ANDROID VS IPHONE

hey friend brandon here apple has just 

released their newest version of ios called ios 14. it's um 

almost old enough to get a drivers 

permit good morning as someone who has used android phones since 2011 starting with the samsung epic 4g i have a lot of experience with android i

um i i might have a few as well anyways

when i heard that the newest version of 

ios added a lot of android like features and might be enough to convince android users to switch over to ios i had to check it out so for the past month or two i've been using the ios 14 beta and now the public release of ios 14 and i just wanted to find out if it's all it's cracked up to be is it enough for android fans to switch let's talk about it after you hit the like button to make it blue it's free after all and this is tech today [Music] this video is brought to you by channel sponsor dbrand and their awesome skins and cases to customize the look of your phone and protect it you can prevent those smudges and scratches with skin from their pastel series one of their grip cases or their limited edition pewdiepie drop click the link in the description to find the skin for you so let's talk about widgets that's something that's been on android for quite a while but just because it's been done first by someone else doesn't necessarily mean that it's better so let's find out how apple interprets widgets so in general you just have to hold down and everything starts wiggling and you have this little plus sign in the top left corner and then you can search through all these different uh widgets here and you can do a smart stack which is really cool you just put it up here and you can swipe through a whole bunch of different things all in one stack which is really neat and then you can even choose different size widgets if you want to do something like that and there are even serious suggestions where you can just add a little kind of customization of an action on your desktop if you want to do that and if you're familiar with series shortcuts championed by the brilliant matthew casanelli who helped develop it then you should check out this crazy trend that's spreading all over tik tok and beyond where people are using siri shortcuts in widgetsmith to customize their home screens in the craziest way possible like this one that makes your phone look like an old windows computer and if you're like my roommate you show off your unhealthy obsession with animal crossing so there's some really neat things there and some customization that goes on the one thing that really stinks about these widgets is that everything still has to be pushed to the top so you can't like pin it at the bottom of your screen if you want to i don't know why um ios works this way like i can't i just want to have it down here where it's easy to use so that's frustrating now if you've ever used ios before you know that home screens are really cluttered the one benefit of android is the fact that you can clean it up you can hide it in the app drawer and things like that we can have that essentially now on ios so if you don't want a certain home screen you can just hold it down on the screen and hit the little dot dots there and you can uncheck a particular screen so maybe you don't want to see that one anymore and it disappears from your your panels there and if you want you can remove all these icons from your home screen and swipe all the way to the right and you can see some sort of app suggestions based upon certain categories recently added or if you swipe down all the way you can see the entire app library kind of like what you would see 

on android on top that you can swipe 

down and you can have your suggestions which 

is really nice and that's also something 

that you would find on android overall 

this is a huge huge improvement that 

really adds an experience that's 

similar to what you would have on 

android i think it's no longer 

really an excuse that you can use for 

why you're not going over to ios 

alright for this next one i need the

airpod pros 

so we're going to test out spatial audio 

and it's a really interesting concept to 

me as an audio engineer apparently you 

can move your head around and it'll give 

you a feeling of being in a physical 

space 

and the sound adjusting based upon how 

you move your head essentially like if 

you're 

at a movie theater if you had the sound 

coming from the front 

and you moved your head around the sound 

would kind of move or stay in the same 

spot 

while your head is moving around if that 

makes sense so let's check it out 

and uh there's a link to the video that 

i'm using to test it out 

in the description 

that's crazy that's weird yeah this is this is actually really cool it does feel a lot like the experience that i described they did a really good job i'm not sure what kind of crazy voodoo they're doing but i really like it but i think it's a really neat idea i don't know if it's like absolutely practical and i if i would have it on normally because i don't think i need to replicate that real life experience when i have my ear buds in but i mean it's cool if you want to do that oh uh do you hear that listen closely can you hear it it's the sound of 90 of you who are not subscribed to the channel so uh hit that subscribe button and the bell icon so you'll be notified when i post a new video i mean i'd really appreciate it if you did so we have a video uh turned on here let's go over here and just swipe up and there's a new feature called picture-in-picture and you have the ability to resize it so it kind of operates the way that you would expect where you could just pinch the zoom and move it wherever you want i actually think this is way better than uh what you would get on android i mean look how smooth that is it just kind of goes wherever you want and it works intuitively because of that pinch to zoom i'm a big fan so with ios 14 comes a more compact ui before when you would get a phone call

