Primarily Android User Tries the iPhone

[gotluck]

I would prefer to have both

I run with no lockscreen security so I can have the notification pull down shade straight from the lockscreen. One extra swipe, but for me the notification shade is a good enough, if not better, replacement to ios lockscreen. I wish there was an option to just display the shade on the lockscreen itself, because its functionality is great

I would miss the led flash if it was gone, but I hear you not everyone cares

 

[TechGod]

I would prefer to have both

I run with no lockscreen security so I can have the notification pull down shade straight from the lockscreen. One extra swipe, but for me the notification shade is a good enough, if not better, replacement to ios lockscreen. I wish there was an option to just display the shade on the lockscreen itself, because its functionality is great

I would miss the led flash if it was gone, but I hear you not everyone cares

Thanks for understanding. For those that care cool, but don't tell me that when I say the LED is lying that I'm saying ********.

I can understand if someone wants it though, my cousin has an S3 and he loves the LED


EDIT- I made no sense, sorry 😱

 

[fr33 loader]

I've lost count how many times have I previously walked up to my iPhone, pushed that home button to check on my notifications to find NOTHING?

In that 2 years of your phone contract, that small blinking light will save you thousands of steps to check your phone and thousand of times hitting that home button. You can also, and I seriously don't know how for some odd reason you are more efficient without that feature, turn it off. Choice is good people.

 

[jrswizzle]

I have not tried it yet with my M8....but it works great with my S5 🙂
The notification light on the S5 is soooo much bigger...displays more light!

Oh and those that say this is a useless feature.....will argue and argue how useless it is.....until it is on an iphone. Then it is innovation......

How original 🙄

Guess what, if Apple implements it I'll let out a real big yawn.....

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Its a basic feature that Apple won't let you have that's all. Its ok you don't like it as you can't have it😛 Maybe iPhone 6.

"Won't LET me have"???

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha......

Give me a break. It's a little blinking light....and you guys act like its some completely necessary thing. All it ever did for me was annoy me in the middle of the night. Turned my phone over so it would stop blinking at me (until I eventually just turned the damn thing off).

For some its convenient. Hardly necessary.

 

[SpoonCody]

I've lost count how many times have I previously walked up to my iPhone, pushed that home button to check on my notifications to find NOTHING?

In that 2 years of your phone contract, that small blinking light will save you thousands of steps to check your phone and thousand of times hitting that home button. You can also, and I seriously don't know how for some odd reason you are more proficient without that feature, turn it off. Choice is good people.

Well said.

I myself have done that a gazillion times with my 5C. I leave it on my desk during work and while I'm at home. Regardless if an actual call/message or anything came in or not, the only way for me to find out is to turn on my phone's screen just to see if I've missed anything.

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How original 🙄

Guess what, if Apple implements it I'll let out a real big yawn.....

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"Won't LET me have"???

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha......

Give me a break. It's a little blinking light....and you guys act like its some completely necessary thing. All it ever did for me was annoy me in the middle of the night. Turned my phone over so it would stop blinking at me (until I eventually just turned the damn thing off).

For some its convenient. Hardly necessary.

Couldn't you turn off the notification light?

I don't understand your sentiment in this thread in general. You come off as someone who sounds bitter.

 

[jrswizzle]

iOS does many things very well. Notifications are not one of them. In fact, notifications are one of the worst things on iOS.

Here's why notification lights are good: they let you know whether or not you even need to check your phone. You don't need to turn the thing on. Screen's all black? Good, no worries. Carry on. You didn't miss anything. I come back from the bathroom and look at my phone and without doing anything I know what's going on. No need to pick it up, turn the screen on, check anything. Nope. Just a quick glance and bang. Done.

Since I invariably use my phone many times throughout the day, I really don't see how the above example provides any added benefit. Especially since it only applies if you aren't in viewing distance of your phone at the time of notification.

