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The constant UI changes that fix nothing of importance and make using it less enjoyable.

A recent update changed the options for navigation from being able to hide the three icons at the bottom and swipe instead to make it like an iphone where you have one swipe up and it does things based on whether you hold or let go immediately and now the sides are go back swipes. They kept the option to show buttons, but apparently keeping the two options and adding this new train wreck as a third option is too hard. So to use my fulll screen real estate I have the joy of accidentally going back a page dozens of times per day, holding or not holding the swipe up the wrong amount of time dozens of times per day, and when I crop photos I constantly catch the stupid edge go back thing and have to cancel. At least it asks first I guess.

Why couldn't they keep swipe up for three things if they kept the buttons in the same spot anyway? I am still trying to get used to the new stupid thing after a few months because the bottom buttons are such a waste of space.

That is the worst offender, but changing icons, how notifications work, and several other things are just annoying enough tl not drive me away but feel like change for the sake of change. I know some changes can require a lot of maintenance to have multiple options, but keeping a basic navigation option when adding a third should not jave been a big deal.

Receiving calls and texts from people.

Can’t listen to music while watching a video or listening to a podcast.

• Samsung bloatware
• Not being able to access files in a sane way both from a computer and in some extent from a phone without using 3rd party solutions.

And yeah, that's it. But I am not needy.

Under screen fingerprint reader (pixel 7 pro) . It's a downgrade from reader on the back of the phone (pixel 5). It's slower, less accurate, and worst of all, at night it often results in being flashed with a bright light.

I thought it'd be more convenient having the reader on the front, so i can unlock the phone without lifting it, but most of the time it's a nuisance because i doesn't work as well.

The fact that it won't have any record of calls I missed while the phone was off or didn't have reception, although actually that's probably the fault of the service provider. They can send me texts I missed. Why can't they send me a list of missed calls?

It's too darn big. I'd love another Nexus 4-sized phone.

Not being able to install Graphene OS

Under screen fingerprint sensors. Doesn't matter how old/new your phone is, they all suck. The one on my phone works... whenever it feels like it. That and OneUI sucks, but yk, custom ROMs ftw.

Have had my S8 galaxy since release, and now various apps won't work on the OS. I'm being forced into buying a new phone at this point.

I wish I had customizable buttons for like... Flashlight, or you know... Whatever I want.

In iOS how hard it is to glance the time and date while watching a full screen video.

Lack of physical keyboard.

Being a flimsy piece of shit comes in second.

I'm aware how that applies to basically every smartphone from 2013 - today. Currently rocking a used Galaxy S8

The screen protector is peeling just a little bit around the edges, but it's put on really well, and I don't want to use the replacement just yet, but it's slowly ever encroaching and leaving more and more of a dead zone in an area I don't touch all that often, but when I need to I question whether or not it's time to put the new one on.

It's been like this for almost a year now.

Also no ir blaster, so I can't subtly mute the commercials when I'm at the in laws.

its bootloader isn't unlockable, and custom roms don't exist for it anyway

non-unlockable bootloader :(

(Samsung S10e, switching to Sony Xperia 6 soon...)

Software updates. They are disguised as security and feature updates while slowing down your phone to make you buy the newer versions.

It's not completely foss

After close to 6 years of use it’s reaching the end of its useful life. Unless there’s a catastrophic failure or something I plan to use it until it no longer gets updates, which should be some time next year.

I would be willing to put up with a more-massive phone -- especially a thicker one -- in exchange for longer battery life. Would also like a larger screen, mostly because I'd like more space for the onscreen keyboard.

I entirely understand people -- especially women, with clothes designed to often have smartphone-unfriendly, small, form-fitting pockets -- not wanting a large phone. There is also a market for smaller phones, and "bigger phone" is not the answer for everyone. But I'm fine with it for my own phone.

My #2 irritation is that I miss having a phone connector. I understand why manufacturers did it; it bought them a bit more space. I do like having active noise cancellation, and that requires some way to get power to a phone. But there are a long list of things that I like about having a simple, zero-latency, splittable, mixable, inexpensive, always-works-protocol cable that has been on pretty much every device for over a century. I don't have to worry about charging headphones. The 1/8th inch headphones jack is pretty durable.

My #3 irritation is that the industry -- spanning cell service providers, hardware providers, and software providers -- has the desire and is willing to try to make it harder to use phone data with tethered devices than with a phone device. I have no problem if you have quotas and then throttle when they're exceeded or something. I have no problem with you prioritizing a user who has made the least amount of usage of their quota. I have no problem with you even selling prioritized data. But for God's sake, you have no legitimate reason not to be hardware-agnostic. Don't try to dictate what I'm doing on my end of a data connection. Wired ISPs don't do this. You want multiple devices on the other end of your data service, they're fine with it, even provide hardware to do NATting if required on ISPv4 networks. I appreciate that wireless frequency is a scarcer commodity, but needing to make use of it intelligently should not entail caring which device on the end user's end is consuming it. If PC-tethered users are consuming way more than their share of bandwidth, then just throttle heavy users.

Even though I turned it off, my phone will sometimes pop open the AI assistant after hearing something not even close to the "hey Google" phrase.

I also hate that the new AI system for the assistant can't even do half of the shit I used the old assistant for. Which is why I turned it off.

i want a physical qwerty keyboard like the pro1x

With the phone itself I miss a headphone jack (using an adapter USB c to 3.5"), no hardware keyboard, and no replaceable battery.

In general I don't turn my phone off often enough, usually only once or twice a week I should turn it off more often.