Since Samsung downgraded their phones with no replaceable battery or expandable memory, and since Apple has finally right-sized (IMO) their phones, I thought I'd give them a shot. Picked up an 6S Plus a few days ago and have been fighting it ever since. We are a pure Windows house and have never owned an iPhone or Apple anything. We have a long line of Androids though, and even some of the early Windows smartphones (HTC 6700). So this is all new and there's a steep learning curve. I've been trying to get happy with the phone, but the list of headaches I've thus far is long.
I've worked through most of it. I'm a programmer and like a challenge, and thought I'd made it through the worst of it getting all my non-itunes songs and vids converted and "sync'd". And learning how bad Apples App Store is, etc.
But my last hurtle may be the straw that breaks the camels back, which is mass movement and organization of text, pdf, doc, xls, etc folders and files is impossible. I have 1000's of files in various file formats (pdf, xls, txt, doc, jpg, etc) in dozens of folders I like to keep on my smart phone. Android is just drag and drop and use built in file explorers to find them and open them. Easy peasy. iPhone makes it very hard to load them (has to be through iTunes) and you can't organize them beyond things like name and date. iCloud is not an option as I'm often outside cell range. This restriction really blows and may be the deal killer for me. It's like someone said "No, you can't use file cabinets anymore. Just take all those files and through them on the floor.".
Any assistance from you long time Apple folks on the mass movement and organization of files, would be appreciated. Do I need to Jailbreak it? I see a 3rd software release in the last 45 days hit today, so I'm kind of hesitant to downgrade to 9.0.2 so I can do that. But if I did, are there good jailbrake apps that will do what I want, have a file/sub-file structure on the phone that I can easily update and access?
I'm trying to get through all of it and get happy with this thing, but Apple sure is making it hard. It's so much more work to do the same things I can do with an Android phone in a matter of seconds. I still have plenty of time to turn it back in, and that is probably what is going to happen, but I'm trying. I've spent hours and hours on the web searching for answers, installing programs to try and work around this stuff, talking to Apple via phone and chat, etc. Frustrating stuff.
Thanks
I've worked through most of it. I'm a programmer and like a challenge, and thought I'd made it through the worst of it getting all my non-itunes songs and vids converted and "sync'd". And learning how bad Apples App Store is, etc.
But my last hurtle may be the straw that breaks the camels back, which is mass movement and organization of text, pdf, doc, xls, etc folders and files is impossible. I have 1000's of files in various file formats (pdf, xls, txt, doc, jpg, etc) in dozens of folders I like to keep on my smart phone. Android is just drag and drop and use built in file explorers to find them and open them. Easy peasy. iPhone makes it very hard to load them (has to be through iTunes) and you can't organize them beyond things like name and date. iCloud is not an option as I'm often outside cell range. This restriction really blows and may be the deal killer for me. It's like someone said "No, you can't use file cabinets anymore. Just take all those files and through them on the floor.".
Any assistance from you long time Apple folks on the mass movement and organization of files, would be appreciated. Do I need to Jailbreak it? I see a 3rd software release in the last 45 days hit today, so I'm kind of hesitant to downgrade to 9.0.2 so I can do that. But if I did, are there good jailbrake apps that will do what I want, have a file/sub-file structure on the phone that I can easily update and access?
I'm trying to get through all of it and get happy with this thing, but Apple sure is making it hard. It's so much more work to do the same things I can do with an Android phone in a matter of seconds. I still have plenty of time to turn it back in, and that is probably what is going to happen, but I'm trying. I've spent hours and hours on the web searching for answers, installing programs to try and work around this stuff, talking to Apple via phone and chat, etc. Frustrating stuff.
Thanks