So you know if you have a missed notification without touching the phone. What do you do next? Do you know if its important? Do you ignore it? Do you pick up the phone and check it? The ability to look at my phone without touching it and generally know if I have something waiting offers no benefit to me.

I can pick up my phone - as I normally do throughout the day and with one tap of the home button I see EXACTLY what I've missed. I know what's important and what to act on.

My phones spend most of the day on my desk at work. Notification comes in, I glance down and see EXACTLY what it is. I know if its a text from a buddy telling me to come down to Houston for the weekend or if its a text from my wife telling me something far more important (because everything from my wife is far more important than anything else 😉).

That's not even getting into the absolute clusterf*ck that is iOS's notification center. That thing is horrid. When you have notifications from an app, opening the app for some reason doesn't clear the notifications. You HAVE to clear the notifications manually. More than that, there are no PERSISTENT notifications, so there's no way to know what ongoing apps are currently open (Skype, for example).

I'm a tad confused by this. First, if you open an app with a notification and act of whatever the notification is, it DOES clear in the drop down menu.

Second, I hated those persistent icons in the menu bar. Cluttered looking and served no real purpose. iOS does provide colored banners with information for specific apps that are running (maps, phone, facetime) but other than that, what real purpose does keeping the twitter logo in my menu bar serve?

So with iOS you find yourself in this wonderful situation where you have an enormous backlog of notifications stretching DAYS from email, texts, Skype, Trillian, Scramble with Friends, Twitter, Facebook, Spotify and who knows what else that, despite the fact that you've read every message and dealt with everything, are STILL in the notification drawer until you clear them one at a time.

Android? So much faster and more elegant.

Days? Really? You run into this situation a lot where you have DAYS of notifications waiting? Again, the notification center DOES clear when you've acted on said notification. Not sure where you're getting your info from....

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Well said.

I myself have done that a gazillion times with my 5C. I leave it on my desk during work and while I'm at home. Regardless if an actual call/message or anything came in or not, the only way for me to find out is to turn on my phone's screen just to see if I've missed anything.

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Couldn't you turn off the notification light?

I don't understand your sentiment in this thread in general. You come off as someone who sounds bitter.

Nope, just someone who thinks the notification light is overrated and thinks some of the phrases used here are a bit over the top.

Just presenting my views on why I don't see any real benefit to one. Again - Apple can knock themselves out adding it. I couldn't care less. But I've seen people hail that little light as "game changing" if it were added to an iPhone....

Really? Game changing? I think people have a pretty low bar set if a notification light is game changing. Makes me wonder how much they really know about the iPhone.

And I did turn it off on all my Android phones. Kept hearing how amazing and life-changing it was so I tried it for a while. Even downloaded an app for extra customization. Didn't last long.

 

[Robster3]

Oh my god. I really don't see the point when you have lock screen notifications like iOS. Why is that so hard to accept for so many people? I actually dislike the light when I'm trying to sleep and it keeps blinking.


Have you guys that firmly support support LED light thought that not everyone HAS to think it's useful? Please stop trying to argue that and cram down you opinion down others throats.

Lightflow has settings to not blink over night 🙂

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Since I invariably use my phone many times throughout the day, I really don't see how the above example provides any added benefit. Especially since it only applies if you aren't in viewing distance of your phone at the time of notification.

So you know if you have a missed notification without touching the phone. What do you do next? Do you know if its important? Do you ignore it? Do you pick up the phone and check it? The ability to look at my phone without touching it and generally know if I have something waiting offers no benefit to me.

I can pick up my phone - as I normally do throughout the day and with one tap of the home button I see EXACTLY what I've missed. I know what's important and what to act on.

My phones spend most of the day on my desk at work. Notification comes in, I glance down and see EXACTLY what it is. I know if its a text from a buddy telling me to come down to Houston for the weekend or if its a text from my wife telling me something far more important (because everything from my wife is far more important than anything else 😉).




