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      <comment>Created page with "This page collects various failures of Google's "world class developers". Everyone is welcome to contribute.  == Android file manager == Both "Files by Google" and Android's built-in file manager (DocumentsUI) lack basic features one would expect from a file manager. For example, there is no scrollbar. You can not see the total size of selected directories. You can not limit searching to one specific folder but you have to search the entire storage. There are no filters..."</comment>
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      <text bytes="1501" sha1="sc44rkdh6hi7anzalf0nja5cx556eth" xml:space="preserve">This page collects various failures of Google's "world class developers". Everyone is welcome to contribute.

== Android file manager ==
Both "Files by Google" and Android's built-in file manager (DocumentsUI) lack basic features one would expect from a file manager. For example, there is no scrollbar. You can not see the total size of selected directories. You can not limit searching to one specific folder but you have to search the entire storage. There are no filters like date range. The search feature only returns up to 24 results, an arbitrary limit.

Most importantly, after tapping on "copy" or "move, it doesn't stay in the current directory, but opens the Download folder instead. This means, if your goal is to move files to a subdirectory of the currently viewed directory, you have to manually navigate all the way back to the directory you were in. This is something even Windows 95 did better.

== GBoard (Google Keyboard) ==
There is no option to turn off the one-hour clipboard time limit.

== Google Calendar ==
Lacks a "jump to date" feature. This is something Samsung had in the early 2010s (but curiously removed with the S6), and Nokia had even in the 1990s, for example on the Nokia 7111.

If you want to check what day of the week a specific date was, you have to manually scroll to it.

== Google Chrome ==
Mandatory pull-to-refresh, data lock-in, lack of customization, and more. See ''[[User:JodyBruchonFan/Everything_wrong_with_Chrome|Everything wrong with Chrome]]''.</text>
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      <text bytes="1559" sha1="f2ahelnuupnr51o3zwpw1ld83mj84ib" xml:space="preserve">This page collects various failures of Google's "world class developers". Everyone is welcome to contribute.

== Android file manager ==
Both "Files by Google" and Android's built-in file manager (DocumentsUI) lack basic features one would expect from a file manager. For example, there is no scrollbar. You can not see the total size of selected directories. You can not limit searching to one specific folder but you have to search the entire storage. There are no filters like date range. The search feature only returns up to 24 results, an arbitrary limit.

Most importantly, after tapping on "copy" or "move, it doesn't stay in the current directory, but opens the Download folder instead. This means, if your goal is to move files to a subdirectory of the currently viewed directory, you have to manually navigate all the way back to the directory you were in. This is something even Windows 95 did better.

== GBoard (Google Keyboard) ==
There is no option to turn off the one-hour clipboard time limit.

== Google Calendar ==
Lacks a "jump to date" feature. This is something Samsung had in the early 2010s (but curiously removed with the S6), and Nokia had even in the 1990s, for example on the Nokia 7111.

If you want to check what day of the week a specific date was, you have to manually scroll to it.

== Google Chrome ==
Mandatory pull-to-refresh, data lock-in, lack of customization, and more. See ''[[User:JodyBruchonFan/Everything_wrong_with_Chrome|Everything wrong with Chrome]]''.

== YouTube ==
[[YouTube]] has ID verification, DRM, etc.</text>
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      <comment>more things (edit conflict will be resolved)</comment>
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      <text bytes="4131" sha1="59u820v00lz1m83pm8tm73mtwvvgox0" xml:space="preserve">One would expect Google to be a company of world class developers. While they create good software in some categories, they sometimes don't implement basic features one would expect some other categories of software to have. This page collects various failures of Google's "world class developers". Everyone is welcome to contribute.

== Android file manager ==
It baffles me how Google manages to create a sophisticated chat bot like Gemini while failing to build a proper file manager that lacks features that ES File Explorer already had in the early 2010s, in its golden days before becoming adware and when Android was friendly to third-party file managers.

Both "Files by Google" and Android's built-in file manager (DocumentsUI) lack basic features one would expect from a file manager. 

For example, there is no scrollbar. On DocumentsUI, you can not see the total size and recursive file/folder count of one or more selected directories. You can not limit searching to one specific folder but you have to search the entire storage. There are no search filters like date range. The search feature only returns up to 24 results, an arbitrary limit. In list view, the last modified time and number of items within a folder are not shown. The detail view only shows the last modified time in minutes, not seconds, and does not show the exact file size in bytes. You can not jump from a search result to its parent directory. It does not remember your sorting preference. You can not select all items inbetween two items (like shift+click does on desktop and ES File Explorer does with a dedicated button). There is no "open with" feature. It doesn't even make use of Android's built-in recycle bin feature. 

Most importantly, after tapping on "copy" or "move", it doesn't stay in the current directory, but opens the Download folder instead. This means, if you wish to move items to a subdirectory of the currently viewed directory, you first have to manually navigate all the way back to the directory you were in before tapping on "copy" or "move". This is something even Windows 95 did better.

But hey, at least they implemented Google Drive integration. To their credit, they implemented the ability to browse ZIP and even TAR files, and the file transfer progress is displayed as a notification, which is better than a pop-up that blocks interacting with the file manager, like in Samsung's file manager.

== GBoard (Google Keyboard) ==
There is no option to turn off the one-hour clipboard time limit, which automatically deletes clipboard items older than one hour.

The clipboard is not intended for long-term storage of course, but that's not an excuse for not giving the user the choice. Why not two hours? Why not one day? Let the user decide.

If special character shortcuts are enabled, there is a shortcut for the backslash (&lt;kbd&gt;\&lt;/kbd&gt;), but surprisingly not for the forward slash(&lt;kbd&gt;/&lt;/kbd&gt;), a much more commonly used key.

Additionally, it lacks reverse backspacing. Samsung's keyboard allows reverse backspacing using Shift+Backspace. This is like the "delete" key on desktop computers.

== Google Calendar ==
Lacks a "jump to date" feature which would let you enter the numerical date.

This is something Samsung had in the early 2010s (but curiously removed with the S6), and Nokia had even in the 1990s, for example on the Nokia 7111.

If you want to check what day of the week a specific date was, you have to manually scroll to it.

== Google Chrome ==
Mandatory pull-to-refresh, data lock-in, lack of customization, and more. See ''[[User:JodyBruchonFan/Everything_wrong_with_Chrome|Everything wrong with Chrome]]''.

== Google Messages ==
No option to [[Data_lock-in#Text_messages|export messages]], making it almost impossible to create local backups without root access.

The third-party app "SMS Backup+" sadly forces the user to go through the middleman GMail rather than doing the sensible thing, just dumping a file in the device storage.

== Dialer (telephone) and contacts app ==
Of course, no built-in exporting to a file. Not surprising at this point.

== Referenes ==
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== Android file manager ==
It baffles me how Google manages to create a sophisticated chat bot like Gemini while failing to build a proper file manager that lacks features that ES File Explorer already had in the early 2010s, in its golden days before becoming adware and when Android was friendly to third-party file managers.

Both "Files by Google" and Android's built-in file manager (DocumentsUI) lack basic features one would expect from a file manager. 

For example, there is no scrollbar. On DocumentsUI, you can not see the total size and recursive file/folder count of one or more selected directories. You can not limit searching to one specific folder but you have to search the entire storage. There are no search filters like date range. The search feature only returns up to 24 results, an arbitrary limit. In list view, the last modified time and number of items within a folder are not shown. The detail view only shows the last modified time in minutes, not seconds, and does not show the exact file size in bytes. You can not jump from a search result to its parent directory. It does not remember your sorting preference. You can not select all items inbetween two items (like shift+click does on desktop and ES File Explorer does with a dedicated button). There is no "open with" feature. It doesn't even make use of Android's built-in recycle bin feature. 

Most importantly, after tapping on "copy" or "move", it doesn't stay in the current directory, but opens the Download folder instead. This means, if you wish to move items to a subdirectory of the currently viewed directory, you first have to manually navigate all the way back to the directory you were in before tapping on "copy" or "move". This is something even Windows 95 did better.

But hey, at least they implemented Google Drive integration. To their credit, they implemented the ability to browse ZIP and even TAR files, and the file transfer progress is displayed as a notification, which is better than a pop-up that blocks interacting with the file manager, like in Samsung's file manager.

== GBoard (Google Keyboard) ==
There is no option to turn off the one-hour clipboard time limit, which automatically deletes clipboard items older than one hour.

The clipboard is not intended for long-term storage of course, but that's not an excuse for not giving the user the choice. Why not two hours? Why not one day? Let the user decide.

If special character shortcuts are enabled, there is a shortcut for the backslash (&lt;kbd&gt;\&lt;/kbd&gt;), but surprisingly not for the forward slash(&lt;kbd&gt;/&lt;/kbd&gt;), a much more commonly used key.

Additionally, it lacks reverse backspacing. Samsung's keyboard allows reverse backspacing using Shift+Backspace. This is like the "delete" key on desktop computers.

== Google Calendar ==
Lacks a "jump to date" feature which would let you enter the numerical date.

This is something Samsung had in the early 2010s (but curiously removed with the S6), and Nokia had even in the 1990s, for example on the Nokia 7111.

If you want to check what day of the week a specific date was, you have to manually scroll to it.

== Google Chrome ==
Mandatory pull-to-refresh, data lock-in, lack of customization, and more. See ''[[User:JodyBruchonFan/Everything_wrong_with_Chrome|Everything wrong with Chrome]]''.

== Google Messages ==
No option to [[Data_lock-in#Text_messages|export messages]], making it almost impossible to create local backups without root access.

The third-party app "SMS Backup+" sadly forces the user to go through the middleman GMail rather than doing the sensible thing, just dumping a file in the device storage.

== Dialer (telephone) and contacts app ==
Of course, no built-in exporting to a file. Not surprising at this point.

== YouTube ==
[[YouTube]] has ID verification, DRM, etc.

== Referenes ==
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== Android file manager ==
It baffles me how Google manages to create a sophisticated chat bot like Gemini while failing to build a proper file manager that lacks features that ES File Explorer already had in the early 2010s, in its golden days before becoming adware and when Android was friendly to third-party file managers.

Both "Files by Google" and Android's built-in file manager (DocumentsUI) lack basic features one would expect from a file manager. 

For example, there is no scrollbar. On DocumentsUI, you can not see the total size and recursive file/folder count of one or more selected directories. You can not limit searching to one specific folder but you have to search the entire storage. There are no search filters like date range. The search feature only returns up to 24 results, an arbitrary limit. In list view, the last modified time and number of items within a folder are not shown. The detail view only shows the last modified time in minutes, not seconds, and does not show the exact file size in bytes. You can not jump from a search result to its parent directory. It does not remember your sorting preference. You can not select all items inbetween two items (like shift+click does on desktop and ES File Explorer does with a dedicated button). There is no "open with" feature. It doesn't even make use of Android's built-in recycle bin feature. 

Most importantly, after tapping on "copy" or "move", it doesn't stay in the current directory, but opens the Download folder instead. This means, if you wish to move items to a subdirectory of the currently viewed directory, you first have to manually navigate all the way back to the directory you were in before tapping on "copy" or "move". This is something even Windows 95 did better.

But hey, at least they implemented Google Drive integration. To their credit, they implemented the ability to browse ZIP and even TAR files, and the file transfer progress is displayed as a notification, which is better than a pop-up that blocks interacting with the file manager, like in Samsung's file manager.

== GBoard (Google Keyboard) ==
There is no option to turn off the one-hour clipboard time limit, which automatically deletes clipboard items older than one hour.

The clipboard is not intended for long-term storage of course, but that's not an excuse for not giving the user the choice. Why not two hours? Why not one day? Let the user decide.

If special character shortcuts are enabled, there is a shortcut for the backslash (&lt;kbd&gt;\&lt;/kbd&gt;), but surprisingly not for the forward slash(&lt;kbd&gt;/&lt;/kbd&gt;), a much more commonly used key.

Additionally, it lacks reverse backspacing. Samsung's keyboard allows reverse backspacing using Shift+Backspace. This is like the "delete" key on desktop computers.

== Google Calendar ==
Lacks a "jump to date" feature which would let you enter the numerical date.

This is something Samsung had in the early 2010s (but curiously removed with the S6), and Nokia had even in the 1990s, for example on the Nokia 7111.

If you want to check what day of the week a specific date was, you have to manually scroll to it.

== Google Chrome ==
Mandatory pull-to-refresh, data lock-in, lack of customization, and more. See ''[[User:JodyBruchonFan/Everything_wrong_with_Chrome|Everything wrong with Chrome]]''.

== Google Messages ==
No option to [[Data_lock-in#Text_messages|export messages]], making it almost impossible to create local backups without root access.

The third-party app "SMS Backup+" sadly forces the user to go through the middleman GMail rather than doing the sensible thing, just dumping a file in the device storage.

== Dialer (telephone) and contacts app ==
Of course, no built-in exporting to a file. Not surprising at this point.

== YouTube ==
The [[YouTube]] website and mobile application provide no way to download videos to a local file that is accessible outside the YouTube website or app. Unlike most other things on this list, this has been done on purpose, not as a result of negligence, see [[YouTube#Digital_Rights_Management|YouTube § Digital Rights Management]].

There is no numerical "jump to time feature" like the one the desktop edition of VLC Media Player has had for decades. The mobile edition of VLC Media Player has it too.

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== Android file manager ==
It baffles me how Google manages to create a sophisticated chat bot like Gemini while failing to build a proper file manager.

Both "Files by Google" and Android's built-in file manager (DocumentsUI) lack basic features one would expect from a file manager. They lack features that ES File Explorer already had in the early 2010s, in its golden days before becoming adware and when Android was friendly to third-party file managers.

For example, there is no scrollbar. On DocumentsUI, you can not see the total size and recursive file/folder count of one or more selected directories. You can not limit searching to one specific folder but you have to search the entire storage. There are no search filters like date range. The search feature only returns up to 24 results, an arbitrary limit. In list view, the last modified time and number of items within a folder are not shown. The detail view only shows the last modified time in minutes, not seconds, and does not show the exact file size in bytes. You can not jump from a search result to its parent directory. It does not remember your sorting preference. You can not select all items inbetween two items (like shift+click does on desktop and ES File Explorer does with a dedicated button). There is no "open with" feature. It doesn't even make use of Android's built-in recycle bin feature. 

Most importantly, after tapping on "copy" or "move", it doesn't stay in the current directory, but opens the Download folder instead. This means, if you wish to move items to a subdirectory of the currently viewed directory, you first have to manually navigate all the way back to the directory you were in before tapping on "copy" or "move". This is something even Windows 95 did better.

But hey, at least they implemented Google Drive integration. To their credit, they implemented the ability to browse ZIP and even TAR files, and the file transfer progress is displayed as a notification, which is better than a pop-up that blocks interacting with the file manager, like in Samsung's file manager.

== GBoard (Google Keyboard) ==
There is no option to turn off the one-hour clipboard time limit, which automatically deletes clipboard items older than one hour.

The clipboard is not intended for long-term storage of course, but that's not an excuse for not giving the user the choice. Why not two hours? Why not one day? Let the user decide.

If special character shortcuts are enabled, there is a shortcut for the backslash (&lt;kbd&gt;\&lt;/kbd&gt;), but surprisingly not for the forward slash(&lt;kbd&gt;/&lt;/kbd&gt;), a much more commonly used key.

Additionally, it lacks reverse backspacing. Samsung's keyboard allows reverse backspacing using Shift+Backspace. This is like the "delete" key on desktop computers.

== Google Calendar ==
Lacks a "jump to date" feature which would let you enter the numerical date.

This is something Samsung had in the early 2010s (but curiously removed with the S6), and Nokia had even in the 1990s, for example on the Nokia 7111.

If you want to check what day of the week a specific date was, you have to manually scroll to it.

== Google Chrome ==
Mandatory pull-to-refresh, data lock-in, lack of customization, and more. See ''[[User:JodyBruchonFan/Everything_wrong_with_Chrome|Everything wrong with Chrome]]''.

== Google Messages ==
No option to [[Data_lock-in#Text_messages|export messages]], making it almost impossible to create local backups without root access.

The third-party app "SMS Backup+" sadly forces the user to go through the middleman GMail rather than doing the sensible thing, just dumping a file in the device storage.

== Dialer (telephone) and contacts app ==
Of course, no built-in exporting to a file. Not surprising at this point.

== YouTube ==
The [[YouTube]] website and mobile application provide no way to download videos to a local file that is accessible outside the YouTube website or app. Unlike most other things on this list, this has been done on purpose, not as a result of negligence, see [[YouTube#Digital_Rights_Management|YouTube § Digital Rights Management]].

There is no numerical "jump to time feature" like the one the desktop edition of VLC Media Player has had for decades. The mobile edition of VLC Media Player has it too.

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== Android file manager ==
It baffles me how Google manages to create a sophisticated chat bot like Gemini while failing to build a proper file manager.

Both "Files by Google" and Android's built-in file manager (DocumentsUI) lack basic features one would expect from a file manager. They lack features that ES File Explorer already had in the early 2010s, in its golden days before becoming adware and when Android was friendly to third-party file managers.

For example, there is no scrollbar. On DocumentsUI, you can not see the total size and recursive file/folder count of one or more selected directories. You can not limit searching to one specific folder but you have to search the entire storage. There are no search filters like date range. The search feature only returns up to 24 results, an arbitrary limit. In list view, the last modified time and number of items within a folder are not shown. The detail view only shows the last modified time in minutes, not seconds, and does not show the exact file size in bytes. You can not jump from a search result to its parent directory. It does not remember your sorting preference. You can not select all items inbetween two items (like shift+click does on desktop and ES File Explorer does with a dedicated button). There is no "open with" feature. It doesn't even make use of Android's built-in recycle bin feature. 

Most importantly, after tapping on "copy" or "move", it doesn't stay in the current directory, but opens the Download folder instead. This means, if you wish to move items to a subdirectory of the currently viewed directory, you first have to manually navigate all the way back to the directory you were in before tapping on "copy" or "move". This is something even Windows 95 did better.

But hey, at least they implemented Google Drive integration. To their credit, they implemented the ability to browse ZIP and even TAR files, create ZIP files, a built-in EXIF viewer, the ability to open multiple instances, selection by tapping the file icon (faster than holding), a large grid view suitable for image seeking, and the file transfer progress is displayed as a notification, which is better than a pop-up that blocks interacting with the file manager, like in Samsung's file manager.

== GBoard (Google Keyboard) ==
There is no option to turn off the one-hour clipboard time limit, which automatically deletes clipboard items older than one hour.

The clipboard is not intended for long-term storage of course, but that's not an excuse for not giving the user the choice. Why not two hours? Why not one day? Let the user decide.

If special character shortcuts are enabled, there is a shortcut for the backslash (&lt;kbd&gt;\&lt;/kbd&gt;), but surprisingly not for the forward slash (&lt;kbd&gt;/&lt;/kbd&gt;), a much more commonly used key.

Additionally, it lacks reverse backspacing. Samsung's keyboard allows reverse backspacing using Shift+Backspace. This is like the "delete" key on desktop computers.

== Google Calendar ==
Lacks a "jump to date" feature which would let you enter the numerical date.

This is something Samsung had in the early 2010s (but curiously removed with the S6), and Nokia had even in the 1990s, for example on the Nokia 7111.

If you want to check what day of the week a specific date was, you have to manually scroll to it.

== Google Chrome ==
Mandatory pull-to-refresh, data lock-in, lack of customization, and more. See ''[[User:JodyBruchonFan/Everything_wrong_with_Chrome|Everything wrong with Chrome]]''.

