{"slug": "ios", "name": "iOS", "category": "os", "category_name": "Operating systems and desktop", "description": "Apple's proprietary mobile operating system for the iPhone.", "recommenders": 5, "commenters": 23, "warners": 16, "score": -9.524, "rising": 1.02, "first": "2025-11-02", "latest": "2026-10-27", "why": "Commenters who like it cite a more polished UI and more sensible design than Android, plus granular permissions that sandbox apps like Facebook.", "why_is_quote": false, "has_verdict": true, "sentiment": {"recommend": 5, "neutral": 1, "compare": 1, "warn": 16}, "spark": [1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 2, 0], "listed": true, "loved": ["Polish vs Android", "App permissions"], "caveat": "Bugginess", "short_quote": "I later fully switched to iOS and never looked back.", "icon": false, "domain": null, "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://www.apple.com/ios/", "pricing": "free", "aliases": ["iOS"], "verdict": [{"text": "Commenters who like it cite a more polished UI and more sensible design than Android", "cites": [{"id": 796869490, "item_id": 49804343, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49804343", "by": "armadyl", "date": "2026-09-22", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "AOSP / Android absolutely does not feel premium compared to iOS", "excerpt": "As someone who has daily driven both side by side as much as I love GOS, AOSP / Android absolutely does not feel premium compared to iOS. Both the UI and UX are rough compared to the polish of iOS. And the FOSS apps on Android are extremely subpar in terms of feel compared to iOS (off the top of my head look at how bad the Fossify Contacts app is compared to Google Contacts) but that\u2019s the trade-off. I also don\u2019t thi", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy"}, {"id": 796857568, "item_id": 49803598, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49803598", "by": "someguyiguess", "date": "2026-09-22", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "iOS (other than settings menu which is absolute garbage) makes much more sensible design decisions than Google", "excerpt": "Wild take. I use both and iOS (other than settings menu which is absolute garbage) makes much more sensible design decisions than Google. And even Androids good design decisions are just variations on things they took from iOS. OG android was better. Now they\u2019re just trying to be iOS+", "context": "uses both", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy"}, {"id": 783825424, "item_id": 48989089, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48989089", "by": "dgfl", "date": "2026-07-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I later fully switched to iOS and never looked back.", "excerpt": "I realized how awful of an OS modern android is when I bought an iPad. I later fully switched to iOS and never looked back. Point is, sometimes people just have different experiences from you.", "context": "", "use_case": "mobile OS", "switched_from": "Android", "story": "Qwen 3.8 Max Preview"}]}, {"text": ", plus granular permissions that sandbox apps like Facebook.", "cites": [{"id": 747054000, "item_id": 46690875, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46690875", "by": "alex1138", "date": "2026-01-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use iOS purely as anti-Facebook guardrails", "excerpt": "Honestly, I use iOS purely as anti-Facebook guardrails I trust there's granular permissions so that Zuckerberg can't scrape contacts I understand there's corruption, and that annoys me. I wish Apple remained pure. But you still have to do this. Zuck is malicious as hell and we need sandboxes", "context": "", "use_case": "privacy via granular permissions", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results"}]}, {"text": " The most common complaint is that recent releases have become buggier", "cites": [{"id": 782738016, "item_id": 48921126, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48921126", "by": "IAmGraydon", "date": "2026-07-15", "stance": "warn", "quote": "iOS is definitely buggier.", "excerpt": "iOS is definitely buggier. It used to be a silky smooth experience but it's degraded significantly in the last year or so. Safari on iOS, in particular, is very bad. Lots of problems in Adobe Creative Cloud on Win 11 (primarily Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator) in recent months too.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?"}, {"id": 738686320, "item_id": 46167895, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46167895", "by": "Aerbil313", "date": "2025-12-05", "stance": "warn", "quote": "There\u2019s no shortage of visual bugs with iOS 26", "excerpt": "My turn to complain about bugs. I used to balk at people when they complained about bugs on MacOS/iOS. My iPhone 7 which I used for 7 years straight, was more bug-free than my current iPhone 15 Pro. There\u2019s no shortage of visual bugs with iOS 26, but that\u2019s not my point. Recently I had to restart my phone (literally unheard of in Apple land) because I put it in Guided Access and it wasn\u2019t possible to get it out witho", "context": "iPhone user", "use_case": "phone OS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple\u2019s head of user interface design, Alan Dye, will join Meta"}, {"id": 783272917, "item_id": 48954557, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48954557", "by": "christophilus", "date": "2026-07-17", "stance": "warn", "quote": "iOS has gotten worse. No doubt about it.", "excerpt": "iOS has gotten worse. No doubt about it. I don\u2019t think k that\u2019s AI induced. I think Apple have lost the plot. On the other hand, Fedora + Niri + Foot + Podman + Neovim is better with each release.