I'm a tad confused by this. First, if you open an app with a notification and act of whatever the notification is, it DOES clear in the drop down menu.

Second, I hated those persistent icons in the menu bar. Cluttered looking and served no real purpose. iOS does provide colored banners with information for specific apps that are running (maps, phone, facetime) but other than that, what real purpose does keeping the twitter logo in my menu bar serve?



Days? Really? You run into this situation a lot where you have DAYS of notifications waiting? Again, the notification center DOES clear when you've acted on said notification. Not sure where you're getting your info from....

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Nope, just someone who thinks the notification light is overrated and thinks some of the phrases used here are a bit over the top.

Just presenting my views on why I don't see any real benefit to one. Again - Apple can knock themselves out adding it. I couldn't care less. But I've seen people hail that little light as "game changing" if it were added to an iPhone....

Really? Game changing? I think people have a pretty low bar set if a notification light is game changing. Makes me wonder how much they really know about the iPhone.

And I did turn it off on all my Android phones. Kept hearing how amazing and life-changing it was so I tried it for a while. Even downloaded an app for extra customization. Didn't last long.

Give it up, no one is going to agree with you in here. Stick to the home button pressing iPhone forum with your fans.

 

[SomeGuyDude]

Since I invariably use my phone many times throughout the day, I really don't see how the above example provides any added benefit. Especially since it only applies if you aren't in viewing distance of your phone at the time of notification.

So you know if you have a missed notification without touching the phone. What do you do next? Do you know if its important? Do you ignore it? Do you pick up the phone and check it? The ability to look at my phone without touching it and generally know if I have something waiting offers no benefit to me.

I can pick up my phone - as I normally do throughout the day and with one tap of the home button I see EXACTLY what I've missed. I know what's important and what to act on.

Ah but you have you do that tap to see if you've missed anything. Android lets you skip that step. Black screen, nothing missed. Just leave the phone sitting there.

Also, a tap of the power button and I see all my notifications too. 😉

My phones spend most of the day on my desk at work. Notification comes in, I glance down and see EXACTLY what it is. I know if its a text from a buddy telling me to come down to Houston for the weekend or if its a text from my wife telling me something far more important (because everything from my wife is far more important than anything else 😉).

You're still missing the point. You get up and go to the bathroom, come back, how do you know if you missed anything? Why, you have to manually check! Android? Nope. Phone's sitting there with a black screen, nothing missed.

I'm a tad confused by this. First, if you open an app with a notification and act of whatever the notification is, it DOES clear in the drop down menu.

Second, I hated those persistent icons in the menu bar. Cluttered looking and served no real purpose. iOS does provide colored banners with information for specific apps that are running (maps, phone, facetime) but other than that, what real purpose does keeping the twitter logo in my menu bar serve?

Days? Really? You run into this situation a lot where you have DAYS of notifications waiting? Again, the notification center DOES clear when you've acted on said notification. Not sure where you're getting your info from....

I have an iPad and had an iPhone, so that's where I've getting my info.

Now then, it doesn't work like that. See, let's say you don't actually check your notification bar because the iOS notification bar is pretty much useless. You just open up the app straight from the home screen. Guess what? The notifications don't clear. You have to act on it FROM the notification drawer to get rid of it.

Android: once the app itself registers that the notification has been acted upon, the notification goes away.

And days? Pffft. More like weeks. I've had times where I didn't go into my notification bar for anything and checked it once and hooooooly crap a giant pile of Scramble with Friends and Twitter notifications that I've already dealt with.

More than that, the bar doesn't tell you what notifications you have. You actually have to swipe down to see if there even ARE notifications. MORE steps added!

EDIT: forgot another thing, CLEARING notifications. You want to clear your notifications, you have to either act on them directly or hit the little (x), then hit (clear), and repeat that for each app that has notifications. Android? Handy dandy "clear all". Bang. Notifications gone.

 

[jamezr]

Well said.