== Google Messages ==
No option to [[Data_lock-in#Text_messages|export messages]], making it almost impossible to create local backups without root access.

The third-party app "SMS Backup+" sadly forces the user to go through the middleman GMail rather than doing the sensible thing, just dumping a file in the device storage.

== Dialer (telephone) and contacts app ==
Of course, no built-in exporting to a file. Not surprising at this point.

== YouTube ==
The [[YouTube]] website and mobile application provide no way to download videos to a local file that is accessible outside the YouTube website or app. Unlike most other things on this list, this has been done on purpose, not as a result of negligence, see [[YouTube#Digital_Rights_Management|YouTube § Digital Rights Management]].

There is no numerical "jump to time feature" like the one the desktop edition of VLC Media Player has had for decades. The mobile edition of VLC Media Player has it too.

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      <text bytes="4837" sha1="d5d4yea67t4ep5se0m2p9auxhz1d9na" xml:space="preserve">One would expect Google to be a company of world class developers. While they create good software in some categories, they sometimes don't implement basic features one would expect some other categories of software to have. This page collects various failures of Google's "world class developers". Everyone is welcome to contribute.

== Android file manager ==
It baffles me how Google manages to create a sophisticated chat bot like Gemini while failing to build a proper file manager.

Both "Files by Google" and Android's built-in file manager (DocumentsUI) lack basic features one would expect from a file manager. They lack features that ES File Explorer already had in the early 2010s, in its golden days before becoming adware and when Android was friendly to third-party file managers.

For example, there is no scrollbar. On DocumentsUI, you can not see the total size and recursive file/folder count of one or more selected directories. You can not limit searching to one specific folder but you have to search the entire storage. There are no search filters like date range. The search feature only returns up to 24 results, an arbitrary limit. In list view, the last modified time and number of items within a folder are not shown. The detail view only shows the last modified time in minutes, not seconds, and does not show the exact file size in bytes. You can not jump from a search result to its parent directory. It does not remember your sorting preference. You can not select all items inbetween two items (like shift+click does on desktop and ES File Explorer does with a dedicated button). There is no "open with" feature. It doesn't even make use of Android's built-in recycle bin feature. 

Most importantly, after tapping on "copy" or "move", it doesn't stay in the current directory, but opens the Download folder instead. This means, if you wish to move items to a subdirectory of the currently viewed directory, you first have to manually navigate all the way back to the directory you were in before tapping on "copy" or "move". This is something even Windows 95 did better.

But hey, at least they implemented Google Drive integration. To their credit, they implemented the ability to browse ZIP and even TAR files, create ZIP files, a built-in EXIF viewer, the ability to open multiple instances, selection by tapping the file icon (faster than holding), a large grid view suitable for image seeking, and the file transfer progress is displayed as a notification, which is better than a pop-up that blocks interacting with the file manager, like in Samsung's file manager.

== GBoard (Google Keyboard) ==
There is no option to turn off the one-hour clipboard time limit, which automatically deletes clipboard items older than one hour.

The clipboard is not intended for long-term storage of course, but that's not an excuse for not giving the user the choice. Why not two hours? Why not one day? Let the user decide.

If special character shortcuts are enabled, there is a shortcut for the backslash (&lt;kbd&gt;\&lt;/kbd&gt;), but surprisingly not for the forward slash (&lt;kbd&gt;/&lt;/kbd&gt;), a much more commonly used key.

Additionally, it lacks reverse backspacing. Samsung's keyboard allows reverse backspacing using Shift+Backspace. This is like the "delete" key on desktop computers.

== Google Calendar ==
Lacks a "jump to date" feature which would let you enter the numerical date.

This is something Samsung had in the early 2010s (but curiously removed with the S6), and Nokia had even in the 1990s, for example on the Nokia 7111.

If you want to check what day of the week a specific date was, you have to manually scroll to it.

== Google Chrome ==
Mandatory pull-to-refresh, data lock-in, lack of customization, and more. See ''[[User:JodyBruchonFan/Everything_wrong_with_Chrome|Everything wrong with Chrome]]''.

== Google Messages ==
No option to [[Data_lock-in#Text_messages|export messages]], making it almost impossible to create local backups without root access.

The third-party app "SMS Backup+" sadly forces the user to go through the middleman GMail rather than doing the sensible thing, just dumping a file in the device storage.

== Dialer (telephone) and contacts app ==
Of course, no built-in exporting to a file. Not surprising at this point.

== YouTube ==
The [[YouTube]] website and mobile application provide no way to download videos to a local file that is accessible outside the YouTube website or app. Unlike most other things on this list, this has been done on purpose, not as a result of negligence, see [[YouTube#Digital_Rights_Management|YouTube § Digital Rights Management]].

There is no numerical "jump to time feature" like the one the desktop edition of VLC Media Player has had for decades. The mobile edition of VLC Media Player has it too.

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      <text bytes="5240" sha1="jx6vmxt4vzg8eppszpzolftf2zbkqbo" xml:space="preserve">One would expect Google to be a company of world class developers. While they create good software in some categories, they sometimes don't implement basic features one would expect some other categories of software to have. This page collects various failures of Google's "world class developers". Everyone is welcome to contribute.

== Android file manager ==
It baffles me how Google manages to create a sophisticated chat bot like Gemini while failing to build a proper file manager.

Both "Files by Google" and Android's built-in file manager (DocumentsUI) lack basic features one would expect from a file manager. They lack features that ES File Explorer already had in the early 2010s, in its golden days before becoming adware and when Android was friendly to third-party file managers.

For example, there is no scrollbar. On DocumentsUI, you can not see the total size and recursive file/folder count of one or more selected directories. You can not limit searching to one specific folder but you have to search the entire storage. There are no search filters like date range. The search feature only returns up to 24 results, an arbitrary limit. In list view, the last modified time and number of items within a folder are not shown. The detail view only shows the last modified time in minutes, not seconds, and does not show the exact file size in bytes. You can not jump from a search result to its parent directory. It does not remember your sorting preference. You can not select all items inbetween two items (like shift+click does on desktop and ES File Explorer does with a dedicated button). There is no "open with" feature. It doesn't even make use of Android's built-in recycle bin feature. 

Most importantly, after tapping on "copy" or "move", it doesn't stay in the current directory, but opens the Download folder instead. This means, if you wish to move items to a subdirectory of the currently viewed directory, you first have to manually navigate all the way back to the directory you were in before tapping on "copy" or "move". This is something even Windows 95 did better.

But hey, at least they implemented Google Drive integration. To their credit, they implemented the ability to browse ZIP and even TAR files, create ZIP files, a built-in EXIF viewer, the ability to open multiple instances, selection by tapping the file icon (faster than holding), a large grid view suitable for image seeking, and the file transfer progress is displayed as a notification, which is better than a pop-up that blocks interacting with the file manager, like in Samsung's file manager.

== GBoard (Google Keyboard) ==
There is no option to turn off the one-hour clipboard time limit, which automatically deletes clipboard items older than one hour, even after users have asked for it.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |url=https://support.google.com/android/thread/209187528/adjust-gboard-clipboard-timeout?hl=en |title=Adjust Gboard clipboard timeout - Android Community |date=2023-04-03 |access-date=2026-06-04 }} ([http://web.archive.org/web/20260514000953/https://support.google.com:443/android/thread/209187528/adjust-gboard-clipboard-timeout?hl=en archive])&lt;/ref&gt;

The clipboard is not intended for long-term storage of course, but that's not an excuse for not giving the user the choice. Why not two hours? Why not one day? Let the user decide.

If special character shortcuts are enabled, there is a shortcut for the backslash (&lt;kbd&gt;\&lt;/kbd&gt;), but surprisingly not for the forward slash (&lt;kbd&gt;/&lt;/kbd&gt;), a much more commonly used key.

Additionally, it lacks reverse backspacing. Samsung's keyboard allows reverse backspacing using Shift+Backspace. This is like the "delete" key on desktop computers.

== Google Calendar ==
Lacks a "jump to date" feature which would let you enter the numerical date.

This is something Samsung had in the early 2010s (but curiously removed with the S6), and Nokia had even in the 1990s, for example on the Nokia 7111.

If you want to check what day of the week a specific date was, you have to manually scroll to it.

== Google Chrome ==
Mandatory pull-to-refresh, data lock-in, lack of customization, and more. See ''[[User:JodyBruchonFan/Everything_wrong_with_Chrome|Everything wrong with Chrome]]''.

== Google Messages ==
No option to [[Data_lock-in#Text_messages|export messages]], making it almost impossible to create local backups without root access.

The third-party app "SMS Backup+" sadly forces the user to go through the middleman GMail rather than doing the sensible thing, just dumping a file in the device storage.

== Dialer (telephone) and contacts app ==
Of course, no built-in exporting to a file. Not surprising at this point.

== YouTube ==
The [[YouTube]] website and mobile application provide no way to download videos to a local file that is accessible outside the YouTube website or app. Unlike most other things on this list, this has been done on purpose, not as a result of negligence, see [[YouTube#Digital_Rights_Management|YouTube § Digital Rights Management]].

There is no numerical "jump to time feature" like the one the desktop edition of VLC Media Player has had for decades. The mobile edition of VLC Media Player has it too.

== References ==
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== Android file manager ==
It baffles me how Google manages to create a sophisticated chat bot like Gemini while failing to build a proper file manager.

Both "Files by Google" and Android's built-in file manager (DocumentsUI) lack basic features one would expect from a file manager. They lack features that ES File Explorer already had in the early 2010s, in its golden days before becoming adware and when Android was friendly to third-party file managers.

For example, there is no scrollbar. On DocumentsUI, you can not see the total size and recursive file/folder count of one or more selected directories. You can not limit searching to one specific folder but you have to search the entire storage. There are no search filters like date range. The search feature only returns up to 24 results, an arbitrary limit. In list view, the last modified time and number of items within a folder are not shown. The detail view only shows the last modified time in minutes, not seconds, and does not show the exact file size in bytes. You can not jump from a search result to its parent directory. It does not remember your sorting preference. You can not select all items inbetween two items (like shift+click does on desktop and ES File Explorer does with a dedicated button). There is no "open with" feature. There is no address bar that would let you enter a file path. It doesn't even make use of Android's built-in recycle bin feature. 

It doesn't even preserve the date and time attribute of copied files, something Windows had in the 1990s and Windows Mobile 6, released in 2009, had too.

Most importantly, after tapping on "copy" or "move", it doesn't stay in the current directory, but opens the Download folder instead. This means, if you wish to move items to a subdirectory of the currently viewed directory, you first have to manually navigate all the way back to the directory you were in before tapping on "copy" or "move". This is something even Windows 95 did better.

In earlier versions, it even had a bug where cancelling a file move operation would cause source files to be irrecoverably deleted without having been moved to the destination.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |url=https://support.google.com/photos/thread/106201?hl=en |title=Photos disappeared after moving to another device folder - Google Photos Community |author=Gökhun Güneyhan |date=2018-04-24 |access-date=2026-06-08 }}&lt;/ref&gt;

But hey, at least they implemented Google Drive integration. To their credit, they implemented the ability to browse ZIP and even TAR and 7z files, create ZIP files, a built-in EXIF viewer, the ability to open multiple instances, selection by tapping the file icon (faster than holding), a large grid view suitable for image seeking, and the file transfer progress indicator is displayed as a notification, which is better than a pop-up that blocks interacting with the file manager, like in Samsung's file manager.

== Android screenshot blocking ==
The thing that supposedly sets Android apart from iOS is user choice and freedom, yet Google decided that device owners are at the mercy of app developers to let them take screenshots and screen recordings. This is known as [[screenshot blocking]] or screen capture blocking, and can only be overridden with an unlocked bootloader and root access, which has complications of its own.

While this was originally intended to prevent banking app content from being captured or broadcasted to external screens (miracast, MHL), there is nothing preventing it from being used outside of its intended scope. Consequently, it was only a matter of time before app developers would realize they could use it arbitrarily.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |url=https://www.howtogeek.com/why-screenshots-dont-always-work-especially-in-secure-apps/ |website=How To Geek |author=Faisal Rasool |title=Why Your Phone Blocks Screenshots in Secure Apps |date=2025-08-23 |access-date=2026-05-26 }}&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |author=konradkar |url=https://old.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/f3xk35/bookingcom_app_disallow_to_take_screenshot_can_i/ |website=[[Reddit]] |title=Booking.com app disallow to take screenshot, can I bypass this? |date=2020-02-14 |access-date=2026-05-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230615071612/https://old.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/f3xk35/bookingcom_app_disallow_to_take_screenshot_can_i/ |archive-date=2023-06-15}}&lt;/ref&gt;

For this reason, Google should have provided a built-in option that lets the device owner override screen capture blocks at their own responsibility. An app deciding whether you should be allowed to take screenshots on your device is comparable to a guest in your home telling you how to behave.

== GBoard (Google Keyboard) ==
There is no option to turn off the one-hour clipboard time limit, which automatically deletes clipboard items older than one hour, even after users have asked for it.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |url=https://support.google.com/android/thread/209187528/adjust-gboard-clipboard-timeout?hl=en |title=Adjust Gboard clipboard timeout - Android Community |date=2023-04-03 |access-date=2026-06-04 }} ([http://web.archive.org/web/20260514000953/https://support.google.com:443/android/thread/209187528/adjust-gboard-clipboard-timeout?hl=en archive])&lt;/ref&gt;

The clipboard is not intended for long-term storage of course, but that's not an excuse for not giving the user the choice. Why not two hours? Why not one day? Let the user decide.

If special character shortcuts are enabled, there is a shortcut for the backslash (&lt;kbd&gt;\&lt;/kbd&gt;), but surprisingly not for the forward slash (&lt;kbd&gt;/&lt;/kbd&gt;), a much more commonly used key.

You can't change the delay until holding the backspace key will erase multiple characters, and how fast they are cleared (how many characters per second). A delay too long becomes a nuisance over time.

Additionally, it lacks reverse backspacing. Samsung's keyboard allows reverse backspacing using Shift+Backspace. This is like the "delete" key on desktop computers.

== Google Calendar ==
Lacks a "jump to date" feature which would let you enter the numerical date.

This is something Samsung had in the early 2010s (but curiously removed with the S6), and Nokia had even in the 1990s, for example on the Nokia 7111.

If you want to check what day of the week a specific date was, you have to manually scroll to it.

== Google Chrome ==
Mandatory pull-to-refresh, data lock-in, lack of customization, and more. See ''[[User:JodyBruchonFan/Everything_wrong_with_Chrome|Everything wrong with Chrome]]''.

== Google Docs ==
Google Docs will only let you save documents locally if the creator allows it. This is moralized nonsense. If someone makes something public, they should expect that others are able to save it.

== Google Messages ==
No option to [[Data_lock-in#Text_messages|export messages]], making it almost impossible to create local backups without root access.

The third-party app "SMS Backup+" sadly forces the user to go through the middleman GMail rather than doing the sensible thing, just dumping a file in the device storage.

There is no option to always show the number of remaining characters. The number of remaining characters is only shown if ten or less characters are left.

== Dialer (telephone) and contacts app ==
Of course, no built-in exporting to a file. Not surprising at this point.

== YouTube ==
The [[YouTube]] website and mobile application provide no way to download videos to a local file that is accessible outside the YouTube website or app. Unlike most other things on this list, this has been done on purpose, not as a result of negligence, see [[YouTube#Digital_Rights_Management|YouTube § Digital Rights Management]].

There is no numerical "jump to time feature" like the one the desktop edition of VLC Media Player has had for decades. The mobile edition of VLC Media Player has it too.

== References ==
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      <text bytes="8241" sha1="raxqt873sep6xbdlwvj526zyi2tozhy" xml:space="preserve">One would expect Google to be a company of world class developers. While they create good software in some categories, they sometimes don't implement basic features one would expect some other categories of software to have. This page collects various failures and bad decisions by Google's "world class developers". Everyone is welcome to contribute.

== Android file manager ==
It baffles me how Google manages to create a sophisticated chat bot like Gemini while failing to build a proper file manager.

Both "Files by Google" and Android's built-in file manager (DocumentsUI) lack basic features one would expect from a file manager. They lack features that ES File Explorer already had in the early 2010s, in its golden days before becoming adware and when Android was friendly to third-party file managers.

For example, there is no scrollbar. On DocumentsUI, you can not see the total size and recursive file/folder count of one or more selected directories. You can not limit searching to one specific folder but you have to search the entire storage. There are no search filters like date range. The search feature only returns up to 24 results, an arbitrary limit. In list view, the last modified time and number of items within a folder are not shown. The detail view only shows the last modified time in minutes, not seconds, and does not show the exact file size in bytes. You can not jump from a search result to its parent directory. It does not remember your sorting preference. You can not select all items inbetween two items (like shift+click does on desktop and ES File Explorer does with a dedicated button). There is no "open with" feature. There is no address bar that would let you enter a file path. It doesn't even make use of Android's built-in recycle bin feature. 

It doesn't even preserve the date and time attribute of copied files, something Windows had in the 1990s and Windows Mobile 6, released in 2009, had too.

Most importantly, after tapping on "copy" or "move", it doesn't stay in the current directory, but opens the Download folder instead. This means, if you wish to move items to a subdirectory of the currently viewed directory, you first have to manually navigate all the way back to the directory you were in before tapping on "copy" or "move". This is something even Windows 95 did better.

In earlier versions, it even had a bug where cancelling a file move operation would cause source files to be irrecoverably deleted without having been moved to the destination.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |url=https://support.google.com/photos/thread/106201?hl=en |title=Photos disappeared after moving to another device folder - Google Photos Community |author=Gökhun Güneyhan |date=2018-04-24 |access-date=2026-06-08 }}&lt;/ref&gt;

But hey, at least they implemented Google Drive integration. To their credit, they implemented the ability to browse ZIP and even TAR and 7z files, create ZIP files, a built-in EXIF viewer, the ability to open multiple instances, selection by tapping the file icon (faster than holding), a large grid view suitable for image seeking, and the file transfer progress indicator is displayed as a notification, which is better than a pop-up that blocks interacting with the file manager, like in Samsung's file manager.

== Android screenshot blocking ==
The thing that supposedly sets Android apart from iOS is user choice and freedom, yet Google decided that device owners are at the mercy of app developers to let them take screenshots and screen recordings. This is known as [[screenshot blocking]] or screen capture blocking, and can only be overridden with an unlocked bootloader and root access, which has complications of its own.

While this was originally intended to prevent banking app content from being captured or broadcasted to external screens (miracast, MHL), there is nothing preventing it from being used outside of its intended scope. Consequently, it was only a matter of time before app developers would realize they could use it arbitrarily.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |url=https://www.howtogeek.com/why-screenshots-dont-always-work-especially-in-secure-apps/ |website=How To Geek |author=Faisal Rasool |title=Why Your Phone Blocks Screenshots in Secure Apps |date=2025-08-23 |access-date=2026-05-26 }}&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |author=konradkar |url=https://old.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/f3xk35/bookingcom_app_disallow_to_take_screenshot_can_i/ |website=[[Reddit]] |title=Booking.com app disallow to take screenshot, can I bypass this? |date=2020-02-14 |access-date=2026-05-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230615071612/https://old.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/f3xk35/bookingcom_app_disallow_to_take_screenshot_can_i/ |archive-date=2023-06-15}}&lt;/ref&gt;

For this reason, Google should have provided a built-in option that lets the device owner override screen capture blocks at their own responsibility. An app deciding whether you should be allowed to take screenshots on your device is comparable to a guest in your home telling you how to behave.

