I have iCloud on my windows pc. Couldn't someone put music in that folder and use it without iTunes?
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I somewhat solved Apple Music. Strangely it struggles on Wifi but streams perfectly on my cellular network. It seems though they have fixed that. Siri crashes after you ask one question, or you ask a question and the line on the bottom just goes back and forth and doesn't answer. Like I've stumped it.
The keyboard on the messaging sometimes just doesn't work. Also the messages sometimes don't go to the bottom. You have to scroll up to see the last messages and as soon as you let go, they bounce back down.
Not major issues but when Android has better hardware, the advantage to Apple is iOS and that is quickly closing.
How about those that use both?
The list is ..... long.
Summary: if Apple ever gets iOS9 fixed maybe, just maybe it can become my goto device instead of my Note 5.
Not holding my breath.
That is the one aspect I don't understand; battery.
There are some Android devices that are just awful. Some iPhones have been awful. However
Use a tool like GSam to see what is eating battery and fix it. It's the same thing you do on an iPhone.
Result for me: my Note 5 and 6S+ have very close daily battery life.
I'm in the other camp. They look better on iOS but the functionality was usally better on ANdroid especially if you needed to collaborate or share information between apps.
Then there is the ability to set default apps ..... iOS really really needs that.
Flipside - if you have to change a setting in iOS, you have to exit the app, go to Settings, find the one or more locations, change, then go back to the app.
In the app is generally easier
Then again if you have to change multiple apps at once, iOS is usually easier.
Yeah, what drove me crazy too was the fact that iTunes changed the order of the songs in my playlist to alphabetical EVERY time I synced my phone with it. And to me, one of the most important aspects of having a playlist is arranging the songs in the order that I want. I still get mad when I look back at my 'wonderful' experiences with iTunes
Be grateful you never tried Apple Music
Especially if you have custom playlists.
I had a Note 4 and moved to a 6S Plus. I was afraid the screen was going to be a big disappointment. I was very surprised to find the 6S Plus was able to produce such deep blacks and actually had an advantage in sunlight. I had the two side by side and showed a few people, and the bottom line was that there wasn't much between them at all despite the resolution advantage of the Note 4. Yes you can get the Note 4 to do some extreme over-saturation and black is absolute black, but the 6S Plus more than holds its own. For example, try the live wallpapers on the 6S Plus with the butterfly and black background. You get that 3D effect with it because the contrast is good enough. So that was a big surprise to me. I have not seen the screen on a Note 5 (or Galaxy S6)
I do use widgets on Android and was pleasantly surprised to see this implemented on iOS now. Apple have added the "desktop" concept by stealth by having the drop-down widget bar. For example if you had a widget that kept an eye on the London underground train lines with Android, there is an equivalent on iOS. You can have fast-track access to Philips Hue presets, or DO heating/hot water presets for example. So it achieves what I used the Android desktop for, in a drop down scroll way.
Google Now and Siri are quite different. I find Siri more personable, tolerant of different ways of expressing things, and combined with the "always on" with the 6S Plus, more accessible. However, Google Now was far more intelligent in the way it would be aware of your lifestyle (days you went to certain offices, flight itineraries from emails etc). A combination of the two would be fantastic.
I do agree about the scrolling speed. For some reason I had memories iOS was better for this, but it doesn't go fast enough. However, I have always missed the "click the top of the screen to shoot to the beginning" that iOS has had for many many years.
The note 4 was laggy at times and the 6S plus is so much more seamless and smooth. Everything just seems to work without a struggle or fiddling around.
I have found myself looking for a back button that isn't there. But I have found the way iOS provides a back button at the top left when you move from app to app quite useful.
I do miss the ability to choose a default app (e.g. choose google maps rather than Apple)
I do miss the stylus on the Note 4 although I used it a lot less than I thought I would. But it was a nice feature to have, particularly to grab a screenshot, and mark it up with a pen before sending it onto someone.
I REALLY miss the floating video, and side by side window capability of the Note 4. This is my biggest loss I think. And what is so annoying, is that the 6S Plus is totally capable of this as iOS 9 has this for 2GB iPads, so it can definitely be implemented on the 6S Plus.
