Android 12 is where they started making everything worse with the quick action and settings redesign, and it’s been going downhill since.

  • pedz@lemmy.ca
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    8 hours ago

    You should tell Gemini about it!

    Seriously I don’t know what version started what but Android is slowly getting more and more annoying for me to use. It’s like Windows where you have to spend multiple minutes, if not hours, in personalizing and removing bloatware. But then an update brings or restore more shit.

    I know it’s not all Android’s fault, but it adds up.

    For example, I know they are forced by the EU to lower the volume after a while, but sometimes I use weak bone conducting headphones and I NEED the volume to be at max.

    Or another are the mandatory presidential/amber alerts, where the government decides to make your phone scream an end of the world alarm because a child is missing 200 km away. I’d like to have normal notifications for that but no, only end of the world alarms.

    This one is on Android though and I’ll need to find how to disable that annoying “you haven’t used those apps in a while so permissions were removed” thigny. I don’t open some apps often, like my backup app, but it’s still used, unless Android decides to revoke permissions automatically. Like, I don’t use Wahoo in winter but when I want to use it back in summer, it cant find my sensors because permissions have been revoked.

    I’ve been annoyed and tired of using Android for a few years now. And I obviously won’t go to Apple. Maybe next time I’ll get a dumb phone and just carry a small computer with me for the rest.

    • Iced Raktajino@startrek.websiteOP
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      8 hours ago

      Yep, to all of that.

      disable that annoying “you haven’t used those apps in a while so permissions were removed” thigny

      AFAIK, you can only do that on an app-by-app basis.

      Settings -> Apps -> {App} -> Permissions -> Pause app activity if unused

      That’s on Android 14, so YMMV if they took that away or made it worse since then.