Pixel 3 or iPhone XS.

[EMGSM]

But you can just use Google Photos like you can on Android so it would be the same as it is on Android/Pixel.

There's also being able to arrange icons the way I want

 

[EMGSM]

What else?

Being able to plug the phone in and just drag & drop music, files, photos, videos to and from the phone.

 

[dpham00]

For One, I would like my photos organized. Creating album s and transferring photos to those albums are much easier on Android. Also with iOS there is the camera roll.Why have photos in camera roll with copies in albums. Just takes up more space

Not sure what you mean by take up more space.

In Android copying a picture to another album makes a physically duplicate copy of the picture. But IOS photo albums do not make another copy of the pictures when you copy pictures to another album. Albums are essentially flags or labels to help you group photos together.

 

[puch96]

Have an opportunity to buy an iPhone XS for CAD1000 (only a few days old) or a pixel 3 for CAD800. Which one should I choose? Currently have an iPhone X which I love. But I’ll be giving this to my daughter..so Loki g for a phone for myself.
Considering the price difference of 200 which one should I get??

It depends on your ecosystem. If you use Apple in general (i.e. computer, laptop, etc), then get the iPhone. If you are heavily invested into Google ecosystem, and use a PC instead of Mac, probably the Pixel.

 

[EMGSM]

Not sure what you mean by take up more space.

In Android copying a picture to another album makes a physically duplicate copy of the picture. But IOS photo albums do not make another copy of the pictures when you copy pictures to another album. Albums are essentially flags or labels to help you group photos together.

In my phone there is a camera folder where all the photos taken go. From there I can create folders for food, pets, travel etc. and put photos in their respective folders. Those pics are no longer in the camera folder. On iPhone I put pics in respective folders from camera roll folder. When I look in camera folder there is still a copy there. So There is essentially two photos

 

[Almeuit]

Being able to plug the phone in and just drag & drop music, files, photos, videos to and from the phone.

I used to use this but in the past few years I haven't.

 

[Almeuit]

There's also being able to arrange icons the way I want

Definitely annoying but I wouldn't say that makes the whole OS locked down. One year Apple will listen but for now the grid lives, unfortunately.

 

[Almeuit]

In my phone there is a camera folder where all the photos taken go. From there I can create folders for food, pets, travel etc. and put photos in their respective folders. Those pics are no longer in the camera folder. On iPhone I put pics in respective folders from camera roll folder. When I look in camera folder there is still a copy there. So There is essentially two photos

Again using Google photos this isn't the case. On your pixel you are using Google photos. If you do that on iPhone it will behave the exact same way. You still even get the delete all photos from the iPhone that have already backed up to Google to save space (see below).

 

[EMGSM]

I used to use this but in the past few years I haven't.

I mainly switch out movies, tv show and pdf files

 

[EMGSM]

Again using Google photos this isn't the case. On your pixel you are using Google photos. If you do that on iPhone it will behave the exact same way. You still even get the delete all photos from the iPhone that have already backed up to Google to save space (see below).


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I don't use Google photos because I like to separate photos from video.

 

[dpham00]

In my phone there is a camera folder where all the photos taken go. From there I can create folders for food, pets, travel etc. and put photos in their respective folders. Those pics are no longer in the camera folder. On iPhone I put pics in respective folders from camera roll folder. When I look in camera folder there is still a copy there. So There is essentially two photos

Put it this way. Say you have 50gb of photos. You can make 100 albums and "copy" them to each album even on a 64gb iPhone. You cannot do the same on a 64gb Pixel. Heck you can't do that even if the pixel had 1000gb, which of course it doesn't.

That's because iOS only keeps one physical copy of the photo regardless of how many albums you or them in

 

[EMGSM]

Put it this way. Say you have 50gb of photos. You can make 100 albums and "copy" them to each album even on a 64gb iPhone. You cannot do the same on a 64gb Pixel. Heck you can't do that even if the pixel had 1000gb, which of course it doesn't.

