this post was submitted on 13 Apr 2025
19 points (100.0% liked)
Apple
798 readers
5 users here now
There are a couple of community rules in addition to the main instance rules.
All posts must be about Apple
Anything goes as long as it’s about Apple. News about other companies and devices is allowed if it directly relates to Apple.
No NSFW content
While lemmy.zip allows NSFW content this community is intended to be a place for all to feel welcome. Any NSFW content will be removed and the user banned.
If you have any comments or suggestions please message one of the moderators.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
This is a good move, but it needs to come with a user education campaign. It’s amazing how often people assume you can’t do something on iOS/iPadOS when in fact you can.
iOS supports transferring files to and from external media like hard drives & USB keys, Ethernet adapters, video out, multi-monitors, USB-C docks, wired and wireless mice and keyboards (with mouse support across the OS), use all Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft game controllers in games, connect to SMB file shares natively, extract from ZIP in Files natively and 7z, RAR and ISO using Keka.
You can virtualize operating systems with UTM, emulate console systems with a host of emulators like Delta, Folium & Provenance. Run converted game engines with ScummVM (works great with mouse & KB support).
Extensions like SponsorBlock are available on iOS. You can block ads in Apple News and other apps using native DNS blocking in AdGuard. You can re-arrange icons with spaces, delete icons from home without removing the app if you only want them in App Library, and add widgets to the Lock screen.
Those are just a few off the top of my head.
To be fair, some of the things you mentioned (like UTM or add blocking via DNS) could work SOOOOO much better if Apple didn’t go out of their way to make it harder than it needs to be.