iPhone 9-year Android user that switched to iPhone. The years leading up to the iPhone and my impressions of my iPhone after the first year. |
- 9-year Android user that switched to iPhone. The years leading up to the iPhone and my impressions of my iPhone after the first year.
- Apple Reveals Winning 'Shot on iPhone' Macro Challenge Photos
- Are your older iPhones usable ?
- Switched from a 12 Mini to 13 Pro Max and loving it!
- Current rumors are saying no iPhone 14 mini model-How do you feel about it
- iPhone maker Pegatron halts Shanghai production due to Covid lockdown
- PSA: mushy iPhone 13 buttons fix
- 10 Ways to Make Your Phone Battery Last Longer
- 8 Ways to Maintain Your iPhone’s Battery Health
| Posted: 13 Apr 2022 11:22 PM PDT Okay, this is going to be a long one which I will do in two parts. The first part will be some backstory with my first smartphone leading up to my current one and beyond, and why I was willing to make the switch after so many years. The second part will have my impressions of the OS, design, and hardware compared to Android phones. I also should mention that I am a sales rep for a big wireless carrier, so I have quite a bit of experience with current phones on the market and others' opinions of them which has helped influence my own opinions. First off, a little back story and my smartphone history. I got my first smartphone back in the spring of 2012 and it was an LG Optimus Slider which was a budget Android phone at the time on Virgin Mobile; a carrier that is no longer offered in the US. I also had an iPod touch 4th generation at the time which I loved so I would have possibly considered an iPhone if it was offered by the carrier at the time. Fast forward to the fall of 2013 and I switched to Verizon and was ready for an upgrade. This was the golden age of smartphones and there were many more players in the market back then with compelling options and Apple's offerings the iPhone 5S and 5C just were not. I hated the small size of my LG Optimus Slider and Apple's new 'big' 4-inch screens just were not going to cut it. I ended up getting the Motorola Droid Ultra which is one of my favorite phones I've owned to date. Lightning and Touch ID would have been nice to have, but a 5-inch higher resolution display, the Android OS (IOS was way too limited back then), the design of Droid, and the battery life among other things greatly outweighed those two features. Jump ahead to the fall of 2015 and I am ready to upgrade my phone again. I am in love with the Android operating system and am wanting to upgrade to the biggest and best Android phone I can find. That phone was the Samsung Galaxy Note 5. Apple had refreshed their new larger phone designs with the 6S and 6S Plus, but they still weren't compelling enough for me. The Note 5 had a significantly better display, was more durable (not that either was a tank), had an S-Pen, fast charging, wireless charging, and was more customizable. Two more years go by, it's the fall of 2017 and I am ready to upgrade my phone again. The iPhone X had just launched and had some impressive features, but also some things I just could not live with or in the case of the headphone jack, without. I ended up getting another Galaxy Note; the Galaxy Note 8. Compared to the iPhone X the Note 8 had a USB-C port, a headphone jack (this was BIG for me back then and my least favorite Apple decision ever), a larger display (the X just wasn't big enough), a micro-SD card slot, and some OS features like widgets that I wanted. Skip ahead to the Spring of 2019 which was my junior year of college and while I didn't get a new phone, I got my first Apple device since the iPod Touch 4th generation which was a used mid-2012 13" unibody MacBook Pro. It fit the bill for me as a second laptop that was easier to take to class (I had a nearly 4-year-old 15" MSI gaming laptop I upgraded it with an SSD and 16GB of ram. I had always wanted to try out a Mac and I was impressed with my almost 7-year-old MacBook's build quality, longevity, and optimization. This MacBook piqued my interest in iPhones for the first time since the 4S as I was interested in the integration between IOS and Mac OS. The iPhone XS Max, which was out at the time, was the most compelling iPhone to me in years, but I still held onto my Note 8. It is now Spring of 2021 and it is past time for a new phone. My Note 8 had a cracked screen, bad OLED burn-in, an outdated OS, poor battery life (it was not great to begin with) and had become quite glitchy. I was primarily looking at the Note 20 Ultra (the last competent Samsung phone until the 22 Ultra IMO) and the iPhone 12 Pro Max the latter of which I chose. iPhones finally had almost everything I wanted some of which I'll dive further into below. Compared to the Note 20 Ultra the iPhone 12 Pro Max I preferred the Face ID on the iPhone to the in-screen