That's because iOS only keeps one physical copy of the photo regardless of how many albums you or them in

I don't like how photos remain in camera roll even after I transfer photos to new albums. This means I will have to scroll through all the photos to to find all the pet photos (for example).

 

[Vega007]

Definitely annoying but I wouldn't say that makes the whole OS locked down. One year Apple will listen but for now the grid lives, unfortunately.

It would be nice if they let you at least change the anchor point so that you can align the apps by the top right, or bottom left, or bottom right. Just that would at least be something. No doubt, the most annoying thing about iOS is home screen lockdown.

 

[bhatech]

I just use spotlight search (swipe down) and type the first letter of the app and it shows up. Pretty quick and have been used to do this for many years now and honestly don't even know or care about where the apps are. Do the same with Android. Both on Android and iOS i just have the first page with my frequently used apps and anything else is by a simple search using gestures.

There's also being able to arrange icons the way I want

Definitely annoying but I wouldn't say that makes the whole OS locked down. One year Apple will listen but for now the grid lives, unfortunately.

 

[Almeuit]

I just use spotlight search (swipe down) and type the first letter of the app and it shows up. Pretty quick and have been used to do this for many years now and honestly don't even know or care about where the apps are. Do the same with Android. Both on Android and iOS i just have the first page with my frequently used apps and anything else is by a simple search using gestures.

Yep that is one thing I have used a few times. So far though I have my home icons arranged in a better way. I just got a lot better w/ folder management this time around haha .

 

[bhatech]

Yeah keep at it and after you get used to it, becomes very natural and you'll definitely stop thinking about the home screen layout and arrangement

Yep that is one thing I have used a few times. So far though I have my home icons arranged in a better way. I just got a lot better w/ folder management this time around haha .

 

[Kalvin Kerns]

One thing I hate about IOS is how every iPhone looks exactly the same. I want my phone to be a customized, individualized experience different from all the other phones out there. Impossible on iOS.

That being said, the iPhone Xs I recently bought my wife is far and away the best iOS experience I've ever seen to date. I very nearly bought one myself. The gestures and smoothness blew me away when compared side by side with the Pixel 3 or my S8.

Still hate the locked down style though and price. I'm holding strong, for now lol.

Edit: I like the animations of the Xs so much that I actually changed the animation speed on my S8 from zero to 1 to try and capture some of that smoothness. It's not the same at all of course... Yeah I'm a dork.

 

[Almeuit]

One thing I hate about IOS is how every iPhone looks exactly the same. I want my phone to be a customized, individualized experience different from all the other phones out there. Impossible on iOS.

That being said, the iPhone Xs I recently bought my wife is far and away the best iOS experience I've ever seen to date. I very nearly night one myself. The gestures and smoothness blew me away when compared side by side with the Pixel 3 or my S8.

Still hate the locked down style though and price. I'm holding strong, for now lol.

Yeah I used to be in the customize boat but now I really don't do much but change wallpaper. Icon packs and all that were a pain if I ever had to resetup and then I came to the realization of -- even if my phone looks like others why do I care? No one uses my phone but me. I never showed it off to friends or w/e so it just wasn't as worth it for me.

Hell ever since Pixel I even stopped using Nova and just use the Pixel launcher lol.

 

[J Dubbs]

Yeah I used to be in the customize boat but now I really don't do much but change wallpaper. Icon packs and all that were a pain if I ever had to resetup and then I came to the realization of -- even if my phone looks like others why do I care? No one uses my phone but me. I never showed it off to friends or w/e so it just wasn't as worth it for me.

Hell ever since Pixel I even stopped using Nova and just use the Pixel launcher lol.

You're getting boring in your old age lol........ but I do the exact same thing :O

Maybe we're just getting lazy ;-)

 

[Almeuit]

You're getting boring in your old age lol........ but I do the exact same thing :O

Maybe we're just getting lazy ;-)

Most definitely could be. I have thought that myself as well lol .