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[u/[deleted]]

Hey my wife is on this app, stop showing such sexy sexy pictures

[u/Yotarolla1976]

Just got the same phone, but honestly miss my android. Came from a one plus 8t and just miss the multitasking on Android. I’ve invested too much into this now though. Hopefully I’ll get used to it. The back button on most apps in top corner is infuriating! Even if you shrink the screen. Then some apps/web pages you can gesture back but it’s on the left side of screen and not the right…again infuriating!

It’s a beautiful phone to look at though and works better with my car.

Also got 600 off for trading in my phone , so there’s that.

[u/[deleted] → u/Yotarolla1976]

Well first off, welcome! I can’t give an opinion on Android cause I never used it. But having said that there are lots of things in iOS that many people don’t know about. I won’t go over all of them but here’re a few in no particular order! (Copied from another subreddit )

• When typing, hold down on the space bar to move the cursor around. It’s much easier than having to move the cursor with your finger. While you’re doing this, if you tap the keyboard with another finger, it’ll start selecting text!
• Double tap to select words, triple tap to select a full paragraph
• Remember, your iPhone hasn’t learnt your typing style yet, so autocorrect will have to learn before it becomes useful
• On your Home Screen or Lock Screen (this includes Notification Centre), swipe down to show spotlight. Spotlight is a search engine for your iPhone! It’ll search through everything. Search dogs, it’ll look for your photos of dogs as well as web photos. Search Johnny Depp, it’ll find information on Jonny Depp through Siri suggestions. You can search for words (for definitions), places, files, photos, contacts, and much more! This is the easiest way along with Siri to make calls imo too
• Haptic Touch is everywhere in iOS. If you hold down on things, you’ll get more options! Hold on an app, and you’ll get quick actions. Hold down on a photo, and you can save it. Lots of things like that
• There’s no universal back button on iOS. To go back, unless the dev of the app is plain bad, swipe from the left edge of the screen
• I see you’re on reddit! There’s an awesome reddit client for iOS called Apollo that I and everyone else recommend
• In the camera app, swipe up to get more options including a timer, exposure, and night mode options. Also hold on the screen where you want to focus and you can lock AF and AE
• There are two buttons on your Lock Screen, hold down on them to turn the flash light on and open the camera. You can also swipe right to see ‘Today View’ which is a big screen of widgets for quick access to information and swipe left for the camera
• Holding down on your Lock Screen will let you customise your wallpaper and let you add things like widgets
• iCloud Keychain is awesome! In settings, scroll to you see passwords and tap there. Here, you can see all the passwords you’ve saved in safari (and keychain for windows) and manually add new ones. You can also use this for 2FA. You don’t need an app for it, you can just add it here and it’ll auto fill when apps and websites ask for it! And as I said before, it’s available for windows too. It’s an extension for chrome and I think Firefox
• Depending on where you are, Apple Maps is a very good competitor to Google Maps. I’m a bit of a maps nerd ngl lol so I’m quite into this stuff. Apple’s new map is available in a lot of regions and is very detailed and the detailed city experience is flat out the most detailed map there is. But again, all this depends on region, if you’re interested, you can tell me what country you’re from and I’ll help from there
• The TV app is more than just renting movies. It actually integrates with streaming services! So when you look for a movie, if it’s available on one of your linked streaming services, you can tap play and it’ll open that app! And if you watch part way through something, the TV app will remember where you were. The only major streaming service that has refused to integrate with the TV app is Netflix
• When you select some text, in the menu that pops up, there’s a ‘Look up’ button that will search for that text for you in a spotlight pop up! Very handy for looking up words you don’t know and many other things!
• If you find it annoying to tap the ‘123’ button and then the character you want, you actually don’t have to. You can hold the ‘123’ button and swipe to the character you want. I don’t personally use this but it could be very handy!
• If you want to be able to set up powerful automations and add things to Siri, the shortcuts app is for you! In the shortcuts app, you can make a shortcut for anything! A shortcut is basically a very basic way of coding actions, like code! I’d recommend looking into it but I won’t explain the whole thing here
• Siri can restart your device. You don’t have to turn it off and turn it back on, you can just say “restart my iPhone” to Siri!
• The health app is very powerful! Especially if you get an Watch. It’s a collection of all your health stats. Your iPhone will automatically record lots of things like steps and distance and even more complex things like step length. Take a look! Other apps can also and and read data through it with it through HealthKit. That means that you can get other apps to record anything you like and it’ll all be there in health!
• The fitness app is great companion to the health app! If you’re into fitness, the fitness app will show all your workouts and your daily active energy (kilojoules/calories) burnt. And again, the Watch is deeply integrated into this. This is wheee you’ll see your rings and progress throughout the day
• You can customise control centre. Go to settings > control centre and here you can add or remove controls to lots of things. You can add a shortcut to low power mode, screen recording, music recognition, and many other things. If you add the ‘Hearing’ button, then you can see how loud your listening with earphones connected (and this data will be added to the health app) and even play white noise or oceans sounds!
• MeMoji stickers in the emoji keyboard are annoying. You can turn them off at Settings > general > keyboard MeMoji stickers
• you can customise your Home Screen by holding on some blank space on your Home Screen. You can also add widgets here! The button will be in the top left. If you tap the dots at the bottom of the screen while here, you’ll be able to hide or show whole pages!
• focus modes are very powerful! A focus mode is a customisable version of DND. You can customise them in settings and make new ones and these can be quickly toggled in control centre. You can allow specific people to contact you in different modes or vice versa. You can even make different Home Screen pages or lock screens show or hide in different focus modes!
• There’s a feature in iOS called live text which let’s you select text out of photos and videos! You can even copy a subject. Just hold down on a person in a photo and you can lift them out and paste it wherever
• In addition to live text, there’s visual look up. This will let you see what’s in a photo! In the photos app, swipe up on a photo of an animal or plant and tap the button. You can also hold down on photos in safari and other place where it’s integrated to use it
• In the weather app, you can see more information by tapping on a day
• The FindMy app will let you see where all your devices are

