Other What little things do you like about the iPhone?

[Veoronox]

As a new Iphone user, got my first Iphone (17 pro) back in November. I am surprised on how well detailed the weather app is. I was messing around in the weather app during my commute to work today and noticed how detailed the weather reports are for things like moon-phases, sea-level, UV-levels and even a weather-forecast map.

And I really love how great FaceID performs compared to my older phones. Even in pitch-black darkness it manages to unlock my phone while my older phones even struggled to recognize me when there was only a little bit of twilight.

Most likely I will find out more sort of surprises I think.

 

[winxmac]

I am surprised on how well detailed the weather app is.

Dark Sky’s features have been integrated into Apple Weather.

In 2020, Apple announced that it had acquired Dark Sky. By 2023, the Dark Sky app and the API service were completely gone.

The new version of Weather launched as part of Apple's iOS 16 upgrade, and it was indeed a decent successor to Dark Sky. The Weather app was also first introduced to Apple's iPad lineup with iPadOS 16.

 

[iHorseHead]

I use iPhone 14 and iPhone 12 mini (My Microsoft Authenticator and Passkeys are in there - work stuff) and to be honest, I'm happy that it's fast and I haven't had any issues. I like that there's no double apps (ie Google Play, Samsung Store) and I like that I'm receiving updates.
I like that I can copy paste text into my iPad and Mac, I like the Calendar app. I love it that I don't have to use Outlook for my personal calendar and I like that it's a separate app.
I like that my calendar tells me when to leave my house, I like my AirPods 4 and I even like my Apple Watch SE (1st gen) and I don't feel like I need a new one. The first gen SE is still smooth and does everything I need. I like the display of my iPhone and I like the fact that my iPhone has a MagSafe.

A little offtopic, but I also use iPad 9th generation and I like that it's still fast and smooth even on 3GB of RAM and I like my Apple Pencil and that I can draw, which is mostly what I do.

I am one of those people who still uses MacBook Air M1 base model (I wanted 16GB, but it wasn't available at that time - Reminder that not everyone lives in the US), but the thing is. I still like my Mac. It's fast and snappy and even Xcode works on it. It works way better than my work computer (HP Elitebook with 16GB of RAM) and it's faster than my work computer, believe it or not.

I understand the OP. There's too much negativity and I feel like I live in a parallel universe and every time someone complains about RAM for example or that the websites load slower, I'm always thinking like: "What are you talking about?"

6 years ago, when I bought my MacBook Air M1 people on reddit constantly told me that the SSD will fail due to swap etc and even on here people are obsessed with swap, but I just use my MacBook Air and haven't really noticed anything. I mostly use Pixelmator, Xcode and have made some websites here and there and sometimes I play CIV VI and on my iPad I play Tropico and CIV VI as well. I've had no issues thus far.

I honestly like the camera on iPhone 14 as well. I am not a photographer, but it's not bad. It takes way better photos than Samsung Galaxy A57, for example.

I like the features of iCloud+ and I like iCloud. I like how reliable every Apple product I've ever own has been, because once I switched to PC (It was MSI) and the specs were good for the price. I mean way better than MacBook Air's and I had issues with my PC almost immediately- It didn't boot into Windows one day. No idea what happened and then a month later the trackpad stopped working and MSI told me to wait for a BIOS upgrade and then 6 months in the hinge just broke, out of the blue. It just broke. I had a warranty and I went to the store and they didn't take it back or anything. So I had to ship it off to MSI and I had to wait for my laptop for six months! That's when I bought M1 MacBook Air, because I was in a rush and I really needed a laptop.

So far it's been fine. Nothing has broken yet and even though the battery is 77% health I still don't have to think about my battery life. I know it'll last me for hours. With my MSI laptop I constantly had to monitor my battery, even when I was doing a simple project on Visual Code.

I also love Safari, both on iOS and on a macOS and I guess I no longer focus on people criticising Apple. YouTubers etc always whine about Apple products, but nobody whines about HP, MSI etc that much.

And you know what? I feel good with my iPhone 14, because it'll receive a new iOS update. With Androids you can never be sure. I had Motorola,Sony Xperia, Huawei phones ( I don't remember which one ) and in the beginning all were great, but all of them started lagging. Even after I factory restored them those phones were lagging. Uber and other apps took noticeably long to open as well and my Motorola had 6GB of RAM, mind you and I had to close all the apps and it still lagged, so I had to restart my phone and it was still slow and yet, I've never had such issues with any iPhones (iPhone 5s, iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 14). The reason why I upgraded from 12 mini to 14 was the battery + the storage because I wanted to take longer videos and 64GB wasn't enough anymore and I don't regret my decision. There are just no better products than Apple products. I even tried an Android Watch one and it was lagging and most importantly when somebody called me it rang!

I'm extremely happy with the Apple products I own and sure, I've criticised Apple as well and sometimes when someone says PCs don't last as long and break, I always bring up the PC my father built back in 2003 (and yes, it still works).

I am not saying all Android phones are bad or all Android Watches are bad or that all Windows laptops break, but with Apple products I get a sense of security.

Android phones have massive differences - even Samsung Galaxy 07 has different versions and often PCs are different as well. MSI Modern 14 had an intel version and AMD version and as far as I found out the Intel version performed worse, but had a better battery life, but it had other issues as well. You really have to do your research before you buy an Android phone or a Windows PC and you have to wait for awhile before you buy any of products. With Apple I just get a sense of security, like for example one of the other reasons I didn't buy a MacBook back then was the fact that I've heard a lot of negativity about butterfly keyboards and they also sold MacBook Air 2017 back in 2020, but it cost 1000€ over here, so the MSI just seemed the best choice based on what people were writing about it on reddit and YouTube reviewers and after I started having issues with it I found out that many other people had the same issues. With Apple products you kind of know what issues you might have. With Apple products as a whole you know what you're getting into.

Many people are complaining about iOS 26 but so far I haven't had any issues. I like that I have a sense of stability with my iPhone.
Choosing an iPhone is way better than some random Android phone, because oh my dear lord, I was mostly disappointed in Sony and I regretted not getting an iPhone 5 (which was cheaper btw).

I don't regret getting any of Apple products.

 

[Skyuser]

There are many things, but my personal favourite is the strong security and privacy protections. Most people may think about Safari's fingerprinting prevention or the Limit App Tracking feature when talking about the topic, but Apple really put so much into their software and hardware security. People rarely appreciate this, but read their Platform Security Guide and you'll be amazed at how much thought and design were put into securing all the features, big and small, that we take for granted every day, from iMessage and Facetime to Face ID and Unlock with Apple Watch, just for a few examples. (To quote a security researcher, Apple's use of advanced cryptography is like "wizardry.")

The design of iOS also makes sure that third party apps can glean very little data from your phone. Since the very early days of iOS, apps cannot read immutable identifiers of your device like IMEI and IMSI, are strictly sandboxed, and have to follow system schedulers with regard to their background activities. On Android it's almost the opposite: apps have been mostly free (or can hijack users into granting them privileges) to read almost all those global identifiers as they wish, sandboxing is implemented patchily, and regulating their background activities is a never ending cat-and-mouse game. They had only come to plug these gaps since Android 10 in 2019, to try to have the some of the security properties that iOS was designed to have since day 1.

Supporting all these is Apple's philosophy of privacy and building secure software and hardware. Having the technical know-how to do it is one thing; actually committing to it is another. With mounting pressure from many fronts, I'm glad to see Apple showing no sign of backing down on security; I hope they never will.