Comment by check1234123

I switched to IPhone 13 pro 3.5 years ago and I have the completely opposite experience. It doesn’t “just work”.

- Swipe typing is so horrible I had to disable it.

- Notifications are extremely large and you have less control over what type of notifications you want to receive.

- You can’t transfer files by simply connecting your phone to a PC.

- Videos played in Safari don’t automatically rotate to landscape mode (nor there is a button to quickly do this) unless you disable portrait lock from control center. If you lock this again hoping it will stay in landscape it will switch back to portrait mode.

- You can’t set alarm on a certain date.

- You can only snooze the alarm for 9 minutes (I think you can configure this in iOS26, but this was unacceptable even 5 years ago)

- Apps get killed or stopped in background extremely frequently which means that if you have some long running task you need to keep the app open.

- Hotspot automatically disconnects even with a Macbook (Windows/Linux is much worse). I used to live without home internet relying on hotspot feature. IPhone hotspot proved to be extremely unreliable.

This is not even mentioning more technical things like sideloading, torrent client etc.

> - You can’t set alarm on a certain date.

I have some alarms for specific dates, do you mean a single use alarm?

> - You can only snooze the alarm for 9 minutes (I think you can configure this in iOS26, but this was unacceptable even 5 years ago)

To this day I miss one alarm that LG phones had where it would make me do more work to even dismiss it, on purpose, because I am known to just turn it off and keep sleeping.

> - Hotspot automatically disconnects even with a Macbook (Windows/Linux is much worse). I used to live without home internet relying on hotspot feature. IPhone hotspot proved to be extremely unreliable.

I have not had this issue, though I did have the issue of not realizing that since I had bought my phone through Apple instead of through T-Mobile my data / hotspot plan was not the right one, I realized this after I left T-Mobile for Mint, but I rarely if ever use hotspot.

> - Swipe typing is so horrible I had to disable it.

I had the 12 Pro and now the 17 Pro, I rarely do swipe typing, voice to text is slightly more annoying, I would hope that in this world of AI that Apple would improve their voice to text, it just doesn't hear me at all half of the time.

> - You can’t transfer files by simply connecting your phone to a PC.

Apple has always been all about being on Apple, so yeah, though I have gotten my Linux to mount files from the iPhone before, doesn't look pretty at all mind you, but I can take a rough but full snapshot of all my images on my phone..