Overall I have found the transition a lot better than I expected and overall there are more gains than losses, particularly in the seamless, fluid, effortless way things run...while still keeping some of my favourite customisable aspects from Android like Widgets.
I do use widgets on Android and was pleasantly surprised to see this implemented on iOS now. Apple have added the "desktop" concept by stealth by having the drop-down widget bar. For example if you had a widget that kept an eye on the London underground train lines with Android, there is an equivalent on iOS. You can have fast-track access to Philips Hue presets, or DO heating/hot water presets for example. So it achieves what I used the Android desktop for, in a drop down scroll way.
Google Now and Siri are quite different. I find Siri more personable, tolerant of different ways of expressing things, and combined with the "always on" with the 6S Plus, more accessible. However, Google Now was far more intelligent in the way it would be aware of your lifestyle (days you went to certain offices, flight itineraries from emails etc). A combination of the two would be fantastic.
I do agree about the scrolling speed. For some reason I had memories iOS was better for this, but it doesn't go fast enough. However, I have always missed the "click the top of the screen to shoot to the beginning" that iOS has had for many many years.
The note 4 was laggy at times and the 6S plus is so much more seamless and smooth. Everything just seems to work without a struggle or fiddling around.
I have found myself looking for a back button that isn't there. But I have found the way iOS provides a back button at the top left when you move from app to app quite useful.
I do miss the ability to choose a default app (e.g. choose google maps rather than Apple)
I do miss the stylus on the Note 4 although I used it a lot less than I thought I would. But it was a nice feature to have, particularly to grab a screenshot, and mark it up with a pen before sending it onto someone.
I REALLY miss the floating video, and side by side window capability of the Note 4. This is my biggest loss I think. And what is so annoying, is that the 6S Plus is totally capable of this as iOS 9 has this for 2GB iPads, so it can definitely be implemented on the 6S Plus.
Overall I have found the transition a lot better than I expected and overall there are more gains than losses, particularly in the seamless, fluid, effortless way things run...while still keeping some of my favourite customisable aspects from Android like Widgets.
My experience is similar albeit with a Note 3. One nice thing about Google Maps is it continues to give turn-by-turn voice directions while the screen is off. Apple Maps turns the screen back on when it announces the next turn.
However I had to go back to my note 3.
I went through 2 6s pluses and both of them had a lot of dead pixels in the top left corner with the second one developing them over time. I had checked it in the store and it was flawless. Six days later I could see a couple of dozen dead pixels scattered around. At that point I just returned it for a full refund. Also checked a friends 6s+ and he had a couple of dead pixels in the exact same spot.
At this point, I'm going to wait a month or two and hope they resolve whatever is causing the dead pixels.
However I had to go back to my note 3.
I went through 2 6s pluses and both of them had a lot of dead pixels in the top left corner with the second one developing them over time. I had checked it in the store and it was flawless. Six days later I could see a couple of dozen dead pixels scattered around. At that point I just returned it for a full refund. Also checked a friends 6s+ and he had a couple of dead pixels in the exact same spot.
At this point, I'm going to wait a month or two and hope they resolve whatever is causing the dead pixels.
Not to hate iOS but just make a quick comment towards my previous reply a few pages ago in this thread:::
The only quirk i get about usage time is it is not entirely accurate with iOS because I was assuming on the basis that Usage Time = screen time on.
Apparently it also accounts for background processes however not recorded all the time.
Especially I like to keep "low power mode" on most of the time as I do not really need the background app refresh and the fancy parallax effects, this could possibly make it more hard to determine exactly what apps consume battery life respectively.
Also something worth having... mobile data graph like the android variant on my previous samsung s6. With that I can actually trace how much data I have used in one day and so... Right now it only shows a cumulative graph. And also I love mobile data alerts and mobile data cutoff should I "exceed" or am about to go beyond the quota. With android this wa spossible it shuts off the mobile data altogether so you could not use your phone, which i found sorta handy...
Just my two extra cents on stuff I sorta miss from android, because sometimes we [if not most] could get easily carried away with the internet and forget our actual usage @@
The only quirk i get about usage time is it is not entirely accurate with iOS because I was assuming on the basis that Usage Time = screen time on.
