I am brand new to smartphones, iphones (particularly iphone 7+), and iOS, but I have still detected a number of shortcomings. Here's a list of the things that irk me most:
1. Poor volume control. Unless I'm missing something, the iphone can only be adjusted in increments using the side buttons, and the increments are too large. It would be nice if they were more subtle.
2. Low power mode could use a whole raft of controls. There doesn't seem to be any way to fine tune things, like how long the iphone takes to dim the screen or enter sleep mode.
3. Moving apps is tenuous. One must make them active to move them, but this puts them in a state where they can be easily deleted, and the slightest wrong move with the finger can delete them instead of moving them to another place. Or, one can accidentally drop them into another app folder. It shouldn't be nerve racking to move apps around.
4. No obvious control for mechanical notice of "email sent." When I first got my iphone, I noticed that when I sent pictures by email, the phone did that little mechanical jump that one feels in the hand (if anyone knows the precise name of this function, kindly let me know) to let me know that the email was sent, but at some point the iphone arbitrarily stopped notifying me this way, and I have no idea why. the emails get sent, but no mechanical notification of success. I've rooted around in the settings looking for a control of this specific function, but haven't found one.
There are other things I've come across that could use tweaking, but they're not jumping out at me at the moment.
Addendum: Apparently, one cannot edit titles in Macrumors.
1. Poor volume control. Unless I'm missing something, the iphone can only be adjusted in increments using the side buttons, and the increments are too large. It would be nice if they were more subtle.
2. Low power mode could use a whole raft of controls. There doesn't seem to be any way to fine tune things, like how long the iphone takes to dim the screen or enter sleep mode.
3. Moving apps is tenuous. One must make them active to move them, but this puts them in a state where they can be easily deleted, and the slightest wrong move with the finger can delete them instead of moving them to another place. Or, one can accidentally drop them into another app folder. It shouldn't be nerve racking to move apps around.
4. No obvious control for mechanical notice of "email sent." When I first got my iphone, I noticed that when I sent pictures by email, the phone did that little mechanical jump that one feels in the hand (if anyone knows the precise name of this function, kindly let me know) to let me know that the email was sent, but at some point the iphone arbitrarily stopped notifying me this way, and I have no idea why. the emails get sent, but no mechanical notification of success. I've rooted around in the settings looking for a control of this specific function, but haven't found one.
There are other things I've come across that could use tweaking, but they're not jumping out at me at the moment.
Addendum: Apparently, one cannot edit titles in Macrumors.
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