As a diehard Android user make the switch to iOS. Is that easy, what will you miss about Android and the iPhone like some after a few months? Daniel figured it out.
For my work I write both Android and iOS. I have used the last few years many more Android than iOS because I found the latter to be closed. But when iOS eight had the ability to share via own custom apps, I was very curious how Apple’s mobile operating system has evolved over the years. Since August of this year I have used the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6S with iOS 9 and these are my findings.
What have I missed?
Notifications
The notifications on iOS are really a drama. They are confusing, in-your-face and offer few options. Android’s notification system is really good and that you realize only when you are no longer using Android. On my iPhone 6S I scroll through that whole stream of notifications it, I have in Android at a glance the summary of the reports. There is even an icon to sweep away all reports, while notifications in iOS day stay in the system until you press a cross. Madness.
→ Read also our hymn about Android notifications
Apps that remain active
As a regular user of a VPN service it is important that apps can run in the background when they want it. When iOS goes that bit trickier, because the system switches on a special sleep mode after a period of inactivity. This ensures that a VPN service in combination with IOS does not work quite fine, ranging from broken connections to time-outs. With Android for example, I never had problems with a VPN. The ability to remain active in the background, applies to more apps, like Password Vault LastPass.
LastPass
LastPass offers a particularly useful feature on Android: the ability to automatically fill in login information from apps. If you often phone switches the function is really indispensable. When iOS is a similar function, but only if the developer adds this to his app. You guessed it: this is rare, making you so frequently login data of the LastPass app to other apps are copying and pasting
NFC features
The NFC chip Android smartphones is open. This means that any developer can create apps and features for the NFC chip. So I like to use ING Mobile Payments to settle on my smartphone. Or to share a digital business card via NFC. Or to show the encrypted logins my Yubikey in the corresponding Authenticator app. The technology behind NFC is extremely fine and I miss those functions enormously on iOS. The iPhone 6S 6 and both have an NFC chip, but Apple is boarded up. Only apple pay can use the chip and this payment service is not even available in the UK.
The NFC chip in the iPhone 6 (S) is not third parties to use
Android Wear
Android Wear smart watches are often nicer and cheaper than the Apple Watch. Although Google Android Wear made compatible with iOS, Apple creates many limitations. If you receive a lot of apps no reports (but that’s not necessarily Apple’s fault), but you can not respond to messages from your wrist. That is exactly what Android Wear so attractive:. With your smart watch respond to a WhatsAppje or archive an e-mail
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Quick Share
Android has been around since the beginning an extensive part feature, allowing your content from one app can easily share via another app. That iOS since version 8 as well, but Android herein remains master. So with Android 6.0 Marshmallow the possibilities broadened through Instant Share, which lets you share content directly with a specific person. Communicate often with a particular person via Telegram? Then, this person at the top and you can instantly send anything via telegram to him or her
Google Photos
Google Images is a huge fine photo service. Free unlimited backups, partial and comprehensive search capabilities and anytime, anywhere access to your photos. Google Images is also available for iOS, but is dependent on the official photo app of Apple’s operating system. So I regularly delete pictures from Google Images, which then still in my gallery. It’s so annoying that Apple gives no choice to use another photo app than its own – which is mostly typical for iOS
Real storage .
On Android, you can easily access the files on your internal memory, such as a file manager. Just put a file from your computer to your smartphone and open an app? That’s when the iPhone is not so easy. Connect your device with a Windows PC or Mac, you can transfer some photos
Google Now
Google Now makes my life easier. Is there a traffic jam on the road and I have to leave earlier? Google Now let us know. There are packets of webshops to me on the way? That is in Google Now. By using the same launcher, you integrate the smart service deep into the smartphone. In iOS, you can download the official Google app but it provides no means the experience of the integrated variant. And Siri? Well, that’s just a baby compared to Google Now.
Google Now is much more functional than Siri
Detailed contact list
The contact list of iOS is very scanty. It’s just a white list of names. The contacts and phone app of Android are – in the case of the Nexus – really much more beautiful. I love my contact list like neat, and what iOS offers – among others without images in the list, and no connection with other apps -. Is every time against
What I do not I missed
Chrome
Google’s Chrome browser may synchronize my bookmarks and passwords without problems between devices, the performance of the browser compared to Safari for iOS really a lot less. Violent hiccups while scrolling and lockups belonging, while Safari while browsing hardly falters once. But yeah, that sometimes not all of my bookmarks and login information.
Most of the apps
If I’m honest, I’ve only missed few apps. Most iOS versions of the apps that I use – Twitter and Slack to ING Banking and Spotify – are just as good as the Android version and in some cases even better (like Twitter). In addition, work on iOS apps are generally more flexible than on Android. Ie with fewer glitches or crashes. Also iOS sometimes feels more stable than Android, although the latter in recent years it has put really big steps to provide a smoother experience.
The battery life
The battery life of iPhones In many gevallend a lot better than that of Android devices. Exceptions like the Moto X Play aside, it’s nice to get an iPhone usually the end of the day. Especially the iPhone 6 Plus and 6S Plus offer really impressive good battery life which I unfortunately not too often encountered in Android smartphones.
Software support to Android continues substandard
Google’s updated policy
iPhones remain for quite a long time up-to-date. The iPhone 4S in 2011, got about four years old, still has the update to iOS 9. You do not see often in the Android world: a phone which after four years is still with updates. In comparison, the Nexus 4 Google in 2012 not even get an official update to Android 6.0 Marshmallow. It would in 2015 be quite normal that you buy a smartphone and supported for at least four years
iPhone endurance test:. The view
It’s pretty easy to make the transition to iOS. You can sync Gmail’s contact list just with the iPhone and almost all popular apps are available for iOS. Only drawback: some apps I had to buy again. Almost all Google apps can be downloaded in the App Store, so you mostly all Android services also use fine on iOS. Think Inbox by Gmail, Google Maps or Google Keep. Nevertheless, I miss more Android than the benefits of iOS.
I keep switching between Android and iOS to keep the development of both platforms in the eye . Although I have iOS smoother user experience, I work with Android productive. That inner conflict I will remain still perform, given the developments on both operating systems. As a nerd I bots tremendously with the limitations imposed by Apple, but if consumers think it’s nice that iOS without too much modification simply works well.
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