For many years, there have been several debates about which smartphone OS is better — Android, or iOS. There are strong opinions about why some choose one over the other. But, fact of the matter is that the two have been closing the gaps in the past few years, with Android becoming more fluid and beautiful, and iOS becoming more flexible and customisable.

But there are still things that you can do on Android phone today, that you just can’t on an iPhone. And we’re not referring to things like swapping default Android with custom ROMs. We’re pointing out some of the things that average, non-techie users do on their smartphones. So here it goes:

1) Smarter calling, and messaging

Truecaller, a really popular crowdsourced phone directory service, is available on both Android and iOS. But the most useful thing about the app - where you get to see names of identified unknown callers when a call comes in, is available only on Android. In iOS 10, a new API lets Truecaller show an incoming spam call, but it won’t show names of every caller - you have to manually check those. It only shows live caller ID if the person calling you also has Truecaller installed, but during the initial rollout this feature didn't work reliably. The Android app also syncs the call logs so you can even see names of unknown numbers listed in a chronological fashion - you can even use it as a replacement for your default dialer. Whereas in iOS, the app only shows a log of people whom you’ve called using the app, not all calls.

Next, there are many interesting third party SMS apps that have added functionality. For example, TrueMessenger replaces unknown numbers in SMS conversations with names from the Truecaller database, and even segregates spam SMSs from legitimate ones. Then there’s Textra and other cool apps, that are more functional than the default SMS app that your Android phone typically comes with.

2) Backup to Google Photos in the background

Google Photos is an incredible service that offers unlimited backups of photos and videos captured on your phone, for free. And although there’s some compression, the quality will be fairly acceptable for most of us. Now, although there is an iOS app for this service, it doesn’t reliably backup photos when the phone’s on standby - that’s because Apple doesn’t have APIs for apps to perform tasks like uploading content in the background. On Android though, not only will photos sync when your phone is asleep, you can even set a rule so that they start uploading only when the phone’s on charge.

The only way to seamlessly backup photos on an iPhone today is by using iCloud, which has a monthly subscription fee beyond the first 5GB - though it does not compress your images.

3) Run two apps at once

Although you can run two apps side-by-side on an iPad, the same isn’t available on an iPhone, yet. On Android, multi-window has been available on a number of different phones for years, and now it is officially baked into Android 7.0 Nougat. This can be useful when you’re juggling between two apps constantly - like for example talking to someone on a messenger app while checking your Twitter feed at the same time. Oh, and a neat little bonus, on Android Nougat you can ‘Alt-tab’ between two apps by consecutively tapping the multitasking button.

4) Record phone calls

This is yet another thing that you can’t do on an iPhone - record phone calls. Sure, there are some hacky ways around doing this or by using third party subscription services on iOS, but it isn’t as easy as installing an app on an Android phone. Apps like Automatic Call Recorder can record every call by default and you can also share the AMR file over email or cloud storage.

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IPhone users care less about it.

iPhone fanboys coming in for the kill

Youngpo413:
IPhone users care less about it.

Guess he's looking for someone that will pay im for the thread lol
It's usless to we iOS users it's ain'our business

iPhone has always been shit case closed

Have u noticed it's always Android always comparing themselves with Apple, always trying to prove their superiority, Apple won't do that you know why? = when you know your worth you need not constantly trying to prove your worth cos it's crystal clear for all to see.

Very nice @OP While iCloud is 5GB, Google Drive is 15GB free.