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> I'm using a phone/OS that I absolutely loathe every day and causes me rage aneurysms, What is so bad that it's provoking this response? Not that I love every

• smt88 3y ago
  > that's a pretty intense reaction The biggest problem is notifications. On Android, you use the volume rockers and "do not disturb" mode. That's it. If you press the volume rockers down, the notifications will become quieter until they get to "vibrate only" and then finally "silent". The screen shows you this is happening, and there's always an indicator on the phone. In iOS, there are three different things that affect notifications: 1) Focus, 2) volume settings (if you have that setting turned on), and 3) the physical DnD switch. The physical switch is dangerous to use because it's easy to forget you used it. A lot of the rest of my issues are with Siri. Speech recognition is worse than Microsoft's was in the year 2005. It just doesn't work most of the time. The rest is the UI. Apple's ethos is to hide everything from the user, which they think is "simple" but is incredibly complex. There are a million hidden, inconsistent gestures that you absolutely need to know to use the phone. You just have to mess around until you find them, and then they're impossible to remember because they differ between apps. Then there are things you can only do with Siri! For example, I can delete all my alarms with Siri, but there's no way to do it using the UI.
  • r00fus 3y ago
    As a longtime iOS user who gets dozens of notifications every hour during work hours, I simply have my DND button on at all times. Actual beeps and trills all day would be amazingly annoying.