My iPhone 14 Plus already feels left behind

I’ve been using an iPhone 14 Plus as my dev and testing device lately, and the thing is kind of funny. It’s a perfectly good phone. Three years old, not ancient by any measure. But you can really see how far Apple has let it drift behind on anything modern.

Siri is still dumb. I can’t customize anything. For a three-year-old phone it somehow feels like something from 20 years ago, and that hits even harder coming from Android, where I can swap out the assistant, pick which one actually runs, and have Gemini do agentic stuff for me (soon!). The phone does things on my behalf. The iPhone? None of that. It all just passes it by.

And it’s not like it’s a bad phone. I could drop a SIM in it tomorrow and daily-drive it without thinking twice. But ever since I switched to Android, a lot of the iOS stuff just quietly annoys me now.