I recently switched and I hate it. I got a 6+, and it's a beautiful piece of hardware, good battery life, and lots of beautiful apps; all stuff you can get with Android now. I've actually started a "Gripe List" document so I have easy justification for when I can finally afford a new phone again.
- First issue I have is with music apps. I deliver pizza, so I'm in and out of my car many times a day, and I use BT with a USB powered dongle that then attaches to my AUX in jack. Car turns on, USB adapter is now powered up, dongle turns on and connects to my phone. On rare occasions, a music app might start playing automatically, but I don't know which one, could be Apple Music, Google Music, or Pandora, and there's no way for me pick which one will launch. It usually doesn't start automatically, and that'e fine beecause I can just hit play on the dongle, but again, I have no idea what music app will start. It can be thrity minutes since it was paused and the same app will start when I hit play, or it could have been three minutes since it paused and a different app could start playing instead.
- Can't set file associations. I knew you couldn't set something like Chrome as your default browser, but I thought I'd be able to set say a specific app for a PDF or something like that. No.
- "Media Audio" vs "Phone Audio." On Andorid, when you connect a bluetooth audio device, like the dongle in my car, you can specify if that device does "Phone Audio", "Media Audio" or both. This is nice because on the dongle in my car, the microphone sucks, so I'd rather just answer my phone the normal "phone-to-ear" method, but I can't. If the phone is connected to the bluetooth, and I answer, it goes to the dongle's mic and car speakers automatically, so now I have to say loudly for the person on the phone to hold a sec as I switch over to phone. I also have to pick phone or bluetooth when making a call instead of having a default. I already tried the accessibility option of speaker phone always, but that was just as annoying as even call's not in the car went to speaker by default, which sucks. These things are big deal to me when driving because it's extra steps requiring more time eyes on screen and off road to complete the call or answer actions. I make many calls a night as I have lots of places I deliver where I can't go inside, like factories, college dorms, and business' who lock the main doors after hours. I call before I get to my destination in the hopes that the customer will be waiting when I arive and can get back to store sooner.
- iPhone's just seem to use a lot of data out of the box. It's fine for me as I have unlimited data, but still weird. I can remember my step mother having a iPhone 3g years ago and my father having an Android phone, and my Dad used the hell out of his data with google and videos and music, but he always used like a quarter of the data as his wife, who barly knew how to use the web browser or even know how to use Google on her phone.
- It sucks that when in apps like Amazon/Kindle, or Google Play(Movies, Music, etc.), or any other app that has digital media to buy, you can't buy them withing the app unless you want to pay more because of Apple requiring a 30% cut of all digital media sales. For example, if you setup a Spotify account on the iPhone or any other iOS device, it'll cost you $3 more than if you had purchased your membership through a web browser.
- I like how on Android, from within one app, I can purchase apps, music, movies, tv shows, books and magazines, and the browser based verson of Google Play even adds devices into the mix. Not like Apple who has one app for apps, one for audio/video, and one for books/magazines, and a whole other app for physical things.
- This thing crashes a lot more than any Android I've had(iOS 8 & 9) and has slowed a noticable amount since iOS 9 was installed. Since iOS 9 came out, things have gone from mostly smooth, to jerky and well, not smooth. I hear it works a lot better on the new hardware. This is the only things that makes regret not waiting a couple of months to get the 6s+ instead of just the regular 6+.
- Another weird thing is denying calls. I had to look up how to deny a call when the phone was asleep when a call came in, there was nothing on the screen to indicate to hit power once to silence and another to deny. I've always known about tapping power to silence, I've been using that since before the OG Blackberry curve(the one with a ball, not the pad).
- I've noticed little inconsistencies here and there too, and one in particular always sticks in my mine. If you're looking at images of apps while in the app store, you hit "DONE" in the upper right, but if it's an app video, "DONE" is in the upper left. I know it's a trivial thing, but it actually throws me off at times, and for a company who prides themselve on paying attention to the little things, this really irks me.
- Third party keyboards kind of suck on iOS. You can't use them in password boxes, they sometimes never even come up and I'm forced to kill an app and relaunch it just to get the keyboard to come up.
- I still can't share directly to a Facebook Group as I could on Android. It's hard to explain so here's a couple of video's illustrating what I mean.
http://youtu.be/9Z_-rYc8QBw
http://youtu.be/tbSRQgbIwIQ
- The "Notification" and "Today" pull down's are a joke in my opinion. A half-assed attemt to blatanly copy Android. A good idea to be sure, but a very poorly executed one.
- And finally, iOS hates Pebble watches. My watch got stuck in a safe mode loop. I can reset the watch, try to connect it to app, app says to put watch in safe mode, but app never detects that watch in now in safe mode as it supposed to and all I can do is try again, but get to same results. Ended up putting watch in drawer, probably never to use again as by the time I get an Android again, it'll probably no longer be supported, my luck and all
The positives of this phone are beutiful hardware, great battery life, cool and plentiful accessory market, lots of great, beautify apps. I also really love how Tim Cook is really fighting this whole non-secure and anti-encryption thing. I think if anyone can help promote secure phones and hardware with no back-doors, it's Cook and Apple.
Well, that's my soap box of things that bother me that I never saw mentioned elsewhere. I'm getting used to the phone, but these are all still problems and I will be dumping this phone as soon as I can pay it off.
On a side note, I have an iPad mini 3, running iOS 9 as well and I love it, but I use it differently than a phone, so I really have no problems with it.
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