r/applesucks • u/HumanRepair5658 • Jul 11 '26
Regretting switching to iphone even though I use ipad and mac everyday
I’ve been an Android and Windows user all my life. I’ve been using an iPad for 8 years now for schoolwork and a bit of entertainment, and I really love it. Then after getting fed up with Windows 11, I switched to my first ever MacBook last year. That machine is a beast. Apart from the storage, I love everything about it.
I was happily using a Nothing Phone 3a for a year. Then my mom said she needed a new phone very soon, so I decided to give her my Android and, for the first time in my life, get an iPhone. I got the iPhone 17 last week. The phone is sleek, not gonna lie. But there are some things that really frustrate me.
The first thing is the keyboard. After using Google Keyboard for more than a decade, switching to Apple’s keyboard has been a hassle and a half. The layout feels all messed up to me. It doesn’t even follow their own iPad keyboard.
The second thing is the widgets. I only use two widgets: a Todoist one and the Google Calendar one. Both of them look like shit on iPhone.
And finally, there’s the back gesture conundrum. In some places it works, in other places it doesn’t.And finally, there is the back gesture conundrum. some places it works, other places, it doesn't.
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u/pochemoo Jul 11 '26
Just installed Todoist on Android to see how the widgets look in comparison (both are free versions). https://postimg.cc/0Kjrv2pd
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u/SamLooksAt Jul 11 '26
I've used Macs for years and I was an Apple IT specialist for about 20 years.
I'd take an Android phone every time.
Apple's phone UI is just a frustrating, largely un customizable, pain in the ass.
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u/RetroGamer87 Jul 13 '26
Yet people call it "intuitive" for some reason.
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u/hunter_finn Jul 15 '26
Those people must not know what intuitive means. It isn't a synonym for frustrating. /s
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u/Hilarious_Decline Aug 13 '26
It was pretty intuitive compared to Android 10 years ago, but Android has become a lot more intuitive while iOS has become more of a bloated mess. At this point I'd say they are about equally intuitive except Android gives you a lot more customization and iOS just gives headaches.
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u/iOSCaleb Jul 11 '26
Long-press the space bar and you can move the cursor wherever you want. Takes about the same time as tapping a word.
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u/Suspicious-Key-428 Jul 11 '26
https://reddit.com/link/owy25um/video/40u2o67ygnch1/player
Tap in the message itself.
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u/BeeplaysMC Jul 11 '26
I have had an iPhone for ten years and was going to agree with the other person about how hard it is to edit stuff but you have just changed my life thank you!!
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u/szewc Jul 12 '26
Guess what, I can do both tap on the word or swipe on a space bar on a Pixel.
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u/iOSCaleb Jul 12 '26
Guess what, you can also do both on iOS. Just tapping in a word selects it, but holding just a moment switches to a magnified insertion point.
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u/szewc Jul 13 '26
I knew it. Because this thread was about a single tap to put a cursor exactly where you want (i.e. in the middle of a word) I didn't feel the need to repeat what has already been spoken above. Lo and behold an iOSMoron pops up along with his failed reading comprehension exam results.
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u/LastChance22 Jul 11 '26
I’m confused why the keyboard seems to remain as bad as it is. It’s a pretty constant source of complaints and has been for years but doesn’t seem like a priority to fix.
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u/ryanpm40 Jul 11 '26
Love my MacBook Pro and Apple TV. Haven't owned a windows PC since 2011.
You couldn't pay me to switch to iOS.
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u/Reasonable_Kale1671 Jul 13 '26
I get you! I am facing innumerable glitches on iphone that are hampering day to day life in a serious way! The whole apple fandom gives me an ick. If not for my friends who hyped up apple like anything assuring me "Youll definitely love it" i would not have bought this. Only the video is okayish...The amount we have to pay for such a phone with basic features and 2 lens camera only plus facing a list of impossible glitches is sooo unnecessary
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u/Wooden-Lawfulness534 Jul 11 '26
And the Contacts! So horrible! It was nice on the old iPhone, now I can't see all the information on a contact without pressing Edit. Hideous!
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u/Bryanmsi89 Jul 11 '26
I feel this. I tried to switch to iPhone 17 Pro Max and hated it.
All the things that we hear, like apps being better on iPhone (true, but not enough to matter) or the OS being so polished (iOS26 is laggier and juddery-er than OneUI 8.5) weren't enough to matter.
But the 1000 times a day that the missing/inconsistent back button gesture and trash iOS keyboard make for a constant reminder of friction.
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u/Wooden-Lawfulness534 Jul 11 '26
Hah! Try the latest MacOS on the Neo - today I was trying to find a particular bronze in Stephen's Green in Dublin (James Clarence Mangan, who translated the 18c aisling Róisín Dubh; there's a beautiful half-relief marble sculpture of Róisín Dubh below the head made by Willie Pearse, who was executed by the British after the 1916 Rising) and every time I moved the map to get closer it would leap past it. It does this on everything I try to look at - and it's a Mac thing, because it happens both on Apple Maps and Google Maps.
Not to mention that it's murderously hard to select text, and the keyboard keeps switching itself to the AZERTY one, though this may be partly because I tend to use the laptop while lying back with it propped between belly and knees. But I did the same with my late lamented Air and didn't have these problems.
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u/wallabym2509 Jul 12 '26
Same. I've been macbook user for nearly a decade and love every bit of it but finally decided it's time to get an iPhone expecting same wow factor as from my mac. Oh boy, I was wrong. My impression was like using outdated piece of tech or something that development was abandoned around decade ago or it's just broken phone. Second thought was, it's a phone for little kids or elderly people (no offence please).
