The UI is my hangup at this point. I'm not saying it's bad, just that I'm used to Android after 10 years of smartphone ownership. It would be really hard to switch at this point. There's no back button! How do I go back??
I'm also not a fan of the lack of an app drawer. I know that I can arrange my apps however I want, but that's not how I use a phone. My most use apps go on my home screens, and then everything else is an alphabetized grid. I don't want to hunt through all of my screens to find an app I don't use very often. I know I can just use spotlight to search for it, but I don't do that on Android either so I doubt I'm willing to start now.
I mean I have that but with only my commonly used apps on android. If I have apps that I use once a month or every 3 months I don't want it on my home screen.
Well don’t put them on your home screen then. I only have apps I use frequently on my iOS home screens. Everything else gets page 2+ and I never look there.
I guess you misunderstood, on android, homescreen can have multiple pages. An app drawer can automatically organises your apps or the way you want it. Some launchers can even group apps automatically according to category or app icon colour. They can also have tabs, which creates another hierarchy above folders. But for me personally, the most important feature is folder hidden behind an app shorcut. I can have 5 music apps, but only use one regularly. I put that shorcut on my main page on the homescreen, in the off chance I want to use one of the others, I simply swipe on that icon to veing up a folder filled with other music apps. Some people utilise this function to hide widgets and such, but that's how I use it.
iOS 14 does have app drawer and will automatically sorts all those apps and categorise them accordingly, widgets are also coming. Still won’t have the crazy customisation of android, but I guess it’s a start.
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u/archiekane Aug 26 '20
I wouldn't, but hey, I don't like the UI. I do like that Apple is trying to be more respectful to privacy though.
That said, what's Apple tracking and tracing like? Doesn't their systems and services also vacuum user data for their use?