My sister just switched from her Samsung S10E to an iPhone 12 Pro. Then
she came to visit from Florida and started asking a gazillion questions
about how to do stuff on the iPhone that she could do on her Samsung. I
feel for the poor guy at the Xfinity store that helped her move from the Samsung device to the Android device.

The dumbest thing is how you decline to answer a call when the iPhone
screen is locked, since the option to decline the call doesn’t show up
on the screen when the screen is locked. I had to look this one up on my
iPhone as well. You have to double-press the power button to decline to
answer a call. There’s a jailbreak tweak "Let Me Decline" <https://www.idownloadblog.com/2019/12/18/letmedecline/> that adds that capability to the iPhone screen, but there’s no way she’s jailbreaking
her iPhone.

Then she complains about all the notification sounds and vibrations at
night when she’s sleeping, but she doesn’t want to put the phone in
silent mode or turn down the volume because she want the alarm in the
morning. Have to explain that that the Do Not Disturb setting is under “Focus.”

Then she starts up about wanting different volumes for phone calls and notifications, like on her Samsung, and I have to explain to her that
it’s not possible to do this directly (except by jailbreaking, see <https://ioshacker.com/cydia/smartvolumemixer2-tweak-supercharges-volume-controls-on-your-iphone>)
but that the Genius Bar person had explained the workaround to another relative: create ringtones and alert tones at different volumes and
choose those tones under Sounds when you want a lower volume for
something, then switch back to louder volume tones when you want louder volumes.

She is staying with her significant other at a hotel where his business
is putting him up. She calls me to ask if she can send an Amazon package
to my house, saying that she needs some stuff for her iPhone. So what
does she need? First, a USB-C PD charger since she got only a USB-C to Lightning cable with the phone and she has no USB-A to Lightning cable
since this is her first iPhone. She also wanted a longer USB-C to
Lightning cable. She also wanted a Lightning to 3.5mm headphone adapter
dongle. I had a charger and cable to give her, and went to Target to get
her the Lightning to 3.5mm headphone adapter dongle.

It was like everything that has been discussed in this Usenet group for
years, squished into a few hours.

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In article <tteem4$2nkvs$[email protected]>, sms
<[email protected]> wrote:

My sister just switched from her Samsung S10E to an iPhone 12 Pro. Then
she came to visit from Florida and started asking a gazillion questions
about how to do stuff on the iPhone that she could do on her Samsung.

here we go again with more concocted 'problems'.

boring night at the sms household?

The dumbest thing is how you decline to answer a call when the iPhone
screen is locked, since the option to decline the call doesn�t show up
on the screen when the screen is locked. I had to look this one up on my iPhone as well.

it's not dumb, and you had to look it up only because you don't know
much about iphones.

You have to double-press the power button to decline to
answer a call.

yep. the first press silences the ringer (sufficient in most cases) and
the second press declines the call, giving the user a choice in how to
handle it.

Then she complains about all the notification sounds and vibrations at
night when she�s sleeping, but she doesn�t want to put the phone in
silent mode or turn down the volume because she want the alarm in the morning. Have to explain that that the Do Not Disturb setting is under �Focus.�

it's much easier to use the ring/silent switch, which silences calls,
texts, etc. but does not affect alarms.

even more evidence that you don't know much about iphones.

also, focus modes are *very* flexible, although overkill for this
particular (and entirely fabricated) scenario.

Then she starts up about wanting different volumes for phone calls and notifications, like on her Samsung, and I have to explain to her that
it�s not possible to do this directly (except by jailbreaking, see

wrong on that too. that's done on a per-app basis.

but that the Genius Bar person had explained the workaround to another relative: create ringtones and alert tones at different volumes and
choose those tones under Sounds when you want a lower volume for
something, then switch back to louder volume tones when you want louder volumes.

bullshit he said anything remotely close to that.

She is staying with her significant other at a hotel where his business
is putting him up. She calls me to ask if she can send an Amazon package
to my house, saying that she needs some stuff for her iPhone. So what
does she need? First, a USB-C PD charger since she got only a USB-C to Lightning cable with the phone and she has no USB-A to Lightning cable
since this is her first iPhone.

between her and her significant other, they only have usb-a chargers?

most laptops charge via usb (mac and windows) so use that.

more fabrication.

It was like everything that has been discussed in this Usenet group for years, squished into a few hours.

it's like you can't stop trolling.

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nospam wrote:

It was like everything that has been discussed in this Usenet group for
years, squished into a few hours.

it's like you can't stop trolling.

Hi nospam,

Moving from Android to iOS is an sore eye opener for anyone, nospam.

You can't stop defending Apple to the death, where I didn't look at Steve's issues in detail, but I can tell you for sure that anyone who owns Android
who then moves to an iPhone would find _many_ basic things iOS can't do.

The reason iOS is crippled compared to Android is simple because most functionality is provided by independent developers for phones, where Apple vastly restricts what kinds of apps can be on their App Store.

Google does too - far less than does Apple - but Google can't restrict
the user from downloading the app from anywhere. Apple does.

That's the main reason iOS app functionality is always far less, nospam.
You don't own the cognitive skills to comprehend that simple statement.

Since Google can't restrict the apps, there will _always_ be more app functionality on Android than on iOS - which is why you're always so
desperate to fabricate imaginary iOS functionality that doesn't exist.

Summarized succinctly, Apple prevents app functionality; Google can't.

Hence, anyone moving from Android to iOS is going to complain that the
simplest of the most basic of capabilities are lacking in the iPhone.

I understand you _hate_ that iOS is crippled but it's just a basic fact.
Want me to name basic app functionality on Android that iOS can't do?

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In article <ttetpm$1c4a6$[email protected]>, Andy Burnelli
<[email protected]> wrote:

Moving from Android to iOS is an sore eye opener for anyone

very true. people quickly realize how much more they can do on ios and
with less hassle, then ask themselves why they waited so long to
switch.

it really is an eye opener.

unfortunately, there are those who wish to keep their eyes closed.

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nospam wrote:

Moving from Android to iOS is an sore eye opener for anyone

very true. people quickly realize how much more they can do on ios and
with less hassle, then ask themselves why they waited so long to
switch.

it really is an eye opener.

unfortunately, there are those who wish to keep their eyes closed.

In a humorous way, I'll point out how utterly _crippled_ the iPhone truly
is (given that _every_ other common consumer operating system can do this).

Say you're on Android and you've organized your home screen exactly the way
you want to organize it (which is completely up to you but which likely includes useful things such as the folders in certain places and the names
of similarly named apps changed perhaps, and even app icons being placed in multiple logical folders, etc.... whatever _you_ want)... and then...

*You simply move from Android... to iOS... and suddenly... nothing works!*

WHAM!
WTF!
Shit!

Holy fuck!... I can't believe this... this iPhone can't even do that??????

No fucking... way... don't tell me this iPhone is broken ... right out of
the box... there must be a way to do this... it's freakin' simple shit...

Dammit... Jesus Christ... how primitive is this damn iPhone anyway...

*This piece of shit iPhone can't even organize a home screen!*
--
HINT: Only iOS is so crippled that it can't do the most basic of things.

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