Coming from Android for the past decade or so. Picked up a 15 Pro Max. My experiences are mixed.
Firstly. The keyboard is just so far behind android it’s ridiculous. It’s even behind iPad which is what I don’t understand. I have had an iPad for a while now and the biggest issues I have with the iPhone keyboard aren’t on my iPad. The numbers and punctuation is easily accessible from the main keyboard screen.
Other issue I have is the camera. The pictures and video look absolutely amazing. But my camera app keeps crashing when I record 4k60 within the first minute or so. Not sure if it’s overheating or what. But I expect things to work better than that on iOS. Never had that sort of issue on my Android. Though my previous phone didn’t record 4k60. But the top of the line iPhone and it is buggy on something as basic as camera usage? Hoping that shit gets fixed ASAP.
I picked it up for its gaming capabilities though and holy shit is the Pro Max and impressive device for that. Resident Evil 8 looks absolutely incredible. Can tweak the graphics on it like a PC. Maxed it out… it ran well but then crashed. So I went back to presets and it ran flawlessly and still looked great. Bit mind blown a phone can do this. It has options for 30, 60 and 120fps ffs. It’s ridiculous.
Also picked up Wreckfest for $1.50 on the AppStore. Loaded it up, thought it looked kinda ok. Then found out that it had graphics settings too. Maxed everything I could and it looked unbelievable aswell. Silky smooth, sharp graphics, amazing lighting etc.
Also CarPlay is a mixed bag. I kind of like what works better than Android Auto. The maps in Waze look slightly better, and music screen looks slightly nicer. It’s barely a difference. But for whatever reason it doesn’t integrate with Facebook Messenger like android auto did and most my conversations are in Facebook Messenger. But aside from that it’s pretty awesome for CarPlay.
One thing I wish I could do on both Android Auto and CarPlay is use apps like Netflix, or stream my games to the screen while parked. My CarScreen is pretty big and playing RE8 on it would be awesome while waiting at school pick up. Or an episode of whatever on Netflix. I couldnt find anything that seemed like it would work for me with the built in system my car has.
But i would say it’s 90% positive for me. Want the camera fixed hopefully soon. Don’t expect anything to fix the keyboard since if it was ever happening it would have by now. The few alternate options on the app store didn’t really seem to integrate well for me to like the experience. But the primary reason I wanted to switch absolutely exceeded my expectations. Really hoping we get a lot more console/PC level games on iOS.
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I just found out this morning the alarms are linked to my ringer (new to iPhone). I slept through them all because my ringer volume was basically set to low. Seems absurd to me that alarms wouldn’t have their own volume.
Why would anyone with an alarm set not want to hear it?