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?"}, {"id": 752263985, "item_id": 47016499, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47016499", "by": "qnleigh", "date": "2026-02-14", "stance": "warn", "quote": "why people put up with such a buggy OS", "excerpt": "It's so strange, when I switched to Android, it felt like iPhones had more polish and fewer glitches like these. But there's just aren't any usability bugs that I deal with on Android anymore. I think the blog explains why people put up with such a buggy OS: > I randomly tried Android again for a few months last spring. Using a functioning keyboard was revelatory. But I came crawling back to iOS because I'm weak and ", "context": "", "use_case": "phone OS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leaving iPhone"}]}, {"text": ", with the iOS 26 Liquid Glass redesign blamed for slowness and broken typing.", "cites": [{"id": 748113489, "item_id": 46757093, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46757093", "by": "asadm", "date": "2026-01-25", "stance": "warn", "quote": "iOS has fallen behind, I am struggling to use apps and even type on new liquid glass.", "excerpt": "iOS has fallen behind, I am struggling to use apps and even type on new liquid glass. My 2TB photo library is useless with the current photos app. I am trying out Pixel 10 on the side and I HIGHLY recommend it! Android does not suck anymore. I am in process of migrating stuff over slowly.", "context": "", "use_case": "mobile OS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android"}, {"id": 782742416, "item_id": 48921401, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48921401", "by": "culopatin", "date": "2026-07-15", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Now every interaction makes me want to throw the phone out the window.", "excerpt": "Yes, I initially jumped from Android to iPhone back in 2019 or so because I felt like the experience was much more stable and it just worked, smooth, no issues, kinda boring but in a good adult way. Now every interaction makes me want to throw the phone out the window. If it\u2019s not just blank, the keyboard doesn\u2019t come up, the navbar in Safari sometimes is there, sometimes it\u2019s a blank rectangle, etc. \u201cask your develo", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "Android", "story": "Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?"}, {"id": 804053728, "item_id": 50253358, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50253358", "by": "pvab3", "date": "2026-10-27", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I think they made iOS run slower for 60Hz devices.", "excerpt": "I think they made iOS run slower for 60Hz devices. Like 2-3 version ago they changed all the animations and it makes it unbearable to use my iPHone 17 on 60Hz when I used to prefer running my old Samsungs on 60Hz several years ago.", "context": "iPhone 17 user", "use_case": "phone operating system", "switched_from": "", "story": "New iPad mini"}]}], "praise": [{"label": "Polish vs Android", "summary": "Users of both platforms say iOS has a more polished UI and UX and more sensible design decisions than Android.", "quotes": [{"id": 796869490, "item_id": 49804343, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49804343", "by": "armadyl", "date": "2026-09-22", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "AOSP / Android absolutely does not feel premium compared to iOS", "excerpt": "As someone who has daily driven both side by side as much as I love GOS, AOSP / Android absolutely does not feel premium compared to iOS. Both the UI and UX are rough compared to the polish of iOS. And the FOSS apps on Android are extremely subpar in terms of feel compared to iOS (off the top of my head look at how bad the Fossify Contacts app is compared to Google Contacts) but that\u2019s the trade-off. I also don\u2019t thi", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy"}, {"id": 796857568, "item_id": 49803598, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49803598", "by": "someguyiguess", "date": "2026-09-22", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "iOS (other than settings menu which is absolute garbage) makes much more sensible design decisions than Google", "excerpt": "Wild take. I use both and iOS (other than settings menu which is absolute garbage) makes much more sensible design decisions than Google. And even Androids good design decisions are just variations on things they took from iOS. OG android was better. Now they\u2019re just trying to be iOS+", "context": "uses both", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy"}, {"id": 783825424, "item_id": 48989089, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48989089", "by": "dgfl", "date": "2026-07-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I later fully switched to iOS and never looked back.", "excerpt": "I realized how awful of an OS modern android is when I bought an iPad. I later fully switched to iOS and never looked back. Point