14 Reasons Switching Android to iPhone is a NIGHTMARE!

I switched from S24 Ultra to iPhone 16 Pro Max, and the experience is not as smooth as I want it to be. In this video, I'll dive into the differences between Android and iOS and explain why iOS can be painful.

00:00 Android 15 vs. iOS 18
00:27 Back Navigation
01:36 Too Many Steps to Do Simple Tasks
02:17 Fat Finger Error
02:55 Poor Gestures and Notification Bar
03:16 KISS Principle
04:03 New Camera Button
04:38 Not Enough Freedom and File System!
05:23 Moving Icons and Customization
05:44 APK and App Development
06:25 Hidden Settings and Camera App
07:20 Cluttering!
07:53 Volume Rockers
08:20 MagSafe
08:49 Other Things!

[kianhoo]

I'm so glad that finally someone mentioned the terrible back navigation on iphones.

[igi_igi]

I tried using an iPhone for around 2 months, but I couldn't get used to it. And it was a terrible experience. The system is too unfriendly and stupid sometimes. Therefore, I switched back to Samsung.

[maazansari]

Apple users say it's easy to use without even trying android os. Specially gesture navigation.

[coqui]

I've been saying this for many years. Android has always been easier to use and navigate than iOS. Period.🙄

[flubadubdubthegreat]

I switched to iPhone about a week ago, there definitely are a bunch of very annoying things that simply aren't issues on Android, but so far I've been able to tolerate them. I will say that navigating on Android is much easier, and Android notifications are infinitely better than the disaster that is iOS notifications

[rjXDGAF]

This video properly explained why i always switch back to android i just can't stand this annoying problems.

[gordanbabic]

I have been switching between iphone and android since 2008. (based on my financial situation). I remembed times when iOS was actually much better than android. Now I am using iphone 15 and I am pretty sure this is my last iphone in a while. Android improves so much during the years

[sammyt]

That was a nice, well-presented summation of some of the more baffling features of iOS; things like the lack of universal back button/gesture, lack of 'close all' for open apps and being forced to hit a tiny 'select' button before you can select photos/vids seem to have been done only to differentiate iOS from Android, even if it means creating a less user-friendly interface. I too studied HCI as part of my Information Technology postgraduate degree and find it bizarre that a company the size of Apple is seemingly willfully ignoring established HCI principles in its iOS, presumably out of arrogance since they know people are buying their phones anyway. Unfortunately, I am one of those people; I've always preferred Android phones but my preference for small phones outweighed that and made me get an iPhone mini, which I love for its size but hate for iOS. Since Apple stopped the mini line, I'm probably going back to Android for my next phone.

[iAfroTech]

Using both iOS and Android everyda, Android is just easier to handle for me because of :
1️⃣Navigation Gestures from Left to Right AND from Right to Left
2️⃣Keyboard with numbers row key on top
3️⃣Multitasking with Split View and floating Windows
4️⃣Easy Link to Windows 💻
5️⃣Android clipboard
6️⃣Using 2 instances of the same app with 2 different account : Pro and Personal thanks to Cloned apps
7️⃣File management system: massively better on Android, easy to handle
8️⃣Notifications

My ecosystem :
Nothing Phone(1) Black ➕ iPhone 13 Pro Alpine Green ➕ Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 Pro 💻➕ Bose QC45🎧➕ Huawei Freebuds Pro.

For those who want to do the same, feel free to ask.

[NorthlanderMN]

My opinion is that most iPhone users don’t go into settings because they are not aware of them. I’ve observed this with most people that own iPhones.

[ensiel]

Spot on. I'm actually willing to try IOS and generally love the design and other elements but the lack of a universal back navigation is a huge deterrent

[TetrisPimp]

Legacy Buttons (Back, Home, Menu) is the 🐐

[nobody....]

These videos are needed on YouTube but youtubers rarely do them..

