Comment on Long-time iOS user considering switch to Android - Need advice on $1000 flagships

brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Custom Roms like Graphene, Calyx are the answer. And there are quite a few finance apps thag do work, look it up for the ones you actually need before switching.

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• tal@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I do not game on phones, but my best experiences have, ironically, been with ‘gaming’ phones like the Razer Phone 2 and Asus phones. They have gigantic batteries, lots of RAM, and lean, stock UIs that let you disable/uninstall apps, hence they’re fast as heck and last forever. I only gave up my Razer Phone 2 because the mic got clogged up with dust, and I miss it.

  While I kind of agree (though I don’t really like the “gamer” aesthetics), Asus only offers two major updates and two years of patches, which is quite short.

  androidauthority.com/phone-update-policies-165863…

  If someone games with their phone and plans to frequently upgrade for new hardware, they may not care. But if you get the hardware just to have a large battery and RAM, that may be a concern.

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• The_v@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The phones in the midrange are getting to be better than the top end ones in my opinion. Decent enough build quality for the phone to last 3-4 years. Expensive enough that the bloatware is reduced. If the company does do a modified launcher it’s generally pretty clean.

  I am liking the OnePlus 13R I picked up. Stable UI, decent battery life, and not a bad price. The stock launcher does a pretty decent job.

  For my work phone I have a Pixel 8. I really regret buying it. I had to disable 30 different bloatware apps. Plus I have 4 apps that I have rejected all updates because they can’t be disabled. I also installed a launcher because the stock pixel UI is trash. The hardware is solid and works well once you clear out the buggy bloatware

  Apple made a major fuckup with IOS26. I upgraded my iPad and felt nauseous from the blur effect almost instantly. I can’t completely get rid of it, just make it less horrific. Their “new” multitasking options I am not even bothering to turn on or try to use yet. This is like their 10th edition of multitasking. Let’s see if they get it right this time. Then I will bother to learn their “simple” process that usually involves having to read a manual and remember half a dozen new commands. Fuck it still takes me 2 or 3 attempts to get the the home screen without a button.

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  • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you haven’t tried yet, for your iPad try going Settings -> Accessibility-> Motion, and enable Reduce Motion and Prefer Cross-Fade Transitions. Both helped me, because I hated the blur effects too.

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    • Reverendender@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Alternatively, go into Accessibility-> Display and Text Size and turn on Reduce Transparency. This pretty much eliminates the garbage transparent nonsense. I actually enjoy the motion effects and the one time I tried turning them off, I found it pretty jarring. But reduce transparency pretty much wipes it out. It’s a solid option.

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    • The_v@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yep I did it. There is still some annoying bits of it floating around that you can’t get rid of.

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      • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The only other thing I’ve found that helped was under Accessibility -> Display & Text Size -> Reduce Transparency, the nausea-inducing design decisions really are baffling

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