is, sometimes people just have different experiences from you.", "context": "", "use_case": "mobile OS", "switched_from": "Android", "story": "Qwen 3.8 Max Preview"}]}, {"label": "App permissions", "summary": "One commenter uses iOS for its granular permissions that stop apps from scraping contacts.", "quotes": [{"id": 747054000, "item_id": 46690875, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46690875", "by": "alex1138", "date": "2026-01-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use iOS purely as anti-Facebook guardrails", "excerpt": "Honestly, I use iOS purely as anti-Facebook guardrails I trust there's granular permissions so that Zuckerberg can't scrape contacts I understand there's corruption, and that annoys me. I wish Apple remained pure. But you still have to do this. Zuck is malicious as hell and we need sandboxes", "context": "", "use_case": "privacy via granular permissions", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "Bugginess", "summary": "Many say iOS has become buggier, with visual glitches, a broken Safari navbar and forced restarts.", "quotes": [{"id": 782738016, "item_id": 48921126, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48921126", "by": "IAmGraydon", "date": "2026-07-15", "stance": "warn", "quote": "iOS is definitely buggier.", "excerpt": "iOS is definitely buggier. It used to be a silky smooth experience but it's degraded significantly in the last year or so. Safari on iOS, in particular, is very bad. Lots of problems in Adobe Creative Cloud on Win 11 (primarily Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator) in recent months too.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?"}, {"id": 738686320, "item_id": 46167895, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46167895", "by": "Aerbil313", "date": "2025-12-05", "stance": "warn", "quote": "There\u2019s no shortage of visual bugs with iOS 26", "excerpt": "My turn to complain about bugs. I used to balk at people when they complained about bugs on MacOS/iOS. My iPhone 7 which I used for 7 years straight, was more bug-free than my current iPhone 15 Pro. There\u2019s no shortage of visual bugs with iOS 26, but that\u2019s not my point. Recently I had to restart my phone (literally unheard of in Apple land) because I put it in Guided Access and it wasn\u2019t possible to get it out witho", "context": "iPhone user", "use_case": "phone OS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple\u2019s head of user interface design, Alan Dye, will join Meta"}, {"id": 782742416, "item_id": 48921401, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48921401", "by": "culopatin", "date": "2026-07-15", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Now every interaction makes me want to throw the phone out the window.", "excerpt": "Yes, I initially jumped from Android to iPhone back in 2019 or so because I felt like the experience was much more stable and it just worked, smooth, no issues, kinda boring but in a good adult way. Now every interaction makes me want to throw the phone out the window. If it\u2019s not just blank, the keyboard doesn\u2019t come up, the navbar in Safari sometimes is there, sometimes it\u2019s a blank rectangle, etc. \u201cask your develo", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "Android", "story": "Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?"}]}, {"label": "Confusing UI", "summary": "Commenters criticize illogical menus, a poor settings menu, hidden gestures and nagging prompts.", "quotes": [{"id": 786905905, "item_id": 49181619, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49181619", "by": "jon-wood", "date": "2026-08-05", "stance": "warn", "quote": "iOS and macOS are riddled with illogical decisions like this.", "excerpt": "I kind of agree with what you're saying, in that screenshot and share functionality is increasingly overloaded with options and things that just don't make any sense in that context. I disagree that this isn't because a product designer lacks vision, Apple control the entire stack on iOS, and there's nothing stopping them from rethinking things so that \"Share\" isn't a weird synonym for \"Junk drawer menu\". There is no", "context": "", "use_case": "mobile OS", "switched_from": "", "story": "\"Gravity is worth asking about.\""}, {"id": 798813008, "item_id": 49925813, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49925813", "by": "wiseowise", "date": "2026-10-01", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Must be why my fghxjing iOS jorard doesn\u2019t work, and why searching for \u201cpreferences\u201d (which is what it is called on Mac) doesn\u2019t open \u201cSettings\u201d.", "excerpt": "> Most interfaces we use on a day to day basis are the opposite, they're designed to be accessible (in the sense that you can use it if you are unfamiliar, not disability) for someone unfamiliar, untrained, and uninterested in learning, which also aligns a lot of the time with sales growth. Must be why my fghxjing iOS jorard doesn\u2019t work, and why searching for \u201cpreferences\u201d (which is what it is called on Mac) doesn\u2019t", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal"}, {"id": 797100896, "item_id": 49818806, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49818806", "by": "BatchJob", "date": "2026-09-23", "stance": "warn", "quote": "iOS is now the hellstew du jour.", "excerpt": "iOS has