Apparently it also accounts for background processes however not recorded all the time.
Especially I like to keep "low power mode" on most of the time as I do not really need the background app refresh and the fancy parallax effects, this could possibly make it more hard to determine exactly what apps consume battery life respectively.
Also something worth having... mobile data graph like the android variant on my previous samsung s6. With that I can actually trace how much data I have used in one day and so... Right now it only shows a cumulative graph. And also I love mobile data alerts and mobile data cutoff should I "exceed" or am about to go beyond the quota. With android this wa spossible it shuts off the mobile data altogether so you could not use your phone, which i found sorta handy...
Just my two extra cents on stuff I sorta miss from android, because sometimes we [if not most] could get easily carried away with the internet and forget our actual usage @@
i have always had android phone but have had and have ipad. i bought iphone month ago but the more i use it the more i want to move back. iwas at work on yesterday, actually in some event and needed to have an app.. i couldnt download the app via 4G because it was larger than 100mb. wtf!? so the more im using my iphone the more it feels as an expensive toy which could work better without apple.
I'm also coming over from the Droid series. I still have my Droid Maxx as a backup. The Maxx is bootloader unlocked running Exodus 5.1.1. The current Moto phones are all about touch less controls, with the coolest feature being the wave to wake feature. However, Google stole all the best features from Motorola before selling them off to Lenovo and now all those cool features are available in stock Lollipop. There are many things to like about my Maxx with some features that the iPhone doesn't have such as wireless charging but the biggest weakness is the camera. I like to take pictures and the camera is so slow, despite having the twist wrist to launch feature and the photos are usually blurry the on the first try. The iPhone has a fast camera and I can capture a moment faster and better than the Maxx ever could. So, that was the main reason I moved from the Maxx to the 6s. I chose the 6s because it is similar in size and the plus is just too big for my taste. I do miss the bigger battery and the OIS. Unlike other converts, I like iOS and prefer it over Android any day. iOS is all about ergonomics, I don't know what Google is about other than irritate and ruin the user experience. I especially like being able to use the phone with one hand and little touches like doubling tapping the home button to move the screen down so you can reach the notification area with your thumb show Apple's efforts in improving user experience. Besides user interface, the biggest disappointment with Android phones is the software updates for non Nexus phones. It is well known and I don't need to beat on the dead horse but if my Maxx was not unlocked, I would still be on KitKat. This is after Motorola has promised Lollipop to the series over a year ago. Marshmallow is out and still no Lollipop in sight for the Maxx.
Samsung powered
On LTE the entire time. Battery life is similar (better) to my Maxx which has a huge battery in comparison to the 6s.
Will I ever go back to Android? Most unlikely. I've recently completed my move to the Apple ecosystem replacing my PCs with Macs and the handoff features are awesome. Being able to pick up or place a call from any of my devices (to include my iPad Air) is convenient and cool as hell. Good riddance to Microcrap!! I still have to use MS Office but other than that, I'm free from that train wreck of a company. As someone who actually uses all the features, I can qualify my stance that Apple rules and the competition can only drool.
Samsung powered
On LTE the entire time. Battery life is similar (better) to my Maxx which has a huge battery in comparison to the 6s.
Will I ever go back to Android? Most unlikely. I've recently completed my move to the Apple ecosystem replacing my PCs with Macs and the handoff features are awesome. Being able to pick up or place a call from any of my devices (to include my iPad Air) is convenient and cool as hell. Good riddance to Microcrap!! I still have to use MS Office but other than that, I'm free from that train wreck of a company. As someone who actually uses all the features, I can qualify my stance that Apple rules and the competition can only drool.
Pretty much spot on with these
I kinda wish I woulda gone with the note 5 to be honest the more I use my 6s+
And swype third party app sucks on the iphone
Android phone and iPad combo is fairly common. I tend to use my Note 5 and Mini 3 a lot. My 6S+ only as I have too (work).
Long time Android and Google user here, recently converted to the Apple environment and couldn't be any more happy. It's ironic, for years I've been an avid Apple hater and was the epitome of a Fandroid. And yet, here I am completed converted.