it would take up the whole entire screen 

now on ios 14 it comes up in this little 

banner which is less obtrusive you can 

continue to do what you're going to do 

anyways and then it also works for 

facetime which by the way 

also has that whole picture-in-picture 

thing which is really convenient also 

siri's uh 

a bit more compact but um it's also siri 

so 

one thing that's really neat at least in 

theory is this whole back tab 

little feature essentially you just go 

to the settings you go to accessibility 

and then you go down to touch and then 

you go to back tap and 

you can do two taps in the back of your 

phone or three taps on the back of your 

phone 

for certain actions and then maybe i can 

go to this shortcut like hey google 

because maybe i want to use the google 

assistant instead of siri so you can 

just go 

one two three and then uh 

the google assistant starts up and that 

sounds really cool in theory it's kind 

of a thing that 

initially i was like oh wow i really 

wish this was on android which 

apparently it's coming to it it's a nice 

idea in theory but when i have it docked 

in my car dock 

and it's i'm just driving around and hit 

bumps or whatever it activates or 

sometimes i just set it down on the 

table so it ends up being really 

annoying now the big thing that 

really stinks about ios has been the 

fact that you don't have the ability to 

customize what your default apps are and 

in some ways it's changed a little bit 

this would 

apply to your browser or your email 

client as long as the developer of the 

app has enabled this essentially you go 

to your settings and then you scroll 

down to the app that you want to make 

the default so 

i would go over to chrome for instance 

and then 

i would choose it as the default app 

browser from safari 

so that's one thing that you can do i've 

tried this with other apps and it works 

with most other browsers but 

not all my email clients work so that's 

a bit of a bummer so you have to wait 

for developers to catch up it's not 

going to give you the same experience 

that you have on android which just 

really stinks 

ios 14 brings about a universal search 

which is in a way that 

works to not only find apps if you 

search for it but things within an app 

like maybe 

something you typed up or something on 

the internet emojis or things in the 

text messages that you have or emails 

a bunch of different things that are a 

little bit more deep than just the app 

names and searching the internet at 

first i was thinking oh wow 

search you finally got search apple way 

to go but the ability to search for 

things within your apps is 

really really helpful and unfortunately 

it's just not something that you get on

android 

with the prevalence of internet of 

things or things around your home you 

can actually control here you can set up 

a widget 

for home control so you can activate 

your lights or turn them off if you want 

to 

i don't really have any home kit enabled 

devices so i can't really show it off 

but it would essentially show up as a 

little widget down here at the bottom 

if you want to uh control something 

easily and this is something that's 

shown up in android 11 i think it's a 

little bit more intuitive because it's 

hidden in the power menu bar 

and uh that's just a lot easier for me 

to find here's something that i can 

really appreciate it's actually the 

privacy notifications that ios 14 brings 

so little dot will pop 

up in the top right corner next to your 

network icon 

and it'll let you know what is being 

activated or used right now so right now 

it has the microphone activated so 

there's a little yellow dot there 

if i open up the camera it turns green 

another thing that was added that i 

really hope comes to android sometime 

is this little toast notification that 

lets you know when an app is reading 

what is in your clipboard 

and from where so if i were able to go 

to my notes and just copy something from 

there 

and then say go to twitter and then 

started a tweet and went here and pasted 

from it 

it would show that it pasted something 

from notes that got ticktock into a 

little bit of trouble because you could 

see that it was reading what was in your 

clipboard but i think that transparency 

is a good thing 

as a whole now with messages we already 

know that messaging on android is a hot 

mess and unfortunately

it remains a hot mess at least here in 

the united states and imessage is still 

the superior option for the majority of 

us 

here and the gap keeps growing while i 

can't show you these features on my own 

phone because of 

privacy which ironically we just talked 

about you now have the option of pinning 

up to nine conversations with a specific 

person 

or group chat which is super convenient 

you also have inline reply so you can 

have a side conversation without 

derailing a group chat and even mention 

a specific person 

it's like slack on your phone i kind of 

dig that and i think imessage is great 

but too bad it's not on android there's 

also some memoji thing so 

whatever ios 14 also brings about on 

device translation for 

different languages hola como esas 

forgive my uh subpar spanish and of 

course you can type in something and i 

can translate it for you which is really 

cool now apparently you can use your 

phone's nfc to unlock things like your 

car 

and your door if it supports it i'm not 

gonna lie it's really cool 

unfortunately i don't have a brand new 

car so i can't test 

out car keys so now one thing i do hope 

that i can test out soon is app clips 

this is a really neat idea because it's 

like android's insta apps but it is 

centered around the idea of convenience 

based upon your situation for instance 

if you need to rent a bike and you can 

hold your phone up to a compatible sign 

or terminal and the app clip pops up 

you can use it for the task at hand like 

making a payment without installing 

anything honestly this sounds really 

cool because it has a practical 

convenience to it and i really like 

practical and convenient too bad i can't 

try it out because of 

the pandemic so what do i think about 

ios 14 overall as a hardcore android fan 

it's a step in the right direction in 

areas that are typically a pinpoint for 

android users like customization but it 

isn't enough steps forward on the other 

hand it leaves me longing for more 

within 

android ios 14 has aspects of being well 

unified with things like universal 

search which we first saw on the palm 

pre with webos 

which goes deeper by searching within 

apps and messages obviously i love 

imessage and airdrop is great if you use 

macs but with android 11 we now have 

nearby share 

which is a lot like airdrop but only for 

android devices at the moment i wish 

that was just a little bit easier 

between different platforms 

the things that continue to just drive 

me nuts about ios are the notifications 

it's a hot mess that drives me nuts i 

miss important things all the time i 

just don't understand why this is still 

a problem with ios 

then you have siri which is overall 

quite useless especially when you 

compare it to android where the maturity 

of artificial intelligence and machine 

learning 

is seen in really practical ways and 

admittedly at the expense of your 

personal information 

android has a sense of knowing what i 

want and need in ways that i don't see 

apple catching up on 

anytime soon on top of that i generally 

like more of what android looks like and 

the depth of customization 

there are pros and cons for both sides 

and those of you who follow me on 

twitter which you can follow me at this 

is tuxay 

you know that i wish both android and 

ios would have a baby so to speak and 

when i say that i wish that they would 

merge the best parts of both because 

there's so much to really love about 

on both sides for different reasons with 

ios 14 there's the practical benefits of 

social connection with imessage and 

facetime 

especially in times like these and that 

means that i'll lease dual wield an 

android phone in an ios phone 

i know youtuber life but i'm really 

thankful for that but what do you think are you primarily an ios user or an android user what do you think about the new changes in ios 14 and if you're an android user do you find any of these changes compelling are you switching to ios let me know your thoughts and why in the comments and in this detectday community discord chat server we'd love to have you thank you for watching this is tech today where we talk about the intersection of technology in our everyday lives in business and in all things creative