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this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2023
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Just wondering, is ios any better?
It's less obnoxious with the ads, but it often straight up refuses to show results even if you type out the exact name of the app you're looking for. It also crashes surprisingly frequently, takes forever to load sometimes, and is overall a very "Apple" app.
I have personally never had something I’ve searched for not show up, I’ve never had the App Store crash a single time (I don’t think I’ve ever had any first-party app crash on iOS actually), and it’s always loaded for me as fast as my network will allow.
Just another anecdotal point of view, maybe the situation is different if you’re using an older iPhone?
Search on the App Store is definitely better, although still far from perfect. There's only one ad at the top, but any app that is new or unpopular is sometimes excluded from the results entirely.
Discovery on the apps page is very low as it only shows the stuff everybody knows about, like Tinder, Snapchat, etc.