Worth swapping from Android to iPhone?

@Kanpai honestly never had that issue on my Pixel devices. When an email appears in Gmail on my desktop it appears on Gmail on my phone. iPhone as well within a few seconds of each other.
 
LiE said:
@Kanpai honestly never had that issue on my Pixel devices. When an email appears in Gmail on my desktop it appears on Gmail on my phone. iPhone as well within a few seconds of each other.
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Yeah that's why I said you're quite lucky mate, if this wasn't an issue I'd probably still using my S23 Ultra I had before moving to 14 Pro Max.
 
Kanpai said:
Yeah that's why I said you're quite lucky mate, if this wasn't an issue I'd probably still using my S23 Ultra I had before moving to 14 Pro Max.
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I tested it and it does appear the emails don't come through immediately after the phone has been idle for a little while.

I guess it's never been an issue for me since I'm at my desktop all day and have a Gmail tab open with desktop notifications.
 
LiE said:
I tested it and it does appear the emails don't come through immediately after the phone has been idle for a little while.

I guess it's never been an issue for me since I'm at my desktop all day and have a Gmail tab open with desktop notifications.
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Aha, see! Honestly for the most part people may think it's just a "feature" but it's actually quite a nuisance. The worst is if you leave your phone for hours and come back to it you'll get notifications flooding in all at once rather then them being delivered instantly at the correct time.

I'm keeping an eye to see if this is fixed in Android 14 but I'm not holding my breath.
 
LiE said:
Lets be honest, most people are glued to their phones so that would never happen :p
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I've had times in the past I've missed important notifications that I needed real time, whether that be 5 minutes after the phone is idle or couple hours and it's made me lose a lot of trust and faith in the Android OS unfortunately. At first I thought it was a Samsung issue but not the case.
 
Kanpai said:
I can't deal with not receiving notifications instantly, Gmail being the prime example here.
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Well I have been using the phone for about a week now, and I have to admit when I was in the process of swapping some stuff over from my Pixel 6 Pro over to the XR the XR got all my email notifications before the Pixel.

So when logging into some sites and needing a code the iPhone would give me a notification maybe a minute or even 2 sometimes before the Pixel.

I would say in the week I've used the iPhone XR its surprised me how snappy the thing is, the main things im missing now are the slightly larger display, high refresh rate and a nicer camera. But all in all I've not really missed my Pixel too much, and with iOS as "basic" as it is it works well and there hasn't been any problems with it on the XR.
 
deardevildude said:
Well I have been using the phone for about a week now, and I have to admit when I was in the process of swapping some stuff over from my Pixel 6 Pro over to the XR the XR got all my email notifications before the Pixel.

So when logging into some sites and needing a code the iPhone would give me a notification maybe a minute or even 2 sometimes before the Pixel.

I would say in the week I've used the iPhone XR its surprised me how snappy the thing is, the main things im missing now are the slightly larger display, high refresh rate and a nicer camera. But all in all I've not really missed my Pixel too much, and with iOS as "basic" as it is it works well and there hasn't been any problems with it on the XR.
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That's it, it just works and it does so really well.

The features you mentioned that you're missing all avail on the higher end pro models but OS experience will be similar throughout albeit even smoother on the 120hz models.
 
I found I had to disable Adaptive battery on my Android phone and also change certain settings within each app like Gmail, messages - settings/apps/battery/ and select unrestricted. Not experiencing issues any more. I agree it shouldn't be like this as the idea of notifications is you get notified straight away. Not noticed any extra battery drain yet or if there will be I bet it's minimal.
 
hyperfighting said:
I found I had to disable Adaptive battery on my Android phone and also change certain settings within each app like Gmail, messages - settings/apps/battery/ and select unrestricted. Not experiencing issues any more. I agree it shouldn't be like this as the idea of notifications is you get notified straight away. Not noticed any extra battery drain yet or if there will be I bet it's minimal.
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What phone was this on?
 
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