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just a few days into my iOS challenge I
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started to look a little differently at
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the Apple users in my life they describe
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Apple products with marketing slogans
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like it just works as though they
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actually believe them and it made me
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wonder does Apple have one version of
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their products for the True Believers
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and then a different one for the scrubs
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like me because my time with the iPhone
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16 plus has been absolutely riddled with
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unintuitive design choices unnecessarily
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limited functionality and some of the
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weirdest bugs that I've have encountered
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on a supposedly finished product in
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years but Mama Sebastian didn't raise no
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quitters so I've stuck it out for more
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than the month that I promised and I've
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compiled a lot of thoughts both from
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myself and from helpful members of our
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community who see the world through more
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pink lady lenses and some of their
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points were extremely valid turns out I
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really was just holding it wrong and
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over time there's a lot about iOS that
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I've learned to love even on my own but
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there's also a lot that well to say how
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I really feel I'd probably have to use
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language that might not sit well with my
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kick this off with some positive vibes I
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am a big fan of the app Library I know
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it isn't new but as someone who hasn't
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daily driven an iOS device in a while
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it's new to me and any effort to
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organize the pure chaos that most of us
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carry around in our pockets is much
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appreciated like finally the ability to
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put your icons anywhere you want I also
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appreciate the intuitive and Slick way
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that iOS handles switching between
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picture and picture and background media
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playback I mean how cool is this as for
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my other primary use of my phone you
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know phone calls that got a big
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improvement too I get so many different
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kinds of calls these days phone teams
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WhatsApp whatever and iOS streamlines
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this experience by unifying the
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interface between all these different
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apps which is especially nice when I'm
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in the car it even consolidates my call
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logs so I don't have to remember who
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prefers what when I mash a contact to
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call them back multi- widget Stacks are
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super cool I don't actually know if
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they're new or not but I don't really
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care quick access and high information
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density all always get a thumbs up from
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me and I use them all the time to
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quickly check the weather quickly check
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my calendar now I've heard that these
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are a thing on newer Samsung devices as
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well but look this video is not a
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comprehensive comparison Matrix of every
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software feature that's ever existed
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it's my thoughts on coming back to iOS
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after an extended absence and some of
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those changes really are refreshing
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screenshot management has leveled up in
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a big way and is full of nice to haves
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like I love the ability to quickly
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delete rather than archive my screenshot
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after I've shared it with someone and I
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love the little popup in the dynamic
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Island to help manage my airpods if
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they're paired to my laptop already and
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I'm sitting working but an incoming
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phone call comes in it'll be like hey
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want me to grab those and I'm like yeah
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thanks actually any sort of interaction
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between the iPhone and other Apple
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devices is pretty great like my Apple
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watch unlocking without needing to mash
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in the pin if I have my phone unlocked
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nearby so efficient speaking of
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efficiency I probably plugged this thing
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into my nightstand to charge maybe four
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or five times over the entire month plus
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that I was using it which Probably
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sounds Bonkers but what I found was that
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just plugging in during my daily commute
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plus the occasional longer trip was
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enough to keep me going for literally a
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week at a time unless I was binging a
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show all day or something iOS then
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noticed this and piped up with a
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suggestion that I switch to 80% maximum
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charging in order to prolong the life of
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my battery that is the kind of proactive
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user handholding that I can really get
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behind and the same goes for how
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aggressive iOS gets about prompting the
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user to mute or block app notifications
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and tracking to be clear Android's tools
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for managing these things are pretty
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good too actually very granular but what
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Android doesn't do is get all up in your
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grill about them like iOS does which
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results in an experience where if you
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get a notification on your iPhone you
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can be pretty darn sure that it's
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something you wanted to see or you can
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easily get rid of it now pretty much
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everything so far has been mostly to do
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with the software but I've got to say I
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kind of like the hardware too the screen
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on the iPhone 16 family is incredible
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with outstanding brightness for watching
