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by austhrow743 1827 days ago
Your experience is honestly exactly how I felt trying to help my mother with her Android a couple weeks ago.

No idea what the official settings looks like or where I would find what I wanted. No idea what the quickest ways to navigate the ui are. Just pages and pages of icons to scroll through. Multiple of which were called some variant of “settings”. Many of which were dodgy phone tuning apps she’d downloaded then Android and her phones manufacturer both had their own.

It’s not an iPhone or Android thing it’s an unfamiliar phone messed with by a tech illiterate thing.

FYI fastest way to get to settings or anything on iOS is to pull down in the middle of the screen. A search bar will come up and by the time you’ve typed “se” in to it settings should be the first result.

Works for contacts, calendar appointments, etc as well. It’s a solid choice for first thing you try when looking for basically anything.