== GBoard (Google Keyboard) ==
There is no option to turn off the one-hour clipboard time limit, which automatically deletes clipboard items older than one hour, even after users have asked for it.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |url=https://support.google.com/android/thread/209187528/adjust-gboard-clipboard-timeout?hl=en |title=Adjust Gboard clipboard timeout - Android Community |date=2023-04-03 |access-date=2026-06-04 }} ([http://web.archive.org/web/20260514000953/https://support.google.com:443/android/thread/209187528/adjust-gboard-clipboard-timeout?hl=en archive])&lt;/ref&gt;

The clipboard is not intended for long-term storage of course, but that's not an excuse for not giving the user the choice. Why not two hours? Why not one day? Let the user decide.

If special character shortcuts are enabled, there is a shortcut for the backslash (&lt;kbd&gt;\&lt;/kbd&gt;), but surprisingly not for the forward slash (&lt;kbd&gt;/&lt;/kbd&gt;), a much more commonly used key.

You can't change the delay until holding the backspace key will erase multiple characters, and how fast they are cleared (how many characters per second). A delay too long becomes a nuisance over time.

Additionally, it lacks reverse backspacing. Samsung's keyboard allows reverse backspacing using Shift+Backspace. This is like the "delete" key on desktop computers.

== Google Calendar ==
Lacks a "jump to date" feature which would let you enter the numerical date.

This is something Samsung had in the early 2010s (but curiously removed with the S6), and Nokia had even in the 1990s, for example on the Nokia 7111.

If you want to check what day of the week a specific date was, you have to manually scroll to it.

== Google Chrome ==
Mandatory pull-to-refresh, data lock-in, lack of customization, and more. See ''[[User:JodyBruchonFan/Everything_wrong_with_Chrome|Everything wrong with Chrome]]''.

== Google Docs ==
Google Docs will only let you save documents locally if the creator allows it. This is moralized nonsense. If someone makes something public, they should expect that others are able to save it.

== Google Messages ==
No option to [[Data_lock-in#Text_messages|export messages]], making it almost impossible to create local backups without root access.

The third-party app "SMS Backup+" sadly forces the user to go through the middleman GMail rather than doing the sensible thing, just dumping a file in the device storage.

There is no option to always show the number of remaining characters. The number of remaining characters is only shown if ten or less characters are left.

== Dialer (telephone) and contacts app ==
Of course, no built-in exporting to a file. Not surprising at this point.

== YouTube ==
The [[YouTube]] website and mobile application provide no way to download videos to a local file that is accessible outside the YouTube website or app. Unlike most other things on this list, this has been done on purpose, not as a result of negligence, see [[YouTube#Digital_Rights_Management|YouTube § Digital Rights Management]].

There is no numerical "jump to time feature" like the one the desktop edition of VLC Media Player has had for decades. The mobile edition of VLC Media Player has it too.

== References ==
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== Android file manager ==
It baffles me how Google manages to create a sophisticated chat bot like Gemini while failing to build a proper file manager.

Both "Files by Google" and Android's built-in file manager (DocumentsUI) lack basic features one would expect from a file manager. They lack features that ES File Explorer already had in the early 2010s, in its golden days before becoming adware and when Android was friendly to third-party file managers.

For example, there is no scrollbar. On DocumentsUI, you can not see the total size and recursive file/folder count of one or more selected directories. You can not limit searching to one specific folder but you have to search the entire storage. There are no search filters like date range. The search feature only returns up to 24 results, an arbitrary limit. In list view, the last modified time and number of items within a folder are not shown. The detail view only shows the last modified time in minutes, not seconds, and does not show the exact file size in bytes. You can not jump from a search result to its parent directory. It does not remember your sorting preference. You can not select all items inbetween two items (like shift+click does on desktop and ES File Explorer does with a dedicated button). There is no "open with" feature. There is no address bar that would let you enter a file path. It doesn't even make use of Android's built-in recycle bin feature. 

It doesn't even preserve the date and time attribute of copied files, something Windows had in the 1990s and Windows Mobile 6, released in 2009, had too.

Most importantly, after tapping on "copy" or "move", it doesn't stay in the current directory, but opens the Download folder instead. This means, if you wish to move items to a subdirectory of the currently viewed directory, you first have to manually navigate all the way back to the directory you were in before tapping on "copy" or "move". This is something even Windows 95 did better.

In earlier versions, it even had a bug where cancelling a file move operation would cause source files to be irrecoverably deleted without having been moved to the destination.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |url=https://support.google.com/photos/thread/106201?hl=en |title=Photos disappeared after moving to another device folder - Google Photos Community |author=Gökhun Güneyhan |date=2018-04-24 |access-date=2026-06-08 }} ([https://megalodon.jp/2023-0228-0023-32/https://support.google.com:443/photos/thread/106201?hl=en archive])&lt;/ref&gt;

But hey, at least they implemented Google Drive integration. To their credit, they implemented the ability to browse ZIP and even TAR and 7z files, create ZIP files, a built-in EXIF viewer, the ability to open multiple instances, selection by tapping the file icon (faster than holding), a large grid view suitable for image seeking, and the file transfer progress indicator is displayed as a notification, which is better than a pop-up that blocks interacting with the file manager, like in Samsung's file manager.

== Android screenshot blocking ==
The thing that supposedly sets Android apart from iOS is user choice and freedom, yet Google decided that device owners are at the mercy of app developers to let them take screenshots and screen recordings. This is known as [[screenshot blocking]] or screen capture blocking, and can only be overridden with an unlocked bootloader and root access, which has complications of its own.

While this was originally intended to prevent banking app content from being captured or broadcasted to external screens (miracast, MHL), there is nothing preventing it from being used outside of its intended scope. Consequently, it was only a matter of time before app developers would realize they could use it arbitrarily.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |url=https://www.howtogeek.com/why-screenshots-dont-always-work-especially-in-secure-apps/ |website=How To Geek |author=Faisal Rasool |title=Why Your Phone Blocks Screenshots in Secure Apps |date=2025-08-23 |access-date=2026-05-26 }}&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |author=konradkar |url=https://old.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/f3xk35/bookingcom_app_disallow_to_take_screenshot_can_i/ |website=[[Reddit]] |title=Booking.com app disallow to take screenshot, can I bypass this? |date=2020-02-14 |access-date=2026-05-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230615071612/https://old.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/f3xk35/bookingcom_app_disallow_to_take_screenshot_can_i/ |archive-date=2023-06-15}}&lt;/ref&gt;

For this reason, Google should have provided a built-in option that lets the device owner override screen capture blocks at their own responsibility. An app deciding whether you should be allowed to take screenshots on your device is comparable to a guest in your home telling you how to behave.

== GBoard (Google Keyboard) ==
There is no option to turn off the one-hour clipboard time limit, which automatically deletes clipboard items older than one hour, even after users have asked for it.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |url=https://support.google.com/android/thread/209187528/adjust-gboard-clipboard-timeout?hl=en |title=Adjust Gboard clipboard timeout - Android Community |date=2023-04-03 |access-date=2026-06-04 }} ([http://web.archive.org/web/20260514000953/https://support.google.com:443/android/thread/209187528/adjust-gboard-clipboard-timeout?hl=en archive])&lt;/ref&gt;

The clipboard is not intended for long-term storage of course, but that's not an excuse for not giving the user the choice. Why not two hours? Why not one day? Let the user decide.

If special character shortcuts are enabled, there is a shortcut for the backslash (&lt;kbd&gt;\&lt;/kbd&gt;), but surprisingly not for the forward slash (&lt;kbd&gt;/&lt;/kbd&gt;), a much more commonly used key.

You can't change the delay until holding the backspace key will erase multiple characters, and how fast they are cleared (how many characters per second). A delay too long becomes a nuisance over time.

Additionally, it lacks reverse backspacing. Samsung's keyboard allows reverse backspacing using Shift+Backspace. This is like the "delete" key on desktop computers.

== Google Calendar ==
Lacks a "jump to date" feature which would let you enter the numerical date.

This is something Samsung had in the early 2010s (but curiously removed with the S6), and Nokia had even in the 1990s, for example on the Nokia 7111.

If you want to check what day of the week a specific date was, you have to manually scroll to it.

== Google Chrome ==
Mandatory pull-to-refresh, data lock-in, lack of customization, and more. See ''[[User:JodyBruchonFan/Everything_wrong_with_Chrome|Everything wrong with Chrome]]''.

== Google Docs ==
Google Docs will only let you save documents locally if the creator allows it. This is moralized nonsense. If someone makes something public, they should expect that others are able to save it.

== Google Messages ==
No option to [[Data_lock-in#Text_messages|export messages]], making it almost impossible to create local backups without root access.

The third-party app "SMS Backup+" sadly forces the user to go through the middleman GMail rather than doing the sensible thing, just dumping a file in the device storage.

There is no option to always show the number of remaining characters. The number of remaining characters is only shown if ten or less characters are left.

== Dialer (telephone) and contacts app ==
Of course, no built-in exporting to a file. Not surprising at this point.

== YouTube ==
The [[YouTube]] website and mobile application provide no way to download videos to a local file that is accessible outside the YouTube website or app. Unlike most other things on this list, this has been done on purpose, not as a result of negligence, see [[YouTube#Digital_Rights_Management|YouTube § Digital Rights Management]].

There is no numerical "jump to time feature" like the one the desktop edition of VLC Media Player has had for decades. The mobile edition of VLC Media Player has it too.

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      <text bytes="8338" sha1="f4rmh9jdcmiollg4l8euzr772swm3pd" xml:space="preserve">One would expect Google to be a company of world class developers. While they create good software in some categories, they sometimes don't implement basic features one would expect some other categories of software to have. This page collects various failures and bad decisions by Google's "world class developers". Everyone is welcome to contribute.

== Android file manager ==
It baffles me how Google manages to create a sophisticated chat bot like Gemini while failing to build a proper file manager.

Both "Files by Google" and Android's built-in file manager (DocumentsUI) lack basic features one would expect from a file manager. They lack features that ES File Explorer already had in the early 2010s, in its golden days before becoming adware and when Android was friendly to third-party file managers.

For example, there is no scrollbar. On DocumentsUI, you can not see the total size and recursive file/folder count of one or more selected directories. You can not limit searching to one specific folder but you have to search the entire storage. There are no search filters like date range. The search feature only returns up to 24 results, an arbitrary limit. In list view, the last modified time and number of items within a folder are not shown. The detail view only shows the last modified time in minutes, not seconds, and does not show the exact file size in bytes. You can not jump from a search result to its parent directory. It does not remember your sorting preference. You can not select all items inbetween two items (like shift+click does on desktop and ES File Explorer does with a dedicated button). There is no "open with" feature. There is no address bar that would let you enter a file path. It doesn't even make use of Android's built-in recycle bin feature. 

It doesn't even preserve the date and time attribute of copied files, something Windows had in the 1990s and Windows Mobile 6, released in 2009, had too.

Most importantly, after tapping on "copy" or "move", it doesn't stay in the current directory, but opens the Download folder instead. This means, if you wish to move items to a subdirectory of the currently viewed directory, you first have to manually navigate all the way back to the directory you were in before tapping on "copy" or "move". This is something even Windows 95 did better.

Earlier versions even had a bug where cancelling a file move operation would cause source files to be irrecoverably deleted without having been moved to the destination.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |url=https://support.google.com/photos/thread/106201?hl=en |title=Photos disappeared after moving to another device folder - Google Photos Community |author=Gökhun Güneyhan |date=2018-04-24 |access-date=2026-06-08 }} ([https://megalodon.jp/2023-0228-0023-32/https://support.google.com:443/photos/thread/106201?hl=en archive])&lt;/ref&gt;

But hey, at least they implemented Google Drive integration. To their credit, they implemented the ability to browse ZIP and even TAR and 7z files, create ZIP files, a built-in EXIF viewer, the ability to open multiple instances, selection by tapping the file icon (faster than holding), a large grid view suitable for image seeking, and the file transfer progress indicator is displayed as a notification, which is better than a pop-up that blocks interacting with the file manager, like in Samsung's file manager.

== Android screenshot blocking ==
The thing that supposedly sets Android apart from iOS is user choice and freedom, yet Google decided that device owners are at the mercy of app developers to let them take screenshots and screen recordings. This is known as [[screenshot blocking]] or screen capture blocking, and can only be overridden with an unlocked bootloader and root access, which has complications of its own.

While this was originally intended to prevent banking app content from being captured or broadcasted to external screens (miracast, MHL), there is nothing preventing it from being used outside of its intended scope. Consequently, it was only a matter of time before app developers realized they could use it arbitrarily.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |url=https://www.howtogeek.com/why-screenshots-dont-always-work-especially-in-secure-apps/ |website=How To Geek |author=Faisal Rasool |title=Why Your Phone Blocks Screenshots in Secure Apps |date=2025-08-23 |access-date=2026-05-26 }}&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |author=konradkar |url=https://old.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/f3xk35/bookingcom_app_disallow_to_take_screenshot_can_i/ |website=[[Reddit]] |title=Booking.com app disallow to take screenshot, can I bypass this? |date=2020-02-14 |access-date=2026-05-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230615071612/https://old.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/f3xk35/bookingcom_app_disallow_to_take_screenshot_can_i/ |archive-date=2023-06-15}}&lt;/ref&gt;

For this reason, Google should have provided a built-in option that lets the device owner override screen capture blocks at their own responsibility. An app deciding whether you should be allowed to take screenshots on your device is comparable to a guest in your home telling you how to behave.

== GBoard (Google Keyboard) ==
There is no option to turn off the one-hour clipboard time limit, which automatically deletes clipboard items older than one hour, even after users have asked for it.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |url=https://support.google.com/android/thread/209187528/adjust-gboard-clipboard-timeout?hl=en |title=Adjust Gboard clipboard timeout - Android Community |date=2023-04-03 |access-date=2026-06-04 }} ([http://web.archive.org/web/20260514000953/https://support.google.com:443/android/thread/209187528/adjust-gboard-clipboard-timeout?hl=en archive])&lt;/ref&gt;

The clipboard is not intended for long-term storage of course, but that's not an excuse for not giving the user the choice. Why not two hours? Why not one day? Let the user decide.

If special character shortcuts are enabled, there is a shortcut for the backslash (&lt;kbd&gt;\&lt;/kbd&gt;), but surprisingly not for the forward slash (&lt;kbd&gt;/&lt;/kbd&gt;), a much more commonly used key.

You can't change the delay until holding the backspace key will erase multiple characters, and how fast they are cleared (how many characters per second). A delay too long becomes a nuisance over time.

Additionally, it lacks reverse backspacing. Samsung's keyboard allows reverse backspacing using Shift+Backspace. This is like the "delete" key on desktop computers.

== Google Calendar ==
Lacks a "jump to date" feature which would let you enter the numerical date.

This is something Samsung had in the early 2010s (but curiously removed with the S6), and Nokia had even in the 1990s, for example on the Nokia 7111.

If you want to check what day of the week a specific date was, you have to manually scroll to it.

== Google Chrome ==
Mandatory pull-to-refresh, data lock-in, lack of customization, and more. See ''[[User:JodyBruchonFan/Everything_wrong_with_Chrome|Everything wrong with Chrome]]''.

== Google Docs ==
Google Docs will only let you save documents locally if the creator allows it. This is moralized nonsense. If someone makes something public, they should expect that others are able to save it.

== Google Messages ==
No option to [[Data_lock-in#Text_messages|export messages]], making it almost impossible to create local backups without root access.

The third-party app "SMS Backup+" sadly forces the user to go through the middleman GMail rather than doing the sensible thing, just dumping a file in the device storage.

There is no option to always show the number of remaining characters. The number of remaining characters is only shown if ten or less characters are left.

== Dialer (telephone) and contacts app ==
Of course, no built-in exporting to a file. Not surprising at this point.

== YouTube ==
The [[YouTube]] website and mobile application provide no way to download videos to a local file that is accessible outside the YouTube website or app. Unlike most other things on this list, this has been done on purpose, not as a result of negligence, see [[YouTube#Digital_Rights_Management|YouTube § Digital Rights Management]].

There is no numerical "jump to time feature" like the one the desktop edition of VLC Media Player has had for decades. The mobile edition of VLC Media Player has it too.

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      <text bytes="8640" sha1="ji8rph2bn3scahj268o9al96f3w2g5i" xml:space="preserve">One would expect Google to be a company of world class developers. While they create good software in some categories, they sometimes don't implement basic features one would expect some other categories of software to have. This page collects various failures and bad decisions by Google's "world class developers". Everyone is welcome to contribute.

== Android file manager ==
It baffles me how Google manages to create a sophisticated chat bot like Gemini while failing to build a proper file manager.

Both "Files by Google" and Android's built-in file manager (DocumentsUI) lack basic features one would expect from a file manager. They lack features that ES File Explorer already had in the early 2010s, in its golden days before becoming adware and when Android was friendly to third-party file managers.

For example, there is no scrollbar. On DocumentsUI, you can not see the total size and recursive file/folder count of one or more selected directories. You can not limit searching to one specific folder but you have to search the entire storage. There are no search filters like date range. The search feature only returns up to 24 results, an arbitrary limit. In list view, the last modified time and number of items within a folder are not shown. The detail view only shows the last modified time in minutes, not seconds, and does not show the exact file size in bytes. You can not jump from a search result to its parent directory. It does not remember your sorting preference. You can not select all items inbetween two items (like shift+click does on desktop and ES File Explorer does with a dedicated button). There is no "open with" feature. There is no address bar that would let you enter a file path. It doesn't even make use of Android's built-in recycle bin feature. 

It doesn't even preserve the date and time attribute of copied files, something Windows had in the 1990s and Windows Mobile 6, released in 2009, had too.

Most importantly, after tapping on "copy" or "move", it doesn't stay in the current directory, but opens the Download folder instead. This means, if you wish to move items to a subdirectory of the currently viewed directory, you first have to manually navigate all the way back to the directory you were in before tapping on "copy" or "move". This is something even Windows 95 did better.

Earlier versions even had a bug where cancelling a file move operation would cause source files to be irrecoverably deleted without having been moved to the destination.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |url=https://support.google.com/photos/thread/106201?hl=en |title=Photos disappeared after moving to another device folder - Google Photos Community |author=Gökhun Güneyhan |date=2018-04-24 |access-date=2026-06-08 }} ([https://megalodon.jp/2023-0228-0023-32/https://support.google.com:443/photos/thread/106201?hl=en archive])&lt;/ref&gt;

But hey, at least they implemented Google Drive integration. To their credit, they implemented the ability to browse ZIP and even TAR and 7z files, create ZIP files, a built-in EXIF viewer, the ability to open multiple instances, selection by tapping the file icon (faster than holding), a large grid view suitable for image seeking, and the file transfer progress indicator is displayed as a notification, which is better than a pop-up that blocks interacting with the file manager, like in Samsung's file manager.

== Android screenshot blocking ==
The thing that supposedly sets Android apart from iOS is user choice and freedom, yet Google decided that device owners are at the mercy of app developers to let them take screenshots and screen recordings. This is known as [[screenshot blocking]] or screen capture blocking, and can only be overridden with an unlocked bootloader and root access, which has complications of its own.