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videos outside not to mention their
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super dim mode that supposedly gets all
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the way down to one knit and makes
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nighttime reading way more comfortable
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for me uh oh here's a fun one you know
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how phones are supposed to be you know
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phones I'm getting way better call and
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data reception near my house and not
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just against my ancient note 9 but even
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against my wife's Galaxy s23 Ultra so I
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can finally close my garage door from
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the driveway all right you guys think
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that's enough positivity to appease the
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Apple stands if not I could probably
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keep going for an entire video's worth
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but unfortunately I could probably go
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multiple videos about the things that I
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didn't love so much so we should
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probably address at least some of them
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let's start with how slow the device
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feels which okay no wait hold on step
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away from the comment section I
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recognize this is absolutely not a slow
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device but that makes it all the more
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frustrating when it feels like Apple's
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interface decisions are holding me back
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like the animations they're beautiful I
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love the way the home screen icons come
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flying in the first time that it loads
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after you set up a new iPhone but I
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don't need to see it every time I unlock
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my phone guys guys I've got urgent
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Facebook Marketplace Doom scrolling to
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do and yes before you ask I did turn on
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reduce motion and I even tried prefer
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Crossfade another gorgeous animation by
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the way but none of that had the desired
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effect of getting the fluff out of my
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way so I can just use my phone I'm just
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picking what I get to look at while I
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wait for the UI to catch up with me
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while we're at it by the way why is this
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setting and so many other useful ones
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hidden away in accessibility options I
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can't change that unne necessary
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slowdowns are going to bother me like
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this thing that Apple does where it
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animates all the steps to get to a
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setting that I have searched for or
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clicked a shortcut to the rationale that
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I've heard for this behavior is that
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it's trying to teach me where I should
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have gone but I got there with a
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shortcut is that not an okay way to do
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it who cares if I know all the
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breadcrumbs adding insult to injury
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depending on how I try to go back I get
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to click through all of those screens
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that it zipped through on the way back
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to the thing I actually cared about
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which brings me to a pretty big subject
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going back on iOS is objectively bad and
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okay all right something can't be
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objectively bad but what it can be is
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objectively inconsistent which from a
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user interface and user experience
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standpoint is well objectively bad I
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can't believe that Apple still hasn't
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mandated an official Apple way to go
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back they seem to be big fans of the
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swipe in from the left but they only use
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it just enough to trick you into
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thinking that it should work all the
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time and then bam an app hits you with
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clicking on the top left like my old
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iPhone 4 or cancelling in the top right
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like this and even the occasional swipe
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in another Direction now app makers
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absolutely share some of the blame for
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this but guys we are 17 years into this
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experiment so I think it might be time
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for Apple to just take the darn RS or
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maybe in other cas is loosen them
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overall I found carplay to be pretty
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okay uh my car doesn't have a physical
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button for previous track so if I wanted
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to have media controls and my map on
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screen at the same time I had to use
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split screen which I don't prefer I like
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a nice big map but that's probably more
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of a Mii problem and you can't blame the
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handset makers for all the dumb things
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that the car manufacturers are going to
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do so let's not worry about that let's
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worry about the bugginess that I
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experienced every once in a while the
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volume would shank itself and I ran into
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this issue twice it's probably worth
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noting I saw this with some random
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Bluetooth earbuds too though so maybe
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it's not carplay related actually now
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that I think about it there were more
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problems with audio notification volume
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would occasionally go super loud there's
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all the
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cabling which is apparently an iOS 18
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bug and compared to Android adjusting
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the volume level of anything you aren't
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actively using is super nonobvious like
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Andy how do I change the volume of my
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like system tap sounds when I'm
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listening to Media for ex for example
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you just m it no but like how do I
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change the volume of that I don't
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know if you've never touched Android
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this is going to blow your freaking mind
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no matter what I'm doing if I touch the
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volume button I can adjust my ring tone
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my notifications my media and my system
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sounds the fact that that doesn't
