My iPhone is filled with default apps, and actually, that is sort of the purpose

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I desire iOS native apps for aesthetic unity and ease.
Native apps work positive for non-critical duties, like checking the climate.
Apple’s user-friendly interface has led to my loyalty to iOS apps.

This is likely to be one among my most unpopular opinions throughout the board, however I actually do take pleasure in iOS native apps. The Apple Climate app? In all probability my most searched-for possibility. Apple Notes? My entire life is in there, truly. Apple Maps? Positively the most popular take I’ve ever had could be siding with that navigation device over Google Maps and Waze (nicely, for the most part).

It isn’t iOS’s apps — it is me. I am infamous for being content material in Apple’s lovely walled backyard, or a prisoner of its ecosystem, as some would possibly name it, as a substitute. No matter it could be, I have been Stockholm-Syndromed into loving all my iOS native apps, and here is why.

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Why I ‘settle’ for iOS native apps

It isn’t as a result of I feel they’re higher

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A few causes: aesthetic, ease, and a happy-go-lucky mentality that all of it simply actually is not that deep.

iOS apps have an aesthetic designed to go collectively. It is akin to proudly owning a whole set of Le Creuset kitchenware in the identical coloration. Alternatively, assembling a group of kitchenware from numerous manufacturers is like downloading a variety of various apps that is probably not as visually cohesive however would possibly supply extra specialised capabilities.

Since I am not the most effective cook dinner, I respect the simplicity and fantastic thing about the Le Creuset set — it does every little thing I would like with out complicating issues, and nonetheless at a top quality. I desire the uniformity to the gathering of extremely specialised however mismatched gadgets, particularly since cooking is not my forte. I am going to go away the specialised instruments to the skilled cooks.

Calendar icon, send icon, and messages icon.

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Bringing it again to iOS, I am not utilizing any of the native apps (like Climate, Notes, Compass, and so on.) for something that can have a life-or-death impression upon my every day life. If I used to be continually commuting to and from the workplace each day, I would in all probability obtain a extra specialised climate software to see if it could rain on a stroll to the morning practice — a report all the way down to the minute would in all probability decide whether or not or not I ought to seize an umbrella and even change my outfit.

iOS ‘simply works.’ It is a easy interface that I am fully snug utilizing, and it is not just like the outcomes are earth-shatteringly particular, in my world a minimum of. If Apple tells me there is a 70% probability of rain “round” 3PM, I am going to in all probability convey a raincoat to my 2:30 appointment simply to be secure. If it would not rain, no hurt, no foul.

The Activity feature on Apple Notes on an iPhone.

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The place all of it started

Earlier than an iPhone was even in my arms

I purchased into Apple’s ‘it simply works’ mentality again after I had an iPod Nano, first-gen iPad mini, and iPod contact — all earlier than I even snagged an iPhone 5s on my thirteenth birthday. There was one thing so futuristic and Star-Trek-like about Apple’s UI, and the user-experience was one thing that straight up revolutionized my studying, writing, and leisure at a younger age throughout the board.

I bear in mind when Apple Notes was that god-awful yellow with the black ‘handwriting’ typeface. I adored the notepad-like attraction, and no matter did not go into the unique Notes app went straight into Pages on my iPad mini.

Sure, I was a Pages apologist — emphasis on the ‘was once.’ Now that I am not writing novels on my iPad mini and have a brand-new, attractive MacBook Professional, I a lot desire browser-based Google Docs.

Apple was the primary OS that felt approachable and accessible outdoors a full-blown PC. Not like the clunky Windows desktops I discovered how one can use within the college laptop lab, Apple and iOS felt glossy, luxurious, and, for lack of a greater time period in my pre-teen mind, magical. I really like that my units are cohesive and all of the functions appear like they belong collectively, from their app icons all the best way to the expertise utilizing them usually.

Total, native apps get the job performed. I have never run into any painstakingly private points with Apple’s trusty apps, and I frankly do not feel like sifting by means of the app retailer to switch all of them with third-party ones which can be higher until I get a vibrant, glowing evaluation from somebody who thinks a selected app would change some particular facet of my life. Apple would not have an iOS native plant identification app but, do they?