For anyone considering switching to iPhone from Android, or vice versa, here is one reason if you use email a lot on your phone for work purposes.
I was going to switch to iPhone in November to get on the same platform as my kids. Got the regular iPhone 11 but kept my s10 just in case. Within a few weeks the iPhone 11 stopped working with Carplay on my 2018 Accord so I switched back to my s10. The s10 has been somewhat slow, so I got the $600 credit and upgraded to the s20 about 3 weeks ago. Life is good. Got the first infotainment software update notice to the Accord since I've owned it, so I installed it and the infotainment seems to be running faster. Tried the iPhone again (still had it) and Carplay works now. So fine, I tried using the iPhone this week as my daily driver.
I've noticed the past few days that the text in email can vary a lot in size. If you look at the pic below, the same email is viewed in the iPhone on the left and on my s20 on the right using Aquamail:
I changed the text in iOS general settings to the largest size and changed it to "zoom" view as well. While the email list text was really big now (along with other text in general) the email text wasn't touched as you see in the screenshot. This email was unreadable by me and would be a tough read even using my readers. Not all emails came out like this, but many were too small to read without my readers.
After much research it appears that the the iOS general text settings only works with apps that support dynamic text, and email messages that are sent as HTML don't work with this dynamic text setting. There is no in-app setting to view/convert all incoming email to plain text. I tried a couple of other popular email apps and got the same result. I thought Outlook had a fix, but it turns out you need to make the change on the server side if you are using an Exchange server, and this will force *all* emails to show up as plain text which will also be a pain.
I am frankly shocked that this is so hard. In Aquamail I can set the font for all incoming emails to show up the same way, and I can easily change the font size when viewing an email by using my volume buttons. Yes, you can pinch-zoom the emails in iOS to make the font bigger, but then you need to drag it back and forth to read it because the text doesn't reform to stay within the screen. Or turn the phone over landscape to read it that way.
I am done for now with the iPhone experiment. The iPad is a keeper, as are the airpods pro that I bought, but the iPhone is going up for sale on ebay when the pandemic stuff calms down.
One more thing, there is absolutely no oleophobic coating on the LCD display of the regular iPhone. I can clean the screen so it is spot-free and within 30 minutes of use it looks like I sneezed all over it. If I ever go back to iPhone it will have to be the pro - and the max size at that if I have any hopes of being able to see my emails .
I was going to switch to iPhone in November to get on the same platform as my kids. Got the regular iPhone 11 but kept my s10 just in case. Within a few weeks the iPhone 11 stopped working with Carplay on my 2018 Accord so I switched back to my s10. The s10 has been somewhat slow, so I got the $600 credit and upgraded to the s20 about 3 weeks ago. Life is good. Got the first infotainment software update notice to the Accord since I've owned it, so I installed it and the infotainment seems to be running faster. Tried the iPhone again (still had it) and Carplay works now. So fine, I tried using the iPhone this week as my daily driver.
I've noticed the past few days that the text in email can vary a lot in size. If you look at the pic below, the same email is viewed in the iPhone on the left and on my s20 on the right using Aquamail:
I changed the text in iOS general settings to the largest size and changed it to "zoom" view as well. While the email list text was really big now (along with other text in general) the email text wasn't touched as you see in the screenshot. This email was unreadable by me and would be a tough read even using my readers. Not all emails came out like this, but many were too small to read without my readers.
After much research it appears that the the iOS general text settings only works with apps that support dynamic text, and email messages that are sent as HTML don't work with this dynamic text setting. There is no in-app setting to view/convert all incoming email to plain text. I tried a couple of other popular email apps and got the same result. I thought Outlook had a fix, but it turns out you need to make the change on the server side if you are using an Exchange server, and this will force *all* emails to show up as plain text which will also be a pain.
I am frankly shocked that this is so hard. In Aquamail I can set the font for all incoming emails to show up the same way, and I can easily change the font size when viewing an email by using my volume buttons. Yes, you can pinch-zoom the emails in iOS to make the font bigger, but then you need to drag it back and forth to read it because the text doesn't reform to stay within the screen. Or turn the phone over landscape to read it that way.
I am done for now with the iPhone experiment. The iPad is a keeper, as are the airpods pro that I bought, but the iPhone is going up for sale on ebay when the pandemic stuff calms down.
One more thing, there is absolutely no oleophobic coating on the LCD display of the regular iPhone. I can clean the screen so it is spot-free and within 30 minutes of use it looks like I sneezed all over it. If I ever go back to iPhone it will have to be the pro - and the max size at that if I have any hopes of being able to see my emails .