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Just to pile a couple more on, why is the only way to get to the bluetooth device list by going through settings?! Long-pressing/right-clicking on the bluetooth

Just to pile a couple more on, why is the only way to get to the bluetooth device list by going through settings?! Long-pressing/right-clicking on the bluetooth tray icon does that in every other OS I've used, phone or desktop. And for the love of god why does your spellcheck keep trying to replace the word "talk" with "ya'll?" I've had to manually set text replacement for way too many word pairs like that, and if you do typo the word you're going for in a way that's not in the text replacement, it defaults to the weird choice anyway.

spurgu 7y ago
> Just to pile a couple more on, why is the only way to get to the bluetooth device list by going through settings?! Long-pressing/right-clicking on the bluetooth tray icon does that in every other OS I've used, phone or desktop. This is something Android messed up since Android 9 (IIRC). You used to have a small arrow below the Wifi and Bluetooth (and whatnot) icons where you could select what to connect to. Removing those since 9 was partially what drove me to angrily expore iOS. Can't say about the spellcheck because I used Swiftkey on iOS but the Android version is miles ahead of it. In hindsight I should've probably just reverted to the iOS built-in one.
- solarkraft 7y ago
  Gboard for iOS was a bit worse than the Android version the last time I used it (years ago), but it was usable.
  - spurgu 7y ago
    That might be, and might've been better than the native keyboard, but SwiftKey on Android is still on a level of witchcraft that I've yet to seen anywhere elsewhere.
jedieaston 7y ago
Long pressing on the Bluetooth icon in iOS 13 gives you a device list now, if you wanted to know.
- Talanes 7y ago
  Well, that's a life-changer. Though it's annoying that it only seems to work after a second long-press to go from the condensed version of that little window to the bigger one. My ideal is that I can flip up and change the source in the time it takes for a song to change, which I used to be able to do seamlessly in Android. Though according to the sibling comment, Android got worse for that use since I switched too.
  - spurgu 7y ago
    Ok I kind of feel like an idiot now, I just checked and apparently on Android 10 you can long-press as well to get a menu of available devices/networks. I'm not sure whether this was already there in Android 9 or whether they introduced it later but I'm quite sure that I read the release announcements (and reviews/articles[0]) at the time and turned up empty-handed. Just wish both had some kind of UI indicator that there's a long-press action available... it's not like people are reading mobile phone manuals nowadays, even if they existed. [0] For example no mention here https://www.xda-developers.com/everything-new-android-p-developer-preview/ https://www.xda-developers.com/everything-new-android-p-deve...
    - shawnz 7y ago
      It works on my Android 8 device.
      - spurgu 7y ago
        Are you saying you don't have a down arrow below the icon? I might be wrong as I said initially, I thought they removed the dropdown in 9 but might've been 8?
        shawnz 7y ago
        I do have a down arrow, which takes me to a sub-panel listing the devices, but also I can long press on the icon to go to the full list. Personally I think the down arrow is way too small for me to press so I always just long press the icon anyway.

spurgu 7y ago

> Just to pile a couple more on, why is the only way to get to the bluetooth device list by going through settings?! Long-pressing/right-clicking on the bluetooth tray icon does that in every other OS I've used, phone or desktop. This is something Android messed up since Android 9 (IIRC). You used to have a small arrow below the Wifi and Bluetooth (and whatnot) icons where you could select what to connect to. Removing those since 9 was partially what drove me to angrily expore iOS. Can't say about the spellcheck because I used Swiftkey on iOS but the Android version is miles ahead of it. In hindsight I should've probably just reverted to the iOS built-in one.

solarkraft 7y ago
Gboard for iOS was a bit worse than the Android version the last time I used it (years ago), but it was usable.
- spurgu 7y ago
  That might be, and might've been better than the native keyboard, but SwiftKey on Android is still on a level of witchcraft that I've yet to seen anywhere elsewhere.

jedieaston 7y ago

Long pressing on the Bluetooth icon in iOS 13 gives you a device list now, if you wanted to know.

Talanes 7y ago
Well, that's a life-changer. Though it's annoying that it only seems to work after a second long-press to go from the condensed version of that little window to the bigger one. My ideal is that I can flip up and change the source in the time it takes for a song to change, which I used to be able to do seamlessly in Android. Though according to the sibling comment, Android got worse for that use since I switched too.
- spurgu 7y ago
  Ok I kind of feel like an idiot now, I just checked and apparently on Android 10 you can long-press as well to get a menu of available devices/networks. I'm not sure whether this was already there in Android 9 or whether they introduced it later but I'm quite sure that I read the release announcements (and reviews/articles[0]) at the time and turned up empty-handed. Just wish both had some kind of UI indicator that there's a long-press action available... it's not like people are reading mobile phone manuals nowadays, even if they existed. [0] For example no mention here https://www.xda-developers.com/everything-new-android-p-developer-preview/ https://www.xda-developers.com/everything-new-android-p-deve...
  - shawnz 7y ago
    It works on my Android 8 device.
    - spurgu 7y ago
      Are you saying you don't have a down arrow below the icon? I might be wrong as I said initially, I thought they removed the dropdown in 9 but might've been 8?
      - shawnz 7y ago
        I do have a down arrow, which takes me to a sub-panel listing the devices, but also I can long press on the icon to go to the full list. Personally I think the down arrow is way too small for me to press so I always just long press the icon anyway.