I really tried, Apple - iPhone 30-Day Challenge

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Linus takes a long-overdue trip back into the iOS ecosystem. Will daily-driving a shiny new iPhone 16 Plus for an entire month convert him into Apple’s newest fan?

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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:24 Positive Vibes
5:12 Are they gone?
8:00 Car Play and Audio
9:30 no hablo manzana
11:40 Rapid Fire!
12:45 Accounts
16:22 One more thing
18:04 Can't we all just get along?
20:05 Credits

[Carl-lepo]

Linus sold me fent behind the walmart the other day

[IanDresarie]

OMG THAT WHOLE "you can't tap the cursor into the middle of a word" THING DRIVES ME INSANE

[nemesisgaming]

I was 5 minutes into the video before I realised Linus' sleeves shirt sleeves are different colours...

[SalemTechsperts]

As someone who went from Android to iOS to make communicating with my client base easier, I 100% agree with every single point you made, which is rare for me. Check your panic logs, does it show a "wifid" error causing the restart? Because this is a huge issue people (including myself) have been dealing with FOR YEARS that Apple has yet to acknowledge. Would love to see a deep dive into this.

[mahjongasaur]

As a convert-Apple user, I miss the little “do you wanna rotate your screen?” button that Android shows in the corner when you rotate the phone with rotation locked. Only being able to lock portrait and not landscape is stupid

[PSPpocketfilms]

I'm glad someone addressed the landscape oriented problem. As a left handed person I somehow always opened something "wrong" showing the app upside down. The flip was almost every time from muscle memory. Just let me hold it how I want.

[NessunoNessuno-ji]

I have always used Android devices. A couple of years ago, however, I switched to iOS. I had my phone, tablet, and Apple Watch. It wasn't a difficult transition. I disliked some details, but overall I was satisfied. I recently switched back to Android because my iPad failed (suddenly it turned off and never turned on again) and my iPhone XS was very old. Now I have a Galaxy S22 Ultra, and I have rediscovered Android features that an Apple user can only dream of. I feel like I have total control and can use it to its full potential. With the iPhone, I felt too limited by Apple's usage model. The only thing I miss is the Apple Watch—always fluid, reliable, and intelligent. But for everything else, Android for life!

[ktheveg]

You don't realize how nice a back button is until you try to hunt for the little x in the corner of an ad. Most ads dismiss the ad on back press when their timer is up, and some terribly designed ones forget to lock that functionality for the delay!

[harrysmbdgs]

As an iOS user, this was a very fair critique. Not being able to tap to place the cursor in text infuriates me beyond belief, especially considering you used to be able to!! All it does is highlight the word, then you get stuck in a highlighting loop no matter how or where you tap. It's SO ANNOYING!!!

[malte]

17:23 as an iOS Developer, this is a setting we can control and set to lock a specific rotation. We have 4 checkboxes, which are, portrait, upside down, landscape left and landscape right. In theory, you could lock it to be only upside down. In this case, this seems to be a decision made by the developers of Jetpack Joyride to lock it to a landscape orientation, presumably to stop it from automatically rotating on accident when playing the game. (Which would play a whole animation, therefor stopping the game flow) As a long time iOS fan and developer, I do however not see any reason why they shouldn't have a landscape mode for lock orientation, so your point still stands. But I just wanted to make this case clear.

[chris_]

As an apple only user forever, thank you for calling out the orientation lock thing at the end as the most important change. I've been wanting it changed for so long

[GolfGuyReviews]

14:15 I just upgraded yesterday from iPhone 11 to 16 Pro…took me 20 mins to figure out how to add my various email accounts and calendars to the new phone. You were not alone Linus, and I’ve been iPhone since my Nokia N97!

[ollimartikainen]

That camera dip maneuver is honestly hilarious.

[nasko]

Audio is weird on iOS and I'm glad you acknowledged it. My keyboard tap sounds would sometimes go absolutely berzerk and blast at full volume. It's suuuper embarrassing especially if I'm sitting in line somewhere and all the sudden my phone goes TAP TAP TAP.

[TheCoolDave]

I did this a few years ago, my wife moved from an iPhone 8 to a new (13 I think) and I asked to borrow her phone for a month before giving to one of our kids. Most of the stuff you said I agree with, some basic tasks on Android were hard to do on the iPhone and that rotation thing, OMG after a week I was ready to give up. Going menus deep to find a single setting....really ? Can I really customize anything deeply? Nope, every iphone almost looks exactly the same, really?

Yea, I went back to Android and will never turn back, and even the funnier part of it, I loved the interface of Windows Phone (who remembers that??), so I use a loader for that but, all the of the backbone is Android. I get the live tiles from Windows phone (new emails/texts show up on the home screen), the start menu with the list of apps (even new apps on the top to get rid of all the "added apps after an update") in order, you can even select a letter like in Windows to get right to an app and get all the Android advantages. It REALLY is the best of both worlds.

Again, its' MY phone and how I like to use it and IOS is not and will never be for me.

[MoxHex]

The universal <back> button is the single greatest thing Android has over Apple.

[fhreire]

Every year, I think about switching from my long term Android life to an iOS phone. Then I start thinking about all the points that have been mentioned in this video and I give up. I will never accept a phone that doesn't let me use it the way I want to.

[murphyslaw]

As a prior android user and a current iOS carrier, the volume adjustability issue is my biggest pet peeve and haunts me daily

[MRSNYPA]

As someone who also tried using an iphone a few years ago, I do like that everything is straightforward and just easy to use. However, as an Android user, having an iphone it just felt like i was handcuffed, not being able to do the basic level of customization was a massive killer for me. I didnt last a week with the iphone and went straight back to Android. I just wish Android was as optimised as iOS, becasue Apple have nailed that aspect.

[JaceKeller]

8:50, nope, not an iOS 18 bug. This has been an issue with iOS for ages now alongside the keyboard click sounds going from inaudible to super loud in a split second.

Apple has never fixed it and I don’t think they care to.