essentially been nagware for a long time now. I switched to android because everything iOS does is to continually put focus on iOS. So many nagging prompts, so much broken/misleading configuration. iOS is now the hellstew du jour. Android is with the exception of Gemini, a peaceful computing platform. Also developing for iOS which I did for a long time will turn you off iOS when you see how slow the apps are ", "context": "former iOS developer", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy"}]}, {"label": "Keyboard and editing", "summary": "Text editing and the keyboard are described as frustrating, and some say Android's keyboard is better.", "quotes": [{"id": 740326288, "item_id": 46270393, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46270393", "by": "l1feh4ck", "date": "2025-12-14", "stance": "warn", "quote": "In ios, I have to long press the space key to move around and or do some circus to edit it.", "excerpt": "I switched to iPhone from android three years ago and it still frustrates me when I have to edit a word. Say I accidentally typed ebit instead of edit. In android it is as easy as clicking on the letter \u201cb\u201d and backspace then correct it to \u201cd\u201d In ios, I have to long press the space key to move around and or do some circus to edit it. I don\u2019t understand why Apple does this.", "context": "switched to iPhone from Android three years ago", "use_case": "text editing on keyboard", "switched_from": "Android", "story": "iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You \u2013 The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video]"}, {"id": 752263985, "item_id": 47016499, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47016499", "by": "qnleigh", "date": "2026-02-14", "stance": "warn", "quote": "why people put up with such a buggy OS", "excerpt": "It's so strange, when I switched to Android, it felt like iPhones had more polish and fewer glitches like these. But there's just aren't any usability bugs that I deal with on Android anymore. I think the blog explains why people put up with such a buggy OS: > I randomly tried Android again for a few months last spring. Using a functioning keyboard was revelatory. But I came crawling back to iOS because I'm weak and ", "context": "", "use_case": "phone OS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leaving iPhone"}, {"id": 803313505, "item_id": 50207094, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50207094", "by": "leoedin", "date": "2026-10-23", "stance": "compare", "quote": "I switched to iPhone because my Android phones kept dying due to hardware issues.", "excerpt": "Yeah, give me the iPhone's hardware running Android please. I switched to iPhone because my Android phones kept dying due to hardware issues. Android has a far better keyboard and notification system. Give me it any day.", "context": "", "use_case": "mobile operating system", "switched_from": "Android", "story": "Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices"}]}, {"label": "Slower animations", "summary": "The Liquid Glass redesign and new animations are said to make iOS feel slower, especially on 60Hz screens.", "quotes": [{"id": 804053728, "item_id": 50253358, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50253358", "by": "pvab3", "date": "2026-10-27", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I think they made iOS run slower for 60Hz devices.", "excerpt": "I think they made iOS run slower for 60Hz devices. Like 2-3 version ago they changed all the animations and it makes it unbearable to use my iPHone 17 on 60Hz when I used to prefer running my old Samsungs on 60Hz several years ago.", "context": "iPhone 17 user", "use_case": "phone operating system", "switched_from": "", "story": "New iPad mini"}, {"id": 748113489, "item_id": 46757093, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46757093", "by": "asadm", "date": "2026-01-25", "stance": "warn", "quote": "iOS has fallen behind, I am struggling to use apps and even type on new liquid glass.", "excerpt": "iOS has fallen behind, I am struggling to use apps and even type on new liquid glass. My 2TB photo library is useless with the current photos app. I am trying out Pixel 10 on the side and I HIGHLY recommend it! Android does not suck anymore. I am in process of migrating stuff over slowly.", "context": "", "use_case": "mobile OS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android"}, {"id": 782742416, "item_id": 48921401, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48921401", "by": "culopatin", "date": "2026-07-15", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Now every interaction makes me want to throw the phone out the window.", "excerpt": "Yes, I initially jumped from Android to iPhone back in 2019 or so because I felt like the experience was much more stable and it just worked, smooth, no issues, kinda boring but in a good adult way. Now every interaction makes me want to throw the phone out the window. If it\u2019s not just blank, the keyboard doesn\u2019t come up, the navbar in Safari sometimes is there, sometimes it\u2019s a blank rectangle, etc. \u201cask your develo", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "Android", "story": "Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?"