Apple has a reputation of making their os very intuitive and easy to use, but people in my family with iphones seem to have many more problems with messages not being recieved, email not working, files going somewhere weird, and more. On the android side of things, I’ve only ever seen one issue occur with the os. Is this just me or is it actually like this?
I don’t think any more than Androids are. It’s probably just because the less tech-savvy are more likely to choose iPhones, because the big draw is: They don’t need to be tech savvy.
In my very limited experience, Android is buggier in general (although mostly due to carrier/manufacturer modifications) but much easier to troubleshoot or find work arounds for.
Yeah from my limited experience with Samsung devices specifically the software definitely doesn’t seem super refined. I think my grandparents have lg phones which were significantly worse.
All I can say is I have daily calls to fix people’s Apple mail clients Mail setup. I do not have daily calls to fix people 's Gmail or vendor specific mail application…
This is why you set a policy that says Mail is allowed but not supported. Then you can tell all those users to use the Outlook app or OWA until they figure out how to fix Mail on their own.
Yeah I work in tech and I’ve also had to fix this problem for clients. It’s always an issue with apple mail, not what people are linking to it.
Yes! I’m on the latest iOS 17.4 and now I need to turn my Bluetooth on/off every time I need to connect my headphones.
BT definitely has some weird bug in iOS 17.4 causing it to crash the stack. I have to turn it off/on regularly now.
Never had any major issues in my past decade of using iOS. Minor bugs here and there, sure, but it mostly just works.
Sure, okay
From what I gather the iPhone 15 was kind of flaky. I have an older one and don’t really have any problems with it at all. Probably varies between manufacturers for Android, I’d guess, since there are a dozen.
I’ve had an iPod touch and iPad, both started out fine and then got more and more unstable as updates came out until they were more or less unusable.
I have a company issued iPhone which is fine, because I refuse to update it. :)
I believe iPhone users are less tech savvy so I believe they are more likely to have a problem which can be easily solved.
It’s just you. Never had the problems you described. Have used iPhones exclusively since the original model came out.
Haven’t had these issues. But I’ve also seen issues like these when the technical know how drops. In my experiance as family IT, there’s often settings, linked apps, or using a different camera app that were set years ago that play into missing pictures etc… Love my Apple products, so take with a grain of salt.
I’ve used ios for a while now and it’s always just worked, but imessage is a bag of shit though. When I used to use android I was always coming across bugs and issues, especially with the settings app, but this is going back about 5-10 years ago now, so it’s probably different now
It’s just you. I was a die hard Android fan until was given a iPhone for work and immediately realized smart phones weren’t actually supposed to have so many problems.
Never once looked back.
What are the “so many problems” you had on your Android devices?
Not to put words in their mouth, but I feel like a lot of the times when people talk about going from Android to iPhone they’re talking about going from a $300 (or low mid-end Android) to an iPhone, which is always going to be a high-end phone and will always have less problems.
My mother has a lot of problems with iPhones but it’s probably because she isn’t very tech savvy. I use android and work in the computer industry, and I’ve had fairly few problems, but that’s because I work in the computer industry lol.
That being said trying to use iCloud, email, and so much of the iOS and Mac UI makes me want to tear my hair out, and troubleshooting is definitely harder on apple devices.
Those issues sound like the carrier. I’m in a family of iPhones and our phones are bulletproof. I used an iPhone 6 until the 12 came out, and the 6 is still working fine, I use it for piloting my DJI drone. That’s a 10 year old phone. My father used an iPhone 4 until like a year ago. We have probably 14 recent gen iPhones in the family and have not experienced the issues you mentioned. Also iPads, Apple Watches, MacBooks, etc.
I’ve been using Android for quite some time and I can say the operating system is pretty stable and reliable. It might have been a different story 10 years ago, but as of now it has good security measures, sandboxing etc, handles whatever you throw at it and isn’t as locked down as iOS is.
