I just had folds in hand at store displays and there every model had both tactile and visual creases. Maybe it's because they get opened and closed more often than usual day-to-day usage, but I would expect that a week-old display phone wouldn't be opened and closed more times than a personal phone after a few months.

Maybe it's more like noise pollution where you just don't notice it anymore after a while. Let's call it "crease pollution".

These folding phones are just a proof of concept and nothing more. You are not getting any superior user experience over the standard phones that are everywhere these days.

I had the Fold 1, 2 and 3. You don't notice the crease when you're using it. It's only really noticeable when the display is off or you're looking at it from an angle.

I don't see the point of the Flip but the Folds are great phones, just not as durable so I went back to regular phones.

5G drains the battery unbelievably fast compared to 4G/LTE. A lot of areas also doesn't have stable 5G.

I guess Apple is concerned more about letting users control the attention they want to give for the notifications in the phone. This may not be for all of course. But I like this approach a lot. It appears more refined for me than Android. It got me some time to get used to. I also admire the way focus and notification summaries let me attend to non important stuff only when I want.

Novelty I assume. The Smartphone market is pretty stagnant with just minute details changing year to year, so something like folding phone is some fresh air. But for me it's not of interest until they manage to get it into a form factor close to the original Motorola Razr (Not the recent reboot fold). another huge turn off is the visible crease you get with current tech - a huge no-go.

I suspect they’re showing off, like people with flip phones did back in the day. I doubt I’ll ever get one myself because of lots of reasons, including thickness, vulnerability of the screen and mechanism, the fact that I don’t like a crease down the middle of my screen, weight, extra points of failure, water ingress and dust, plus others I can’t remember.

Some people like em. That’s cool. I have an iPad for when I want a bigger screen, and am cool with not having it with me all the time.

Unless you download large files with unlimited data plans, or use your iPhone as hotspot for Macbook whilst traveling for work - I don’t see the need to upgrade. 4G works plenty fast for most handheld mobile operations.

5G has been in my city for a couple years. I don’t care.

you're holding volume up and power together then. you need to do it as I said volume up once, release. Volume down, release. Power button hold until you see apple logo. don't press them together but one by one

True, but I’ve found still that most people have iPhones that have been bought within the past 3 years so it still helps weed out people who are in denial about their appearance.

It’s only ever better outside in the select big cities that have mm wave.. until it’s actually better I’d say don’t upgrade just for 5G, it’s just a little bonus when you’re ready to upgrade the rest of your phone

I have tried a hard restart, unfortunately no luck. The touchscreen is still unresponsive

I have looked it up.

This is the exact procedure:

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/iphone/iph8903c3ee6/ios

I get the message that if I keep this up the emergency services will be called ¯_(ツ)_/¯

volume up, volume down and hold power button to force restart it

Spent the last hours tinkering about, thank you so much for your suggestions. I was considering just installing AdGuard and checking it there but I found out you can't block apps from the wifi either (only mobile data). I'll be returning the iPhone, the extended support does not justify the lack of features and restrictions, maybe next gen i'll reconsider.

5G is overrated

Restart it

5G is underwhelming so far, zero reason to upgrade for 5G alone.

In the screenshot click the "battery and charging" menu. They added "clean energy charging" in ios 16 which supposedly only charges ur phone when "clean energy" is available so that + smart charging might be why it was charging weird

It shows you plugged in at midnight, but charging was not activated and so the battery continued to deplete until it shut itself off. Looks like you using between 12-1am, did it shut-off while you where using it?

The gap between 1-5am with no info on the graph is typical display while charging after the phone has shut itself off. Your phone restarted at 5am when you started using it again, and so started recording battery graph info again.

personally i find Android's lack of a decent Face ID system makes notifications a sub-par experience on Android since i can't see my notifications on screen with a tap and a glance - i have to unlock the Android phone with a fingerprint sensor, swipe down, expand the notification using the tiny little triangle button and then it only presents three of the latest notifications rather than allowing me to scroll through all of them

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i guess it's all rather subjective

You only have to do the current period reset for carriers that don’t support native monthly data tracking. For the carriers that support it, there’s no option to reset, and instead it shows current and previous billing period, which you can toggle between. For example, here is a screenshot of it.

Everyone's personal experience will be different on this one I suppose. I had been using Android phones since the Note 2 was a thing and I switched to a 14 Pro back in December. I had no issues transitioning from Android. Yeah there are differences like knowing where to find settings and such, but if you can operate one you can operate the other. They aren't that much different.

You will have to get used to things that just don't exist in the iOS world, such as web based messaging and bluetooth file transfer (unless you use a Mac). That was probably the biggest struggle for me, but as far as using the phone ... it just isn't that much different than using an Andoid phone.