Rootz's Blog

down-swipe -->  <-- right-swipe the two faces of search on iOS 9 I have to make this very, very clear: In my humble opinion (which is more frustrated than humble at this point) iOS 8 got the search feature right, and iOS 9 just killed it. Like, killed it, in a very bad, awful way. Yes, Spotlight Search and Proactive Siri are cool, and even Siri Suggestions is at times useful, but my problem lies with the way you access them. Either you can swipe down from the home screen or you can swipe right from the home screen. That’s the problem. There are two options. Why? Just, why ? They each offer slightly different features if you have Siri Suggestions on, but in the end, we will probably find one method more to our liking than the other. We will end up using only one . Why doesn’t Apple just give us the choice to disable one or the other? I don’t understand! Please help me to understand!! The only moderately good thing I can find in this whole two—way-search feature ...

I used an Android phone for only one month and was terrified by how quickly I got used to it. It was just so easy! My contacts synced with my Gmail, Google Maps worked like a dream, and Inbox was like digital narcotics. (Imagine: all my to-dos, reminders and mail in one place!) And that back-button! How did I live without a back-button?? But it couldn’t last, I knew. Android and I weren’t meant to be. I’d recently bought a MacBook Pro. I’d grown up with iPods and iMacs. My loyalty was with Apple, no matter how much I hated to admit it. And I did hate it. For an entire week, I hated my new iPhone. It would be fine, I’d told myself, you’ll just download all those Google Apps from the app-store and use them as before! The app-icons will look different, but hey! Except, it’s not that simple: Chrome is not (and cannot be, without a jailbreak) iOS’s default browser; Google Maps must give preference to Apple Maps; don’t you dare add a contact to Contacts, because there is no hope of syn...