fingerprint sensor of the Note. The 12 Pro Max was a better value at $1,200 for the 256GB, the Note 20 Ultra did not have a 256GB option so I would have to buy the $1300 128GB and a micro-SD card or the $1450 512GB model if I wanted more than 128GB of storage. The battery life, processor, cameras (IMO) and durability were better with the 12 Pro Max. Beyond that a business app that I used was no longer offered on Android so that helped push my decision a bit. About 6 months go by and in the Fall of 2021, I am loving my iPhone 12 Pro Max so far. I get a job at a big wireless carrier and get to experience all kinds of different phones on a day-to-day basis and still prefer my iPhone 12 Pro Max to any other phone on the market besides the 13 Pro Max, however I did not feel that it was worth the upgrade. I got an iPhone 12 as a work phone which I love as well, but a big screen is one of the primary features I like in a phone, and I would trade it for the Pixel 6 Pro, S22 Ultra, Z Flip 3, or Z Fold 3. Over the next six or seven months, I bought more into the Apple ecosystem as I was loving my iPhones, and MacBook Pro (though it is starting to get a little long in the tooth) and their integration. I bought the Airpods Pro which have exceeded my expectations tremendously. Airtags which have been a wonderful way to track my keys and wallet. A cellular Apple Watch SE which has pushed me to be more active and has become a major convenience in my everyday life. Most recently I got a cellular 11" iPad Pro which has been fantastic for content consumption and drawing with the Apple Pencil. I even further locked myself in by getting the Apple Card. It's only a matter of time before I can justify getting a new MacBook. Now we get on to part two where I will compare iOS and Android and the design and hardware of the modern iPhones to other flagship Android Phones.
In conclusion, I am loving my iPhone 12 Pro Max as well as the other Apple products that I currently have the pleasure of using. From Apple Pay to the build quality I am loving my 12 Pro Max more than any other phone I've had before. I am planning on getting an iPhone 14 Pro Max in the fall provided it has some notable updates, the most important of which being USB-C. Thank you, if you made it this far, and please feel free to ask any questions you may have down in the comments. [link] [comments] | ||
| Apple Reveals Winning 'Shot on iPhone' Macro Challenge Photos Posted: 13 Apr 2022 06:45 AM PDT
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| Are your older iPhones usable ? Posted: 13 Apr 2022 05:32 PM PDT Back in the day I had an iPad gen 1. I loved it. However within 3 years Apple began updating the iOS version heavily. So apps would begin stating a minimum iOS version. When I updated my version apps began randomly crashing and finally became so unusable that Safari itself would crash. No more further updates were released. When I visited the Apple store, the recommendation was to buy an iPad 4 and just ditch the old one. Due to a lack of funds, I gave up. Now coming to iPhones. I see people here use old phones like the iPhone 8 and X. How is the experience ? Is it exactly the same ? If you don't update iOS, your apps begin complaining about a minimum iOS version, and when you do update does it cause app crashes ? Does your old iPhone become unreliable with each update ? [link] [comments] | ||
| Switched from a 12 Mini to 13 Pro Max and loving it! Posted: 12 Apr 2022 08:48 PM PDT When the iPhone 12 mini was announced I was ecstatic!! I carried a first Gen SE for a looong time because I preferred smaller screens and was stoked that Apple was finally giving us a small phone with flagship specs. I never liked big phones, I never wanted a big phone, I told myself I would never switch to a big phone. However, after about 14 months with a mini some cracks were starting to show. The modern web doesn't look too great on a small screen and typing feels cramped and was a huge pain in the ass. The biggest crack big enough to split my opinions in two though was the battery. I never considered myself a heavy phone user but the battery on the 12 mini made me rethink that. I usually wake up around 7 and hit the bed around 11. In between those hours I'd usually have to top up my phone 2-3 times. Being tethered to a wall was no fun, so I bought a little power bank. The little power bank wasn't enough, so I bought a bigger one. Before I knew it, I was considering buying a little bag to carry my larger bank around. Not only am I having to constantly baby my phones battery and keep power consumption in the front of my mind before anything else, but more charging meant more cycles on my battery. Before I switched, my battery could only hold about 80% of its capacity so I would have to charge it more and more often. It was a vicious cycle. Constantly in envy of my