A list of 12 grievances I have with Android 12:
- Google crashes the first time I open it every time, and I have to open it a second time
- Pages reload randomly in all browsers
- Apps close themselves after extremely short windows even when they’re the last thing I had open
- GPS voice changes in the middle of sentences. I’m talking 3 completely different voices randomly speaking words in every sentence, at different volumes.
- Dismissing my overnight alarm early no longer dismisses the associated do not disturb mode - I have to turn it off manually
- Night mode filter doesn’t fade in anymore, it just pops on all at once. I think this is probably because I was fussing with settings trying to turn off that godawful bounce at the end of scrolling, so it might be on me.
- Websites load slower in all browsers - I’m talking 5-20 second delays where it was previously 1-2 seconds
- Sometimes dragging down for notifications instead shows the settings as if I dragged down twice
- Attaching things in discord means I can’t type for at least 5 seconds or I’ll click through my keyboard and attach more things
- I swear to God I get way more misclicks now in general
- When I am playing music and lock my phone, the screen always turns back on after about 30 seconds and never turns off unless I do it a second time. Since it has controls on it, I end up skipping songs in my pocket unless I wait 30 seconds to turn it off a second time
- The time on the lock screen is sometimes BIG NUMBERS, sometimes small numbers, and sometimes a second, slightly different set of small numbers. I cannot tell why it switches between these at all since I have no notifications on my lock screen
These are just the things I’d consider bugs. Other things I hate about the design:
- If I open my notifications bar to see the date, I can’t see the time anymore. If I swipe down a second time to open the settings, I can see the time again. Why hide it once?
- The notifications bar slides down but also fades out the screen below it. One or the other, why both?
- The icons pop slightly out of the folders instead of staying inside the folders
- Everything, and I mean everything, is slower. Just a little bit. The responsiveness is garbage.
- The settings menus, in particular the Accessibility menu, is full of submenus and sub-submenus now.
- Can’t swipe for more quick settings in the notifications bar anymore, instead have to drag down twice, then swipe. And some of the options are still hidden unless I manually added them.
- Pretty sure my battery is draining faster as well.
- It’s harder to see if I have more than 4 emails in a single notification - the icon is smaller and in the upper right instead of a big “+2” below the other notifications.
I was going to do this upgrade regardless, and I only really did it a couple of weeks earlier than I originally intended, so no shade to @boojiboy7 for saying it’s fine - I’m sure it is perfectly fine for 99% of everyone. I say all the time that I’m absolutely cursed when it comes to electronics and this is no exception. I’d guess I’m the only person experiencing most of the above for whatever reason.
I’m going to need to figure out how to back up all my data and switch to a different firmware because i hate using my phone now.