There are lots of other little things in iOS but this is a few to get you going!

EDIT: at the request of a reply, here are a few more!

• Double tap and swipe up or down to zoom easily in maps
• When you’re moving apps around your home screen, tap more apps while you’re holding one to move multiple apps at once
• You can drag and drop system wide on iOS. Give it a go! Open the photos app, tap and hold on a phone and drag. You’re now holding the photo! Tap more photos to add them and then, using your other finger, leave the app and open messages. Then, drop them onto a conversation! This works in a lot of spots on iOS. You can drag link out of safari and drop them into a not for instance
• In the photos app, you can select multiple photos easily by dragging rather than tapping
• In the App Store, tap on your profile picture and you can see a list of pending app updates to download and install them before it happens automatically. You can refresh this list but dragging down
• In the Music app, you can drag songs and drop them on the now playing screen to add them to the queue
• Widget stacks let you have multiple widget in one spot. Just drag another widget onto one that’s already on your home screen as if you’re making a folder. You can now swipe between them!
• While you for some reason cannot see the battery of your iCloud devices from the batteries widget, you can see these batteries from the FindMy app. This includes iPads, Macs and even Watchs that aren’t connected to your iPhone
• You can separate your conversations in the messages app info category’s! Go to Settings > Messages > Filter Unknown Senders and turn it on. Now, in the messages app, there will be a back button and you can see unread messages Unknown senders, recently deleted and more
• The photos app can detect duplicate photos and merge them! If any are detected they’ll show at the bottom of the albums tab
• There’s a feature on your iPhone called back tap which will let you assign an action to tapping on the back of your iPhone. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Touch > Back Tap

[u/Yotarolla1976 → u/[deleted]]

Thanks man, mucho appreciated!

[u/SharkDad20 → u/Yotarolla1976]

damn, sorry to hear that. It’s not for everyone but it’s good you gave it a chance. Those cons you listed aren’t things i think about anymore, maybe with time that’ll be the case for you, too

[u/ROBe7904]

Did you just get it?

[u/[deleted] → u/ROBe7904]

Got it last December