wife 12 Pro Max, with its seemingly neverending battery and giant screen perfectly fit for media consumption, I decided it was time to admit something to myself I didn't want to admit. Pride on my sleeve, I told myself "Shit, maybe I DO want a bigger phone. A ridiculous phablet. A comically oversized slab". I put in the order for my beautiful green 13 Pro Max, anxiously refreshed my tracking info every 2 minutes, and at 1pm today I received my sparkling new phone with 50% battery. After messing around on it for the past 10 or so hours with 6.5 hours of SOT, I just received my first of very few "20% battery remaining" notifications. I am FLOORED with how huge the battery on this is. I even drove around today without plugging my phone into my car to charge. I've been playing games, watching videos, messaging friends, all the things I would want to do on my old phone but refused to for the sake of battery life. Typing this out, I feel a new found freedom. Freedom from having to be tethered with the ball and chain of a power bank. No longer held down by the shackles of my prideful notion that "bigger phones are stupid". This is by far the best phone I've ever had. The camera with its sharpness, the absolutely gorgeous screen with its amazingly high refresh rate, but most importantly; a battery big enough to last me a day and then some. I can wax poetic about this phone for hours, but I'll end it here. 12 years of using a smartphone and only now do I truly feel satisfied. I should've hopped on this train earlier, but I'm glad I got to grab my seat better late than never. [link] [comments] | ||
| Current rumors are saying no iPhone 14 mini model-How do you feel about it Posted: 12 Apr 2022 08:53 PM PDT
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| iPhone maker Pegatron halts Shanghai production due to Covid lockdown Posted: 12 Apr 2022 11:04 PM PDT
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| PSA: mushy iPhone 13 buttons fix Posted: 13 Apr 2022 08:20 AM PDT I cleaned my phone with Lysol wipes a few days ago, and noticed yesterday the phone felt …. Off. As if the tactile feedback was off. The buttons felt mushy and cheap. From my research online and testing, it seemed some liquid from the wipes might have gummed up in the button assembly The fix: go to a tap and have the water set to practically dribble. Have the water drip onto the band and engulf the button. Click the buttons multiple times with water flowing over them. Don't blast the buttons directly - make sure you hit the band and water "flows" to the volume/power button gently. Cleaned mine out and tactile feedback is restored! [link] [comments] | ||
| 10 Ways to Make Your Phone Battery Last Longer Posted: 12 Apr 2022 11:56 PM PDT 1. Keep your battery from going to 0% or 100% Some of you might think that the best way to keep your battery healthy is to charge it and discharge it fully i.e. to try to charge it to 100% and drain it completely. You might have heard that calibrating your battery makes it work better. This is a holdover from older battery types: lithium-ion batteries don't work this way. There is no battery memory to calibrate. On the contrary, you're stressing your lithium-ion battery more and shortening its lifespan by doing so: discharging your battery fully at 100% compared to 60% can halve the lifespan of your battery . Because lithium-ion batteries come under the most stress when they're fully charged or fully drained the best approach is partial charging. Ideally you should charge your battery up to about 80% and avoid having it drop lower than 30%. If this isn't practical, try to aim for a maximum of 90% and to start charging your phone before it hits 20%. 2. Avoid charging your battery beyond 100% While leaving your phone to charge overnight is a common habit, it can actually shorten its battery lifespan. When kept at 100% charge your battery not only experiences higher stress from the higher voltage, heat also builds up over time. While mobile phone batteries wont overheat to the point that it's dangerous to the user, exposing a battery to high heat is one of the fastest ways to shorten its lifespan. If you can't avoid leaving your phone to charge overnight, make sure its in cool or well-ventilated place so the heat can more easily dissipate. For example, not under your pillow. 3. Charge slowly if you can No one will argue that fast charging technologies are a great time-saver. If you're intent on maximising your battery's lifespan, you should probably save them for emergencies as they can stress out and damage your battery, especially if you have an older phone. On the other hand, charging your battery more slowly is good for it. As such, charging your phone through your computer or laptop can actually be a good thing. 