I myself have done that a gazillion times with my 5C. I leave it on my desk during work and while I'm at home. Regardless if an actual call/message or anything came in or not, the only way for me to find out is to turn on my phone's screen just to see if I've missed anything.

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Couldn't you turn off the notification light?

I don't understand your sentiment in this thread in general. You come off as someone who sounds bitter.

Yes....you can in Android. You specify what hours you want to receive notifications and what hours you do not want to receive notifications.

You can lead a horse to water.......but sometimes.....they just want to drink the Kool-Aid.......

 

[jrswizzle]

Give it up, no one is going to agree with you in here. Stick to the home button pressing iPhone forum with your fans.

Aye aye captain.

 

[Robster3]

Aye aye captain.

What do expect you are in the android forum we like our notification lights, if you don't turn it off but we have choice, one reason i sold my 5S was sick of pushing the home button all day long🙂

 

[jrswizzle]

What do expect you are in the android forum we like our notification lights, if you don't turn it off but we have choice, one reason i sold my 5S was sick of pushing the home button all day long🙂

I expected to be able to share a different use case and opinion and not be met with the tired "koolaid" comments.

I should know better - my apologies.

 

[SomeGuyDude]

What do expect you are in the android forum we like our notification lights, if you don't turn it off but we have choice, one reason i sold my 5S was sick of pushing the home button all day long🙂

Keep in mind, I really like Apple overall, so this next thing isn't just me being an anti-apple dude (I'm NEVER gonna use another laptop, for example).

Apple's general theory is "we try very hard to make things how we think they are best"

Google's is "we also try what's best, but give you the option to change it if you'd prefer something else".

It's a good case in point here. If you find the notification light obnoxious, there are ways to turn it off. iOS doesn't give you an option to turn it on. People say the iOS keyboard is great, which is awesome if you agree, but if you disagree there's nothing you can do about it.

It's a situation where things are only good to the extent that you agree about the default apps. There are some you can change (Mailbox is AWESOME on iOS, same with Boxer), but that's it. Can't change the keyboard, Safari is always default, can't try a new SMS app, nothing. You can say iOS default apps are better than Google's default apps (mostly because they REALLY are), but the issue is that I think there are third party apps better than both and iOS won't let me use them.

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I expected to be able to share a different use case and opinion and not be met with the tired "koolaid" comments.

I should know better - my apologies.

Your problem is that you just completely refused to see why anyone would like it. You didn't share a different use case, you shared why you think it's bad PERIOD. That's why you got met with the arguments.

All you had to say was "I'm not a fan of the light, I think it's distracting, can it be turned off?" to which people would have said "why yes, yes it can" and that would have been it.

 

[jrswizzle]

Your problem is that you just completely refused to see why anyone would like it. You didn't share a different use case, you shared why you think it's bad PERIOD. That's why you got met with the arguments.



All you had to say was "I'm not a fan of the light, I think it's distracting, can it be turned off?" to which people would have said "why yes, yes it can" and that would have been it.

Actually I did say that....more than once. And I have presented my use case...more than once.

I get it. We're all being stubborn because we see things through the prism of our own use cases. And I get the whole "we want the choice" thing. But at some point the added options just become superfluous.

Anyhow, enjoy. I'm done hijacking this thread.

 

[Robster3]

Actually I did say that....more than once. And I have presented my use case...more than once.

I get it. We're all being stubborn because we see things through the prism of our own use cases. And I get the whole "we want the choice" thing. But at some point the added options just become superfluous.

Anyhow, enjoy. I'm done hijacking this thread.

Like Siri. Its called Trolling not hijacking.

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Keep in mind, I really like Apple overall, so this next thing isn't just me being an anti-apple dude (I'm NEVER gonna use another laptop, for example).

Apple's general theory is "we try very hard to make things how we think they are best"

Google's is "we also try what's best, but give you the option to change it if you'd prefer something else".

