Wednesday, March 24, 2021

iPhone Versus Android Two

 I've split this into a few categories. 

Notifications

On Android, the notifications slide in over whatever else you're doing. Long pressing on them will give you options, like muting, blocking, or silencing. On an iPhone, you can view them the same way, just it doesn't slide over whatever screen you were previously on, it has a background. You can swipe the notification center away and go back to wherever you previously were, but I like Android's approach here a little better. 

Edit: I still like Android's approach here a little better. When you get a notification it'll appear at the top, and swiping it away is kind of irksome. Android does the same thing but it goes away easily. 

Hardware

iPhone takes this away by far. Not only does it have double the amount of space I've seen on the best android phones (It has over 20 times the amount of space my android had...)it also runs faster than any phone I've ever seen. Android's not even in the same ballpark. 

Quick Controls

On Android, you access the quick controls the same way you get to the notifications, but swiping down from the top. The quick controls are right there at the top. iPhone has quick controls at the bottom. Swiping up from the bottom will give you all sorts of options, and you can decide which ones are there in the settings. I can't find a way to pair to Bluetooth or connect to wifi without going back to the settings app again though. Android let me do both of those things right from the Quick Control Panel. Maybe I just can't figure out how to do it, but for now, I got to give this one to android. 

Edit: I've found that once I've connected to a Bluetooth device once from the settings, it will always connect to it automatically when it senses that it's on and nearby, so there's no need for a connect button in the connect controls. Android would sometimes do this but more often I had o connect it manually. 

Miscellaneous 

I liked navigating through menus a lot more on an iPhone than I did on Android. iPhone's menus are more bouncy than androids, making them just slightly more fun to use. I liked that I could put most of the Google apps I used on my android on my iPhone. I don't think people switching from Apple to Google can, but the other way around it worked perfectly. iPhone's camera app is much better than androids. Android shows the icons for your notifications in the corner, which I liked because I could see at a glance what needed attention. 

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