4. Turn off WiFi and Bluetooth if you're not using them It's also important to keep in mind things that will help your battery last longer on a single charge. After all the fewer charge cycles your phone battery goes through, the slower it degrades and the longer its lifespan. One common drain on battery life is leaving your phone's WiFi or Bluetooth on while they're not in use as they do drain your battery scanning for networks or devices to connect to. Realistically speaking, if you're just moving from one place with WiFi to another, like going from your home to the office, it's probably not a big deal if you don't disable your phones WiFi. But if you're spending a whole day out and not planning to use your WiFi at all, you should probably turn it off to save some battery life. On a related note, if you have an Android smartphones you can turn off automatic WiFi, a feature where your phone would still scan for networks even if you've turned WiFi off. 5. Manage your location services A lot of apps these days track your phone's location to support their services, constantly scanning with a combination of GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth and cell tower locations for maximum accuracy. To ensure that you're not wasting battery life, it's best to only let these apps access your location services only when you're using the app. If you have an iPhone you can go to Settings > Privacy > Location Services and set your preferences there. On Android phones, you can go to Settings > Security & Location > Location > Advanced to disable WiFi scanning and Bluetooth scanning completely or Settings > Apps & Notifications > Advanced > App Permissions to block apps from using location services in the background. 6. Let your assistant go While features like Google Assistant and Siri can be really useful to have, they add to the battery drain of your phone, especially if they're constantly listening out for your voice commands. If you don't need or hardly use these features, it's best to disable them, or at least disable their "Hey Siri" or "OK Google" voice command function. 7. Don't close your apps, manage them instead By now you may be thinking you should start closing everything running on your phone as much as possible save battery life. Wait no, not so fast! Closing apps i.e. force-quitting apps that are running in the background on your phone doesn't actually improve your battery life at all. In fact, it can actually make things worse. Both iOS and Android systems have algorithms that automatically manage how much power or memory background apps are using. By forcing apps to close, you risk messing up this smart system. Furthermore, opening an app that is closed uses more power than returning to an app that's already running in the background. Instead you should be looking that how much refreshing your apps are doing in the background. Do you need Facebook or Instagram to keep updating itself even when you're not looking at it? On iOS, go to Settings > General > Background App Refresh to review what apps do you really need refreshed constantly. On Android, you can actually limit how much battery each individual app uses while running in the background. A better alternative to shutting them down, you can do this by going to Settings > Apps & Notifications and under that apps page, go to Advanced > Battery > Background restriction. 8. Keep that brightness down We get it, your phone screen is gorgeous. But screen brightness is a major drain on your phone battery. If you need to conserve battery power, turning it to its lowest-but-still-readable setting is the way to go. 9. Make use of smart battery modes Today's Android and iOS devices come with their own smart battery saver or low power mode. These are especially helpful as they automatically cut back on functions that drain battery life, such as CPU usage, notifications, mail fetching and screen brightness. While these power saving modes automatically kick when your phone's battery is low, you can easily enable them manually whenever you want. Your phone will continue to function but at a lower level of performance. While you might not want to have this mode on all the time, if you're not going to be using your phone much for some hours or want to cut down on distractions, this can help reduce stress on your phone's battery. 10. Embrace the dark mode (if you have an OLED screen) If you got a more recent phone like the Samsung Galaxy S9 or the iPhone XS, you could cut down on your battery drain by switching to Dark Mode. [link] [comments] | ||
