5 Android Features Apple Should Copy on the iPhone
I am about two years old in my Android passage to the iPhone – and I don’t have a good time. Although I like my Mac, my iPad and all my other Apple stuff, I just can’t make myself comfortable with the best -selling product in Apple.
There is a long list of things that annoy me, and you will hear about it at some point, but a subset of scruples comes from features that I lack Android. Apple often makes fun of the introduction of features that Android has had for years, but logically, you would like the company to copy all the best things in the competition, right? For me, these are the features that I miss most.
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Shared screen multitasking
This one Really annoys me. Especially since it is a functionality on iPads forever at this stage. When I always used a Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra, I used the shared screen function daily. I would have, for example, Twitter (now x) open alongside YouTube, then watch a video while catching up with my notifications.
I also liked that my budget calculation sheet opened next to my banking application, or any number of application combinations. Given the size and high resolution of screens on modern iPhones, it is quite surprising that it is not yet one thing and as soon as this particular feature is “stolen” from Android, I will be much happier with my fruit phone.
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Guest mode and multi-user accounts
Honestly, this one is more relevant for iPads than iPhones, but I would always like to see the multi-user profiles of Android and the guest mode present to the two Apple devices.
It is practical when you want to lend your device to someone without them sailing your personal information, such as your photo gallery. It also allows you to set up profiles for work and privacy. Whatever use you put in having several profiles, it would be good to have the option.
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An appropriate sound mixer!
On an Android device, different aspects of your audio configuration each have their own volume cursor. Thus, games, notifications, Ringer, etc. have their own cursor, and you can adjust this volume at any time with a tap or two.
This is not the case on iPhones (or iPads), where there is only one volume cursor, and volume control is contextual depending on what is played. This means that it is possible to accidentally deactivate your notification sounds or your ringtone without what means, then you must go to dig into the settings to recover your sound – what I know.
I have already succeeded in this subject before, but it seems to be a basic functionality and Apple has made new features (such as the stage manager) an optional mode that you can switch. So I’m sure they could let us choose between the current volume control system and something with several cursors.
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2
USB access to storage
To be clear from the start – I don’t want to have access to external USB storage. Apple has done an excellent job to allow us to use USB flash players and SSDs with iPhones and iPads. The file application has improved by giant step, and certain applications, such as lumafusion, can work with data directly on an external player without copying it.
There are even Magsafe extension discs that allow you to set an SSD on your phone so that you can shoot high quality images. So no complaint there on my side.
No, I’m talking about giving us access to the internal storage of the phone as if it were a mass storage player as on Android. When you connect an iPhone or iPad to a Windows PC, it appears as a multimedia device, as an MP3 player or a camera. So you can copy photos and videos, but you don’t have access to the rest of the file system.
When you connect it to a Mac, you have more access to files and others, but it is a very restrictive environment. I know that Apple will probably never let us search around the file system of our device in case we break (or lateral relocating) something, but I can dream.
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Application cloning
This is another that I am surprised has no iOS equivalent. On Android, you can “clone” applications, which essentially install two distinct copies of an application, which can then operate each operation independently.
This has been useful, such as an example, messaging applications that do not support several profiles or users. Thus, you can have separate accounts (for example one for social media work) and another for personal use, or everything you need specific functionality. The only bypass solution is currently to use a third -party solution as a parallel space.
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I do not expect Android and iOS never have a real parity of features, and they don’t need it. However, some features are useful, whatever the brand of telephone or operating system, and I hope that at least some of the things on my list of wishes appear in a future update.