While this was originally intended to prevent banking app content from being captured or broadcasted to external screens (miracast, MHL), there is nothing preventing it from being used outside of its intended scope. Consequently, it was only a matter of time before app developers realized they could use it arbitrarily.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |url=https://www.howtogeek.com/why-screenshots-dont-always-work-especially-in-secure-apps/ |website=How To Geek |author=Faisal Rasool |title=Why Your Phone Blocks Screenshots in Secure Apps |date=2025-08-23 |access-date=2026-05-26 }}&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |author=konradkar |url=https://old.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/f3xk35/bookingcom_app_disallow_to_take_screenshot_can_i/ |website=[[Reddit]] |title=Booking.com app disallow to take screenshot, can I bypass this? |date=2020-02-14 |access-date=2026-05-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230615071612/https://old.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/f3xk35/bookingcom_app_disallow_to_take_screenshot_can_i/ |archive-date=2023-06-15}}&lt;/ref&gt;

For this reason, Google should have provided a built-in option that lets the device owner override screen capture blocks at their own responsibility. An app deciding whether you should be allowed to take screenshots on your device is comparable to a guest in your home telling you how to behave.

== GBoard (Google Keyboard) ==
There is no option to turn off the one-hour clipboard time limit, which automatically deletes clipboard items older than one hour, even after users have asked for it.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |url=https://support.google.com/android/thread/209187528/adjust-gboard-clipboard-timeout?hl=en |title=Adjust Gboard clipboard timeout - Android Community |date=2023-04-03 |access-date=2026-06-04 }} ([http://web.archive.org/web/20260514000953/https://support.google.com:443/android/thread/209187528/adjust-gboard-clipboard-timeout?hl=en archive])&lt;/ref&gt;

The clipboard is not intended for long-term storage of course, but that's not an excuse for not giving the user the choice. Why not two hours? Why not one day? Why not indefinitely until a certain number of items is exceeded? Let the user decide.

In comparison, Samsung's and Xiaomi's keyboard applications (before Xiaomi ditched their native keyboard app in favour of GBoard) have no fixed time limit and delete the oldest unpinned clipboard item if a number of items is exceeded.

If special character shortcuts are enabled, there is a shortcut for the backslash (&lt;kbd&gt;\&lt;/kbd&gt;), but surprisingly not for the forward slash (&lt;kbd&gt;/&lt;/kbd&gt;), a much more commonly used key.

You can't change the delay until holding the backspace key will erase multiple characters, and how fast they are cleared (how many characters per second). A delay too long becomes a nuisance over time.

Additionally, it lacks reverse backspacing. Samsung's keyboard allows reverse backspacing using Shift+Backspace. This is like the "delete" key on desktop computers.

== Google Calendar ==
Lacks a "jump to date" feature which would let you enter the numerical date.

This is something Samsung had in the early 2010s (but curiously removed with the S6), and Nokia had even in the 1990s, for example on the Nokia 7111.

If you want to check what day of the week a specific date was, you have to manually scroll to it.

== Google Chrome ==
Mandatory pull-to-refresh, data lock-in, lack of customization, and more. See ''[[User:JodyBruchonFan/Everything_wrong_with_Chrome|Everything wrong with Chrome]]''.

== Google Docs ==
Google Docs will only let you save documents locally if the creator allows it. This is moralized nonsense. If someone makes something public, they should expect that others are able to save it.

== Google Messages ==
No option to [[Data_lock-in#Text_messages|export messages]], making it almost impossible to create local backups without root access.

The third-party app "SMS Backup+" sadly forces the user to go through the middleman GMail rather than doing the sensible thing, just dumping a file in the device storage.

There is no option to always show the number of remaining characters. The number of remaining characters is only shown if ten or less characters are left.

== Dialer (telephone) and contacts app ==
Of course, no built-in exporting to a file. Not surprising at this point.

== YouTube ==
The [[YouTube]] website and mobile application provide no way to download videos to a local file that is accessible outside the YouTube website or app. Unlike most other things on this list, this has been done on purpose, not as a result of negligence, see [[YouTube#Digital_Rights_Management|YouTube § Digital Rights Management]].

There is no numerical "jump to time feature" like the one the desktop edition of VLC Media Player has had for decades. The mobile edition of VLC Media Player has it too.

== References ==
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      <text bytes="8638" sha1="6o18y3lfsg64esmz0vqvgnxj8i2hdv2" xml:space="preserve">One would expect Google to be a company of world class developers. While they create good software in some categories, they sometimes don't implement basic features one would expect some other categories of software to have. This page collects various failures and bad decisions by Google's "world class developers". Everyone is welcome to contribute.

== Android file manager ==
It baffles me how Google manages to create a sophisticated chat bot like Gemini while failing to build a proper file manager.

Both "Files by Google" and Android's built-in file manager (DocumentsUI) lack basic features one would expect from a file manager. They lack features that ES File Explorer already had in the early 2010s, in its golden days before becoming adware and when Android was friendly to third-party file managers.

For example, there is no scrollbar. On DocumentsUI, you can not see the total size and recursive file/folder count of one or more selected directories. You can not limit searching to one specific folder but you have to search the entire storage. There are no search filters like date range. The search feature only returns up to 24 results, an arbitrary limit. In list view, the last modified time and number of items within a folder are not shown. The detail view only shows the last modified time in minutes, not seconds, and does not show the exact file size in bytes. You can not jump from a search result to its parent directory. It does not remember your sorting preference. You can not select all items inbetween two items (like shift+click does on desktop and ES File Explorer does with a dedicated button). There is no "open with" feature. There is no address bar that would let you enter a file path. It doesn't even make use of Android's built-in recycle bin feature. 

It doesn't even preserve the date and time attribute of copied files, something Windows had in the 1990s and Windows Mobile 6, released in 2009, had too.

Most importantly, after tapping on "copy" or "move", it doesn't stay in the current directory, but opens the Download folder instead. This means, if you wish to move items to a subdirectory of the currently viewed directory, you first have to manually navigate all the way back to the directory you were in before tapping on "copy" or "move". This is something even Windows 95 did better.

Earlier versions even had a bug where cancelling a file move operation would cause source files to be irrecoverably deleted without having been moved to the destination.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |url=https://support.google.com/photos/thread/106201?hl=en |title=Photos disappeared after moving to another device folder - Google Photos Community |author=Gökhun Güneyhan |date=2018-04-24 |access-date=2026-06-08 }} ([https://megalodon.jp/2023-0228-0023-32/https://support.google.com:443/photos/thread/106201?hl=en archive])&lt;/ref&gt;

But hey, at least they implemented Google Drive integration. To their credit, they implemented the ability to browse ZIP and even TAR and 7z files, create ZIP files, a built-in EXIF viewer, the ability to open multiple instances, selection by tapping the file icon (faster than holding), a large grid view suitable for image seeking, and the file transfer progress indicator is displayed as a notification, which is better than a pop-up that blocks interacting with the file manager, like in Samsung's file manager.

== Android screenshot blocking ==
The thing that supposedly sets Android apart from iOS is user choice and freedom, yet Google decided that device owners are at the mercy of app developers to let them take screenshots and screen recordings. This is known as [[screenshot blocking]] or screen capture blocking, and can only be overridden with an unlocked bootloader and root access, which has complications of its own.

While this was originally intended to prevent banking app content from being captured or broadcast to external screens (miracast, MHL), there is nothing preventing it from being used outside of its intended scope. Consequently, it was only a matter of time before app developers realized they could use it arbitrarily.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |url=https://www.howtogeek.com/why-screenshots-dont-always-work-especially-in-secure-apps/ |website=How To Geek |author=Faisal Rasool |title=Why Your Phone Blocks Screenshots in Secure Apps |date=2025-08-23 |access-date=2026-05-26 }}&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |author=konradkar |url=https://old.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/f3xk35/bookingcom_app_disallow_to_take_screenshot_can_i/ |website=[[Reddit]] |title=Booking.com app disallow to take screenshot, can I bypass this? |date=2020-02-14 |access-date=2026-05-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230615071612/https://old.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/f3xk35/bookingcom_app_disallow_to_take_screenshot_can_i/ |archive-date=2023-06-15}}&lt;/ref&gt;

For this reason, Google should have provided a built-in option that lets the device owner override screen capture blocks at their own responsibility. An app deciding whether you should be allowed to take screenshots on your device is comparable to a guest in your home telling you how to behave.

== GBoard (Google Keyboard) ==
There is no option to turn off the one-hour clipboard time limit, which automatically deletes clipboard items older than one hour, even after users have asked for it.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |url=https://support.google.com/android/thread/209187528/adjust-gboard-clipboard-timeout?hl=en |title=Adjust Gboard clipboard timeout - Android Community |date=2023-04-03 |access-date=2026-06-04 }} ([http://web.archive.org/web/20260514000953/https://support.google.com:443/android/thread/209187528/adjust-gboard-clipboard-timeout?hl=en archive])&lt;/ref&gt;

The clipboard is not intended for long-term storage of course, but that's not an excuse for not giving the user the choice. Why not two hours? Why not one day? Why not indefinitely until a certain number of items is exceeded? Let the user decide.

In comparison, Samsung's and Xiaomi's keyboard applications (before Xiaomi ditched their native keyboard app in favour of GBoard) have no fixed time limit and delete the oldest unpinned clipboard item if a number of items is exceeded.

If special character shortcuts are enabled, there is a shortcut for the backslash (&lt;kbd&gt;\&lt;/kbd&gt;), but surprisingly not for the forward slash (&lt;kbd&gt;/&lt;/kbd&gt;), a much more commonly used key.

You can't change the delay until holding the backspace key will erase multiple characters, and how fast they are cleared (how many characters per second). A delay too long becomes a nuisance over time.

Additionally, it lacks reverse backspacing. Samsung's keyboard allows reverse backspacing using Shift+Backspace. This is like the "delete" key on desktop computers.

== Google Calendar ==
Lacks a "jump to date" feature which would let you enter the numerical date.

This is something Samsung had in the early 2010s (but curiously removed with the S6), and Nokia had even in the 1990s, for example on the Nokia 7111.

If you want to check what day of the week a specific date was, you have to manually scroll to it.

== Google Chrome ==
Mandatory pull-to-refresh, data lock-in, lack of customization, and more. See ''[[User:JodyBruchonFan/Everything_wrong_with_Chrome|Everything wrong with Chrome]]''.

== Google Docs ==
Google Docs will only let you save documents locally if the creator allows it. This is moralized nonsense. If someone makes something public, they should expect that others are able to save it.

== Google Messages ==
No option to [[Data_lock-in#Text_messages|export messages]], making it almost impossible to create local backups without root access.

The third-party app "SMS Backup+" sadly forces the user to go through the middleman GMail rather than doing the sensible thing, just dumping a file in the device storage.

There is no option to always show the number of remaining characters. The number of remaining characters is only shown if ten or less characters are left.

== Dialer (telephone) and contacts app ==
Of course, no built-in exporting to a file. Not surprising at this point.

== YouTube ==
The [[YouTube]] website and mobile application provide no way to download videos to a local file that is accessible outside the YouTube website or app. Unlike most other things on this list, this has been done on purpose, not as a result of negligence, see [[YouTube#Digital_Rights_Management|YouTube § Digital Rights Management]].

There is no numerical "jump to time feature" like the one the desktop edition of VLC Media Player has had for decades. The mobile edition of VLC Media Player has it too.

== References ==
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      <text bytes="8871" sha1="9vjbge34ld1pa8eyiv6k1d44v4pls3s" xml:space="preserve">One would expect Google to be a company of world class developers. While they create good software in some categories, they sometimes don't implement basic features one would expect some other categories of software to have. This page collects various failures and bad decisions by Google's "world class developers". Everyone is welcome to contribute.

== Android file manager ==
It baffles me how Google manages to create a sophisticated chat bot like Gemini while failing to build a proper file manager.

Both "Files by Google" and Android's built-in file manager (DocumentsUI) lack basic features one would expect from a file manager. They lack features that ES File Explorer already had in the early 2010s, in its golden days before becoming adware and when Android was friendly to third-party file managers.

For example, there is no scrollbar. On DocumentsUI, you can not see the total size and recursive file/folder count of one or more selected directories. You can not limit searching to one specific folder but you have to search the entire storage. There are no search filters like date range. The search feature only returns up to 24 results, an arbitrary limit. In list view, the last modified time and number of items within a folder are not shown. The detail view only shows the last modified time in minutes, not seconds, and does not show the exact file size in bytes. You can not jump from a search result to its parent directory. It does not remember your sorting preference. You can not select all items inbetween two items (like shift+click does on desktop and ES File Explorer does with a dedicated button). There is no "open with" feature. There is no address bar that would let you enter a file path. It doesn't even make use of Android's built-in recycle bin feature. Tapping on "More information" removes the selection. Going back to the parent directory will open the top of the list, not the last scroll position. The ZIP file creator does not memorize the date and time of directories, only files.

It doesn't even preserve the date and time attribute of copied files, something Windows had in the 1990s and Windows Mobile 6, released in 2009, had too.

Most importantly, after tapping on "copy" or "move", it doesn't stay in the current directory, but opens the Download folder instead. This means, if you wish to move items to a subdirectory of the currently viewed directory, you first have to manually navigate all the way back to the directory you were in before tapping on "copy" or "move". This is something even Windows 95 did better.

Earlier versions even had a bug where cancelling a file move operation would cause source files to be irrecoverably deleted without having been moved to the destination.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |url=https://support.google.com/photos/thread/106201?hl=en |title=Photos disappeared after moving to another device folder - Google Photos Community |author=Gökhun Güneyhan |date=2018-04-24 |access-date=2026-06-08 }} ([https://megalodon.jp/2023-0228-0023-32/https://support.google.com:443/photos/thread/106201?hl=en archive])&lt;/ref&gt;

But hey, at least they implemented Google Drive integration. To their credit, they implemented the ability to browse ZIP and even TAR and 7z files, create ZIP files, a built-in EXIF viewer, the ability to open multiple instances, selection by tapping the file icon (faster than holding), a large grid view suitable for image seeking, and the file transfer progress indicator is displayed as a notification, which is better than a pop-up that blocks interacting with the file manager, like in Samsung's file manager.

== Android screenshot blocking ==
The thing that supposedly sets Android apart from iOS is user choice and freedom, yet Google decided that device owners are at the mercy of app developers to let them take screenshots and screen recordings. This is known as [[screenshot blocking]] or screen capture blocking, and can only be overridden with an unlocked bootloader and root access, which has complications of its own.

While this was originally intended to prevent banking app content from being captured or broadcast to external screens (miracast, MHL), there is nothing preventing it from being used outside of its intended scope. Consequently, it was only a matter of time before app developers realized they could use it arbitrarily.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |url=https://www.howtogeek.com/why-screenshots-dont-always-work-especially-in-secure-apps/ |website=How To Geek |author=Faisal Rasool |title=Why Your Phone Blocks Screenshots in Secure Apps |date=2025-08-23 |access-date=2026-05-26 }}&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |author=konradkar |url=https://old.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/f3xk35/bookingcom_app_disallow_to_take_screenshot_can_i/ |website=[[Reddit]] |title=Booking.com app disallow to take screenshot, can I bypass this? |date=2020-02-14 |access-date=2026-05-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230615071612/https://old.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/f3xk35/bookingcom_app_disallow_to_take_screenshot_can_i/ |archive-date=2023-06-15}}&lt;/ref&gt;

For this reason, Google should have provided a built-in option that lets the device owner override screen capture blocks at their own responsibility. An app deciding whether you should be allowed to take screenshots on your device is comparable to a guest in your home telling you how to behave.

== GBoard (Google Keyboard) ==
There is no option to turn off the one-hour clipboard time limit, which automatically deletes clipboard items older than one hour, even after users have asked for it.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |url=https://support.google.com/android/thread/209187528/adjust-gboard-clipboard-timeout?hl=en |title=Adjust Gboard clipboard timeout - Android Community |date=2023-04-03 |access-date=2026-06-04 }} ([http://web.archive.org/web/20260514000953/https://support.google.com:443/android/thread/209187528/adjust-gboard-clipboard-timeout?hl=en archive])&lt;/ref&gt;

The clipboard is not intended for long-term storage of course, but that's not an excuse for not giving the user the choice. Why not two hours? Why not one day? Why not indefinitely until a certain number of items is exceeded? Let the user decide.

In comparison, Samsung's and Xiaomi's keyboard applications (before Xiaomi ditched their native keyboard app in favour of GBoard) have no fixed time limit and delete the oldest unpinned clipboard item if a number of items is exceeded.

If special character shortcuts are enabled, there is a shortcut for the backslash (&lt;kbd&gt;\&lt;/kbd&gt;), but surprisingly not for the forward slash (&lt;kbd&gt;/&lt;/kbd&gt;), a much more commonly used key.

You can't change the delay until holding the backspace key will erase multiple characters, and how fast they are cleared (how many characters per second). A delay too long becomes a nuisance over time.

Additionally, it lacks reverse backspacing. Samsung's keyboard allows reverse backspacing using Shift+Backspace. This is like the "delete" key on desktop computers.

== Google Calendar ==
Lacks a "jump to date" feature which would let you enter the numerical date.

This is something Samsung had in the early 2010s (but curiously removed with the S6), and Nokia had even in the 1990s, for example on the Nokia 7111.

If you want to check what day of the week a specific date was, you have to manually scroll to it.

== Google Chrome ==
Mandatory pull-to-refresh, data lock-in, lack of customization, and more. See ''[[User:JodyBruchonFan/Everything_wrong_with_Chrome|Everything wrong with Chrome]]''.

== Google Docs ==
Google Docs will only let you save documents locally if the creator allows it. This is moralized nonsense. If someone makes something public, they should expect that others are able to save it.

== Google Messages ==
No option to [[Data_lock-in#Text_messages|export messages]], making it almost impossible to create local backups without root access.

The third-party app "SMS Backup+" sadly forces the user to go through the middleman GMail rather than doing the sensible thing, just dumping a file in the device storage.

There is no option to always show the number of remaining characters. The number of remaining characters is only shown if ten or less characters are left.

== Dialer (telephone) and contacts app ==
Of course, no built-in exporting to a file. Not surprising at this point.

== YouTube ==
The [[YouTube]] website and mobile application provide no way to download videos to a local file that is accessible outside the YouTube website or app. Unlike most other things on this list, this has been done on purpose, not as a result of negligence, see [[YouTube#Digital_Rights_Management|YouTube § Digital Rights Management]].

There is no numerical "jump to time feature" like the one the desktop edition of VLC Media Player has had for decades. The mobile edition of VLC Media Player has it too.

== References ==
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      <text bytes="8916" sha1="qw0922mywwim1cgcgrupt5swgyfcr05" xml:space="preserve">One would expect Google to be a company of world class developers. While they create good software in some categories, VP9 and AV1 and Google Earth being examples, they sometimes don't implement basic features one would expect some other categories of software to have. This page collects various failures and bad decisions by Google's "world class developers". Everyone is welcome to contribute.

== Android file manager ==
It baffles me how Google manages to create a sophisticated chat bot like Gemini while failing to build a proper file manager.

Both "Files by Google" and Android's built-in file manager (DocumentsUI) lack basic features one would expect from a file manager. They lack features that ES File Explorer already had in the early 2010s, in its golden days before becoming adware and when Android was friendly to third-party file managers.

