team android or team ios the age or

 team android or team ios the age or

debate of android versus ios continues

and yes while they're converging towards

a very similar approach

there are still so many things that ios

lacks when compared to android

and vice versa and gary this is foxtech

and it's time to talk about what ios

gets wrong

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now i've been using android phones for

the past four years so a few things

stood out to me straight away when

jumping over to ios with the iphone 12

starting with no split screen on android

the majority of apps can be used in a

split screen scenario

with one app on the top and one up on

the bottom or one up on the left and on

the right if used in a landscape mode

for example let's say you're watching a

youtube video and you want to check

twitter at the same time

or you're reading an email while

replying to a message you can go into

split screen and use both apps at the

same time without any issues

with phone screens getting bigger and

bigger i feel like split screen is

becoming more

important and useful than ever the

iphone 12 pro max comes with a 6.7 inch

display

which means it's similar to tablets from

eight years ago android phones of all

screen sizes are now getting split

screen

but even the biggest iphones are not

taking advantage of that screen real

estate yet

due to the lack of split screen

multitasking the fastest way to get into

the camera on android wherever you are

is to double-click the power button that

shortcut instantly opens up the camera

app so you can get taking shots right

away

on ios that's not possible the only ways

of opening the camera on the iphone 12

is holding the camera from the lock

screen touching the camera app

or pulling down the control center and

clicking the camera icon

in there neither of these is as fast

useful or universal

as double clicking the power button from

anywhere currently double clicking the

power button on the iphone takes you

straight to the wallet for payments

which is also kind of useful but i wish

it was an option where you could hold

the power button for that

because currently holding the power on

iphones does absolutely nothing

gesture navigation was introduced to ios

on the iphone 10

and apple have been known to have some

of the best gesture navigation around on

smartphones

many have even copied apple's

implementation over the past few years

and while it is great there's some

things that annoy me

and make very little sense to go back

you have to swipe in

from the left side of the display only

swiping from the right goes forwards

most of the time

and when there's no option to go

forwards it does absolutely nothing on

android you can swipe from both the left

and the right

to go back and this makes so much sense

whichever hand you use your phone with

you can comfortably swipe from the

nearest side to your thumb

to go back for people that use their

right hand it makes no sense on an

iphone to reach all the way over to the

left to swipe to go back

when they could have easily just swiped

from the right hand side swiping from

either side to go back

just makes sense and i'm really

surprised that apple haven't implemented

it yet

speaking of gestures another one i like

from android which i'm missing on ios

is swiping down anywhere on the home

screen to drag down the notifications

especially on ios to get to

notifications you have to reach

all the way up diagonally to the top

left of your phone and drag down

good luck with that on the 12 pro max

there's reachability

where dragging down on the gesture pill

at the bottom will bring the top half of

the screen

halfway down so if you get used to using

that then i guess

that could be useful but it's another

step to do the exact same thing

the pull down gesture does bring up the

search bar

which is really useful when you're

trying to find an app so this one's kind

of a give and take

there's still no fingerprint scanner and

although this isn't an ios thing it is

for sure an iphone thing

both face id and fingerprint scanners

have their benefits and drawbacks

but if i was to only have one i'd choose

a fingerprint scanner

the ease of use of not having to swipe

the screen every time you unlock it

the ability to already unlock it before

you even look at the screen

the speed and the ability to be able to

unlock it with a mask on

it's great especially hardware ones on

the back

yeah the in-display ones are pretty damn

cool but they're not quite as reliable

as the hardware ones on the back or the

side

so i'd say that's the best way face id

is

notch now we're going to get into a few

specifics when using the phone

firstly there's no number o at the top

of the stock keyboard when typing

so you have to press two buttons to be

able to even enter a number

i don't think that's intuitive there

should be an option

in the stock keyboard to have a number

at the top or

to hold the top row of keys to bring up

a number just like you can on android

there's also no vibration feedback on

the stock keyboard yeah you can install

third-party keyboards which allow the

use of vibration feedback

but iphones have the best vibration

motor in smartphones

so it's a shame that you can't get

haptic feedback when typing

because personally i think it would add

to a quality experience

on ios i've noticed that the swipe speed

when you're scrolling is quite limited

so on android the faster you swipe the

faster it moves

in a way there's kind of no limit the

further and faster your finger moves

the further and faster you'll swipe on

ios there's kind of a limit on the swipe

speed

so you can't just go rapid from the

bottom to the top which is something i

noticed coming from android

i'm still surprised by this next one

especially with ios 14 and the

introduction of all the displays on all

iphone 12 models this year

but there's still no always on display

always on displays help you see the

simple things without even

interacting with the phone you can

glance down and see things like time and

any notifications that you've missed

the main reason to avoid always on

displays at the minute is battery life

you'll obviously use more battery life

if it's enabled

but i feel it's something that needs to

come to iphones because

you get used to using a phone with an

always on display

you'll miss it if it's not there why why

can we still not move apps to anywhere

we want on the home screens

it's 2020 you've got the fastest

smartphone chip

ever built but you won't let me move

apps in the grid on the screen

because you think everything should be

forced to the top of a massive

6.7 inch display not cool also

while we're at it why is the no close

all recent apps button

to close all recent apps you've got to

swipe up and hold

then individually swipe every single app

that you've used and had open

that could be 20 apps if you've not

closed them for a few days

come on tim it makes no sense just stick

a close all apps button in there and

call it a day

strangely there's no notification icons

that show up at the top in the

notification bar

where things like the time and the wi-fi

are on android

if you get a whatsapp message or an

email there's a little icon relating to

that app

that pops up by the time in the top left

of the notification bar

so you can see if you've missed anything

or you've not opened anything yet

i know the notch takes up the whole

thing up there but

even on older iphones without the notch

there's no icon that comes up

indicating whether you've received a

notification or not in general

i'd say that notifications are easier to

manage and deal with on android compared

to ios

they're grouped better and they're just

simpler to filter through and organize

it still feels a little bit janky on ios

for me personally

but maybe that's because i've only

started using iphones recently again

and i need to get used to it this is

just what i've noticed after a couple of

weeks using an iphone 12 as my daily

driver

and that i think make android easier to

use day to day the things i've mentioned

have been obvious to me

because like i've said i've spent so

long on android without touching an

iphone

so they really stood out yes this video

was kind of going through what i prefer

on android that ios cannot do

but i'm not necessarily saying that

android is better than ios

or the ios is better than android i'm

sure there are so many examples

where ios does things that android can

airdrop but

i feel like there's still so many

differences in how the operating systems

work

and it's the major reason why most

people pick one phone over the other

whether it be an iphone or android if

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