}]}, {"label": "Power-user limits", "summary": "iPad users find everyday workflows awkward, such as copying image URLs, handling webp files or losing typed text.", "quotes": [{"id": 742208432, "item_id": 46388027, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46388027", "by": "k310", "date": "2025-12-25", "stance": "warn", "quote": "IMNSHO, iOS is a vexation.", "excerpt": "I have an iPad Pro with the case, keyboard, pen and even got a BT mouse. Often hard to tell from a laptop, but IMNSHO, iOS is a vexation. 1, An operation I do many times a day is to get an image's link. There is no \"copy image URL\", even with a control key. I have to \"send\" the image and grab the URL. Problem is that my iPad Pro is really dedicated to my music scores and I keep email off it. Emailing a link is easies", "context": "iPad Pro user for music scores", "use_case": "tablet OS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Are students replacing laptops with iPads in 2026?"}, {"id": 739235890, "item_id": 46202243, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46202243", "by": "k310", "date": "2025-12-08", "stance": "warn", "quote": "", "excerpt": "I have used paper notebooks for decades. One set for journals and others for project ideas and plans. Mostly 5 by 7 or so Moleskine or clones. Why not electronic? I use Apple notes to save interesting stuff to post. Also, I just swiped something on this phone and lost about a half hour of typing. I use GhostText on the computer, and sometimes really detest ios for the many ways it enrages me. It's a toy. That explode", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "My Apple notes should've been my journal"}]}, {"label": "Weak Siri/AI", "summary": "One commenter says iOS is poor at AI and that Siri rarely improves.", "quotes": [{"id": 775253297, "item_id": 48453331, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48453331", "by": "mattmaroon", "date": "2026-06-08", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I\u2019ve actually been debating going back just because of how bad iOS is at AI", "excerpt": "I switched from android to iOS 7 years ago and I\u2019ve actually been debating going back just because of how bad iOS is at AI. And every other facet of my life, I am finding ways for it to save my time on an almost daily basis. And yet on iOS, just finding something from a text Message is still a nightmare. Siri seems to rarely get better and sometimes actually get worse.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "Android", "story": "Siri AI"}]}], "who": [{"by": "someguyiguess", "context": "uses both", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49803598", "date": "2026-09-22"}], "tags": ["for Android switchers", "for privacy-conscious users"], "use_cases": ["mobile os", "phone os", "phone operating system", "mobile operating system", "work phone", "privacy via granular permissions"], "compared": [{"slug": "android", "name": "Android", "co": 30, "switched_from": 6, "switched_to": 5}, {"slug": "grapheneos", "name": "GrapheneOS", "co": 15, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 10}, {"slug": "macos", "name": "macOS", "co": 5, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "sailfish-os", "name": "Sailfish OS", "co": 4, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "e-os", "name": "/e/OS", "co": 1, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 1}, {"slug": "safari", "name": "Safari", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "windows", "name": "Windows", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49801939", "title": "Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy", "mentions": 3}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48920698", "title": "Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?", "mentions": 3}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50243061", "title": "New iPad mini", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50196718", "title": "Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50058850", "title": "Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49909583", "title": "A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"warn": 1, "recommend": 1}, "2025-12": {"warn": 3}, "2026-01": {"recommend": 1, "warn": 1}, "2026-02": {"warn": 1}, "2026-03": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {"warn": 1}, "2026-07": {"warn": 3, "recommend": 1}, "2026-08": {"warn": 1}, "2026-09": {"warn": 2, "recommend": 2}, "2026-10": {"warn": 3, "compare": 1}}, "quotes": [{"id": 804053728, "item_id": 50253358, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50253358", "by": "pvab3", "date": "2026-10-27", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I think they made iOS run slower for 60Hz devices.", "excerpt": "I think they made iOS run slower for 60Hz devices. Like 2-3 version ago they changed all the animations and it makes it unbearable to use my iPHone 17 on 60Hz when I used to prefer running my old Samsungs on 60Hz several years ago.", "context": "iPhone 17 user", "use_case": "phone operating system", "switched_from": "", "story": "New iPad mini"}, {"id": 803313505, "item_id": 50207094, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50207094", "by": "leoedin", "date": "2026-10-23", "stance": "compare", "quote": "I switched to iPhone because my Android phones kept dying due to hardware issues.", "excerpt": "Yeah, give me the iPhone's hardware running Android please. I switched to iPhone because my Android phones kept dying due to hardware issues. Android has