[anty_]

thanks for calling it out. I switched from android to iphone 16 and while I appreciate the build quality, camera quality and the integration like airdrop, the ios is the most user unfriendly OS ever built. Even using whatsapp doesn;t feel seamless. Plus you can't select photos from the cloud app. WTF. Not to forget that there are no notification categories on ios, either you completely turn them off or recieve even marketing notfications.

[keamogetsweizaac]

Also, with the back button thing, sometimes if you accidentally click on an Ad, you can't swipe it to stop like on Android, you have to wait for it to load, then it provides you with an X, conviniently placed top left corner to go back

[syimang]

You're the only 2nd person I watched on youtube that mentioned about a user experience esp. on the gesture navigation. Using ios on that is sucks. I used android phone before switching to Ip14pro. Now I can't use gesture navigation without using my two hands😡. It might not be a big deal for some but when you used yr phone for hours..you will miss the android version of it. Trust me.

[Invid]

Re: the camera app. You don't want a bunch of settings in the camera app. As an HID designer you should know this. Most people don't know an F-stop from a stop sign, they just want a point and shoot experience that does the right thing 99.5% of the time, which is what the stock camera app gives them. Google understands this too. For the people that would have bought an SLR/DSLR instead of a point and shoot there are third party apps that expose the advanced settings. Apple sells 200 million iPhones a year, they need to design for your grandmother in addition to you.

Also, there's no close all button because you're not supposed to close all. The OS will manage memory better than you will, and completely closing and reopening your apps uses more battery than letting the OS sleep them as required. People wonder how iPhones manage such good battery life with objectively smaller batteries and this is one of many small optimizations. Open a hardware monitoring app and you'll see all your RAM is in use but the phone is still responsive. iOS preloads/retains your apps and libraries based on your use patterns. The only time you should need to force close an app is if it's misbehaving. Let the OS do its job...it's not Android so leave those habits behind.

Your issues with dismissing notifications and control centre is just lack of familiarity. There's no "cognitive load" problem...on iOS a flick up from the bottom dismisses whatever app you're in, NO MATTER where you are in the OS. Doesn't matter if it's an app, folder, lock screen, control centre, notifications pane...it's ultra consistent. You'll get used to it. Also, you can't call the notifications from pulling down anywhere like on Android because that invokes system wide search on iOS. It's not that they haven't thought of the gesture, it's already being used.

I do agree that the lack of universal back gestures is annoying but most of this video is griping because it's not what you're used to. I'm not sure how you missed the Files app for saving your documents to but I would encourage you to keep poking around on iOS as it seems you've missed quite a few features.

[Marekk_k]

There are 2 more things worth mentioning:

1. There is no button to reject calls in full screen when someone is calling us. There is only a green button. To reject a call, you have to press the lock key twice

2. When creating an alarm clock on the iPhone, you cannot set your own alarm volume because it is based on the ringtone volume, and let's be honest, most of us have our ringtone set to a high level.

[SlipknotRevan]

I was so let down by ios when I got the ipad pro. It feels inferior to android in a lot of ways and the battery is worse than what it was on my old retina ipad. The lack of swipe to go back in ios is honestly a deal breaker, I am 10 times faster on android doing pretty much anything with moving my fingers a lot less. My friend has an iphone ultra an I cringe everytime I see him use it because he either constantly shifts the phone in his hand or has to use two hands.

[AsvinThakur]

Bro my dad bought his first iPhone 16 pro max (actually second one as his first one got lost i.e iPhone 15 pro max white) and I have been using his phone for a while now . For the information to anyone who's reading I have an Android that is M53 5g budget phone from Samsung with One UI 6.1 and I had no problem using iPhone or using Android . I genuinely understand the IOS system and Android also also I have a habit of using Android like a lil bit of Android and iPhone so iPhone wasn't a thing that I was frustrated just because I didn't't know how to use it. I think maybe because I had been trying iPhone in Apple Store like 13 series launch where I had tried an iPhone for the first time .