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My biggest issue with iOS 26 is not the UI (it’s subpar compared to prior work), but the fact that it drains my battery 2x faster than before and I’m with an iPhone 16 Pro. That’s unacceptable performance degradation on a 1-year old phone.

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I mean, they need arguments to make their user base buy a new iPhone. Does a thinner, smaller battery make you buy it? No. Does Apple Intelligence make you buy it? Maybe, but it won't be released in the next 100 years. Does a very slightly better camera make you buy it? No. What if we make your current phone slower and use up more storage of it with every update, would that make you upgrade?

To be honest, no. It would just disappoint me as a customer and make me switch to a much cheaper Android.

There used to be NO way I'd make the jump to Android, but the iOS 26 lewk combined with a recent frustration of trying to add some podcasts to my iPhone from my hard drive (the show isn't online anymore).

It was such a headache to find an app that could half-decently play a local podcast mp3 and remember the episode & playback when closed. And the apps I found that did that well were all loaded with the kind of tracking/data-logging that I am on iOS to avoid.

Makes me miss my Android devices that let me use them almost like a flash drive, without weird restrictions and USB 2.

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