| 8 Ways to Maintain Your iPhone’s Battery Health Posted: 12 Apr 2022 11:55 PM PDT 1. Avoid Maximizing Your Charge Cycles According to Apple, after 400 to 500 full charge cycles, iPhones hold significantly less charge compared to their original battery capacity. So, in general, the less you use your iPhone the longer the battery will last. What's more, keeping the device at a full charge or completely drained can also reduce the battery health. For this reason, you should try to keep your iPhone between 40% and 80% battery as much as possible. 2. Don't Leave Your iPhone Without Charge for Too Long The battery cells that make up lithium-ion batteries have a limited lifespan, meaning you should take care of them if you want to keep reaping the benefits of your iPhone. One of the biggest killers to a smartphone's battery is letting it die completely, because when a battery cell gets to absolute zero charge, it may never work again. Luckily, iPhone batteries still keep some reserve charge even when they power off, to avoid this problem. But if your iPhone dies, you should remember to charge it again as soon as possible. To avoid this, take advantage of the iPhone's Low Power mode when the battery is at 20% or lower to extend life until you can get to an outlet. 3. Don't Leave Your iPhone Charged Overnight Many people charge their phones overnight because it is the most convenient option. However, overcharging an iPhone like this can result in a damaged battery and reduce the life of your phone. Overcharging damages your battery because it forces more current into already full cells than they are designed to hold. It also means your iPhone spends most of the night at 100% charge, which is bad for its health. 4. Turn Off Unused Features In an effort to use fewer charge cycles and maintain the health of your iPhone's battery, you should turn off any features that you don't absolutely need. These can include power-hungry features like Background App Refresh, Bluetooth, Location Settings, and push notifications, all of which you can find in the Settings. In addition, you can also reduce your iPhone brightness and enable fewer notifications to avoid them waking up your Lock Screen all the time. 5. Use Only Official Apple Chargers Many unscrupulous companies produce low-quality iPhone chargers. While they can still charge your device, these chargers are not certified by Apple, which means they don't maintain the same quality and compatibility with your iPhone battery. For your safety and your iPhone's battery health, only use Apple-certified accessories, especially Lightning cables. These help to protect against power surges and short circuits, which could cause injuries or damage the phone's internal components, including the battery. 6. Avoid Extreme Temperature Changes Keeping your iPhone safe from temperature extremes may help your device get through its entire lifespan without damage to the battery or other components. Extreme low temperatures can cause a shortened battery life, affecting the battery's ability to hold charges, or make it stop working altogether. On the other hand, extreme highs can permanently prevent you from using some of the phone's features, such as causing cracks in the device itself, which can impact overall battery performance. 7. Invest in an iPhone Case To keep your battery working for longer, make sure to keep your iPhone out of dusty or dirty environments. This can lead to shorter battery life due to dust and dirt particles accumulating on the battery contacts Using a protective case can help protect your iPhone's ports by trapping the debris before it enters your device. Additionally, a good iPhone case can protect your iPhone from other issues as well, such as broken screens and water damage. At the same time, make sure your case doesn't swaddle your iPhone, causing it to overheat and negatively impact the battery health. 8. Update to the Latest Version of iOS A key way to maintain your iPhone's battery health is to update the device's operating system. As time goes on, iPhones receive updates that improve their speed and performance. This keeps the battery in good condition over the long term. Additionally, these updates often come with new battery-saving features that users can enjoy. For instance, the iOS 12 update introduced Screen Time. This feature tracks how much time users spend on their devices and which apps they use the most. Users can then adjust their daily habits to make sure they are not spending too much unnecessary time on their phone. Keep Your iPhone Battery Working for Longer Unfortunately, there is no way to stop iPhone batteries from becoming less effective with time. After all, iPhones still use lithium-ion batteries, which will naturally degrade with use. However, the long-term maintenance of an iPhone battery can still make a difference on its overall performance over time. Aside from keeping your iPhone on for longer, keeping the battery healthy can eliminate slowdowns, app crashes, and more. Thankfully, there are numerous things that you can do to make sure that your iPhone battery stays healthy for longer, and if all else fails, Apple can always replace it for you. [link] [comments] |
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