles for songs, which are easy to mix up.
- hart_russell 7y ago
  I can't give you specific examples off the top of my head, but in general use I found the Google Assistant to be much "smarter" and have responses to a wide range of queries
- peteretep 7y ago
  Once I had Alexa in my home I stopped asking Siri for anything ever
  - bashwizard 7y ago
    Siri is probably pissed as fuck. I'd sleep with one eye open if I were you.
    - vermilingua 7y ago
      This still isn’t reddit.
- usefulcat 7y ago
  I use it all the time to set reminders. "Ok Google. At 2 PM next Tuesday remind me to <insert pretty much anything here>".
  - 2arrs2ells 7y ago
    Siri works just fine for setting reminders.
codq 7y ago
Use the Google Assistant app for iOS if you need a voice assistant. No hands-free usage (unless you set up a cumbersome Siri shortcut), but it is light-years beyond Siri for practical purposes.
- ceejayoz 7y ago
  Doesn't that just bring back the privacy issues they switched to iOS over?
tannhaeuser 7y ago
I've also switched, after my 1 year old Samsung S8 brick phone dropped to the floor one time too often. I'm not only enjoying the privacy, but also the classic, non-phablet form factor of a brand new iPhone 6s in 2019 and hope it will last me longer. Compared to Samsung's, my typing speed is up, but it's true that autocomplete suggestions are useless.
- beagle3 7y ago
  Have been running my 6s since 2015 - alas, come iOS 13 we’ll likely have to upgrade the hardware or remain with unlatched critical known vulns.
  - tannhaeuser 7y ago
    Is it given that 6s won't receive iOS 13? I bought mine because it's the only one still having an audio jack for my car stereo, and the 7 and 8 add nothing for me, except the price. Though maybe it's telling Apple themselves don't sell the 6s anymore.
    - Lammy 7y ago
      iOS 13 drops support for iPhones with 1GB of RAM. 5s and 6/6+ are out. The 6S/6S+, the SE, and above are supported.
  - bb101 7y ago
    iOS 13 will be supported on the 6s, just not on the 6/6 Plus (and below).
- ideasRgood 7y ago
  What privacy are you expecting? The FBI can crack your phone and each service you use stores data. Don't fall for marketing.
RHSeeger 7y ago
According to Moxie (https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1158852855291269120 https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1158852855291269120), this isn't a positive for user privacy.

irrational 7y ago

Also autocomplete. I had a samsung phone running android that was almost omniscient in knowing what I wanted to type or keeping track of what I had just been reading or searching for and giving me suggestions based on that (like if I had been reading about a restaurant and then went to send a text to my wife it would give me prompts about the restaurant, which is exactly what I wanted). iOS autocomplete is woefully subpar in comparison.

