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With this iOS 26 update, they set dynamite to my bridge.

I’m switching to android because why not? I mean, I have to install Google maps anyway because Apple Maps is horrible. But the UI on 26 is way worse than a pixel experience in my opinion. Plus, I could just do so much more with the pixel phone but then again I’m sort of a power user.

I was working on Apple since 1996 and started off as a computer support person. Now it pains me to help people with their computers because everything is siloed and proprietary and just makes no sense.

And I mean, I’m also annoyed that their voice to text is just horrible. I can’t even tell you how many mistakes I’ve had to correct in this comment alone.

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The great thing about Android is that you don't have to use Google's awful software. Google Maps is not good, I avoid it whenever at all possible, the same goes for basically all other Google software.

The one reason to use Android is so that you can actually switch out the awful stuff that ships with your device. Leaving Apple to join the "Google Ecosystem" seems absolutely insane. Google is so terrible at software, so terrible at UI and so terrible at having products.

I get that visual design is a complete preference, but the great thing about Android, to me at least, is that you can get away from Google totally goofy design and make your own choices.

>Plus, I could just do so much more with the pixel phone but then again I’m sort of a power user.

Google is starting to make that less and less feasible though, with it's start in restricting app installations.

What maps app do you use on Android instead of Google Maps?

osmAnd allows you to use a number of different sources, though their business listings are inferior (in Los Angeles/San Diego) no matter what source you use (admittedly this might be partly due to new businesses opening, I've never tried searching for a long-established business as I already know where to find these). Recommend installing from fdroid, the play store version is limited (may not make a difference to you)

There's a number of other map apps around as well (Mapfactor, MapQuest, maps.me), including some for specific purposes (transit, Waze, Polaris, backcountry, sygic)

osmAnd is great but it is lacking many locations.

OsmAnd has nothing to do with this, it is just a viewer for OSM data.

Also in my experience, and maybe this is region dependent, OSM has very detailed location information.

OsmAnd and also the apps of regional/national public transportation organizations.

Right? All these "features", but they don't get the very basic stuff right a lot of times. User input is very very important for the user.

On iPhone swipe keyboard something that feels like a random generator replaces not only the word you swipe, but the word before, and in 2/3rds of cases with random nonsense pairs.

And you can't turn it off without turning off the similar word proposals you definitely want.

It's a strange design decision and I think the implementation is not up to the task.

I'm not staying cause I like it, but because I dislike the other options more.

There's tons of posts on reddit documenting the fact that everyone is making mistakes constantly with their keyboards for a few years, especially the.constant.dots.everyone.makes - they worked ok before, it's honestly almost comical how bad it is now.

I’m pretty close. If Android’s version of HealthKit was mature, and if focus modes were baked in, I’d probably have switched already.

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