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exist iOS users should be rioting in the
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streets
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I know this next one is going to get
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lost in translation as Android and
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iPhone users are coming from completely
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different experiences here but oh my
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goodness the iPhone keyboard is missing
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so many things that I completely take
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for granted as basic functions of an
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Android keyboard for example while the
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iOS keyboard does let you hold down a
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key in order to modify your letters with
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whatever diacritical Mark you need or
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even sneak in the occasional Thorn yog
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or esset Android lets you use the same
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Tech technique to access numbers and
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common punctuation from the first layer
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of the keyboard you can even dial in the
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delay so that you barely have to slow
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down to insert one of those secondary
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characters and this is an absolute
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godsend for those of us who write our
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texts like our AP English 12 teacher my
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greatest on them now I tried switching
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over to my usual alt keyboard swift key
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on iOS but somehow all these years later
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it is still trash on the iPhone core
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features are missing like the
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aforementioned long press tuning and
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even the ability to resize the keyboard
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and in general it just feels off with
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worse predictions and a more tedious
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process for going back and making
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Corrections like maybe I want to type
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rhis it autoc corrects to this I go back
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when no no I meant rhis and I should be
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able to fix the accidental auto correct
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and my capitalization at the same time
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on the iPhone not so much now if I had
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to guess I'd say that this limitation
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probably comes down to Apple giving
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keyboard apps far less access to user
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inputs which is probably a good thing
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but it makes for an overall
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significantly worse typing experience on
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my keyboard of choice which also just
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would occasionally disappear leaving me
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with the default weird now one thing
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that's better about iOS is the super
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responsive long press keyboard shortcut
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to reposition the cursor I like it but I
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also don't struggle with fine motor
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control and it's usually faster for me
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to just tap the point in the middle of a
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word anyway so not being able to do that
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on the iPhone actually kind of drove me
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crazy now I've got a lot more things to
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get through so let's uh rapid fire a few
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I can't get to the home screen without
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physically swiping the screen after
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authenticating and then it's animation
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time again just got out of my way and
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let me use my phone I can't change the
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size of the app grid I'm stuck at four
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wide on the normal iPhone 16 that would
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be fine but if you're giving me all
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these extra pixels on the plus
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I'd really like to use them it's like
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they intend for their larger devices to
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just be for the elderly or people who
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have trouble with the smaller screens
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and here's a weird one I ran into this
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problem while rearranging apps I think
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maybe the ones I place manually might
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behave differently than the ones that
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are automatically placed sometimes it
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just gets confused I don't know In
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fairness Apple's new to this whole
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putting things where you want them thing
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and here's a funny one when I was
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migrating in the first place Apple's mov
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to IOS app failed twice before actually
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working and even then it basically just
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copied SMS photos and WhatsApp I had to
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manually sign into to everything
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including my Google account which left
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me wondering what exactly was the point
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of this I'm not sure but I'd like to
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talk about that Google account for a
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minute in the past iOS had an account
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section in the settings app where you
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could centrally manage and sync your
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different accounts for email calendar
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contacts all that kind of stuff that
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seems to be gone now but I work for a G
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Suite organization so I'm going to need
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my Google Calendar to tell me what it is
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that I am doing today this is where past
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experience with iOS got in my way the
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account setting was gone and I couldn't
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find an obvious way to add an account in
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the calendar app so I started looking
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for workarounds and ultimately
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discovered that if you open the iOS mail
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app it immediately prompts you to add a
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Google Mail account which will also sync
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my Google Calendar in the native
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calendar app now I ended up getting
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attacked pretty hard for calling this
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out on the WAN show but I'm holding firm
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that this is a prime example of
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spectacularly unintuitive design the
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justification I was given for this is
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that app settings including accounts
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should be managed from within the
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settings app and the apps menu and then
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the individual app and that is Apple's
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aspiration but as we've seen with back
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functionality Apple's aspirations don't
