All the default apps are, and a good number of third parties, but a few appear is if they’re using a scaled up iPhone X/xs/11 pro UI, where everything is just ever so slightly bigger. I wasn’t sure if my eyes were deceiving me, but here are a few screenshots to compare the keyboard sizes:
It’s not a new screen size but the view port is new! It’s narrower than the 11, but also taller than the 11.
https://mobile.twitter.com/stroughtonsmith/status/1316113451547332608
You have much better eyes than me!
It’s the tiniest difference and barely noticeable, but it’s enough to throw my typing off.
It only clicked that something was off, when all the iconography inside the Monzo app was considerably smaller on my 11.
I was setting up my Mrs’ OnePlus 8 last night and comparing UI performance against my XR. I have to say that the 90FPS made a surprisingly big difference in making the OnePlus feel quite a bit smoother.
First time I’ve had that feeling with Android and makes me think that not having HRR on the 12s is actually a bigger miss than I initally thought.
iPad Pro has 120, and honestly, I haven’t really noticed it when comparing to my phones.
For me 60FPS is the point where it’s fast and fluid enough for me. Anything beyond that I won’t really notice in day to day stuff.
Yh i was hoping for High Refresh Rate on this years iPhones, especially the Pro’s, however, in terms of the Monzo app i feel i’d much rather take the iPhones lower refresh rate but get a much more polished app
I guess it’s definitely something you notice if you are putting phones side by side or you use a lot of different phones, but something you won’t miss if it’s what you are used to.
I’ve used it, it’s cool but I’m not crazy about it, I can quickly get used to not having it.
It’s more a specific issue I had recently with upgrading that has jarred my impression of them. I’ve never had to contact them before is all.
Basically I’m on an anytime/annual upgrade plan, paying way more than normal per month but with the benefit of upgrading after a year to the new iPhone. And I’m talking £90+ a month for it.
Went to try and upgrade, told I wasn’t eligible, but given no reason other than “credit report/score”. Quite confused I even paid for my Experian for a month and can see no issues, in fact my rating is higher now than it was a year ago.
I’m rather miffed that I wasn’t really aware they could just decide not to do this and not least now I’m paying way over the price for a contract for no benefits since they won’t now reduce to account for the fact I’m apparently unable to upgrade any more.
£90 a month!! But yeah this is a known issue with upgrade contracts, your experience sounds particularly bad though.
I’m just rounding off my journey here by saying, I love iOS. I’ve spent years advocating for Android but after 4 days back on iOS I’m in love with it. Everything is easier and more intuitive, it’s so painlessly fast. Things like faceID and Applepay are so seamlessly integrated into apps. The App Library make organisation of the home screens a breeze.
I still wish I had the mini. And I still wish I could move my messages over. Otherwise this phone is perfect for me.
The Apple/Android switching mindset:
Doesn’t really relate to me. I thought the grass wouldn’t be greener, crossed over, and found it actually was 
I’ve always been iOS. Never thought the grass was greener. Within the last year I was given an Android Samsung for work.
Now having experienced Android, nothing would ever convince me to actually buy one with my own cash money.
I was on Android for several years before converting to iOS with a second hand iPhone 5S. I then bought an OnePlus 3 before regretting it and joining the iOS gang for good
I lasted about a year on Android before moving back to iOS. I much prefer the simplicity as well as the privacy aspect. I don’t think I’d go back to Android in a hurry!
Android can be like an OEM windows 10 computer , some of them put so much unnecessary bloat , skins , popups , defaults and programs.
But just stock android is pretty good , without for example Samsung nagging you to get you to use their app store, their cloud backup, their browser , their email client etc constantly
The problem is that unlike a Windows PC, you can’t do a clean install on an Android phone unless you find (and are willing to trust) a community-supplied custom ROM.
Ive never found the fingerprint scanner on Android any less integrated than FaceID.
I also still prefer the app drawer to App Library as it’s always just a single swipe away and seeing an alphabetical grid of apps is easier to me than the somewhat random organisation that Apple decides.
Apple Pay integration is just awesome. Especially in Safari.
The App Library is also only a swipe away if you hide all your home screens like I have done. I’ve never liked the Home Screen, or trying to manage my apps, so I’ll often avoid installing them to keep my home screens minimal, and use safari instead.
With iOS 14, I decided to try going with just the App Library alone, and honestly, I prefer it. I like that some AI goes into sorting and predicting which apps I want, and I have to say it’s eerily accurate. It must have been learning from my behaviour prior to App Library being available. The actual Siri suggestions at the top aren’t mind blowing, but are decent, however, the three apps it displays for each category have always been one of the apps I was looking for in that moment. I’ve probably mainly once had to open up the category to see all the apps, but it’s very infrequent. It’s my favourite iOS 14 feature, and I would have hated it had they gone the same approach as Google’s app drawer.
I’d always wanted to get into the habit of just swiping down for spotlight and searching for the app I want, but I could never get the habit to form, so App Library is the perfect middle ground, and it only works as well as it does because of the machine learning algorithms.
This is very impressive.
TL;DW: He can’t bend em. Not even slightly.