airstrike 7y ago
Just install SwiftKey. The native iOS keyboard is absolutely appalling, I don't wish it upon my worst enemy...
- buzzert 7y ago
  Why is it appalling? Can you be more specific?
  - smallbigfish 7y ago
    That even today many European languages don't even have a basic dictionary. I'm not talking about the "guess the next word" feature. All I want is a dictionary that could suggest a correction to a misspelled word. Use two languages at once? No way! I guess they need to invent a new chip or something. Swipe to type? Hehe. The keyboard in itself is fast and good but it lacks features.
    - kalleboo 7y ago
      > Swipe to type? Hehe That's finally coming in iOS 13
      - Hitton 7y ago
        Wow, Apple is ahead of its competition again.
    - giovannibajo1 7y ago
      Typing in two languages works since iOS 11 (IIRC). I’m routinely typing in either English or Italian without ever manually switching language
      - djhn 7y ago
        But only two languages are supported, with no easy way to type in three or change the character set of the keyboard, which one can do with one swipe on SwiftKey Android. One of the main reasons, in addition to lack of dual-SIM, I realised switching to iOS simply wasn't worth it for me. Having a private number for my SO, closest friends and select high-retainer-fee clients to reach me 24/7 while also having an easily discoverable public phone number for business hours increased my response time when it matters while simultaneously tuning out the noise and anxiety of being constantly connected.
        dijit 7y ago
        On iOS you can switch the keyboard with the small “globe” key between the “123” button and the dictation button on the lower left hand side of the keyboard, it’s one key press- assuming you added the keyboard in settings.
        djhn 7y ago
        That's still too many steps - the trouble with bi/tri-lingual life is you often interject words (places, addresses, proper nouns) in the local language into sentences in any of the other two languages. Constantly opening and closing settings dialogs gets on your nerves in the long run.
        dijit 7y ago
        Adding a language to your phone (once) is too much work? Or is a “button” press to swap out the keyboard too much? I don’t understand. I use English, Swedish accents and Russian with no issue. :s
    - zbrox 7y ago
      The state of auto-suggest and auto-correct for anything but English (or maybe French, German, not a speaker so I don't know) is appalling. Auto-suggest is either not even an option or if it is it takes you to type almost the full word before suggesting something sensible. The auto-correct is way worse though. It sometimes suggests corrections to a wrongly spelled word even on basics like pronouns and such. But also let's not forget iOS/macOS don't even have all languages of the EU (when speaking of Europe) available as a system language. For the world's largest tech company it's beyond me why can't they put a team of 1-2 people per language to take care of properly localizing their software.
      - efdee 7y ago
        Those teams existed, but were disbanded and those people are now drawing up new emojis.
  - amaccuish 7y ago
    iOS doesn't even have an Estonian translation after all these years.

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charlesju 7y ago

What voice assistant features do you miss? I've never used Android so I'm curious.

aylmao 7y ago
In my experience Google Assistant has better voice recognition and seems to be faster. I've had it recognize things like titles for songs, which are easy to mix up.
hart_russell 7y ago
I can't give you specific examples off the top of my head, but in general use I found the Google Assistant to be much "smarter" and have responses to a wide range of queries
peteretep 7y ago
Once I had Alexa in my home I stopped asking Siri for anything ever
- bashwizard 7y ago
  Siri is probably pissed as fuck. I'd sleep with one eye open if I were you.
  - vermilingua 7y ago
    This still isn’t reddit.
usefulcat 7y ago
I use it all the time to set reminders. "Ok Google. At 2 PM next Tuesday remind me to <insert pretty much anything here>".
- 2arrs2ells 7y ago
  Siri works just fine for setting reminders.

codq 7y ago

Use the Google Assistant app for iOS if you need a voice assistant. No hands-free usage (unless you set up a cumbersome Siri shortcut), but it is light-years beyond Siri for practical purposes.

ceejayoz 7y ago
Doesn't that just bring back the privacy issues they switched to iOS over?

tannhaeuser 7y ago

I've also switched, after my 1 year old Samsung S8 brick phone dropped to the floor one time too often. I'm not only enjoying the privacy, but also the classic, non-phablet form factor of a brand new iPhone 6s in 2019 and hope it will last me longer. Compared to Samsung's, my typing speed is up, but it's true that autocomplete suggestions are useless.

beagle3 7y ago
Have been running my 6s since 2015 - alas, come iOS 13 we’ll likely have to upgrade the hardware or remain with unlatched critical known vulns.
- tannhaeuser 7y ago
  Is it given that 6s won't receive iOS 13? I bought mine because it's the only one still having an audio jack for my car stereo, and the 7 and 8 add nothing for me, except the price. Though maybe it's telling Apple themselves don't sell the 6s anymore.
  - Lammy 7y ago
    iOS 13 drops support for iPhones with 1GB of RAM. 5s and 6/6+ are out. The 6S/6S+, the SE, and above are supported.
- bb101 7y ago
  iOS 13 will be supported on the 6s, just not on the 6/6 Plus (and below).
ideasRgood 7y ago
What privacy are you expecting? The FBI can crack your phone and each service you use stores data. Don't fall for marketing.

RHSeeger 7y ago

According to Moxie (https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1158852855291269120 https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1158852855291269120), this isn't a positive for user privacy.