Correction: You can only fully trust it if the entire stack from hardware, drivers, firmware, kernel, OS and applications running on the OS are open source, you have assembled all of them yourself, and read through the entire source code.

Idk, as long as iPhones are still Lightning, having iPhone accessories also be Lightning just makes sense as you don’t have to carry another cable just for your accessories.

> and the battery won’t charge because it’s “too hot” (most of the time it’s far from it imo).

Are you sure about that? It is quite damaging to both batteries if they kept charging and increasing their heat even more. Video calls do generate a fair amount of heat. Disabling such a safety feature would be rather unwise.

> Did I fault the subreddit?

Yes:

> This subreddit is absolutely useless for actual tech support man, nobody knows anything and they’ll all just tell you to go back to the store.

> Android is open-source, do you know what you’re talking about?

AOSP is open source. Samsung’s specific flavour of Android including their drivers and UI skin is closed source.

And how is that the fault of this subreddit? And why would it be any different with, say, a Samsung phone? Their hard- and software is also closed source.

Do you believe something else? And why?

How would anyone know what went wrong internally, and how would that help? This message is a clear indication of a hardware defect and the only way to fix it is via repair.

It’s not odd at all. The username field will also be automatically filled in by the password manager. It’s actually really convenient, especially if you don’t use the same email/username for all apps/websites.

Any modern Apple device can AirDrop to any other modern Apple device. That includes your own. If the devices are signed into the same Apple ID, they will also appear first in the AirDrop list of nearby devices, display their device icon, and won’t need confirmation to AirDrop.

I use a cross-platform cloud service.

There are a ton to choose from that will automatically sync photos – iCloud, Google Photos/Drive, OneDrive, … if you use Mac/Windows, or ownCloud/Nextcloud if you are technologically versed.

iOS does not support sending files via Bluetooth.

Then they don’t think it’s insecure, it’s not profitable enough for them.

> The lack of a back gesture is the number one annoyance for me as there are times you are not really sure how to go back one page or UI element. Every app does it slightly differently and it impacts one handed usefulness and accessibility.

Any well-programmed app follows Apple’s system guidelines and has a swipe gesture from the left screen edge to go back, or rather, a gesture that pushes the View back to the direction it animated in from.

Disable the backup if you don’t want to back it up. At your own risk of data loss, of course.

Apple’s.

Upgrading a 3090 to a 4090 also makes almost no difference for the average user, it will only be noticeable in certain games and/or on a 4K display. In these scenarios you’d notice it on the iPhone as well, but there are almost no apps that utilise the power of the SoC fully like that.

You cannot merge backups, no. You would’ve needed to transfer them when setting up the phone.

Yeah probably.

You still emphasise my own point: It has nothing to do with USB-C. They could do 65W charging over Lightning. And they could do 20W charging via USB-C if they don’t change the charging circuitry from the current one. That’s all I’m saying.

I’m no expert in what exact chips they use inside the iPads, but the charging circuitry of iPads is designed for much larger batteries and therefore would probably need much more unnecessary space, so they would probably need to design a new one.

If they could just use the same chips as iPads, they could’ve done this with Lightning too, given that the 2017 iPad Pro could already charge at 30W.

They would need to specifically design it to handle more than 20W to handle more than 20W. The port has nothing to do with it, it all depends on what voltages and current the charging circuitry microchips can send to the battery.

Because it is designed that way.

Damn this comment section is vicious.

I know. But iOS’s gesture model is designed with fluid animations and intuitive motions in mind, which can only be done if the app has control over how the gesture is performed and rendered. Android’s gestures do not utilise animations like that, the back gesture is just an arrow that appears on the side of the screen, that’s much easier to enforce universally.

It’s just difficult to change iOS’s gesture model into Android’s, as they were designed with completely different priorities in mind.