The two main things that made me decide to try an iPhone were: Apple's commitment to privacy and the hardware fragmentation in Android. Basically, I decided I was tired of giving Google all of my information for them to do who-knows-what with that data. And while shopping around for a new phone, all of the Android devices I liked were at least an OS version behind and probably wouldn't get many updates. I've always envied Apple's iOS update platform.
Since I'm on T-Mobile's JUMP! program, I figured what the hell. I'll try an iPhone for a couple of months, probably hate it, and trade it in for another Android device. It took me two weeks to decide I was never going back to Android. I was so impressed with the iPhone (6 Plus) that I purchased an iPad Air 2 for school use.
Ironically, about the time that I decided I wanted to leave the Google ecosystem due to privacy concerns was the same time that tech blogs were reporting privacy concerns with Windows 10. I custom built a Windows PC last year and purposefully loaded Windows 7 Professional as my OS. After discovering that Microsoft had decided to use several gigs of my bandwidth to preload Windows 10 on my machine - without my knowledge or consent, I was done with Microsoft. I decided since I was so impressed with iOS, I would give OS X a try. I purchased a 27" iMac with the intention to try it out for 14 days and decide if I wanted to keep it or not. Last week I boxed up my custom built PC to put in storage as I am now a full fledged Apple convert.
It's funny, I see troll posts on forums like these touting anti-Apple drivel and it's the same song-and-dance I used to spew. And now, it pisses me off to read that garbage. I guess I willingly became an iSheep and bought into the Apple marketing hook, line, and sinker. And I'm totally okay with that.
Specifically for the iPhone, the things I love: battery life, stability, knowing that my data is fairly private and secure, and the performance of the phone. Things I miss about Android: Well, there's really not anything I can think of. I only once ever loaded a custom ROM on my phone and it was constantly broken, on the stock ROM I had tons of app crashes, random device freezes, and had to reboot several times a week. I don't miss that at all.
Good bye Google, good by Microsoft. I've seen the light, and it is good.
The two main things that made me decide to try an iPhone were: Apple's commitment to privacy and the hardware fragmentation in Android. Basically, I decided I was tired of giving Google all of my information for them to do who-knows-what with that data. And while shopping around for a new phone, all of the Android devices I liked were at least an OS version behind and probably wouldn't get many updates. I've always envied Apple's iOS update platform.
Since I'm on T-Mobile's JUMP! program, I figured what the hell. I'll try an iPhone for a couple of months, probably hate it, and trade it in for another Android device. It took me two weeks to decide I was never going back to Android. I was so impressed with the iPhone (6 Plus) that I purchased an iPad Air 2 for school use.
Ironically, about the time that I decided I wanted to leave the Google ecosystem due to privacy concerns was the same time that tech blogs were reporting privacy concerns with Windows 10. I custom built a Windows PC last year and purposefully loaded Windows 7 Professional as my OS. After discovering that Microsoft had decided to use several gigs of my bandwidth to preload Windows 10 on my machine - without my knowledge or consent, I was done with Microsoft. I decided since I was so impressed with iOS, I would give OS X a try. I purchased a 27" iMac with the intention to try it out for 14 days and decide if I wanted to keep it or not. Last week I boxed up my custom built PC to put in storage as I am now a full fledged Apple convert.
It's funny, I see troll posts on forums like these touting anti-Apple drivel and it's the same song-and-dance I used to spew. And now, it pisses me off to read that garbage. I guess I willingly became an iSheep and bought into the Apple marketing hook, line, and sinker. And I'm totally okay with that.
Specifically for the iPhone, the things I love: battery life, stability, knowing that my data is fairly private and secure, and the performance of the phone. Things I miss about Android: Well, there's really not anything I can think of. I only once ever loaded a custom ROM on my phone and it was constantly broken, on the stock ROM I had tons of app crashes, random device freezes, and had to reboot several times a week. I don't miss that at all.
Good bye Google, good by Microsoft. I've seen the light, and it is good.
