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Phone data management
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2017–2026), in 5 threads.
People raised many different problems with Phone data management, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 5 complaints
- Copying photos from phone needs constant babysitting, skip or retry prompts, and is very slow2026-02-01
- Restoring all apps after a device change is painful and time-consuming even with backups2024-05-14
- File sharing between phones is slow, cumbersome, or unreliable across options2024-04-03
- Scrolling through thousands of photos to find a memory takes forever and often fails2017-09-29
- No middle ground for managing which data to carry; the interface is awful2017-01-31