a far better keyboard and notification system. Give me it any day.", "context": "", "use_case": "mobile operating system", "switched_from": "Android", "story": "Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices"}, {"id": 801119424, "item_id": 50069964, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50069964", "by": "orbital-decay", "date": "2026-10-13", "stance": "warn", "quote": "yet we still have people thinking iOS is secure", "excerpt": "For what in particular? You can read about Pegasus [0], although that page doesn't even remotely deal full justice to the extent of how widely it's deployed (e.g. basically all Russian opposition was/is tapped with it and somehow it doesn't even mention this). LEA of a lot of countries have some way to break into locked iPhones, such as Cellebrite's tools [1] or GrayKey [2]. I mean, even the popular US body cam chann", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries"}, {"id": 798813008, "item_id": 49925813, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49925813", "by": "wiseowise", "date": "2026-10-01", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Must be why my fghxjing iOS jorard doesn\u2019t work, and why searching for \u201cpreferences\u201d (which is what it is called on Mac) doesn\u2019t open \u201cSettings\u201d.", "excerpt": "> Most interfaces we use on a day to day basis are the opposite, they're designed to be accessible (in the sense that you can use it if you are unfamiliar, not disability) for someone unfamiliar, untrained, and uninterested in learning, which also aligns a lot of the time with sales growth. Must be why my fghxjing iOS jorard doesn\u2019t work, and why searching for \u201cpreferences\u201d (which is what it is called on Mac) doesn\u2019t", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal"}, {"id": 797100896, "item_id": 49818806, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49818806", "by": "BatchJob", "date": "2026-09-23", "stance": "warn", "quote": "iOS is now the hellstew du jour.", "excerpt": "iOS has essentially been nagware for a long time now. I switched to android because everything iOS does is to continually put focus on iOS. So many nagging prompts, so much broken/misleading configuration. iOS is now the hellstew du jour. Android is with the exception of Gemini, a peaceful computing platform. Also developing for iOS which I did for a long time will turn you off iOS when you see how slow the apps are ", "context": "former iOS developer", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy"}, {"id": 796869490, "item_id": 49804343, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49804343", "by": "armadyl", "date": "2026-09-22", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "AOSP / Android absolutely does not feel premium compared to iOS", "excerpt": "As someone who has daily driven both side by side as much as I love GOS, AOSP / Android absolutely does not feel premium compared to iOS. Both the UI and UX are rough compared to the polish of iOS. And the FOSS apps on Android are extremely subpar in terms of feel compared to iOS (off the top of my head look at how bad the Fossify Contacts app is compared to Google Contacts) but that\u2019s the trade-off. I also don\u2019t thi", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy"}, {"id": 796857568, "item_id": 49803598, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49803598", "by": "someguyiguess", "date": "2026-09-22", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "iOS (other than settings menu which is absolute garbage) makes much more sensible design decisions than Google", "excerpt": "Wild take. I use both and iOS (other than settings menu which is absolute garbage) makes much more sensible design decisions than Google. And even Androids good design decisions are just variations on things they took from iOS. OG android was better. Now they\u2019re just trying to be iOS+", "context": "uses both", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy"}, {"id": 796464769, "item_id": 49779048, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49779048", "by": "mikae1", "date": "2026-09-20", "stance": "warn", "quote": "iOS, after 12 years of use, is  still so terrible that I can't just get over it.", "excerpt": "> although being Android based it's not really an option for me. It'd be like trading a Porsche 911 for a Pontiac Aztec. I use GrapheneOS for my own phone and have always been forced into iPhones at work. iOS, after 12 years of use, is still so terrible that I can't just get over it. I open my MacBook and will do whatever needs to be done from there. I should probably get an iPhone for private use too though. It woul", "context": "forced to use iPhones at work", "use_case": "work phone", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test"}, {"id": 786905905, "item_id": 49181619, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49181619", "by": "jon-wood", "date": "2026-08-05", "stance": "warn", "quote": "iOS and macOS are riddled with illogical decisions like this.", "excerpt": "I kind of agree with what you're saying, in that screenshot and share functionality is increasingly overloaded with options and things that just don't make any sense in that context. I disagree that this isn't because a product designer lacks vision, Apple control the entire stack on iOS, and there's nothing stopping them from rethinking things so that \"Share\" isn't a weird synonym for \"Junk drawer menu\". There is no", "context": "", "use_case": "mobile OS", "switched_from": "", "story": "\"Gravity is worth asking about.