For example, there is no scrollbar. On DocumentsUI, you can not see the total size and recursive file/folder count of one or more selected directories. You can not limit searching to one specific folder but you have to search the entire storage. There are no search filters like date range. The search feature only returns up to 24 results, an arbitrary limit. In list view, the last modified time and number of items within a folder are not shown. The detail view only shows the last modified time in minutes, not seconds, and does not show the exact file size in bytes. You can not jump from a search result to its parent directory. It does not remember your sorting preference. You can not select all items inbetween two items (like shift+click does on desktop and ES File Explorer does with a dedicated button). There is no "open with" feature. There is no address bar that would let you enter a file path. It doesn't even make use of Android's built-in recycle bin feature. Tapping on "More information" removes the selection. Going back to the parent directory will open the top of the list, not the last scroll position. The ZIP file creator does not memorize the date and time of directories, only files.

It doesn't even preserve the date and time attribute of copied files, something Windows had in the 1990s and Windows Mobile 6, released in 2009, had too.

Most importantly, after tapping on "copy" or "move", it doesn't stay in the current directory, but opens the Download folder instead. This means, if you wish to move items to a subdirectory of the currently viewed directory, you first have to manually navigate all the way back to the directory you were in before tapping on "copy" or "move". This is something even Windows 95 did better.

Earlier versions even had a bug where cancelling a file move operation would cause source files to be irrecoverably deleted without having been moved to the destination.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |url=https://support.google.com/photos/thread/106201?hl=en |title=Photos disappeared after moving to another device folder - Google Photos Community |author=Gökhun Güneyhan |date=2018-04-24 |access-date=2026-06-08 }} ([https://megalodon.jp/2023-0228-0023-32/https://support.google.com:443/photos/thread/106201?hl=en archive])&lt;/ref&gt;

But hey, at least they implemented Google Drive integration. To their credit, they implemented the ability to browse ZIP and even TAR and 7z files, create ZIP files, a built-in EXIF viewer, the ability to open multiple instances, selection by tapping the file icon (faster than holding), a large grid view suitable for image seeking, and the file transfer progress indicator is displayed as a notification, which is better than a pop-up that blocks interacting with the file manager, like in Samsung's file manager.

== Android screenshot blocking ==
The thing that supposedly sets Android apart from iOS is user choice and freedom, yet Google decided that device owners are at the mercy of app developers to let them take screenshots and screen recordings. This is known as [[screenshot blocking]] or screen capture blocking, and can only be overridden with an unlocked bootloader and root access, which has complications of its own.

While this was originally intended to prevent banking app content from being captured or broadcast to external screens (miracast, MHL), there is nothing preventing it from being used outside of its intended scope. Consequently, it was only a matter of time before app developers realized they could use it arbitrarily.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |url=https://www.howtogeek.com/why-screenshots-dont-always-work-especially-in-secure-apps/ |website=How To Geek |author=Faisal Rasool |title=Why Your Phone Blocks Screenshots in Secure Apps |date=2025-08-23 |access-date=2026-05-26 }}&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |author=konradkar |url=https://old.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/f3xk35/bookingcom_app_disallow_to_take_screenshot_can_i/ |website=[[Reddit]] |title=Booking.com app disallow to take screenshot, can I bypass this? |date=2020-02-14 |access-date=2026-05-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230615071612/https://old.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/f3xk35/bookingcom_app_disallow_to_take_screenshot_can_i/ |archive-date=2023-06-15}}&lt;/ref&gt;

For this reason, Google should have provided a built-in option that lets the device owner override screen capture blocks at their own responsibility. An app deciding whether you should be allowed to take screenshots on your device is comparable to a guest in your home telling you how to behave.

== GBoard (Google Keyboard) ==
There is no option to turn off the one-hour clipboard time limit, which automatically deletes clipboard items older than one hour, even after users have asked for it.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |url=https://support.google.com/android/thread/209187528/adjust-gboard-clipboard-timeout?hl=en |title=Adjust Gboard clipboard timeout - Android Community |date=2023-04-03 |access-date=2026-06-04 }} ([http://web.archive.org/web/20260514000953/https://support.google.com:443/android/thread/209187528/adjust-gboard-clipboard-timeout?hl=en archive])&lt;/ref&gt;

The clipboard is not intended for long-term storage of course, but that's not an excuse for not giving the user the choice. Why not two hours? Why not one day? Why not indefinitely until a certain number of items is exceeded? Let the user decide.

In comparison, Samsung's and Xiaomi's keyboard applications (before Xiaomi ditched their native keyboard app in favour of GBoard) have no fixed time limit and delete the oldest unpinned clipboard item if a number of items is exceeded.

If special character shortcuts are enabled, there is a shortcut for the backslash (&lt;kbd&gt;\&lt;/kbd&gt;), but surprisingly not for the forward slash (&lt;kbd&gt;/&lt;/kbd&gt;), a much more commonly used key.

You can't change the delay until holding the backspace key will erase multiple characters, and how fast they are cleared (how many characters per second). A delay too long becomes a nuisance over time.

Additionally, it lacks reverse backspacing. Samsung's keyboard allows reverse backspacing using Shift+Backspace. This is like the "delete" key on desktop computers.

== Google Calendar ==
Lacks a "jump to date" feature which would let you enter the numerical date.

This is something Samsung had in the early 2010s (but curiously removed with the S6), and Nokia had even in the 1990s, for example on the Nokia 7111.

If you want to check what day of the week a specific date was, you have to manually scroll to it.

== Google Chrome ==
Mandatory pull-to-refresh, data lock-in, lack of customization, and more. See ''[[User:JodyBruchonFan/Everything_wrong_with_Chrome|Everything wrong with Chrome]]''.

== Google Docs ==
Google Docs will only let you save documents locally if the creator allows it. This is moralized nonsense. If someone makes something public, they should expect that others are able to save it.

== Google Messages ==
No option to [[Data_lock-in#Text_messages|export messages]], making it almost impossible to create local backups without root access.

The third-party app "SMS Backup+" sadly forces the user to go through the middleman GMail rather than doing the sensible thing, just dumping a file in the device storage.

There is no option to always show the number of remaining characters. The number of remaining characters is only shown if ten or less characters are left.

== Dialer (telephone) and contacts app ==
Of course, no built-in exporting to a file. Not surprising at this point.

== YouTube ==
The [[YouTube]] website and mobile application provide no way to download videos to a local file that is accessible outside the YouTube website or app. Unlike most other things on this list, this has been done on purpose, not as a result of negligence, see [[YouTube#Digital_Rights_Management|YouTube § Digital Rights Management]].

There is no numerical "jump to time feature" like the one the desktop edition of VLC Media Player has had for decades. The mobile edition of VLC Media Player has it too.

== References ==
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      <text bytes="9870" sha1="ssgdy0dw58v8one5dr6pkehwiokix3y" xml:space="preserve">One would expect Google to be a company of world class developers. While they create good software in some categories, VP9 and AV1 and Google Earth being examples, they sometimes don't implement basic features one would expect some other categories of software to have. This page collects various failures and bad decisions by Google's "world class developers". Everyone is welcome to contribute.

== Android file manager ==
It baffles me how Google manages to create a sophisticated chat bot like Gemini while failing to build a proper file manager.

Both "Files by Google" and Android's built-in file manager (DocumentsUI) lack basic features one would expect from a file manager. They lack features that ES File Explorer already had in the early 2010s, in its golden days before becoming adware and when Android was friendly to third-party file managers.

For example, there is no scrollbar. On DocumentsUI, you can not see the total size and recursive file/folder count of one or more selected directories. You can not limit searching to one specific folder but you have to search the entire storage. There are no search filters like date range. The search feature only returns up to 24 results, an arbitrary limit. In list view, the last modified time and number of items within a folder are not shown. The detail view only shows the last modified time in minutes, not seconds, and does not show the exact file size in bytes. You can not jump from a search result to its parent directory. It does not remember your sorting preference. You can not select all items inbetween two items (like shift+click does on desktop and ES File Explorer does with a dedicated button). There is no "open with" feature. There is no address bar that would let you enter a file path. It doesn't even make use of Android's built-in recycle bin feature. Tapping on "More information" removes the selection. Going back to the parent directory will open the top of the list, not the last scroll position. The ZIP file creator does not memorize the date and time of directories, only files.

It doesn't even preserve the date and time attribute of copied files, something Windows had in the 1990s and Windows Mobile 6, released in 2009, had too.

Most importantly, after tapping on "copy" or "move", it doesn't stay in the current directory, but opens the Download folder instead. This means, if you wish to move items to a subdirectory of the currently viewed directory, you first have to manually navigate all the way back to the directory you were in before tapping on "copy" or "move". This is something even Windows 95 did better.

Earlier versions even had a bug where cancelling a file move operation would cause source files to be irrecoverably deleted without having been moved to the destination.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |url=https://support.google.com/photos/thread/106201?hl=en |title=Photos disappeared after moving to another device folder - Google Photos Community |author=Gökhun Güneyhan |date=2018-04-24 |access-date=2026-06-08 }} ([https://megalodon.jp/2023-0228-0023-32/https://support.google.com:443/photos/thread/106201?hl=en archive])&lt;/ref&gt;

But hey, at least they implemented Google Drive integration. To their credit, they implemented the ability to browse ZIP and even TAR and 7z files, create ZIP files, a built-in EXIF viewer, the ability to open multiple instances, selection by tapping the file icon (faster than holding), a large grid view suitable for image seeking, and the file transfer progress indicator is displayed as a notification, which is better than a pop-up that blocks interacting with the file manager, like in Samsung's file manager.

== Android text editor ==
Let's take a look at Android's text editor. Oh wait... '''Android doesn't have one!'''

Since the dawn of personal computers, a text editor was a basic part of the "scope of delivery" of operating systems. Something you'd simply expect to be there. Even Windows 1.0, even MS-DOS had a pre-installed text file editor. But Android? Nope.

Now, you'd say "can't you get a text editor from the Play Store"? Well, the Play Store is a mine field of adware. Text editors from there are usually filled with advertisements that require &lt;s&gt;piracy&lt;/s&gt; payment to remove, or risk breaking with the next Android update because Google makes changes to file access once again that "make life more difficult" for third-party apps because Google considers all third-party apps untrustworthy.

If Google considers third-party apps untrustworthy by default, how come they haven't bothered making something as simple as a text editor for Android?

== Android screenshot blocking ==
The thing that supposedly sets Android apart from iOS is user choice and freedom, yet Google decided that device owners are at the mercy of app developers to let them take screenshots and screen recordings. This is known as [[screenshot blocking]] or screen capture blocking, and can only be overridden with an unlocked bootloader and root access, which has complications of its own.

While this was originally intended to prevent banking app content from being captured or broadcast to external screens (miracast, MHL), there is nothing preventing it from being used outside of its intended scope. Consequently, it was only a matter of time before app developers realized they could use it arbitrarily.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |url=https://www.howtogeek.com/why-screenshots-dont-always-work-especially-in-secure-apps/ |website=How To Geek |author=Faisal Rasool |title=Why Your Phone Blocks Screenshots in Secure Apps |date=2025-08-23 |access-date=2026-05-26 }}&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |author=konradkar |url=https://old.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/f3xk35/bookingcom_app_disallow_to_take_screenshot_can_i/ |website=[[Reddit]] |title=Booking.com app disallow to take screenshot, can I bypass this? |date=2020-02-14 |access-date=2026-05-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230615071612/https://old.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/f3xk35/bookingcom_app_disallow_to_take_screenshot_can_i/ |archive-date=2023-06-15}}&lt;/ref&gt;

For this reason, Google should have provided a built-in option that lets the device owner override screen capture blocks at their own responsibility. An app deciding whether you should be allowed to take screenshots on your device is comparable to a guest in your home telling you how to behave.

== GBoard (Google Keyboard) ==
There is no option to turn off the one-hour clipboard time limit, which automatically deletes clipboard items older than one hour, even after users have asked for it.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |url=https://support.google.com/android/thread/209187528/adjust-gboard-clipboard-timeout?hl=en |title=Adjust Gboard clipboard timeout - Android Community |date=2023-04-03 |access-date=2026-06-04 }} ([http://web.archive.org/web/20260514000953/https://support.google.com:443/android/thread/209187528/adjust-gboard-clipboard-timeout?hl=en archive])&lt;/ref&gt;

The clipboard is not intended for long-term storage of course, but that's not an excuse for not giving the user the choice. Why not two hours? Why not one day? Why not indefinitely until a certain number of items is exceeded? Let the user decide.

In comparison, Samsung's and Xiaomi's keyboard applications (before Xiaomi ditched their native keyboard app in favour of GBoard) have no fixed time limit and delete the oldest unpinned clipboard item if a number of items is exceeded.

If special character shortcuts are enabled, there is a shortcut for the backslash (&lt;kbd&gt;\&lt;/kbd&gt;), but surprisingly not for the forward slash (&lt;kbd&gt;/&lt;/kbd&gt;), a much more commonly used key.

You can't change the delay until holding the backspace key will erase multiple characters, and how fast they are cleared (how many characters per second). A delay too long becomes a nuisance over time.

Additionally, it lacks reverse backspacing. Samsung's keyboard allows reverse backspacing using Shift+Backspace. This is like the "delete" key on desktop computers.

== Google Calendar ==
Lacks a "jump to date" feature which would let you enter the numerical date.

This is something Samsung had in the early 2010s (but curiously removed with the S6), and Nokia had even in the 1990s, for example on the Nokia 7111.

If you want to check what day of the week a specific date was, you have to manually scroll to it.

== Google Chrome ==
Mandatory pull-to-refresh, data lock-in, lack of customization, and more. See ''[[User:JodyBruchonFan/Everything_wrong_with_Chrome|Everything wrong with Chrome]]''.

== Google Docs ==
Google Docs will only let you save documents locally if the creator allows it. This is moralized nonsense. If someone makes something public, they should expect that others are able to save it.

== Google Messages ==
No option to [[Data_lock-in#Text_messages|export messages]], making it almost impossible to create local backups without root access.

The third-party app "SMS Backup+" sadly forces the user to go through the middleman GMail rather than doing the sensible thing, just dumping a file in the device storage.

There is no option to always show the number of remaining characters. The number of remaining characters is only shown if ten or less characters are left.

== Dialer (telephone) and contacts app ==
Of course, no built-in exporting to a file. Not surprising at this point.

== YouTube ==
The [[YouTube]] website and mobile application provide no way to download videos to a local file that is accessible outside the YouTube website or app. Unlike most other things on this list, this has been done on purpose, not as a result of negligence, see [[YouTube#Digital_Rights_Management|YouTube § Digital Rights Management]].

There is no numerical "jump to time feature" like the one the desktop edition of VLC Media Player has had for decades. The mobile edition of VLC Media Player has it too.

== References ==
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      <text bytes="11493" sha1="rtdkvwqggokao8ldypu51940018z68f" xml:space="preserve">One would expect Google to be a company of world class developers. While they create good software in some categories, VP9 and AV1 and Google Earth being examples, they sometimes don't implement basic features one would expect some other categories of software to have. This page collects various failures and bad decisions by Google's "world class developers". Everyone is welcome to contribute.

== Android file manager ==
It baffles me how Google manages to create a sophisticated chat bot like Gemini while failing to build a proper file manager.

Both "Files by Google" and Android's built-in file manager (DocumentsUI) lack basic features one would expect from a file manager. They lack features that ES File Explorer already had in the early 2010s, in its golden days before becoming adware and when Android was friendly to third-party file managers.

For example, there is no scrollbar. On DocumentsUI, you can not see the total size and recursive file/folder count of one or more selected directories. You can not limit searching to one specific folder but you have to search the entire storage. There are no search filters like date range. The search feature only returns up to 24 results, an arbitrary limit. In list view, the last modified time and number of items within a folder are not shown. The detail view only shows the last modified time in minutes, not seconds, and does not show the exact file size in bytes. You can not jump from a search result to its parent directory. It does not remember your sorting preference. You can not select all items inbetween two items (like shift+click does on desktop and ES File Explorer does with a dedicated button). 

There is no "open with" feature. There is no address bar that would let you enter a file path. It doesn't even make use of Android's built-in recycle bin feature. Tapping on "More information" removes the selection. Going back to the parent directory will open the top of the list, not the last scroll position. The ZIP file creator does not memorize the date and time of directories, only files, and refuses to generate archives from &lt;code&gt;Android/data&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;Android/obb&lt;/code&gt;. And you can't copy or move files &lt;em&gt;to&lt;/em&gt; these two directories, only &lt;em&gt;from&lt;/em&gt; them.

It doesn't even preserve the date and time attribute of copied files, something Windows had in the 1990s and Windows Mobile 6, released in 2009, had too.

Most importantly, after tapping on "copy" or "move", it doesn't stay in the current directory, but opens the Download folder instead. This means, if you wish to move items to a subdirectory of the currently viewed directory, you first have to manually navigate all the way back to the directory you were in before tapping on "copy" or "move". This is something even Windows 95 did better.

Earlier versions even had a bug where cancelling a file move operation would cause source files to be irrecoverably deleted without having been moved to the destination.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |url=https://support.google.com/photos/thread/106201?hl=en |title=Photos disappeared after moving to another device folder - Google Photos Community |author=Gökhun Güneyhan |date=2018-04-24 |access-date=2026-06-08 }} ([https://megalodon.jp/2023-0228-0023-32/https://support.google.com:443/photos/thread/106201?hl=en archive])&lt;/ref&gt;

But hey, at least they implemented Google Drive integration. To their credit, they implemented the ability to browse and extract selected or all files from ZIP and even TAR and 7z archives, create ZIP files, a built-in EXIF viewer, the ability to open multiple instances, selection by tapping the file icon (faster than holding), a large grid view suitable for image seeking, and the file transfer progress indicator is displayed as a notification, which is better than a pop-up that blocks interacting with the file manager, like in Samsung's file manager.

== Android text editor ==
Let's have a look at Android's text editor. Oh wait... '''Android doesn't have one!'''

Since the dawn of personal computers, a text editor was a basic part of the "scope of delivery" of operating systems. Something you'd simply expect to be... &lt;em&gt;there&lt;/em&gt;. Even Windows 1.0, even MS-DOS had a pre-installed text file editor. But Android? Nope.

Now, you'd say "can't you get a text editor from the Play Store"? Well, the Play Store is a mine field of adware. Text editors from there are usually filled with advertisements that require &lt;s&gt;piracy&lt;/s&gt; payment to remove, or risk breaking with the next Android update because Google makes changes to file access once again that "make life more difficult" for third-party apps because Google considers all third-party apps untrustworthy.

If Google considers third-party apps untrustworthy by default, how come they haven't bothered making something as simple as a text editor for Android?

== Android screenshot blocking ==
The thing that supposedly sets Android apart from iOS is user choice and freedom, yet Google decided that device owners are at the mercy of app developers to let them take screenshots and screen recordings. This is known as [[screenshot blocking]] or screen capture blocking, and can only be overridden with an unlocked bootloader and root access, which has complications of its own.

While this was originally intended to prevent banking app content from being captured or broadcast to external screens (miracast, MHL), there is nothing preventing it from being used outside of its intended scope. Consequently, it was only a matter of time before app developers realized they could use it arbitrarily.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |url=https://www.howtogeek.com/why-screenshots-dont-always-work-especially-in-secure-apps/ |website=How To Geek |author=Faisal Rasool |title=Why Your Phone Blocks Screenshots in Secure Apps |date=2025-08-23 |access-date=2026-05-26 }}&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |author=konradkar |url=https://old.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/f3xk35/bookingcom_app_disallow_to_take_screenshot_can_i/ |website=[[Reddit]] |title=Booking.com app disallow to take screenshot, can I bypass this? |date=2020-02-14 |access-date=2026-05-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230615071612/https://old.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/f3xk35/bookingcom_app_disallow_to_take_screenshot_can_i/ |archive-date=2023-06-15}}&lt;/ref&gt;

For this reason, Google should have provided a built-in option that lets the device owner override screen capture blocks at their own responsibility. An app deciding whether you should be allowed to take screenshots on your device is comparable to a guest in your home telling you how to behave.