I picked up my 6s Plus on launch day. This is my first iPhone, although I've had an iPad Air for about a year. I've used Android since 2010, and before then it was Sidekick and BlackBerry. For the most part, I'm really liking the iPhone. iMessage is awesome, the interface and apps are cleaner, the battery is AMAZING, and there's no lag anywhere. Multitasking is pretty decent. I like the two views of the notification tray. I also really enjoy the stock mail app. For my needs, this is the most intuitive app I've ever used. However, I've had a problem where sometimes certain messages will just disappear. I'm sure it's user error, but it's leaving me baffled.
One thing I'm kind of so/so on is the camera. Don't get me wrong, it's a great camera, but the last Android phone I had was the LG G4, so the iPhone camera seems like a slight bit of a downgrade. I'm getting better at taking pictures with it, though, thanks to the brightness slider.
Things that I miss:
The synchronization between Google Now and notifications. It gives some notifications, but I miss traffic alerts.
LED notification
Widgets (mostly the calendar)
One thing I'm kind of so/so on is the camera. Don't get me wrong, it's a great camera, but the last Android phone I had was the LG G4, so the iPhone camera seems like a slight bit of a downgrade. I'm getting better at taking pictures with it, though, thanks to the brightness slider.
Things that I miss:
The synchronization between Google Now and notifications. It gives some notifications, but I miss traffic alerts.
LED notification
Widgets (mostly the calendar)
I, too, came from the G4. But for me, the pictures are way better. Even with using the sports setting I'd get blur but with the iPhone, I can't believe how clear my pics are!
I see there's the option of traffic alerts on my 6S Plus, but I never get them. Do you have to use apples maps navigation every day before you get traffic?
Funny you mention Windows 10 download. That happened to me too, can't figure out how to get it off and when I hide the update, it eventually unhides itself! Macs are expensive though.
Ah crap! I forgot about that, that would be the only thing I have on my list of things I miss from Android. The LED notifications were nice, especially when you could set an LED color to correspond to a certain notification. Not a deal breaker for me, but that was kind of handy.
By the way, I like that screen name "pantlesspenguin!"
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My iPhone has learned that when I get in the car and it connected to my car's Bluetooth that I'm going somewhere. During the week, if I'm leaving home it tells me traffic to work, and leaving work it tells me traffic going home. It has even learned that on Saturday mornings I drive to a coffee shop, and gives me traffic to there. It doesn't seem as accurate as Google Now, especially on my Saturday morning coffee shop trips. Google Now knew the name of where I was going and would display traffic to that destination, but the iPhone only displays the name of the road that the coffee shop is on. Which, is probably a good thing since that I did leave Android because of privacy concerns with Google. My iPhone knows sort-of where I'm going, but not exactly where.
I do think that the Google Now traffic was more accurate for my commute to and from work, but it's hard to tell because my commute is faced with some serious road construction that, depending on how you hit the traffic lights, can take anywhere from 20 to 60 minutes.
I don't recall setting anything up in Apple Maps, the traffic reports just started showing up on my phone about a week after I got it. (It probably had to learn my routine.) I do have my own contact information set up as a contact in my phone, with my home and work addresses, which I think is where the Apple traffic is pulling the data from. Other than that, "it just worked" without me setting anything up. I think.
Just got myself 6s after ditching Galaxy s6 I have had iPhones before but not since iPhone 4. I'm glad I switched to 6s loving 3D Touch my battery life is good I wouldn't say better than s6 but roughly the Same. The only thing I really miss is led notification light only a small thing but I do miss it.
As a longtime iPhone owner, having read through this thread I find myself agreeing with certain points. An LED notification light, the ability to drag & drop to the phone without using iTunes, the facility to zoom on mobile webpages and being able to set default apps should all be available on iPhones now.
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I'm 24 hours into this switch from the Note 5, and I'm still mixed about whether I like the iPhone 6s+ more than the Note 5. I feel like iOS is much more polished and refined versus the Note 5. I didn't use touch wiz but Nova Prime launcher which helped the phone run much smoother. I miss the S Pen, wireless charging, fast charging, true dual screen multitasking and the camera...all of which I think separate the Note 5 from the iPhone. The one plus I've discovered so far is the battery life has been pretty good so far compared to my Note 5. Perhaps I need more time, but is it too early to say buyers remorse?!?!