I got the damn iPhone 15 today and honest to fuck I am going to do a murder.
Unlike every cell phone I've ever had, it does not come with a two-prong wall plug. Only the usbc cord. Expecting you to have things to stick one of the ends in. Literally if the man did not leave a charging cable for his phone on a power strip next to my bed I would not be able to charge this thing.
Swiping down from the center of the screen does something different from swiping down from the right of the screen, seemingly more or less a tiny, non-configurable subset thereof. It took me like half an hour to figure this out and I was starting to think the damn thing had some absurd bug or something.
If you don't use face ID (ha, no fuckin way), unlocking it is a couple really awkward motions. Also really awkward motion is closing apps. These both feel like dark patterns to me. The first to try to get you to use biometrics, the second to get you to leave apps running in the background all the time. *jazzhands* Data!
Dark mode makes the icons look absurd and bad.
Not having a home button is literally the worst idea ever.
@rowmyboat In accessibility/touch settings, there is a feature called back tap where you can assign functions to either double tapping or tripple tapping the back of the phone. Using it as a home button is one of the options. As I recall from when I tried it, I found it to be pretty sensitive so it would activate in my pocket or bag which I found annoying. Your mileage may vary. It's an option if you can't get over the awkwardness of the gestures. I eventually got over it but I do miss the home button. It is much more efficient than silly gestures.
@atfarnum it's really getting my goat that making this thing have a normal one requires tinkering with a whole bunch of accessibility settings, which tells me 1. its baseline accessibility is low, and 2. universal design is the way to go, period.