== Android power management ==
Battery saving is less of a concern while charging, so the user might want to set a longer timeout until the device goes into stand-by mode automatically. Unfortunately, Android has no option to set a different screen timeout based on an external charger being connected.

The closest thing is the "Stay awake" option in the "Developer options", which keeps the screen on indefinitely if a charger is connected, but this might not be what the user wants. The user might opt for 30 seconds while not charging, and 2 minutes while charging.

Windows had such a feature since at least Vista (Control Panel &gt; Power Options &gt; Edit Plan Settings).

As of 2026, all known smartphones have a battery charge limiting option, which reduces battery weardown by limiting charging to 80 or 85 percents, which is made necessary by batteries not being replaceable, at least not without difficulties. Another option that would help extending the battery life expectancy would be limiting '''fast charging''' to 50%, then charging slow and gently to 80%. Fast charging is most urgently needed at low battery percentages, and also generates less heat at lower percentages.

But given that Google Nexus smartphones were among the '''earliest''' smartphones to have non-replaceable batteries (see Nexus 4, Nexus 5), this is something Google probably won't care about.

== GBoard (Google Keyboard) ==
There is no option to turn off the one-hour clipboard time limit, which automatically deletes clipboard items older than one hour, even after users have asked for it.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |url=https://support.google.com/android/thread/209187528/adjust-gboard-clipboard-timeout?hl=en |title=Adjust Gboard clipboard timeout - Android Community |date=2023-04-03 |access-date=2026-06-04 }} ([http://web.archive.org/web/20260514000953/https://support.google.com:443/android/thread/209187528/adjust-gboard-clipboard-timeout?hl=en archive])&lt;/ref&gt;

The clipboard is not intended for long-term storage of course, but that's not an excuse for not giving the user the choice. Why not two hours? Why not one day? Why not indefinitely until a certain number of items is exceeded? Let the user decide.

In comparison, Samsung's and Xiaomi's keyboard applications (before Xiaomi ditched their native keyboard app in favour of GBoard) have no fixed time limit and delete the oldest unpinned clipboard item if a number of items is exceeded.

If special character shortcuts are enabled, there is a shortcut for the backslash (&lt;kbd&gt;\&lt;/kbd&gt;), but surprisingly not for the forward slash (&lt;kbd&gt;/&lt;/kbd&gt;), a much more commonly used key.

You can't change the delay until holding the backspace key will erase multiple characters, and how fast they are cleared (how many characters per second). A delay too long becomes a nuisance over time.

Additionally, it lacks reverse backspacing. Samsung's keyboard allows reverse backspacing using Shift+Backspace. This is like the "delete" key on desktop computers.

== Google Calendar ==
Lacks a "jump to date" feature which would let you enter the numerical date.

This is something Samsung had in the early 2010s (but curiously removed with the S6), and Nokia had even in the 1990s, for example on the Nokia 7111.

If you want to check what day of the week a specific date was, you have to manually scroll to it.

== Google Chrome ==
Mandatory pull-to-refresh, data lock-in, lack of customization, and more. See ''[[User:JodyBruchonFan/Everything_wrong_with_Chrome|Everything wrong with Chrome]]''.

== Google Docs ==
Google Docs will only let you save documents locally if the creator allows it. This is moralized nonsense. If someone makes something public, they should expect that others are able to save it.

== Google Messages ==
No option to [[Data_lock-in#Text_messages|export messages]], making it almost impossible to create local backups without root access.

The third-party app "SMS Backup+" sadly forces the user to go through the middleman GMail rather than doing the sensible thing, just dumping a file in the device storage.

There is no option to always show the number of remaining characters. The number of remaining characters is only shown if ten or less characters are left.

== Dialer (telephone) and contacts app ==
Of course, no built-in exporting to a file. Not surprising at this point.

== YouTube ==
The [[YouTube]] website and mobile application provide no way to download videos to a local file that is accessible outside the YouTube website or app. Unlike most other things on this list, this has been done on purpose, not as a result of negligence, see [[YouTube#Digital_Rights_Management|YouTube § Digital Rights Management]].

There is no numerical "jump to time feature" like the one the desktop edition of VLC Media Player has had for decades. The mobile edition of VLC Media Player has it too.

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      <text bytes="12060" sha1="3lr9uupn1ak62me48t0cvh2d3abqduo" xml:space="preserve">One would expect Google to be a company of world class developers. While they create good software in some categories, VP9 and AV1 and Google Earth being examples, they sometimes don't implement basic features one would expect some other categories of software to have. This page collects various failures and bad decisions by Google's "world class developers". Everyone is welcome to contribute.

== Android file manager ==
It baffles me how Google manages to create a sophisticated chat bot like Gemini while failing to build a proper file manager.

Both "Files by Google" and Android's built-in file manager (DocumentsUI) lack basic features one would expect from a file manager. They lack features that ES File Explorer already had in the early 2010s, in its golden days before becoming adware and when Android was friendly to third-party file managers.

For example, there is no scrollbar. On DocumentsUI, you can not see the total size and recursive file/folder count of one or more selected directories. You can not limit searching to one specific folder but you have to search the entire storage. There are no search filters like date range. The search feature only returns up to 24 results, an arbitrary limit. In list view, the last modified time and number of items within a folder are not shown. The detail view only shows the last modified time in minutes, not seconds, and does not show the exact file size in bytes. You can not jump from a search result to its parent directory. It does not remember your sorting preference. You can not select all items inbetween two items (like shift+click does on desktop and ES File Explorer does with a dedicated button). 

There is no "open with" feature. There is no address bar that would let you enter a file path. It doesn't even make use of Android's built-in recycle bin feature. Tapping on "More information" removes the selection. Going back to the parent directory will open the top of the list, not the last scroll position. The ZIP file creator does not memorize the date and time of directories, only files, and refuses to generate archives from &lt;code&gt;Android/data&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;Android/obb&lt;/code&gt;. And you can't copy or move files &lt;em&gt;to&lt;/em&gt; these two directories, only &lt;em&gt;from&lt;/em&gt; them.

It doesn't even preserve the date and time attribute of copied files, something Windows had in the 1990s and Windows Mobile 6, released in 2009, had too.

Most importantly, after tapping on "copy" or "move", it doesn't stay in the current directory, but opens the Download folder instead. This means, if you wish to move items to a subdirectory of the currently viewed directory, you first have to manually navigate all the way back to the directory you were in before tapping on "copy" or "move". This is something even Windows 95 did better.

Earlier versions even had a bug where cancelling a file move operation would cause source files to be irrecoverably deleted without having been moved to the destination.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |url=https://support.google.com/photos/thread/106201?hl=en |title=Photos disappeared after moving to another device folder - Google Photos Community |author=Gökhun Güneyhan |date=2018-04-24 |access-date=2026-06-08 }} ([https://megalodon.jp/2023-0228-0023-32/https://support.google.com:443/photos/thread/106201?hl=en archive])&lt;/ref&gt;

But hey, at least they implemented Google Drive integration. To their credit, they implemented the ability to browse and extract selected or all files from ZIP and even TAR and 7z archives, create ZIP files, a built-in EXIF viewer, the ability to open multiple instances, selection by tapping the file icon (faster than holding), a large grid view suitable for image seeking, and the file transfer progress indicator is displayed as a notification, which is better than a pop-up that blocks interacting with the file manager, like in Samsung's file manager.

== Android text editor ==
Let's have a look at Android's text editor. Oh wait... '''Android doesn't have one!'''

Since the dawn of personal computers, a text editor was a basic part of the "scope of delivery" of operating systems. Something you'd simply expect to be... &lt;em&gt;there&lt;/em&gt;. Even Windows 1.0, even MS-DOS had a pre-installed text file editor. But Android? Nope.

Now, you'd say "can't you get a text editor from the Play Store"? Well, the Play Store is a mine field of adware. Text editors from there are usually filled with advertisements that require &lt;s&gt;piracy&lt;/s&gt; payment to remove, or risk breaking with the next Android update because Google makes changes to file access once again that "make life more difficult" for third-party apps because Google considers all third-party apps untrustworthy.

If Google considers third-party apps untrustworthy by default, how come they haven't bothered making something as simple as a text editor for Android?

== Android screenshot blocking ==
The thing that supposedly sets Android apart from iOS is user choice and freedom, yet Google decided that device owners are at the mercy of app developers to let them take screenshots and screen recordings. This is known as [[screenshot blocking]] or screen capture blocking, and can only be overridden with an unlocked bootloader and root access, which has complications of its own.

While this was originally intended to prevent banking app content from being captured or broadcast to external screens (miracast, MHL), there is nothing preventing it from being used outside of its intended scope. Consequently, it was only a matter of time before app developers realized they could use it arbitrarily.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |url=https://www.howtogeek.com/why-screenshots-dont-always-work-especially-in-secure-apps/ |website=How To Geek |author=Faisal Rasool |title=Why Your Phone Blocks Screenshots in Secure Apps |date=2025-08-23 |access-date=2026-05-26 }}&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |author=konradkar |url=https://old.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/f3xk35/bookingcom_app_disallow_to_take_screenshot_can_i/ |website=[[Reddit]] |title=Booking.com app disallow to take screenshot, can I bypass this? |date=2020-02-14 |access-date=2026-05-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230615071612/https://old.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/f3xk35/bookingcom_app_disallow_to_take_screenshot_can_i/ |archive-date=2023-06-15}}&lt;/ref&gt;

For this reason, Google should have provided a built-in option that lets the device owner override screen capture blocks at their own responsibility. An app deciding whether you should be allowed to take screenshots on your device is comparable to a guest in your home telling you how to behave.

== Android power management ==
Battery saving is less of a concern while charging, so the user might want to set a longer timeout until the device goes into stand-by mode automatically. Unfortunately, Android has no option to set a different screen timeout based on an external charger being connected.

The closest thing is the "Stay awake" option in the "Developer options", which keeps the screen on indefinitely if a charger is connected, but this might not be what the user wants. The user might opt for 30 seconds while not charging, and 2 minutes while charging.

Windows had such a feature since at least Vista (Control Panel &gt; Power Options &gt; Edit Plan Settings).

As of 2026, all known smartphone vendors have implemented a battery charge limiting option, which reduces battery weardown by limiting charging to 80 or 85 percents, which is made necessary by batteries not being replaceable, at least not without difficulties. Another option that would help extending the battery life expectancy would be limiting '''fast charging''' to 50%, then charging slow and gently to 80%. Fast charging is most urgently needed at low battery percentages, and also generates less heat at lower percentages. 

Also, the user should be able to manually pick a charging limit, such as 70% to extend the battery life expectancy even more, or 90% to make more use of the available capacity while still extending the life noticeably compared to a full 100% charge. But given that Google Nexus smartphones were among the '''earliest''' smartphones to have non-replaceable batteries (see Nexus 4, Nexus 5), this is something Google probably won't care about.

Given how much smartphone batteries have grown during the past years, 70% are usually enough to get through the day. Even some entry-level smartphones like the lower Galaxy A series have a solid 5000 mAh. This is not 2017, where Samsung released a flagship phablet with a 3300 mAh embarrassment.

== GBoard (Google Keyboard) ==
There is no option to turn off the one-hour clipboard time limit, which automatically deletes clipboard items older than one hour, even after users have asked for it.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |url=https://support.google.com/android/thread/209187528/adjust-gboard-clipboard-timeout?hl=en |title=Adjust Gboard clipboard timeout - Android Community |date=2023-04-03 |access-date=2026-06-04 }} ([http://web.archive.org/web/20260514000953/https://support.google.com:443/android/thread/209187528/adjust-gboard-clipboard-timeout?hl=en archive])&lt;/ref&gt;

The clipboard is not intended for long-term storage of course, but that's not an excuse for not giving the user the choice. Why not two hours? Why not one day? Why not indefinitely until a certain number of items is exceeded? Let the user decide.

In comparison, Samsung's and Xiaomi's keyboard applications (before Xiaomi ditched their native keyboard app in favour of GBoard) have no fixed time limit and delete the oldest unpinned clipboard item if a number of items is exceeded.

If special character shortcuts are enabled, there is a shortcut for the backslash (&lt;kbd&gt;\&lt;/kbd&gt;), but surprisingly not for the forward slash (&lt;kbd&gt;/&lt;/kbd&gt;), a much more commonly used key.

You can't change the delay until holding the backspace key will erase multiple characters, and how fast they are cleared (how many characters per second). A delay too long becomes a nuisance over time.

Additionally, it lacks reverse backspacing. Samsung's keyboard allows reverse backspacing using Shift+Backspace. This is like the "delete" key on desktop computers.

== Google Calendar ==
Lacks a "jump to date" feature which would let you enter the numerical date.

This is something Samsung had in the early 2010s (but curiously removed with the S6), and Nokia had even in the 1990s, for example on the Nokia 7111.

If you want to check what day of the week a specific date was, you have to manually scroll to it.

== Google Chrome ==
Mandatory pull-to-refresh, data lock-in, lack of customization, and more. See ''[[User:JodyBruchonFan/Everything_wrong_with_Chrome|Everything wrong with Chrome]]''.

== Google Docs ==
Google Docs will only let you save documents locally if the creator allows it. This is moralized nonsense. If someone makes something public, they should expect that others are able to save it.

== Google Messages ==
No option to [[Data_lock-in#Text_messages|export messages]], making it almost impossible to create local backups without root access.

The third-party app "SMS Backup+" sadly forces the user to go through the middleman GMail rather than doing the sensible thing, just dumping a file in the device storage.

There is no option to always show the number of remaining characters. The number of remaining characters is only shown if ten or less characters are left.

== Dialer (telephone) and contacts app ==
Of course, no built-in exporting to a file. Not surprising at this point.

== YouTube ==
The [[YouTube]] website and mobile application provide no way to download videos to a local file that is accessible outside the YouTube website or app. Unlike most other things on this list, this has been done on purpose, not as a result of negligence, see [[YouTube#Digital_Rights_Management|YouTube § Digital Rights Management]].

There is no numerical "jump to time feature" like the one the desktop edition of VLC Media Player has had for decades. The mobile edition of VLC Media Player has it too.

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      <text bytes="12069" sha1="ctvmkqtu4ufmq9ltg66i5ra596grn7y" xml:space="preserve">One would expect Google to be a company of world class developers. While they create good software in some categories, VP9 and AV1 and Google Earth being examples, they sometimes don't implement basic features one would expect some other categories of software to have. This page collects various failures and bad decisions by Google's "world class developers". Everyone is welcome to contribute.

== Android file manager ==
It baffles me how Google manages to create a sophisticated chat bot like Gemini while failing to build a proper file manager.

Both "Files by Google" and Android's built-in file manager (DocumentsUI) lack basic features one would expect from a file manager. They lack features that ES File Explorer already had in the early 2010s, in its golden days before becoming adware and when Android was friendly to third-party file managers.

For example, there is no scrollbar. On DocumentsUI, you can not see the total size and recursive file/folder count of one or more selected directories. You can not limit searching to one specific folder but you have to search the entire storage. There are no search filters like date range. The search feature only returns up to 24 results, an arbitrary limit. In list view, the last modified time and number of items within a folder are not shown. The detail view only shows the last modified time in minutes, not seconds, and does not show the exact file size in bytes. You can not jump from a search result to its parent directory. It does not remember your sorting preference. You can not select all items inbetween two items (like shift+click does on desktop and ES File Explorer does with a dedicated button). 

There is no "open with" feature. There is no address bar that would let you enter a file path. It doesn't even make use of Android's built-in recycle bin feature. Tapping on "More information" removes the selection. Going back to the parent directory will open the top of the list, not the last scroll position. The ZIP file creator does not memorize the date and time of directories, only files, and refuses to generate archives from &lt;code&gt;Android/data&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;Android/obb&lt;/code&gt;. And you can't copy or move files &lt;em&gt;to&lt;/em&gt; these two directories, only &lt;em&gt;from&lt;/em&gt; them.

It doesn't even preserve the date and time attribute of copied files, something Windows had in the 1990s and Windows Mobile 6, released in 2009, had too.

Most importantly, after tapping on "copy" or "move", it doesn't stay in the current directory, but opens the Download folder instead. This means, if you wish to move items to a subdirectory of the currently viewed directory, you first have to manually navigate all the way back to the directory you were in before tapping on "copy" or "move". This is something even Windows 95 did better.

Earlier versions even had a bug where cancelling a file move operation would cause source files to be irrecoverably deleted without having been moved to the destination.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |url=https://support.google.com/photos/thread/106201?hl=en |title=Photos disappeared after moving to another device folder - Google Photos Community |author=Gökhun Güneyhan |date=2018-04-24 |access-date=2026-06-08 }} ([https://megalodon.jp/2023-0228-0023-32/https://support.google.com:443/photos/thread/106201?hl=en archive])&lt;/ref&gt;

But hey, at least they implemented Google Drive integration. To their credit, they implemented the ability to browse and extract selected or all files from ZIP and even TAR and 7z archives, create ZIP files, a built-in EXIF viewer, the ability to open multiple instances, selection by tapping the file icon (faster than holding), a large grid view suitable for image seeking, and the file transfer progress indicator is displayed as a notification, which is better than a pop-up that blocks interacting with the file manager, like in Samsung's file manager.

== Android text editor ==
Let's have a look at Android's text editor. Oh wait... '''Android doesn't &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; one!'''

Since the dawn of personal computers, a text editor was a basic part of the "scope of delivery" of operating systems. Something you'd simply expect to be... &lt;em&gt;there&lt;/em&gt;. Even Windows 1.0, even MS-DOS had a pre-installed text file editor. But Android? Nope.

Now, you'd say "can't you get a text editor from the Play Store"? Well, the Play Store is a mine field of adware. Text editors from there are usually filled with advertisements that require &lt;s&gt;piracy&lt;/s&gt; payment to remove, or risk breaking with the next Android update because Google makes changes to file access once again that "make life more difficult" for third-party apps because Google considers all third-party apps untrustworthy.

If Google considers third-party apps untrustworthy by default, how come they haven't bothered making something as simple as a text editor for Android?

== Android screenshot blocking ==
The thing that supposedly sets Android apart from iOS is user choice and freedom, yet Google decided that device owners are at the mercy of app developers to let them take screenshots and screen recordings. This is known as [[screenshot blocking]] or screen capture blocking, and can only be overridden with an unlocked bootloader and root access, which has complications of its own.

While this was originally intended to prevent banking app content from being captured or broadcast to external screens (miracast, MHL), there is nothing preventing it from being used outside of its intended scope. Consequently, it was only a matter of time before app developers realized they could use it arbitrarily.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |url=https://www.howtogeek.com/why-screenshots-dont-always-work-especially-in-secure-apps/ |website=How To Geek |author=Faisal Rasool |title=Why Your Phone Blocks Screenshots in Secure Apps |date=2025-08-23 |access-date=2026-05-26 }}&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |author=konradkar |url=https://old.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/f3xk35/bookingcom_app_disallow_to_take_screenshot_can_i/ |website=[[Reddit]] |title=Booking.com app disallow to take screenshot, can I bypass this? |date=2020-02-14 |access-date=2026-05-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230615071612/https://old.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/f3xk35/bookingcom_app_disallow_to_take_screenshot_can_i/ |archive-date=2023-06-15}}&lt;/ref&gt;

For this reason, Google should have provided a built-in option that lets the device owner override screen capture blocks at their own responsibility. An app deciding whether you should be allowed to take screenshots on your device is comparable to a guest in your home telling you how to behave.

