Thanks Romeo, you've been extremely helpful.

K, thanks for your help.

I guess if I were an iOS user I'd be used to that, but in 13 years I've literally never once had to Google for a walk through on how to find a such a trivial parameter with Android, because they usually are put right where you'd expect them to be.

>Litterally that simple.

You know what's literally simpler?

1. not requiring a password input for free apps by default on the Appstore

2. putting an AppStore setting parameter in the Appstore settings menu, not somewhere completely unrelated

3. not arbitrarily moving the toggle to a new sub-menu everytime the OS is updated.

I did? News to me. Maybe you should learn how to use your iOS device.

Yup, dumbed down, and since there's only one way to do things, there's no way to troubleshoot.

When I'm having an issue with Android, since there's multiple ways to do things, I can usually maneuver around it.

My god, you iPhone fanboys are worse than Trump supporters.

Check YOUR reading comprehension.

I read through 3 different detailed guides, and each one CONTRADICTED one another, because this silly little option-toggle getting moved around when OS was updated.

In the end, I was never able to toggle it off, because on the that version of iOS (the most recent at the time, Spring 2021) on that iPad had a bug, and the option toggle was disabled.

A tech savvy person shouldn't need to comb through guides to find an parameter toggle as trivial as that; the option should been under App Store settings. THAT would be the intuitive place to change an App Store parameter, but instead, it was buried somewhere in the phone master settings.

That's cool.

I spent 2h trying to figure out how to disable the unnecessary password prompt for free apps from the iTunes store on an iPad.

After 3 different walk-throughs all leading to dead ends (because they apparently keep changing where they hide the damn setting), I finally discovered that the toggle was disabled, greyed out, on my particular (and latest) OS model.

Wanted to share some files over Bluetooth between my Android and iPad, but the iPad couldn't do it.

I returned that shit the next day.

This has been my consistent experience at every level with iOS.

There's one way to everything, and one way only. If you need to do something that the smug design team at Apple never thought of, or they didn't think you would need to, or if there's a bug in software and you need to troubleshoot by doing it a different way, too bad: you're SOL.

The thing is I want to like iOS. I have a MacBook Pro, and it'd be nice to have a phone that plays nice with it (but Apple intentionally makes it difficult to interact with non-Apple devices).