It's a good case in point here. If you find the notification light obnoxious, there are ways to turn it off. iOS doesn't give you an option to turn it on. People say the iOS keyboard is great, which is awesome if you agree, but if you disagree there's nothing you can do about it.

It's a situation where things are only good to the extent that you agree about the default apps. There are some you can change (Mailbox is AWESOME on iOS, same with Boxer), but that's it. Can't change the keyboard, Safari is always default, can't try a new SMS app, nothing. You can say iOS default apps are better than Google's default apps (mostly because they REALLY are), but the issue is that I think there are third party apps better than both and iOS won't let me use them.

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Your problem is that you just completely refused to see why anyone would like it. You didn't share a different use case, you shared why you think it's bad PERIOD. That's why you got met with the arguments.

All you had to say was "I'm not a fan of the light, I think it's distracting, can it be turned off?" to which people would have said "why yes, yes it can" and that would have been it.

I agree and i like Apple too, my phone is the only non Apple product in my house.

Volume settings is another thing Apple won't let you change too. One volume for everything.

 

[TechGod]

Lightflow has settings to not blink over night 🙂

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Give it up, no one is going to agree with you in here. Stick to the home button pressing iPhone forum with your fans.

Light flow does? I used the free version for a while . Is it in the paid version?

I just flip my phone over when I sleep now.

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Like Siri. Its called Trolling not hijacking.

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I agree and i like Apple too, my phone is the only non Apple product in my house.

Volume settings is another thing Apple won't let you change too. One volume for everything.

Sorry what do you men's by that? Like how there are expandable volume thingies on some custom ROMS and certain skins?

 

[jamezr]

Sorry what do you men's by that? Like how there are expandable volume thingies on some custom ROMS and certain skins?

You get these options from stock Android. No roms needed.....
Some Roms can take even further and allow diferent sounds and volume for individual apps......

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[Robster3]

Light flow does? I used the free version for a while . Is it in the paid version?

I just flip my phone over when I sleep now.

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Sorry what do you men's by that? Like how there are expandable volume thingies on some custom ROMS and certain skins?

Its in light flow sleep settings.

For one you can have phone volume turned right down and set volume for clock alarm separate.

 

[tbayrgs]

Volume settings is another thing Apple won't let you change too. One volume for everything.

Not true. While iOS doesn't offer the separate individual sliders in setting as Jamezr was kind enough to show are available in Android, I have volumes for ringtones, music, and my alarm all set at different levels, and changing any of them individually doesn't affect the others.

 

[TechGod]

You get these options from stock Android. No roms needed.....
Some Roms can take even further and allow diferent sounds and volume for individual apps......

The iPhone volume settings are separated as well. Oh and I said expandable volume bars because those most definitely aren't in stock.

Yes I know about that. I have had a Nexus 4 since pretty much it came out😉

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Its in light flow sleep settings.

For one you can have phone volume turned right down and set volume for clock alarm separate.

Sweet. Ill re download light flow.

 

[jamezr]

The iPhone volume settings are separated as well. Oh and I said expandable volume bars because those most definitely aren't in stock.

Yes I know about that. I have had a Nexus 4 since pretty much it came out😉

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Sweet. Ill re download light flow.

Those are stock on my HTC M8.......that is Sense 6........

 

[TechGod]

Those are stock on my HTC M8.......that is Sense 6........

I know. I know it's sense.

However I am saying stock ANDROID does not have expandable sound control. On some custom ROMS I've seen the feature but not the stock one. I'm not talking about volume controls in the settings app.

 

[zone23]

Its very simple for me the iphone screen is just too small. Oh and ya i like the LED set it up so it doesnt turn on during quiet time.

 

[Robster3]

Those are stock on my HTC M8.......that is Sense 6........

Remember you are talking to a 16 year old here, they know it all i have one🙄

 

[SlCKB0Y]

I went back to the iPhone.

What a surprise! 🙄