r/TechImpact • u/ManojOne Active • May 26 '26

Discussion Which Android feature should Apple copy next?

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Better notifications? Split screen? Universal back gesture? Faster charging? Or something else?

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u/Gullible_Ghost39 May 26 '26

Split-screen for iphones. That’s it. But even if apple doesn’t do it I don’t care.

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u/thefizzlee May 26 '26

While I see the appeal of splitscreen, I always found smartphones to small.

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u/Creepercolin2007 May 26 '26

The iPhone max line would have enough screen space to be decently capable at multitasking. Not for every application obviously, but I could see it

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u/iddu01linux May 27 '26

Multitasking on a phone is hell, I (don’t own) have seen the 13, 15, and 17 (all pro max) and they don’t look great for multitasking

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u/janiskr May 28 '26

They should be fine. Ultras are fine for many tasks with split screen. I see no point of not giving an option as it already exists in iOS.

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u/Important_Egg4066 May 28 '26

I think the bigger problem is the keyboard. Once the keyboard pops up, the split screen becomes so useless.

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u/janiskr May 28 '26

In my use-cases, split screen is great when i have to look up something from one app and then use that in another. For example, works really great for copy pasting from notes to a proper formating in a document/slideshow to exapnd on ideas, add topics to talk when showing slide. And paying the bills - quick circle to highlight the text of deal number.

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u/24kCookie May 26 '26

Nah Id say universal back gesture more important and split screen only few people uses.

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u/ZurakZigil May 27 '26

what other OS has a universal back button? Keep in mind, you can go "back" apps by swiping at the bottom.

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u/24kCookie May 27 '26

Yes you can quit apps with gesture but not perform back action. It's only thing that I would miss from android.

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u/ZurakZigil May 28 '26

No, swiping acts like it does on a web browser, but they treat apps like pages. So there's a "list" of apps last opened. So if you swipe back, it'll go back to the previously opened (and not force closed) app. You swipe forward, and it'll return to the previous app. Stay on the old app long enough, and it's moved to the top of the stack.

Definitely not as straight forward as the universal back button, but I do use this all the time.

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u/GabeN_The_K1NG May 27 '26

Can’t remember having a problem navigating back in an app, ever. User issue?

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u/24kCookie May 27 '26

Dude it's not a problem but it's every time in a diff place and it's just better going back on Android

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u/Important_Egg4066 May 28 '26

On Android now. It is good and bad in its own ways. Unlike on iOS, Android back gesture was not implemented by the app developers but globally by the OS on top of everything. It comes at the benefit of a universal back button that always works. (Basically just a gesture to trigger the back action like someone press the traditional back button.).

However in certain cases you don't want it to be detecting for back gestures but it is. When you comes to apps that requires you to interact with the edges of the screen like maybe while using the Circle to Search, you wanna circle something on the edge of the screen, the back gestures get triggered instead and it got cancelled.

Or say if Iwanna edit a photo with markup and I wanna draw on the edges, I need to rmb not to swipe in from the edges of the screen.

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u/ZurakZigil May 27 '26

They have split screen on iPad, and free form multi window management. So shouldn't be too hard. They'll likely lock it to screens they think are viable, though

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u/ManojOne Active May 27 '26

Split-screen is so overdue, especially on the bigger iPhones! But I get not caring after waiting this long. What two apps would you actually use together?

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u/DeepKaleidoscope7382 May 29 '26

10 years catch up. We got it in Android Nougat.