What keeps you using an iPhone?

I like the "Just Works", the clean look and smooth feel.
iBooks provides some great options for PDFs and pages, icloud for photos with sharing.
I got an iPad mini 2 after having Samsung Note 10.1 with stylus and I liked the smoothness of Apple much more.
When my Huawei P6 died after a year, I went to iPhone 6 - bit of getting used to with a slightly smaller screen, but the rest of the UI and ecosystem was more than compensation.
I also like that older devices still get updates to the latest iOS. I don't feel the need just yet to get an 8 or an X as the 6 does everything that I need to to, and am still running 10.3.3 as I'm not sure of 11.2.2.
Good experience with Apple support too - got a refurbed iPad when the button broke within a year :-)
 
I love the battery management on my iPhones. If I wake up and unplug my iPhone from charge at 1am, I know that at 7am it will still be 100%. This is something that seriously pissed me off with Android, that battery drain when you're not using it just really winds me up. But on my iPhone, it has never done it and even though the batteries are generally weaker than the flagship Androids, i find the overall efficiency throughout the day to be far superior.
 
I’m a Apple fan for many year
Like everything about Apple, my iPhones and iPads
So easy to use, never gives me any problems ❤️❤️
 
Was a long time Nexus user before moving from the Nexus 5x to an iPhone 8. Since Google dropped the cheap high-spec phone, there isn’t much left to compete with iPhones. I'm not paying iPhone prices for a Pixel that doesn't even have local support.
 
I just sold a Galaxy S8 and bought an iPhone 8 plus a X on an impulse buy.

Although the S8 and Android were nearly there, iOs and iPhones just feel more premium and are easier to use day to day. The Galaxy didn't cut it - filled with bloatware including Bixby and a redundant button on the left hand side

The iPhones are beautiful: the 8 stays by my bed for podcasts and music or reading at bedtime while the X is my daily driver. I could never go back to android.


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What the OP said. Plus we have an Apple ecosystem at home and work now so me not going back unless I am forced.
 
Had to get an iPhone to drive my drone. Seven Plus, 128GB. Beautifully made device. Haven't used it for anything other than one app. Seems to work fine.
 
Ffosse said:
I just sold a Galaxy S8 and bought an iPhone 8 plus a X on an impulse buy.

Although the S8 and Android were nearly there, iOs and iPhones just feel more premium and are easier to use day to day. The Galaxy didn't cut it - filled with bloatware including Bixby and a redundant button on the left hand side

The iPhones are beautiful: the 8 stays by my bed for podcasts and music or reading at bedtime while the X is my daily driver. I could never go back to android.


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Aha I see a once loved App there namely Wikipanion. Alas I replaced it with this a while back:

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Greater functionality.
 
It's also ÂŁ5.99 which I consider too expensive for a Wikipedia app.
 
I'm a big Apple fan, on my third iPhone, my 2nd MacBook and have a iMac.
1. Excelent second hand value, I bought my iPhone 4s for a steel back in the day R1000,,,,,, I was the third owner. Used it for 3 or so years and traded it in at a iStore for R1400 when I upgraded to my 6.
2. Ecosystem is great, everything just works, syncing across devices etc. etc.
3. They stay current for longer, also better software support than Android. The minut a update drops we get it here in SA, Android users have to wait for months. The iPhone 5s still got the latest iOS 11 update, I don't see that happening with say a Samsung Galaxy S3 or S4.
4. They last, I have a iPhone 7 but can still see myself using a 6s, I have a 2015 MBP and feel that I can still use it for a good 2 - 3 years, my iMac is a late 2013 and though getting a bit long in the tooth it's still doing fine.
5. I'm practically blind, so the integrated Voiceover screen reader on iOS and Mac OS is great,, where on Windows I'll have to pay R15000 plus for a third party screen reader and on the Android side the screen reading is hit and miss because of all the manufacturers doing their own skins etc. The integrated Voiceover screen reader was actually the main reason why I first tride a iPhone back in the day after my Nokia days.
 
Ease of use primarily.

My last Android was S4 and after 18 months it was horribly slow (even with a wipe). I bought my 6 plus and it is still going strong.
 
Using both Iphone 6s and Note 8. Love both. Both have pros and cons, too many to mention and there are a million thread for that. Ones not better than the other in every department. Its a matter of preference. Go lie to yourself to make yourself feel better fanboi, lol.
 
Trompie67 said:
1. When replying to an email from iOS there is the option to always BCC myself. This way the email chain remains intact on both desktop & phone. This can be set to happen automatically. On Android I need to input my own address in the BCC field every time I send an email. At 40+ emails a day it becomes a PITA.
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Maybe I'm missing something but how is your chain lost by not doing this? Unless you are using POP3 or some such which deletes emails off the server?

In which case there are much more efficient ways to resolve this than needing to bcc yourself.

2. When deleting a text message on iOS I simply swipe left. On Android I must touch & hold, then press delete, then press OK when asked if I am sure I want to delete it. What a PITA. Is this OS for stupid and/or indecisive people? ;)
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On the other hand having to manually delete one by instead of being able to Select All is absolutely infuriating.

There Android wins.

3. iOS keyboard is brilliant. Plus it has emoticons etc. built in already. Android (both Sony & Huawei) stock keyboard is atrocious! I then need to go to the App store, seek & find an app for something as basic as a keyboard? Seriously? It's idiotic, why can't the standard ones be functional? Huawei didn't even have emoticons! So I had to try 3, 4 or 5 apps before finding a decent one, just to be able to bloody type an email or text message!
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Yeah I also love the iOS keyboard but at the same time it irritates me that they force it on you for password entry and certain other instances if you choose to use a third party keyboard instead.

There are better ways to secure your data than forcing a confusing UI change on you.

Currently using a P8 and the 6S. Hate the P8 - slow, lags, glitches on emails at least once a day & needs to be rebooted. It will be upgraded in a few months to an iPhone X.
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I'm on a ****ty freebie droid now over my iPhone 5S now and although the vast majority of the experience is much the same if there was no money involved and someone asked me iPhone or Android I would jump to grab the iPhone.

There are just a LOT of silly things in Android but if you'd are mention them you are a sheep or a fanboy.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Maybe I'm missing something but how is your chain lost by not doing this? Unless you are using POP3 or some such which deletes emails off the server?
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Using POP3, messages deleted after 30 days. I'm referring to messages I've sent from my phone. These don't get stored on the server. In any event, my point was that iOS makes it easy, droid does not.

On the other hand having to manually delete one by instead of being able to Select All is absolutely infuriating.

There Android wins.
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Maybe. Use settings to decide how long messages should be kept for. Then you never have to delete, they automatically do so after the set period of time. In my case, 30 days. That way I never have to worry about a "select all" in order to delete.

Yeah I also love the iOS keyboard but at the same time it irritates me that they force it on you for password entry and certain other instances if you choose to use a third party keyboard instead.

There are better ways to secure your data than forcing a confusing UI change on you.
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Never had the need or desire to even try a different keyboard, stock iOS one is fine.

I'm on a ****ty freebie droid now over my iPhone 5S now and although the vast majority of the experience is much the same if there was no money involved and someone asked me iPhone or Android I would jump to grab the iPhone.

There are just a LOT of silly things in Android but if you'd are mention them you are a sheep or a fanboy.
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I think android is for those who like to play with their tech, whereas iOS is for those who like their tech to simply work without having to faff in order to get it to do so. iPhones are simple to setup & even easier to work with.
 
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