== Android power management ==
Battery saving is less of a concern while charging, so the user might want to set a longer timeout until the device goes into stand-by mode automatically. Unfortunately, Android has no option to set a different screen timeout based on an external charger being connected.

The closest thing is the "Stay awake" option in the "Developer options", which keeps the screen on indefinitely if a charger is connected, but this might not be what the user wants. The user might opt for 30 seconds while not charging, and 2 minutes while charging.

Windows had such a feature since at least Vista (Control Panel &gt; Power Options &gt; Edit Plan Settings).

As of 2026, all known smartphone vendors have implemented a battery charge limiting option, which reduces battery weardown by limiting charging to 80 or 85 percents, which is made necessary by batteries not being replaceable, at least not without difficulties. Another option that would help extending the battery life expectancy would be limiting '''fast charging''' to 50%, then charging slow and gently to 80%. Fast charging is most urgently needed at low battery percentages, and also generates less heat at lower percentages. 

Also, the user should be able to manually pick a charging limit, such as 70% to extend the battery life expectancy even more, or 90% to make more use of the available capacity while still extending the life noticeably compared to a full 100% charge. But given that Google Nexus smartphones were among the '''earliest''' smartphones to have non-replaceable batteries (see Nexus 4, Nexus 5), this is something Google probably won't care about.

Given how much smartphone batteries have grown during the past years, 70% are usually enough to get through the day. Even some entry-level smartphones like the lower Galaxy A series have a solid 5000 mAh. This is not 2017, where Samsung released a flagship phablet with a 3300 mAh embarrassment.

== GBoard (Google Keyboard) ==
There is no option to turn off the one-hour clipboard time limit, which automatically deletes clipboard items older than one hour, even after users have asked for it.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |url=https://support.google.com/android/thread/209187528/adjust-gboard-clipboard-timeout?hl=en |title=Adjust Gboard clipboard timeout - Android Community |date=2023-04-03 |access-date=2026-06-04 }} ([http://web.archive.org/web/20260514000953/https://support.google.com:443/android/thread/209187528/adjust-gboard-clipboard-timeout?hl=en archive])&lt;/ref&gt;

The clipboard is not intended for long-term storage of course, but that's not an excuse for not giving the user the choice. Why not two hours? Why not one day? Why not indefinitely until a certain number of items is exceeded? Let the user decide.

In comparison, Samsung's and Xiaomi's keyboard applications (before Xiaomi ditched their native keyboard app in favour of GBoard) have no fixed time limit and delete the oldest unpinned clipboard item if a number of items is exceeded.

If special character shortcuts are enabled, there is a shortcut for the backslash (&lt;kbd&gt;\&lt;/kbd&gt;), but surprisingly not for the forward slash (&lt;kbd&gt;/&lt;/kbd&gt;), a much more commonly used key.

You can't change the delay until holding the backspace key will erase multiple characters, and how fast they are cleared (how many characters per second). A delay too long becomes a nuisance over time.

Additionally, it lacks reverse backspacing. Samsung's keyboard allows reverse backspacing using Shift+Backspace. This is like the "delete" key on desktop computers.

== Google Calendar ==
Lacks a "jump to date" feature which would let you enter the numerical date.

This is something Samsung had in the early 2010s (but curiously removed with the S6), and Nokia had even in the 1990s, for example on the Nokia 7111.

If you want to check what day of the week a specific date was, you have to manually scroll to it.

== Google Chrome ==
Mandatory pull-to-refresh, data lock-in, lack of customization, and more. See ''[[User:JodyBruchonFan/Everything_wrong_with_Chrome|Everything wrong with Chrome]]''.

== Google Docs ==
Google Docs will only let you save documents locally if the creator allows it. This is moralized nonsense. If someone makes something public, they should expect that others are able to save it.

== Google Messages ==
No option to [[Data_lock-in#Text_messages|export messages]], making it almost impossible to create local backups without root access.

The third-party app "SMS Backup+" sadly forces the user to go through the middleman GMail rather than doing the sensible thing, just dumping a file in the device storage.

There is no option to always show the number of remaining characters. The number of remaining characters is only shown if ten or less characters are left.

== Dialer (telephone) and contacts app ==
Of course, no built-in exporting to a file. Not surprising at this point.

== YouTube ==
The [[YouTube]] website and mobile application provide no way to download videos to a local file that is accessible outside the YouTube website or app. Unlike most other things on this list, this has been done on purpose, not as a result of negligence, see [[YouTube#Digital_Rights_Management|YouTube § Digital Rights Management]].

There is no numerical "jump to time feature" like the one the desktop edition of VLC Media Player has had for decades. The mobile edition of VLC Media Player has it too.

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      <text bytes="14235" sha1="t00i8c22w8yblbj7plwf2n3v0hl5gr0" xml:space="preserve">One would expect Google to be a company of world class developers. While they create good software in some categories, VP9 and AV1 and Google Earth being examples, they sometimes don't implement basic features one would expect some other categories of software to have. This page collects various failures and bad decisions by Google's "world class developers". Everyone is welcome to contribute.

== Android OS ==
=== Built-in file manager ===
It baffles me how Google manages to create a sophisticated chat bot like Gemini while failing to build a proper file manager.

Both "Files by Google" and Android's built-in file manager (DocumentsUI) lack basic features one would expect from a file manager. They lack features that ES File Explorer already had in the early 2010s, in its golden days before becoming adware and when Android was friendly to third-party file managers.

For example, there is no scrollbar. On DocumentsUI, you can not see the total size and recursive file/folder count of one or more selected directories. You can not limit searching to one specific folder but you have to search the entire storage. There are no search filters like date range. The search feature only returns up to 24 results, an arbitrary limit. In list view, the last modified time and number of items within a folder are not shown. The detail view only shows the last modified time in minutes, not seconds, and does not show the exact file size in bytes. You can not jump from a search result to its parent directory. It does not remember your sorting preference. You can not select all items inbetween two items (like shift+click does on desktop and ES File Explorer does with a dedicated button). 

There is no "open with" feature. There is no address bar that would let you enter a file path. It doesn't even make use of Android's built-in recycle bin feature. Tapping on "More information" removes the selection. Going back to the parent directory will open the top of the list, not the last scroll position. The ZIP file creator does not memorize the date and time of directories, only files, and refuses to generate archives from &lt;code&gt;Android/data&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;Android/obb&lt;/code&gt;. And you can't copy or move files &lt;em&gt;to&lt;/em&gt; these two directories, only &lt;em&gt;from&lt;/em&gt; them.

It doesn't even preserve the date and time attribute of copied files, something Windows had in the 1990s and Windows Mobile 6, released in 2009, had too.

Most importantly, after tapping on "copy" or "move", it doesn't stay in the current directory, but opens the Download folder instead. This means, if you wish to move items to a subdirectory of the currently viewed directory, you first have to manually navigate all the way back to the directory you were in before tapping on "copy" or "move". This is something even Windows 95 did better.

Earlier versions even had a bug where cancelling a file move operation would cause source files to be irrecoverably deleted without having been moved to the destination.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |url=https://support.google.com/photos/thread/106201?hl=en |title=Photos disappeared after moving to another device folder - Google Photos Community |author=Gökhun Güneyhan |date=2018-04-24 |access-date=2026-06-08 }} ([https://megalodon.jp/2023-0228-0023-32/https://support.google.com:443/photos/thread/106201?hl=en archive])&lt;/ref&gt;

But hey, at least they implemented Google Drive integration. To their credit, they implemented the ability to browse and extract selected or all files from ZIP and even TAR and 7z archives, create ZIP files, a built-in EXIF viewer, the ability to open multiple instances, selection by tapping the file icon (faster than holding), a large grid view suitable for image seeking, and the file transfer progress indicator is displayed as a notification, which is better than a pop-up that blocks interacting with the file manager, like in Samsung's file manager.

=== Android text editor ===
Let's have a look at Android's text editor. Oh wait... '''Android doesn't &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; one!'''

Since the dawn of personal computers, a text editor was a basic part of the "scope of delivery" of operating systems. Something you'd simply expect to be... &lt;em&gt;there&lt;/em&gt;. Even Windows 1.0, even MS-DOS had a pre-installed text file editor. But Android? Nope.

Now, you'd say "can't you get a text editor from the Play Store"? Well, the Play Store is a mine field of adware. Text editors from there are usually filled with advertisements that require &lt;s&gt;piracy&lt;/s&gt; payment to remove, or risk breaking with the next Android update because Google makes changes to file access once again that "make life more difficult" for third-party apps because Google considers all third-party apps untrustworthy.

If Google considers third-party apps untrustworthy by default, how come they haven't bothered making something as simple as a text editor for Android?

=== Text selection tools ===
Text selection on Android has not improved much since the early 2010s.

The text selection tools on Android (cut, copy, paste, ...) are fairly limited. Samsung added an "undo" button to their text selection menu in recent years before 2026 only, mimicking &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;Z&lt;/kbd&gt; that had existed for decades on desktop and laptop computers.

There is also no way to select a large block of text like one would do on a desktop/laptop computer by clicking somewhere in a text to place the cursor somewhere, then scrolling to a different part of the text, then holding shift, and then clicking a different part of the text, resulting in selecting all text between those two positions. The closest thing on Android is "drag-to-select", which becomes tedious on large blocks of text due to having to wait for the scrolling to finish.

Android has nothing comparable to holding &lt;kbd&gt;Shift&lt;/kbd&gt; and then pressing the arrow keys to select letters (left and right) or lines (up and down), holding &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt; and &lt;kbd&gt;Shift&lt;/kbd&gt; and pressing the arrow keys to select words, or triple-clicking to select a paragraph, or holding shift and pressing "page up" or "page down" to select one screen size of text, holding shift and pressing &lt;kbd&gt;Home&lt;/kbd&gt; or &lt;kbd&gt;End&lt;/kbd&gt; to select all text from the cursor position to the beginning or end of the line respectively, and doing the same with &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt; to select all text from the cursor position to the beginning or end of the page or text area.

The stock Android text selection menu has no icons. The text selection menu on TouchWiz, Samsung's customized Android distribution before 2017, actually had icons ([[:commons:File:Text_selection_menu_with_icons_-_input_field_-_TouchWiz_2015.png|screenshot]]), but Samsung unfortunately threw that away for Google's iconless text selection menu.

=== Screenshot blocking ===
The thing that supposedly sets Android apart from iOS is user choice and freedom, yet Google decided that device owners are at the mercy of app developers to let them take screenshots and screen recordings. This is known as [[screenshot blocking]] or screen capture blocking, and can only be overridden with an unlocked bootloader and root access, which has complications of its own.

While this was originally intended to prevent banking app content from being captured or broadcast to external screens (miracast, MHL), there is nothing preventing it from being used outside of its originally intended scope. Consequently, it was only a matter of time before app developers realized they could use it arbitrarily.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |url=https://www.howtogeek.com/why-screenshots-dont-always-work-especially-in-secure-apps/ |website=How To Geek |author=Faisal Rasool |title=Why Your Phone Blocks Screenshots in Secure Apps |date=2025-08-23 |access-date=2026-05-26 }}&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |author=konradkar |url=https://old.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/f3xk35/bookingcom_app_disallow_to_take_screenshot_can_i/ |website=[[Reddit]] |title=Booking.com app disallow to take screenshot, can I bypass this? |date=2020-02-14 |access-date=2026-05-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230615071612/https://old.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/f3xk35/bookingcom_app_disallow_to_take_screenshot_can_i/ |archive-date=2023-06-15}}&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |url=https://faq.whatsapp.com/1799783917198636 |title=About profile photo screenshot blocking |website=WhatsApp Help Center |access-date=2026-07-20 }}&lt;/ref&gt;

For this reason, Google should have provided a built-in option that lets the device owner override screen capture blocks at their own responsibility. An app deciding whether you are allowed to take screenshots on &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; device is comparable to a guest in your home telling you how to behave.

=== Power management ===
Battery saving is less of a concern while charging, so the user might want to set a longer timeout until the device goes into stand-by mode automatically. Unfortunately, Android has no option to set a different screen timeout based on an external charger being connected.

The closest thing is the "Stay awake" option in the "Developer options", which keeps the screen on indefinitely if a charger is connected, but this might not be what the user wants. The user might opt for 30 seconds while not charging, and 2 minutes while charging.

Windows had such a feature since at least Vista (Control Panel &gt; Power Options &gt; Edit Plan Settings).

As of 2026, all known smartphone vendors have implemented a battery charge limiting option, which reduces battery weardown by limiting charging to 80 or 85 percents, which is made necessary by batteries not being replaceable, at least not without difficulties. Another option that would help extending the battery life expectancy would be limiting '''fast charging''' to 50%, then charging slow and gently to 80%. Fast charging is most urgently needed at low battery percentages, and also generates less heat at lower percentages. 

Also, the user should be able to manually pick a charging limit, such as 70% to extend the battery life expectancy even more, or 90% to make more use of the available capacity while still extending the life noticeably compared to a full 100% charge. But given that Google Nexus smartphones were among the '''earliest''' smartphones to have non-replaceable batteries (see Nexus 4, Nexus 5), this is something Google probably won't care about.

Given how much smartphone batteries have grown during the past years, 70% are usually enough to get through the day. Even some entry-level smartphones like the lower Galaxy A series have a solid 5000 mAh. This is not 2017, where Samsung released a flagship phablet with a 3300 mAh embarrassment.

=== Google Messages (SMS, MMS, RCS app) ===
No option to [[Data_lock-in#Text_messages|export messages]], making it almost impossible to create local backups without root access.

The third-party app "SMS Backup+" sadly forces the user to go through the middleman GMail rather than doing the sensible thing, just dumping a file in the device storage.

There is no option to always show the number of remaining characters. The number of remaining characters is only shown if ten or less characters are left.

=== Dialer (telephone) and contacts app ===
Of course, no built-in exporting to a file. Not surprising at this point.

== GBoard (Google Keyboard) ==
There is no option to turn off the one-hour clipboard time limit, which automatically deletes clipboard items older than one hour, even after users have asked for it.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |url=https://support.google.com/android/thread/209187528/adjust-gboard-clipboard-timeout?hl=en |title=Adjust Gboard clipboard timeout - Android Community |date=2023-04-03 |access-date=2026-06-04 }} ([http://web.archive.org/web/20260514000953/https://support.google.com:443/android/thread/209187528/adjust-gboard-clipboard-timeout?hl=en archive])&lt;/ref&gt;

The clipboard is not intended for long-term storage of course, but that's not an excuse for not giving the user the choice. Why not two hours? Why not one day? Why not indefinitely until a certain number of items is exceeded? Let the user decide.

In comparison, Samsung's and Xiaomi's keyboard applications (before Xiaomi ditched their native keyboard app in favour of GBoard) have no fixed time limit and delete the oldest unpinned clipboard item if a number of items is exceeded.

If special character shortcuts are enabled, there is a shortcut for the backslash (&lt;kbd&gt;\&lt;/kbd&gt;), but surprisingly not for the forward slash (&lt;kbd&gt;/&lt;/kbd&gt;), a much more commonly used key.

You can't change the delay until holding the backspace key will erase multiple characters, and how fast they are cleared (how many characters per second). A delay too long becomes a nuisance over time.

There are no virtual "Home", "End", "Page up", or "Page down" buttons.

Additionally, it lacks reverse backspacing. Samsung's keyboard allows reverse backspacing using Shift+Backspace. This is like the "delete" key on desktop computers.

== Google Calendar ==
Lacks a "jump to date" feature which would let you enter the numerical date.

This is something Samsung had in the early 2010s (but curiously removed with the S6), and Nokia had even in the 1990s, for example on the Nokia 7111.

If you want to check what day of the week a specific date was, you have to manually scroll to it.

== Google Chrome ==
Mandatory pull-to-refresh, data lock-in, lack of customization, and more. See ''[[User:JodyBruchonFan/Everything_wrong_with_Chrome|Everything wrong with Chrome]]''.

== Google Docs ==
Google Docs will only let you save documents locally if the creator allows it. This is moralized nonsense. If someone makes something public, they should expect that others are able to save it.

== YouTube ==
The [[YouTube]] website and mobile application provide no way to download videos to a local file that is accessible outside the YouTube website or app. Unlike most other things on this list, this has been done on purpose, not as a result of negligence, see [[YouTube#Digital_Rights_Management|YouTube § Digital Rights Management]].

There is no numerical "jump to time feature" like the one the desktop edition of VLC Media Player has had for decades. The mobile edition of VLC Media Player has it too.

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      <text bytes="14577" sha1="3hkayprcw9hvhgvvbm5qkxgfmjmgpq4" xml:space="preserve">One would expect Google to be a company of world class developers. While they create good software in some categories, VP9 and AV1 and Google Earth being examples, they sometimes don't implement basic features one would expect some other categories of software to have. This page collects various failures and bad decisions by Google's "world class developers". Everyone is welcome to contribute.

== Android OS ==
=== Built-in file manager ===
It baffles me how Google manages to create a sophisticated chat bot like Gemini while failing to build a proper file manager.

Both "Files by Google" and Android's built-in file manager (DocumentsUI) lack basic features one would expect from a file manager. They lack features that ES File Explorer already had in the early 2010s, in its golden days before becoming adware and when Android was friendly to third-party file managers.

For example, there is no scrollbar. On DocumentsUI, you can not see the total size and recursive file/folder count of one or more selected directories. You can not limit searching to one specific folder but you have to search the entire storage. There are no search filters like date range. The search feature only returns up to 24 results, an arbitrary limit. In list view, the last modified time and number of items within a folder are not shown. The detail view only shows the last modified time in minutes, not seconds, and does not show the exact file size in bytes. You can not jump from a search result to its parent directory. It does not remember your sorting preference. You can not select all items inbetween two items (like shift+click does on desktop and ES File Explorer does with a dedicated button). 

There is no "open with" feature. There is no address bar that would let you enter a file path. It doesn't even make use of Android's built-in recycle bin feature. Tapping on "More information" removes the selection. Going back to the parent directory will open the top of the list, not the last scroll position. The ZIP file creator does not memorize the date and time of directories, only files, and refuses to generate archives from &lt;code&gt;Android/data&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;Android/obb&lt;/code&gt;. And you can't copy or move files &lt;em&gt;to&lt;/em&gt; these two directories, only &lt;em&gt;from&lt;/em&gt; them.

It doesn't even preserve the date and time attribute of copied files, something Windows had in the 1990s and Windows Mobile 6, released in 2009, had too.

Most importantly, after tapping on "copy" or "move", it doesn't stay in the current directory, but opens the Download folder instead. This means, if you wish to move items to a subdirectory of the currently viewed directory, you first have to manually navigate all the way back to the directory you were in before tapping on "copy" or "move". This is something even Windows 95 did better.

