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> There's the green bar at the top indicating I'm still in the call, but I cannot figure out how to get back to it.

You may be overthinking things. Just tap the bar. :)

If I were in the situation the guy described I definitely would have tried swiping down and then got confused when that didn't work. I guess I'd eventually try tapping it.

I haven't used iOS in years though, maybe if I was used to it then tapping would have been my first impulse. Do you often have to tap on the top/bottom of the screen to do things?

You aren't really tapping on the top/bottom of the screen in an arbitrary way. There's a green oval indicator that you're on a call (or a blue oval if you have map navigation as I mentioned in my sibling post to yours). You tap on that indicator. It's been that way for years now. Perhaps it's not the most intuitive, but it's not totally unintuitive and it makes a lot more sense to tap an indicator object than to try swiping randomly.

On some older phones it's just a horizontal bar at the top of the screen. But it also says "touch to return to call" on it, so that should be fairly self-explanatory. :)

Also works for maps which also adds an indicator in the status bar. Very handy.

Or any other “thing” that uses your camera/mic. You will get a clear indicator that it is being used, and touching it brings you to the app in question.

I just swapped to a Pixel Fold from an iPhone 14 myself. Some of the issues you talk about are present on both, but are issues in different ways imo.

> - There's reproducable little bugs that annoy me. For example when I initially boot up the phone, I can't tap the password field to open the on-screen keyboard. It doesn't work. I have to turn the screen off and turn it back on, and then I can open the keyboard

I've also noticed bugs with the PIN input, where it just won't register touches at first when the screen turns on, leading to a missed digit at the start.

> If you open a certificate file to import, you get a frigging dialog box telling you to manually go to the Settings app and approve it in some well hidden sub-section. Why doesn't the dialog offer you a jump straight into there?

This is 100% an issue on Android now too. Not sure when they made the change, but certs result in a dialog essentially saying "go to settings."

> There's the green bar at the top indicating I'm still in the call, but I cannot figure out how to get back to it.

For future reference, you tap the green bar.

> approve it in some well hidden sub-section

I have a feeling this might be deliberate friction to make social engineering harder.