Besides camera quality and battery life
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Better voice to text
It’s so much worse than android
Touch ID on the power button just like the iPads along with Face ID would be nice.
iPhone is a nice piece of hardware, but the OS has lots of room for improvement.
- Better robocall blocking
- Call screening similar to visual voicemail
- Better voice assistant
- Wait for me on hold feature that listens for a person
- Visual phone trees so you don’t have to listen to phone tree systems on customer service calls.
- RCS for better cross platform communication
- A better notification system with built in interaction systems.
- Better app icon movement experience and the ability to put app icons anywhere.
- Default map app choice similar to browser and email
- Universal back gesture that works everywhere consistently
5 would be extremely nice but IMO those options purposely bury the ‘talk to human’ to the underworld, which a lot of people calling customer care are looking for. If it were visual, I feel most people will just use that (I know I would). Happy to be proven wrong here.
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Sideloading MacOS style
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The ability to change app icons without shortcuts
13.the ability to change the Notification dot from red to another colour
14.Split View
15.more free background activity (be able to download a movie from telegram or Netflix while the app is in background )
- Close all app button
Coming from android after a decade, I was shocked 15 wasn’t a thing.
Also
17: T9 dialing 18: under-screen Touch ID
A possibility to paste the numbers in the clipboard to call.
#20. There is an option in settings for Siri to announce notifications when wearing headphones only.
PLEASE #19 LDAC SUPPORT AT LEAST OH MY GOD, HOW DO YOU SELL A LOSSLESS STREAMING SERVICE WHEN THE MOST POPULAR HEADPHONES THAT YOU ALSO MAKE CAN’T SUPPORT IT???
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So run android?
a better file system, whats the point being able to record video to a extenal HD if you manage and copy between internal and SSD with easy.
You just named the pixel with all these lol. Loving my P8P except for battery life.
- 120hz display and USB 3.0 on base models
- App sideloading support
- Call recording
- Ability to hide and lock apps using FaceID
- Better typing experience
- Better mobile data/wifi usage tracking (showing per day stats)
Text message management still sucks, especially junk text messages. If you have a DOT number the phone you have tied to that number which is required by law gets spammed with texts and calls so bad that the phone is unusable, it just sits on a desk.
You just described everything I miss about using Pixel phones. Apple adding those things would be a game changer for my experience.
This is all software. I believe OP is referring to hardware
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Better UI scaling that allows for more information density so you don’t feel like you’re using one of those TV remotes made for old people
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More options for selecting default apps
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Faster charging
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Side loading apps
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Allow me to put my icons wherever I want.
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More homescreen customization options
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A more usable and feature rich file manager
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Split screen multi-tasking
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Better camera zoom
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More detailed options in camera app
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So everything that android and pixels have achieved. Now, the pixels need to do what the iPhone does in other areas.
3 and 8 are actually mind blowing to me. Like I’ll give Siri some benefit of doubt but how are you a multi trillion dollar company and still miles behind everyone else. This isn’t just iPhone but also the HomePod. The functionality is impressive… if it were 2011.
As for moving the apps. It is an unholy nightmare, especially with widgets now.
I agree with 1-3, and #8. #10. I just tried this. Swipe from left edge to center works in a lot of apps; News, Music, Safari, Notes, Reminders, Mail, Messages, Phone, Settings, Reddit.
So basically just copy all the Pixel’s features.
3 is the big one for me. With the amount of talent and resources at Apple, the current state of Siri should be a searing embarrassment.
1.) It already silences calls from spammers 2.) what are you asking for 3.) I agree, Siri is lacking in many places 4.) what 5.) what is a phone tree 6.) maybe, but I’d hope RCS enabled devices work with Apple on a universal end to end encryption (that’s not owned by google) 7.) how would you improve the current system 8.) I could take it or leave it, I put everything on one screen for the most part anyways 9.) you can already set a default maps app, and have been able to for a while now (iOS 15?) 10.) back like going back a page? Swipe right from the left edge of the screen
how are 6 8 and 10 not in ios already?
Bro you are literally describing a pixel.
- I still can’t believe rearranging apps is awful and unchanged after all these years.
RCS is getting added next year already
I’d like the default map, music and notes apps to be able to be changed to alternatives
9 will never happen.
So basically a pixel phone lmao
Most on your list Android already has and does very well. In addition, A full time numbers row on the keyboard. Different individual notification volume controls for calls, texts, alarms, etc. RCS is coming.
Cool thing about my reply. Very few people realized pixel does all this. Made an impression, which is never a bad thing.
Agreed. I’ve had the P2, P4, P6 Pro, and P7 Pro. This 15 Pro Max is definitely lacking.
Apple needs to adopt all the pixel calling features. I miss them so much.
Yup me too.
The calling features, particularly call screening, is what has kept me on Pixels for so long but I’ve reached a point where I can no longer ignore the rest of the failures/problems with Pixels/Android. Pretty well hae made up my mind to switch to iPhone because Pixels have turned to crap since Google switched to Tensor.
Apple needs to adopt a lot of stuff. A starting point can be Samsung GoodLock.
Get a Pixel
10 would be impossible, it’s still up to developers to implement what the gesture does / where it takes you.
Which is dumb because it should be an OS level gesture. Android has a swipe from the edge of any screen and it recognizes it as back. I would love to have an iPhone but the 14 Pro I had earlier this year just baffled me on how to go back a page sometimes and the dynamic island needs to open a quick response on messaging apps. And I just hate faceid. Other than that, better battery life is important. I currently have a zfold 4 and it’s absurdly expensive but other than it’s mediocre 7 hour screen on time, it’s just so much easier to use.
