Apple has a reputation of making their os very intuitive and easy to use, but people in my family with iphones seem to have many more problems with messages not being recieved, email not working, files going somewhere weird, and more. On the android side of things, I’ve only ever seen one issue occur with the os. Is this just me or is it actually like this?
Those issues sound like the carrier. I’m in a family of iPhones and our phones are bulletproof. I used an iPhone 6 until the 12 came out, and the 6 is still working fine, I use it for piloting my DJI drone. That’s a 10 year old phone. My father used an iPhone 4 until like a year ago. We have probably 14 recent gen iPhones in the family and have not experienced the issues you mentioned. Also iPads, Apple Watches, MacBooks, etc.
It’s just you. Never had the problems you described. Have used iPhones exclusively since the original model came out.
Yes! I’m on the latest iOS 17.4 and now I need to turn my Bluetooth on/off every time I need to connect my headphones.
BT definitely has some weird bug in iOS 17.4 causing it to crash the stack. I have to turn it off/on regularly now.
Never had any major issues in my past decade of using iOS. Minor bugs here and there, sure, but it mostly just works.
Sure, okay
All I can say is I have daily calls to fix people’s Apple mail clients Mail setup. I do not have daily calls to fix people 's Gmail or vendor specific mail application…
Yeah I work in tech and I’ve also had to fix this problem for clients. It’s always an issue with apple mail, not what people are linking to it.
This is why you set a policy that says Mail is allowed but not supported. Then you can tell all those users to use the Outlook app or OWA until they figure out how to fix Mail on their own.
From what I gather the iPhone 15 was kind of flaky. I have an older one and don’t really have any problems with it at all. Probably varies between manufacturers for Android, I’d guess, since there are a dozen.
In my very limited experience, Android is buggier in general (although mostly due to carrier/manufacturer modifications) but much easier to troubleshoot or find work arounds for.
Yeah from my limited experience with Samsung devices specifically the software definitely doesn’t seem super refined. I think my grandparents have lg phones which were significantly worse.
I’ve had an iPod touch and iPad, both started out fine and then got more and more unstable as updates came out until they were more or less unusable.
I have a company issued iPhone which is fine, because I refuse to update it. :)
I believe iPhone users are less tech savvy so I believe they are more likely to have a problem which can be easily solved.
I don’t think any more than Androids are. It’s probably just because the less tech-savvy are more likely to choose iPhones, because the big draw is: They don’t need to be tech savvy.
It’s just you
Let me preface this with the fact that I don’t like Apple, or any major corporation for that matter.
So, my family (including myself) have been long-time Apple users, heck, we still have our iPad 1 and a few iPods lying around (and they still work great).
But, we’re all starting to loose trust in them. Most recently there was a problem with a screen that simply seemed to have lost touch sensitivity, it still would move ever so slightly but taps weren’t recognized and slides no longer worked, and Apple really only helped by guiding us to a new phone. Before that, a MacBook Pro’s (and yes, I know it’s not an iPhone) battery flat out died, after being replaced a year or two ago for the the same problem _by Apple_.
Also, I’m even not tech illiterate, I know I can replace the battery and likely get it working again after some calibration and tinkering — but it’s just not worth it. The family enjoys them for their simplicity and how they “just work” but mine (and the person with the MacBook’s) confidence is swayed.
One of the biggest problems for me is that error messages are rarely useful. If a message fails to send or iMessages it doesn’t tell you details or even a Microsoft BSOD error message that we’d make fun of for their lack of usability many moons ago, it’s just failed to send and you’re supposed to accept that it simply doesn’t work.
So yeah, I see where you’re coming from.
Edit: I’d like to say I’m on an iPhone 8 (stuck on iOS 16) and haven’t had too many problems personally. I think most of the issues are in iOS 17 or the newer firmware versions, but I do feel that the quality has gone downhill recently.
Haven’t had these issues. But I’ve also seen issues like these when the technical know how drops. In my experiance as family IT, there’s often settings, linked apps, or using a different camera app that were set years ago that play into missing pictures etc… Love my Apple products, so take with a grain of salt.
It’s just you. I was a die hard Android fan until was given a iPhone for work and immediately realized smart phones weren’t actually supposed to have so many problems.
Never once looked back.
What are the “so many problems” you had on your Android devices?
Not to put words in their mouth, but I feel like a lot of the times when people talk about going from Android to iPhone they’re talking about going from a $300 (or low mid-end Android) to an iPhone, which is always going to be a high-end phone and will always have less problems.
I’ve been using Android for quite some time and I can say the operating system is pretty stable and reliable. It might have been a different story 10 years ago, but as of now it has good security measures, sandboxing etc, handles whatever you throw at it and isn’t as locked down as iOS is.