\""}, {"id": 783825424, "item_id": 48989089, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48989089", "by": "dgfl", "date": "2026-07-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I later fully switched to iOS and never looked back.", "excerpt": "I realized how awful of an OS modern android is when I bought an iPad. I later fully switched to iOS and never looked back. Point is, sometimes people just have different experiences from you.", "context": "", "use_case": "mobile OS", "switched_from": "Android", "story": "Qwen 3.8 Max Preview"}, {"id": 783272917, "item_id": 48954557, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48954557", "by": "christophilus", "date": "2026-07-17", "stance": "warn", "quote": "iOS has gotten worse. No doubt about it.", "excerpt": "iOS has gotten worse. No doubt about it. I don\u2019t think k that\u2019s AI induced. I think Apple have lost the plot. On the other hand, Fedora + Niri + Foot + Podman + Neovim is better with each release.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?"}, {"id": 782742416, "item_id": 48921401, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48921401", "by": "culopatin", "date": "2026-07-15", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Now every interaction makes me want to throw the phone out the window.", "excerpt": "Yes, I initially jumped from Android to iPhone back in 2019 or so because I felt like the experience was much more stable and it just worked, smooth, no issues, kinda boring but in a good adult way. Now every interaction makes me want to throw the phone out the window. If it\u2019s not just blank, the keyboard doesn\u2019t come up, the navbar in Safari sometimes is there, sometimes it\u2019s a blank rectangle, etc. \u201cask your develo", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "Android", "story": "Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?"}, {"id": 782738016, "item_id": 48921126, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48921126", "by": "IAmGraydon", "date": "2026-07-15", "stance": "warn", "quote": "iOS is definitely buggier.", "excerpt": "iOS is definitely buggier. It used to be a silky smooth experience but it's degraded significantly in the last year or so. Safari on iOS, in particular, is very bad. Lots of problems in Adobe Creative Cloud on Win 11 (primarily Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator) in recent months too.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?"}, {"id": 775253297, "item_id": 48453331, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48453331", "by": "mattmaroon", "date": "2026-06-08", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I\u2019ve actually been debating going back just because of how bad iOS is at AI", "excerpt": "I switched from android to iOS 7 years ago and I\u2019ve actually been debating going back just because of how bad iOS is at AI. And every other facet of my life, I am finding ways for it to save my time on an almost daily basis. And yet on iOS, just finding something from a text Message is still a nightmare. Siri seems to rarely get better and sometimes actually get worse.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "Android", "story": "Siri AI"}, {"id": 759129520, "item_id": 47445595, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47445595", "by": "widowlark", "date": "2026-03-19", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I switched to iOS in anticipation of this change.", "excerpt": "I switched to iOS in anticipation of this change. The reality is, if they are thinking about doing this, it's only a matter of time before they do it. If I have to choose between two walled gardens, apple will win every time.", "context": "", "use_case": "phone OS", "switched_from": "Android", "story": "Android: Balancing Openness and Choice with Safety"}, {"id": 752263985, "item_id": 47016499, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47016499", "by": "qnleigh", "date": "2026-02-14", "stance": "warn", "quote": "why people put up with such a buggy OS", "excerpt": "It's so strange, when I switched to Android, it felt like iPhones had more polish and fewer glitches like these. But there's just aren't any usability bugs that I deal with on Android anymore. I think the blog explains why people put up with such a buggy OS: > I randomly tried Android again for a few months last spring. Using a functioning keyboard was revelatory. But I came crawling back to iOS because I'm weak and ", "context": "", "use_case": "phone OS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leaving iPhone"}, {"id": 748113489, "item_id": 46757093, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46757093", "by": "asadm", "date": "2026-01-25", "stance": "warn", "quote": "iOS has fallen behind, I am struggling to use apps and even type on new liquid glass.", "excerpt": "iOS has fallen behind, I am struggling to use apps and even type on new liquid glass. My 2TB photo library is useless with the current photos app. I am trying out Pixel 10 on the side and I HIGHLY recommend it! Android does not suck anymore. I am in process of migrating stuff over slowly.", "context": "", "use_case": "mobile OS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android"}, {"id": 