On Android it’s still up to the developers to implement where the back gesture takes you, just like it already is on iOS.
You’re kind of right but I mean where the back button is more so then what it does. I’ve used iOS apps where the back button is top left of the screen, I’ve used them where bottom left is, very rarely I’ve seen it in the top right. Android, it’s baked into the OS. If I try to go back, I just do the back gesture and I go back. Doesn’t have to be on a specific part of the screen.
It’s not “baked into the OS”, though. It still has to be implemented by the developer of the app. Apple could enforce stricter approval rules, but there is nothing they can change at the OS level that would make it just work.
Just from an RSI point of view, Android does gesture-back much better than Apple.
That’s going to require a cpu that’s 10 years from now if they want to keep the highest performance year after year
Idk these sound like minor inconveniences to me
Better phone and calculator apps, coming from android the these built in apps not being as good was really unexpected from Apple
What’s the difference with the calculator app?
I miss how my Samsung would show all the values I’m adding or subtracting and also show the answer before I hit “=“, whereas in the iPhone calculator as soon as you enter the next number you can’t see the previous ones. Really helps when you’re adding a long list of numbers and don’t have to keep a mental note on where you are in the list at all times
Back gesture what
Swipe back from edge.of the screen to go back. Everywhere. In every app, to close modals and even to close apps if back takes you home.
What I also love to see is that you can mark a missed phone call as unseen. Sometimes i’m coming out of a meeting and missed several calls but i have to call someone back and because of that the notification disappears and i forget to call the missed calls back…
I’d settle for an Android-like notification system, and call screening.
The hell is call screening
Might aswell get an Android at that point lol, I miss my old S21
Wouldn’t 1 depend on the carrier to actually mark the call as robo? And since they often use random number generators now, it’s even harder to do. I get calls from Iran and it’s Chinese saying I have a package at the embassy.
5 would need the caller to provide the tree or a database maintained and updated by the carrier no?
You could build 5 by analyzing calls on-device and sharing that information with apple. It might be difficult to make sure personal information does not get included in the shared data though.
Ability to google search an incoming unrecognized number while it’s ringing.
So basically a pixel 8?
- Something meaningfully useful happening when you plug the into a usb-c dock, which uses all of the on paper horsepower of the chipsets touted year after year that are mostly wasted on the average user.
How about starting with an auto-fill and aut-correction program that kinda/sorta work?! This could be accomplished by including a 2nd grader with the phone, because the second grader would do a far better job than Siri.
I do the exact same things - often with the exact same apps - as I did 15 years ago.
Google, eBay, PayPal, Amazon, Pandora, Associated Press, Box, Shazam, Kindle, Chase Bank, Flickr, Twitter, IMDB, 1Password, are all apps that I downloaded in 2009. If you add in the apps from 2010, that would cover 90% of what I do today.
Changes have been pretty minor overall and I don’t expect that to change.
How about a pop up lens so the camera could record while laying face down.
The ability to leave or block a group sms (non-iMessage)
Their call screening and blocking capabilities are laughable.
- I want to be able to send specific numbers straight to voicemail.
- if someone is fully blocked, I do not want to receive their voicemails period. Not even in a separate folder
- I want to be able to add a number to block manually, without having to add them to my contacts or do it from an incoming message
That’s all I can remember for now
Most u can do is remove the notch completey but yeah that’s abt it
Catchall: make the just work things just work.
28% better
I’ve had iPhone Pro 15 only for a few days, but here are my thoughts.
- Keyboard is just generally inefficient compared to Android. It’s a hassle to reach the numbers since you can’t long click to get to them. On Android when there are numbered inputs, it will pop up a number-specific keyboard that is like the phone dial and is much easier to use. (My fix for these two issues is to use GBoard)) Additionally, for email input, it will put at symbol and .com buttons on the keyboard which is very convenient. Swipe to type on default keyboard leaves a lot to be desired. Autocorrect is not great (doesn’t even recognize terms that Apple has coined, but maybe this will get better with use).
- Clock is missing many alarm features that Android has. You can’t control the volume of specific alarms. You can somewhat do incrementally loud alarms by setting sleep mode, but… what if you take a nap? The feature I miss most is the push notification and button to disable alarm for today – I asked apple support and they just told me that you have to wait for the time to disable and re-enable it. My solution for this is to set up automations around Alarms…
- Inconsistent back mechanism w/in apps. Sometimes it’s swipe from left, sometimes it’s swipe down. Sometimes I can’t get out of the keyboard, e.g. today in Gmail, there was a popup I couldn’t dismiss and the keyboard had no “Done” button since it was a multiline input.
- Siri and carplay frustrate me a lot. My main gripes are that Carplay maps does not pinch and zoom (sometimes I want to know which interstate it’s taking me too). With Siri, it will find results on the internet but not read it to me like Google does.
There’s some annoyances I have with apps on iPhone… I thought they would be really good since so many people use it…
- I feel like Chrome on it’s hard to manage tabs, like I thought it would be more based on gestures.
- There’s no Facebook messenger on Carplay.
- Sometimes apps hang and then I re-open it and it’s fine? Even native apps had this issue.
I understand that some of this is related to a learning curve of switching ecosystems, but I was shocked at how limited the software was. I’m undecided if I want to keep this phone – iPhone notes, calling, messaging, etc. is good, but android does a lot of things better.
Titanium glass
T9 dialling, side loading apps, actual RAW output from cameras with native camera app, i.e. no AI massaging. 120hz on base models.
Please bring high refresh rate to the iPhone 16 please
Rumor says it will be 60Hz
Base iPhones at 6’3 display