{"id":2389,"date":"2024-09-27T16:42:19","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T08:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/?p=2389"},"modified":"2024-09-27T16:42:19","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T08:42:19","slug":"some-thoughts-on-my-iphone16pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/2024\/09\/27\/some-thoughts-on-my-iphone16pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Thoughts on my iPhone16PM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So after about 7 days of usage, here are some thoughts on my iPhone 16 Pro Max after using Android for more than a decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pros:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Face ID is quick, but a little iffy with mask on. Absolutely zero issues without a mask though. Authenticating apps without mask on is a breeze.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Apps don&#8217;t need to be killed in order not to slow down the phone &#8211; iOS&#8217; ram management is great (but it has it&#8217;s downsides obviously)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Camera wasn&#8217;t as bad as I expected. Pretty sure digital zoom would suck more than my Pixel, but I&#8217;m already mentally prepared for that, and likely won&#8217;t even attempt to take photos that require max digital zoom. But at least I do get photos that appear to have the same colours as what my eyes are seeing. Whether I want any post edits or not &#8211; that&#8217;s up to me. And iPhone original photo already looks rather decent, just not as vibrant since iOS didn&#8217;t slap aggressive AI edit on the original photo.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Battery life is amazing (yes, probably due to the phone being extremely new)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I finally can have digital Suica and don&#8217;t have to fumble for the physical card anymore when in Japan!!!!!!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Spatial audio is holy shit amazing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Airpods Pro 2 ANC blows Pixel Buds Pro out of the water<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cons:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Bought a magsafe cover, hoping to have my office access card in a magsafe cardholder that snaps to the phone so that I don&#8217;t need to juggle with my phone, office access card, breakfast and coffee every  morning at work, but nah my office NFC reader just couldn&#8217;t read the office access card off the magsafe wallet. Meh. The NFC field in iPhone seems way too strong&#8230;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Can&#8217;t set payment card to Express Travel Mode in Singapore yet&#8230; having to authenticate transport payments via Face ID is quite a pain with a mask on<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Phone isn&#8217;t that heavy, but slapping on the magsafe case makes it very heavy, thanks to the magnets on the case&#8230;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wish the snooze button on the alarm can be bigger and that I could choose my own song in the sleep schedule under Health app.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tapping the widget in control center to off wifi will only kept it off for the rest of the day &#8211; it auto connects back the next day. I have to go deep into settings to turn Wifi off. And I can&#8217;t turn on personal hotspot for other devices to connect if my Wifi is off. WTF? Why, Apple??<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I still can&#8217;t get used to the keyboard&#8230;&#8230; aaaaahhhhhh *tears hair in frustration* Gboard sucks in iOS too. Default keyboard sucks ass too. Worse still, iOS Swiftkey doesn&#8217;t have Chinese and Japanese language pack. Seriously, Microsoft?!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Siri sucks. I miss Google Assistant T_T<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I miss Android&#8217;s &#8220;Mark as Read&#8221; feature in most notifications. Why do I have to go into the individual apps just to see what I&#8217;ve already seen in the notifications in order to clear badges?  And if I turn off badges for all apps, I could jolly well miss some important messages because I swipe away the notifications too fast&#8230;. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Camera control button too iffy to use. I&#8217;ll be sticking to onscreen buttons instead&#8230;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I miss my &#8220;back&#8221; gesture on Android. Swiping from left to right to go back in iOS is such a user-unfriendly feature. How to swipe left to right if you are a right hander holding a 6.9&#8243; phone?! You probably need to have a hand as huge as Yao Ming&#8217;s in order to do that comfortably with one hand&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>My main gripe is still the keyboard. And that I don&#8217;t have the &#8220;Mark as Read&#8221; feature in notifications anymore. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, there&#8217;s no best of both worlds&#8230; I can only continue to try and adapt&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Am I happy with the phone?  Yes, despite all the gripes and cons that I was ranting about, it&#8217;s still a very good phone, more than enough for my usage, actually. Can&#8217;t wait to bring it with me for my JP travel this coming December!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So after about 7 days of usage, here are some thoughts on my iPhone 16 Pro Max after using Android for more than a decade. Pros: Cons: My main gripe is still the keyboard. And that I don&#8217;t have the &#8220;Mark as Read&#8221; feature in notifications anymore. 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