747054000, "item_id": 46690875, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46690875", "by": "alex1138", "date": "2026-01-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use iOS purely as anti-Facebook guardrails", "excerpt": "Honestly, I use iOS purely as anti-Facebook guardrails I trust there's granular permissions so that Zuckerberg can't scrape contacts I understand there's corruption, and that annoys me. I wish Apple remained pure. But you still have to do this. Zuck is malicious as hell and we need sandboxes", "context": "", "use_case": "privacy via granular permissions", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results"}, {"id": 742208432, "item_id": 46388027, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46388027", "by": "k310", "date": "2025-12-25", "stance": "warn", "quote": "IMNSHO, iOS is a vexation.", "excerpt": "I have an iPad Pro with the case, keyboard, pen and even got a BT mouse. Often hard to tell from a laptop, but IMNSHO, iOS is a vexation. 1, An operation I do many times a day is to get an image's link. There is no \"copy image URL\", even with a control key. I have to \"send\" the image and grab the URL. Problem is that my iPad Pro is really dedicated to my music scores and I keep email off it. Emailing a link is easies", "context": "iPad Pro user for music scores", "use_case": "tablet OS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Are students replacing laptops with iPads in 2026?"}, {"id": 740326288, "item_id": 46270393, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46270393", "by": "l1feh4ck", "date": "2025-12-14", "stance": "warn", "quote": "In ios, I have to long press the space key to move around and or do some circus to edit it.", "excerpt": "I switched to iPhone from android three years ago and it still frustrates me when I have to edit a word. Say I accidentally typed ebit instead of edit. In android it is as easy as clicking on the letter \u201cb\u201d and backspace then correct it to \u201cd\u201d In ios, I have to long press the space key to move around and or do some circus to edit it. I don\u2019t understand why Apple does this.", "context": "switched to iPhone from Android three years ago", "use_case": "text editing on keyboard", "switched_from": "Android", "story": "iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You \u2013 The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video]"}, {"id": 739235890, "item_id": 46202243, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46202243", "by": "k310", "date": "2025-12-08", "stance": "warn", "quote": "", "excerpt": "I have used paper notebooks for decades. One set for journals and others for project ideas and plans. Mostly 5 by 7 or so Moleskine or clones. Why not electronic? I use Apple notes to save interesting stuff to post. Also, I just swiped something on this phone and lost about a half hour of typing. I use GhostText on the computer, and sometimes really detest ios for the many ways it enrages me. It's a toy. That explode", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "My Apple notes should've been my journal"}, {"id": 738686320, "item_id": 46167895, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46167895", "by": "Aerbil313", "date": "2025-12-05", "stance": "warn", "quote": "There\u2019s no shortage of visual bugs with iOS 26", "excerpt": "My turn to complain about bugs. I used to balk at people when they complained about bugs on MacOS/iOS. My iPhone 7 which I used for 7 years straight, was more bug-free than my current iPhone 15 Pro. There\u2019s no shortage of visual bugs with iOS 26, but that\u2019s not my point. Recently I had to restart my phone (literally unheard of in Apple land) because I put it in Guided Access and it wasn\u2019t possible to get it out witho", "context": "iPhone user", "use_case": "phone OS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple\u2019s head of user interface design, Alan Dye, will join Meta"}, {"id": 735982192, "item_id": 45998887, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45998887", "by": "raw_anon_1111", "date": "2025-11-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "iOS 4-6.  But I understand why they had to abandon it.", "excerpt": "iOS 4-6. But I understand why they had to abandon it. The pixel perfect bespoke design language wasn\u2019t responsive - ie it wouldn\u2019t scale to screens of different sizes.", "context": "", "use_case": "favorite UI design", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What operating systems, apps, etc. had your favorite UI designs?"}, {"id": 732622849, "item_id": 45788928, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45788928", "by": "tipst", "date": "2025-11-02", "stance": "warn", "quote": "IMHO iOS is for mongos / simpletons that just use apps casually.", "excerpt": "Ah, SailfishOS; the zombie of mobile device OS. Even longtime supporters (endusers) turned away b/c of little supported HW. And even if, then not all features. It's Maemo and webOS all over again. > The main thing to me is that SailfishOS is a Linux on your pocket. You can ssh into it, sync stuff with rsync or syncthing, edit your stuff with vim, have cron do stuff, or what ever you like. My old phones I use as remot", "context": "", "use_case": "company phone", "switched_from": "", "story": "SailfishOS: A Linux-based European alternative to dominant mobile OSes"}]}