My two biggest problems with iPhone/iOS.
Coming from Android, I'm really suffering from these two aspects of iOS, and I'm not able to figure if this can be solved with some setting or is it a flaw at the fundamental level?
The inconsistency in navigation: For some pages/states of the app, you can and have to simply swipe to go back to the previous page or state of the app. But for some other pages of the same app, you need to press the back button at the top left corner. You cant use it interchangeably. Or there is no one fixed system of going back. Why such inconsistency at the most basic UI level?
The notification issue: Why is it necessary to wake the screen up everytime even when a simple notification or WhatsApp message is received? You might ask me to disable that app's notification or mute the WhatsApp chat. No, I don't want to. I just want the phone to vibrate or ring or both to let me know that I have received a message - as simple as that. But no, iPhone has to switch on the screen and waste the battery to let me know that I have a notification, which won't be shown without unlocking, because of the privacy reason. I agree with not showing the content. So why wake up the screen?
Any Apple poweruser, do you have the solution to any of these? If you don't have, please don't defend or rationalize.
Edit: Thank you guys. Understood how to handle pt.2. It works well. Thanks again.
For pt.1, what I understood from the comments is that Apple hasn't kept any global function of going back through swipe at the OS level. Nor it has mandated the developers to do so. So a combination of laziness of developers and negligence of Apple UX has led to it. And the only way to use is to adapt to this discomfort.