Yelp Mobile (Android) App Thoughts

Only bewildering because you have incomplete knowledge. Yelp's business hours data is far from accurate or complete. Lack of completeness is the biggest problem, as many if not most business are missing this data in Yelp. Using Open Now results in a huge number of false negatives since Yelp treats businesses with unknown hours as closed. It makes a lot of sense for Yelp to not have it on by default.

With respect to business hours, business addresses, and photos, you have to remember that Yelp is primarily crowdsourced. You can't expect it to be as accurate as Airbnb, where the proprietor creates and maintains the info, and selects the best photos. Yelp's UI will ask randomly ask users whether a photo is "useful", and probably shows the ones voted more useful first.

By the way, on iOS, the Yelp app does provide a carousel of photos, whether by pulling down or clicking on any of the thumbnails that are shown.

The number one failing for me is that Yelp does a horrible job with respect to user saved favorites. When I look at search results in a map view, I would like all my favorites shown in a different color. I also would like to filter my favorites in the same way I can filter regular search results. For example, "Show me all my favorite cafes nearby".