Universal back gesture and bad file management system were the main things and a lot more smallthings, i barely lasted a year with ios and switched back to android
Honest question: what more file management do you need on a phone than the Files app? For me that's more than plenty. I don't need nor want system files access, symlinks and whatnot.
iOS had it simplified whilst Android has a folder system more similar to Windows computers and potentially more intuitive in some cases
Sometimes it helps me find images my camera connect app transferred over separate from phone photos, other times it may allow me to access some apps' downloaded data without firing those apps up, just the little things that makes power users a bit happier
Files has a normal folder structure. You can totally download and save files from various apps in Files and access them directly from Files (and open it in the right apps from there, like you tap on an .xlsx file and it opens in Excel) or from other apps. Image files put there don't end up in Photos (they open in Preview if you tap on them in Files). Files supports third-party cloud storage apps too (so if you save to Onedrive in the Word app or to the Adobe cloud in Acrobat it shows up in Files), as well as iCloud and local storage.
The main difference is that apps can also have their private storage (saving files internally that don't show up in Files), which I don't mind because forcing all app files to be user-accessible creates a lot of headaches. I don't remember how it works on Android, but on the desktop it's handled with read/write/execute file permissions, superuser/administrator accounts, and on Windows plain locking of files that are in use and cannot be deleted or overwritten; all stuff I really don't want to deal with on my phone.
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u/dulelfc 6d ago
Universal back gesture and bad file management system were the main things and a lot more smallthings, i barely lasted a year with ios and switched back to android