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always match reality so let's play a
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quick game called find the account
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management
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menu in the app yeah this one's in the
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app another one that's in the app hm
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they're pretty much all within the apps
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themselves and while the first party
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mail app does have account management
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buried four layers deep within the menu
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the Apple preferred way for some reason
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it still prompts you to sign in that
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first time you open it meaning that if
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you're trying to sign into an account
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from within an app that is a perfectly
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reasonable expectation even if you had
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no prior experience with other platforms
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the good news for Apple though is that
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the solution to this is simple when I
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click calendars add calendar add
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calendar and then I have this account
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thing here that should just be a drop
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down that should prompt me to add
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another account instead of it just doing
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nothing you're welcome now to be clear
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this isn't a deal breaker by any means
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it just means the next time that an
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Apple fan tells me it's just just so
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gosh darn intuitive I don't know if I'm
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going to be able to help it I might
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actually laugh in their face maybe a
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little Doom scrolling will calm me down
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and oh boy if you want the long version
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of this rant you can check out the W
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show from a couple of weeks ago but the
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tldr is when I flick my finger in my
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news feed or on Reddit I expect the
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screen to move at the same speed that my
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finger moved and then decelerate from
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there I do not expect it to move at
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whatever relaxed chill Pace that some
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apple focus group has determined is the
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most aesthetically pleasing in order to
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hide their 60 HZ refresh rate another
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thing I touched on during that wow
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segment is buttons particularly this new
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camera button here out of the box I kept
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accidentally hitting it only to have a
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user point out to me that I could
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configure it to require a double click
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huh well that's super cool I thought I
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wonder what other apps I could make it
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LO no camera and Camera adjacent only
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speaking of the camera boy was that an
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upgrade though as someone coming from a
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six-year-old device I don't know what to
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say other than I should hope so and
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besides my main focus isn't on the
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particular iPhone but rather My overall
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experience with iOS 18 an experience I
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could probably go on for hours about but
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Tim Apple a more relevant meme than ever
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these days doesn't have hours to watch
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this video so how about I boil it down
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to just one thing that I need fixed
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let's talk about rotation locks most
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iPhone users I run into don't even
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realize this but for a good 10 years now
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you've been able to lock an iPad in
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landscape orientation but not an iPhone
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now we use iPhones as our teleprompters
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here at lus Media Group and because we
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can't lock them in landscape mode we
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have to train all of our camera
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operators in a maneuver that we call the
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dip to reorient the screen it's
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something we do so often that we don't
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even really think about it anymore so
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why bring it up because when I was going
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through the list of apps in my account
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since the migration wizard didn't
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actually copy my apps over like it said
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it would and I had to do so manually I
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came across jetpack joy ride and I was
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like oh my goodness I haven't played
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that since the last time I daed iOS it's
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been years and I immediately fired it up
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I played it for a second then I put my
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phone down to make a note about
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something and when I picked it back up
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the game was upside down I showed this
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on the W show as well I gave it the old
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wiggle I tried to reorient it but no it
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would only work in one of the two
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possible landscape orientations what the
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heck Apple these kinds of arbitrary
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distinctions like which way is the
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approved landscape orientation assuming
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I'm allowed to be in landscape at all do
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nothing for your user they do nothing
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for your profits so why to be clear iOS
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has come a long way over the last few
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years and it can do so much more than it
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used to do find my as a godsend
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Spotlight still rules TOS airdrop is
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legitimately super cool as long as
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everyone around me has an iPhone but
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Apple still has some work to do to be
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willing to accept that after the iPhone
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leaves the factory it's my iPhone and if
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I want to hold it like this instead of
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like this or I want to use it as a
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teleprompter that's my business if I
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want to move the dynamic Island to the
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other side that should be my decision
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too and until Apple's willing to truly
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Embrace that rather than begrudgingly
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give us little breadcrumbs I just don't
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think this is for me which doesn't mean
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