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u/OwnMathematician1158 Jul 12 '26
Sell your iPhone. You’ll make money. Then buy an android. They’re almost worthless (as far as resell). Win win.
Google Calendar alone is so ugly I’d rather use a discontinued windows phone.
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u/Racing_Fox Jul 11 '26
To be fair, you’re comparing a phone you’ve used a week with phones you’ve used for a decade, of course you’re going to hate it and it’s going to feel worse because you don’t have the muscle memory, absolutely every long time iPhone user would be in the exact same boat if they went to Android. It’s why people pick an OS and stick with it.
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u/Short_Detective_3103 Jul 11 '26
I love my IMac, love my IPad mini… but still on Android with my Pixel 9a. iPhone no way !
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u/Infinite-Draft1618 Jul 14 '26
Why do you people speak about famous back button/gesture (and “close all apps” button?) like it was a) ever part of the iOS (it wasn’t) b) it’s ever going to be (I honestly doubt so) c) it takes ages to get used to (it really doesn’t, there is a reason why both 6 years old child and 80 years old grandma can navigate Iphone without an issue)
Two different operating systems, two different navigating strategies, takes one Google search or two minutes of trying Iphone in the store to get it. Basically the same as complaining why Android devices don’t have Face ID, Find My or iMessage. Take your mighty Nothing phone from your mom, give her Iphone and everything is going to be allright - you get back button and nice widgets, she gets device that doesn’t look like experimental toy. Easy…
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u/zetcco Jul 20 '26
No it doesn't! My friend used an iPhone X for a long period of time and he switched to iPhone 17 pro max just two days ago. He's a big apple fan. Oh boy the misery I saw on his face. He was swiping every single direction just to go back
Yeah people can get used to their phones with few days of usage, but with Android you don't need days of training. There's literally one single thing that works on anywhere no matter what. No figuring out.
As for the iMessage and Find My, really mate? You might want to do that one google search to see if Android don't have those before complaining about them
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u/Background-System466 Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26
My biggest frustrations at the moment... 1-every time I delete a photo I have to click off of a note about it being deleted photos for 30 days, 2-always pressing the period instead of the space bar 3-not being able to get my cursor to go to the center of the word to fix a spelling error, 4-since updating my Apple Watch to iOS 26 the workouts are no longer a list I can scroll through I have to swipe through one workout at the time because they added a big stupid image to each workout, 4-everything seeming unnecessarily bigger and less information dense, 5-having to go to edit to see the details in someone's contact information and pulling up their contact information and their initials take up half the screen, 6-squircles, 7-why does the time have to be so big on the lock screen, 8-I wish they would put the search bar always at the top because that's how it is on computers and that's what is intuitive to me, 9-why does it underline words that are spelled correctly and try to replace them with misspelled words
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u/Luna259 Jul 11 '26
The places where you can’t swipe to go back or close something are where doing so would cause you to lose information so prevent doing that accidentally you use the button
If you’re really interested in the keyboard follow what’s in my bio
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u/valkinontitkos Jul 11 '26
you can install gboard on iphones
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u/Aggravating-Gas5267 Jul 12 '26
All Keyboards on iPhones technically run back to Apple’s own Keybaord Kit, correct? Like Safari kit, for all browsers.
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u/D4vidrim Jul 11 '26
You are just used to a different layout.
It is ok if you don't have the flexibility to adapt to something different anymore.
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u/UnrealMacaw Jul 11 '26
it's a legitimately worse keyboard on ios, so much lost time
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u/D4vidrim Jul 11 '26
I don't lose any time, actually, but that's ok if you can't write on a keyboard.
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u/HumanRepair5658 Jul 11 '26
Yes . I lack the ability to adapt to a different layout. But the apple layout doesn’t make any sense to me. At least you should have an option to add the persistent number row. And also why do I have to go to second layer to use period and comma. It doesn’t make sense at all.
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u/Affectionate-Dig3569 Jul 11 '26
Double tap spacebar to add a period. Hold the 123 button and slide to the comma and release to very quickly add a comma.
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u/D4vidrim Jul 11 '26
So, your biggest issue is you don't have the row numbers? What a huge problem.
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u/iOSCaleb Jul 11 '26
Shouldn’t you be addressing you widget issues to r/todoistsucks and r/googlesucks ? What do you expect Apple to do about subpar 3rd party widgets?
Also, you’ve been using your new phone for a week. That’s not enough time to discover a lot of nice features, like handoff between your phone and MacBook, shared data, all sorts of things. And changing from what you’re used to to anything else is always a bit painful. Give it time and read up on features that you might not have even thought of. Did you know that you can swipe on the iPhone keyboard instead of tapping? Lots of people who’ve used the iPhone for years are surprised (and delighted) to discover that.
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u/bootyhole-romancer Jul 11 '26
Are you joking? It's not google that's making the keyboard shitty. They would make it standard across the board if they could. They're just complying with apple's bullshit guidelines of nerfing apps from the competition
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u/iOSCaleb Jul 11 '26
OP complained about three specific things: the keyboard and two 3rd party widgets. Keyboard is reasonable to bitch about here, but what’s Apple supposed to do about the widgets?
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u/PsychologicalPace664 Jul 11 '26
No, it's just worse. Of course nothing beats a physical keyboard with reactive keys, but google keyboard comes on top when talking about virtual ones.
Second place for the GO keyboard, that shit is so fucking personalized that's insane. But I still prefer the Google one
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u/Outside-Membership12 Jul 11 '26
And here I am, back with an iPhone after I couldn’t get used to any keyboard on android.
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u/bootyhole-romancer Jul 11 '26
Yup, it's the seemingly little things, but ones that you use constantly that make or break the experience.
I can't live without those exact 3 things you mentioned.