Earlier versions even had a bug where cancelling a file move operation would cause source files to be irrecoverably deleted without having been moved to the destination.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |url=https://support.google.com/photos/thread/106201?hl=en |title=Photos disappeared after moving to another device folder - Google Photos Community |author=Gökhun Güneyhan |date=2018-04-24 |access-date=2026-06-08 }} ([https://megalodon.jp/2023-0228-0023-32/https://support.google.com:443/photos/thread/106201?hl=en archive])&lt;/ref&gt;

But hey, at least they implemented Google Drive integration. To their credit, they implemented the ability to browse and extract selected or all files from ZIP and even TAR and 7z archives, create ZIP files, a built-in EXIF viewer, the ability to open multiple instances, selection by tapping the file icon (faster than holding), a large grid view suitable for image seeking, and the file transfer progress indicator is displayed as a notification, which is better than a pop-up that blocks interacting with the file manager, like in Samsung's file manager.

=== Android text editor ===
Let's have a look at Android's text editor. Oh wait... '''Android doesn't &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; one!'''

Since the dawn of personal computers, a text editor was a basic part of the "scope of delivery" of operating systems. Something you'd simply expect to be... &lt;em&gt;there&lt;/em&gt;. Even Windows 1.0, even MS-DOS had a pre-installed text file editor. But Android? Nope.

Now, you'd say "can't you get a text editor from the Play Store"? Well, the Play Store is a mine field of adware. Text editors from there are usually filled with advertisements that require &lt;s&gt;piracy&lt;/s&gt; payment to remove, or risk breaking with the next Android update because Google makes changes to file access once again that "make life more difficult" for third-party apps because Google considers all third-party apps untrustworthy.

If Google considers third-party apps untrustworthy by default, how come they haven't bothered making something as simple as a text editor for Android?

=== Text selection tools ===
Text selection on Android has not improved much since the early 2010s.

The text selection tools on Android (cut, copy, paste, ...) are fairly limited. Samsung added an "undo" button to their text selection menu in recent years before 2026 only, mimicking &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;Z&lt;/kbd&gt; that had existed for decades on desktop and laptop computers.

There is also no way to select a large block of text like one would do on a desktop/laptop computer by clicking somewhere in a text to place the cursor somewhere, then scrolling to a different part of the text, then holding shift, and then clicking a different part of the text, resulting in selecting all text between those two positions. The closest thing on Android is "drag-to-select", which becomes tedious on large blocks of text due to having to wait for the scrolling to finish.

Android has nothing comparable to holding &lt;kbd&gt;Shift&lt;/kbd&gt; and then pressing the arrow keys to select letters (left and right) or lines (up and down), holding &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt; and &lt;kbd&gt;Shift&lt;/kbd&gt; and pressing the arrow keys to select words, or triple-clicking to select a paragraph, or holding shift and pressing "page up" or "page down" to select one screen size of text, holding shift and pressing &lt;kbd&gt;Home&lt;/kbd&gt; or &lt;kbd&gt;End&lt;/kbd&gt; to select all text from the cursor position to the beginning or end of the line respectively, and doing the same with &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt; to select all text from the cursor position to the beginning or end of the page or text area.

The stock Android text selection menu has no icons. The text selection menu on TouchWiz, Samsung's customized Android distribution before 2017, actually had icons ([[:commons:File:Text_selection_menu_with_icons_-_input_field_-_TouchWiz_2015.png|screenshot]]), but Samsung unfortunately threw that away for Google's iconless text selection menu.

=== Screenshot blocking ===
The thing that supposedly sets Android apart from iOS is user choice and freedom, yet Google decided that device owners are at the mercy of app developers to let them take screenshots and screen recordings. This is known as [[screenshot blocking]] or screen capture blocking, and can only be overridden with an unlocked bootloader and root access, which has complications of its own.

While this was originally intended to prevent banking app content from being captured or broadcast to external screens (miracast, MHL), there is nothing preventing it from being used outside of its originally intended scope. Consequently, it was only a matter of time before app developers realized they could use it arbitrarily.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |url=https://www.howtogeek.com/why-screenshots-dont-always-work-especially-in-secure-apps/ |website=How To Geek |author=Faisal Rasool |title=Why Your Phone Blocks Screenshots in Secure Apps |date=2025-08-23 |access-date=2026-05-26 }}&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |author=konradkar |url=https://old.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/f3xk35/bookingcom_app_disallow_to_take_screenshot_can_i/ |website=[[Reddit]] |title=Booking.com app disallow to take screenshot, can I bypass this? |date=2020-02-14 |access-date=2026-05-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230615071612/https://old.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/f3xk35/bookingcom_app_disallow_to_take_screenshot_can_i/ |archive-date=2023-06-15}}&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |url=https://faq.whatsapp.com/1799783917198636 |title=About profile photo screenshot blocking |website=WhatsApp Help Center |access-date=2026-07-20 }}&lt;/ref&gt;

For this reason, Google should have provided a built-in option that lets the device owner override screen capture blocks at their own responsibility. An app deciding whether you are allowed to take screenshots on &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; device is comparable to a guest in your home telling you how to behave.

=== Power management ===
Battery saving is less of a concern while charging, so the user might want to set a longer timeout until the device goes into stand-by mode automatically. Unfortunately, Android has no option to set a different screen timeout based on an external charger being connected.

The closest thing is the "Stay awake" option in the "Developer options", which keeps the screen on indefinitely if a charger is connected, but this might not be what the user wants. The user might opt for 30 seconds while not charging, and 2 minutes while charging.

Windows had such a feature since at least Vista (Control Panel &gt; Power Options &gt; Edit Plan Settings).

As of 2026, all known smartphone vendors have implemented a battery charge limiting option, which reduces battery weardown by limiting charging to 80 or 85 percents, which is made necessary by batteries not being replaceable, at least not without difficulties. Another option that would help extending the battery life expectancy would be limiting '''fast charging''' to 50%, then charging slow and gently to 80%. Fast charging is most urgently needed at low battery percentages, and also generates less heat at lower percentages. 

Also, the user should be able to manually pick a charging limit, such as 70% to extend the battery life expectancy even more, or 90% to make more use of the available capacity while still extending the life noticeably compared to a full 100% charge. But given that Google Nexus smartphones were among the '''earliest''' smartphones to have non-replaceable batteries (see Nexus 4, Nexus 5), this is something Google probably won't care about.

Given how much smartphone batteries have grown during the past years, 70% are usually enough to get through the day. Even some entry-level smartphones like the lower Galaxy A series have a solid 5000 mAh. This is not 2017, where Samsung released a flagship phablet with a 3300 mAh embarrassment.

=== Google Messages (SMS, MMS, RCS app) ===
No option to [[Data_lock-in#Text_messages|export messages]], making it almost impossible to create local backups without root access.

The third-party app "SMS Backup+" sadly forces the user to go through the middleman GMail rather than doing the sensible thing, just dumping a file in the device storage.

There is no option to always show the number of remaining characters. The number of remaining characters is only shown if ten or less characters are left.

=== Dialer (telephone) and contacts app ===
Of course, no built-in exporting to a file. Not surprising at this point.

== GBoard (Google Keyboard) ==
There is no option to turn off the one-hour clipboard time limit, which automatically deletes clipboard items older than one hour, even after users have asked for it.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |url=https://support.google.com/android/thread/209187528/adjust-gboard-clipboard-timeout?hl=en |title=Adjust Gboard clipboard timeout - Android Community |date=2023-04-03 |access-date=2026-06-04 }} ([http://web.archive.org/web/20260514000953/https://support.google.com:443/android/thread/209187528/adjust-gboard-clipboard-timeout?hl=en archive])&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |url=https://support.google.com/pixelphone/thread/409472142/the-clipboard-history-is-terrible-in-pixel-things-copied-get-deleted-in-just-an-hour?hl=en |title=The clipboard history is terrible in Pixel! Things copied get deleted in just an hour! |date=2026-02-12 |access-date=2026-07-20 |website=Google Pixel Community }}&lt;/ref&gt;

The clipboard is not intended for long-term storage of course, but that's not an excuse for not giving the user the choice. Why not two hours? Why not one day? Why not indefinitely until a certain number of items is exceeded? Let the user decide.

In comparison, Samsung's and Xiaomi's keyboard applications (before Xiaomi ditched their native keyboard app in favour of GBoard) have no fixed time limit and delete the oldest unpinned clipboard item if a number of items is exceeded.

If special character shortcuts are enabled, there is a shortcut for the backslash (&lt;kbd&gt;\&lt;/kbd&gt;), but surprisingly not for the forward slash (&lt;kbd&gt;/&lt;/kbd&gt;), a much more commonly used key.

You can't change the delay until holding the backspace key will erase multiple characters, and how fast they are cleared (how many characters per second). A delay too long becomes a nuisance over time.

There are no virtual "Home", "End", "Page up", or "Page down" buttons.

Additionally, it lacks reverse backspacing. Samsung's keyboard allows reverse backspacing using Shift+Backspace. This is like the "delete" key on desktop computers.

== Google Calendar ==
Lacks a "jump to date" feature which would let you enter the numerical date.

This is something Samsung had in the early 2010s (but curiously removed with the S6), and Nokia had even in the 1990s, for example on the Nokia 7111.

If you want to check what day of the week a specific date was, you have to manually scroll to it.

== Google Chrome ==
Mandatory pull-to-refresh, data lock-in, lack of customization, and more. See ''[[User:JodyBruchonFan/Everything_wrong_with_Chrome|Everything wrong with Chrome]]''.

== Google Docs ==
Google Docs will only let you save documents locally if the creator allows it. This is moralized nonsense. If someone makes something public, they should expect that others are able to save it.

== YouTube ==
The [[YouTube]] website and mobile application provide no way to download videos to a local file that is accessible outside the YouTube website or app. Unlike most other things on this list, this has been done on purpose, not as a result of negligence, see [[YouTube#Digital_Rights_Management|YouTube § Digital Rights Management]].

There is no numerical "jump to time feature" like the one the desktop edition of VLC Media Player has had for decades. The mobile edition of VLC Media Player has it too.

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      <text bytes="14880" sha1="32egg2m8zevkr00bdwew3qthkeafish" xml:space="preserve">One would expect Google to be a company of world class developers. While they create good software in some categories, VP9 and AV1 and Google Earth being examples, they sometimes don't implement basic features one would expect some other categories of software to have. This page collects various failures and bad decisions by Google's "world class developers". Everyone is welcome to contribute.

== Android OS ==
=== Built-in file manager ===
It baffles me how Google manages to create a sophisticated chat bot like Gemini while failing to build a proper file manager.

Both "Files by Google" and Android's built-in file manager (DocumentsUI) lack basic features one would expect from a file manager. They lack features that ES File Explorer already had in the early 2010s, in its golden days before becoming adware and when Android was friendly to third-party file managers.

For example, there is no scrollbar. On DocumentsUI, you can not see the total size and recursive file/folder count of one or more selected directories. You can not limit searching to one specific folder but you have to search the entire storage. There are no search filters like date range. The search feature only returns up to 24 results, an arbitrary limit. In list view, the last modified time and number of items within a folder are not shown. The detail view only shows the last modified time in minutes, not seconds, and does not show the exact file size in bytes. You can not jump from a search result to its parent directory. It does not remember your sorting preference. You can not select all items inbetween two items (like shift+click does on desktop and ES File Explorer does with a dedicated button). 

There is no "open with" feature. There is no address bar that would let you enter a file path. It doesn't even make use of Android's built-in recycle bin feature. Tapping on "More information" removes the selection. Going back to the parent directory will open the top of the list, not the last scroll position. The ZIP file creator does not memorize the date and time of directories, only files, and refuses to generate archives from &lt;code&gt;Android/data&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;Android/obb&lt;/code&gt;. And you can't copy or move files &lt;em&gt;to&lt;/em&gt; these two directories, only &lt;em&gt;from&lt;/em&gt; them.

It doesn't even preserve the date and time attribute of copied files, something Windows had in the 1990s and Windows Mobile 6, released in 2009, had too.

Most importantly, after tapping on "copy" or "move", it doesn't stay in the current directory, but opens the Download folder instead. This means, if you wish to move items to a subdirectory of the currently viewed directory, you first have to manually navigate all the way back to the directory you were in before tapping on "copy" or "move". This is something even Windows 95 did better.

Earlier versions even had a bug where cancelling a file move operation would cause source files to be irrecoverably deleted without having been moved to the destination.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |url=https://support.google.com/photos/thread/106201?hl=en |title=Photos disappeared after moving to another device folder - Google Photos Community |author=Gökhun Güneyhan |date=2018-04-24 |access-date=2026-06-08 }} ([https://megalodon.jp/2023-0228-0023-32/https://support.google.com:443/photos/thread/106201?hl=en archive])&lt;/ref&gt;

But hey, at least they implemented Google Drive integration. To their credit, they implemented the ability to browse and extract selected or all files from ZIP and even TAR and 7z archives, create ZIP files, a built-in EXIF viewer, the ability to open multiple instances, selection by tapping the file icon (faster than holding), a large grid view suitable for image seeking, and the file transfer progress indicator is displayed as a notification, which is better than a pop-up that blocks interacting with the file manager, like in Samsung's file manager.

=== Android text editor ===
Let's have a look at Android's text editor. Oh wait... '''Android doesn't &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; one!'''

Since the dawn of personal computers, a text editor was a basic part of the "scope of delivery" of operating systems. Something you'd simply expect to be... &lt;em&gt;there&lt;/em&gt;. Even Windows 1.0, even MS-DOS had a pre-installed text file editor. But Android? Nope.

Now, you'd say "can't you get a text editor from the Play Store"? Well, the Play Store is a mine field of adware. Text editors from there are usually filled with advertisements that require &lt;s&gt;piracy&lt;/s&gt; payment to remove, or risk breaking with the next Android update because Google makes changes to file access once again that "make life more difficult" for third-party apps because Google considers all third-party apps untrustworthy.

If Google considers third-party apps untrustworthy by default, how come they haven't bothered making something as simple as a text editor for Android?

=== Text selection tools ===
Text selection on Android has not improved much since the early 2010s.

The text selection tools on Android (cut, copy, paste, ...) are fairly limited. Samsung added an "undo" button to their text selection menu in recent years before 2026 only, mimicking &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;Z&lt;/kbd&gt; that had existed for decades on desktop and laptop computers.

There is also no way to select a large block of text like one would do on a desktop/laptop computer by clicking somewhere in a text to place the cursor somewhere, then scrolling to a different part of the text, then holding shift, and then clicking a different part of the text, resulting in selecting all text between those two positions. The closest thing on Android is "drag-to-select", which becomes tedious on large blocks of text due to having to wait for the scrolling to finish.

Android has nothing comparable to holding &lt;kbd&gt;Shift&lt;/kbd&gt; and then pressing the arrow keys to select letters (left and right) or lines (up and down), holding &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt; and &lt;kbd&gt;Shift&lt;/kbd&gt; and pressing the arrow keys to select words, or triple-clicking to select a paragraph, or holding shift and pressing "page up" or "page down" to select one screen size of text, holding shift and pressing &lt;kbd&gt;Home&lt;/kbd&gt; or &lt;kbd&gt;End&lt;/kbd&gt; to select all text from the cursor position to the beginning or end of the line respectively, and doing the same with &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt; to select all text from the cursor position to the beginning or end of the page or text area.

The stock Android text selection menu has no icons. The text selection menu on TouchWiz, Samsung's customized Android distribution before 2017, actually had icons ([[:commons:File:Text_selection_menu_with_icons_-_input_field_-_TouchWiz_2015.png|screenshot]]), but Samsung unfortunately threw that away for Google's iconless text selection menu.

=== Screenshot blocking ===
The thing that supposedly sets Android apart from iOS is user choice and freedom, yet Google decided that device owners are at the mercy of app developers to let them take screenshots and screen recordings. This is known as [[screenshot blocking]] or screen capture blocking, and can only be overridden with an unlocked bootloader and root access, which has complications of its own.

While this was originally intended to prevent banking app content from being captured or broadcast to external screens (miracast, MHL), there is nothing preventing it from being used outside of its originally intended scope. Consequently, it was only a matter of time before app developers realized they could use it arbitrarily.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |url=https://www.howtogeek.com/why-screenshots-dont-always-work-especially-in-secure-apps/ |website=How To Geek |author=Faisal Rasool |title=Why Your Phone Blocks Screenshots in Secure Apps |date=2025-08-23 |access-date=2026-05-26 }}&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |author=konradkar |url=https://old.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/f3xk35/bookingcom_app_disallow_to_take_screenshot_can_i/ |website=[[Reddit]] |title=Booking.com app disallow to take screenshot, can I bypass this? |date=2020-02-14 |access-date=2026-05-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230615071612/https://old.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/f3xk35/bookingcom_app_disallow_to_take_screenshot_can_i/ |archive-date=2023-06-15}}&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |url=https://faq.whatsapp.com/1799783917198636 |title=About profile photo screenshot blocking |website=WhatsApp Help Center |access-date=2026-07-20 }}&lt;/ref&gt;

For this reason, Google should have provided a built-in option that lets the device owner override screen capture blocks at their own responsibility. An app deciding whether you are allowed to take screenshots on &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; device is comparable to a guest in your home telling you how to behave.

=== Power management ===
Battery saving is less of a concern while charging, so the user might want to set a longer timeout until the device goes into stand-by mode automatically. Unfortunately, Android has no option to set a different screen timeout based on an external charger being connected.

The closest thing is the "Stay awake" option in the "Developer options", which keeps the screen on indefinitely if a charger is connected, but this might not be what the user wants. The user might opt for 30 seconds while not charging, and 2 minutes while charging.

Windows had such a feature since at least Vista (Control Panel &gt; Power Options &gt; Edit Plan Settings).

As of 2026, all known smartphone vendors have implemented a battery charge limiting option, which reduces battery weardown by limiting charging to 80 or 85 percents, which is made necessary by batteries not being replaceable, at least not without difficulties. Another option that would help extending the battery life expectancy would be limiting '''fast charging''' to 50%, then charging slow and gently to 80%. Fast charging is most urgently needed at low battery percentages, and also generates less heat at lower percentages. 

Also, the user should be able to manually pick a charging limit, such as 70% to extend the battery life expectancy even more, or 90% to make more use of the available capacity while still extending the life noticeably compared to a full 100% charge. But given that Google Nexus smartphones were among the '''earliest''' smartphones to have non-replaceable batteries (see Nexus 4, Nexus 5), this is something Google probably won't care about.

Given how much smartphone batteries have grown during the past years, 70% are usually enough to get through the day. Even some entry-level smartphones like the lower Galaxy A series have a solid 5000 mAh. This is not 2017, where Samsung released a flagship phablet with a 3300 mAh embarrassment.

=== Google Messages (SMS, MMS, RCS app) ===
No option to [[Data_lock-in#Text_messages|export messages]], making it almost impossible to create local backups without root access.

The third-party app "SMS Backup+" sadly forces the user to go through the middleman GMail rather than doing the sensible thing, just dumping a file in the device storage.

There is no option to always show the number of remaining characters. The number of remaining characters is only shown if ten or less characters are left.

=== Dialer (telephone) and contacts app ===
Of course, no built-in exporting to a file. Not surprising at this point.

=== GBoard (Google Keyboard) ===
There is no option to turn off the one-hour clipboard time limit, which automatically deletes clipboard items older than one hour, even after users have asked for it.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |url=https://support.google.com/android/thread/209187528/adjust-gboard-clipboard-timeout?hl=en |title=Adjust Gboard clipboard timeout - Android Community |date=2023-04-03 |access-date=2026-06-04 }} ([http://web.archive.org/web/20260514000953/https://support.google.com:443/android/thread/209187528/adjust-gboard-clipboard-timeout?hl=en archive])&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref name=google-409472142&gt;{{cite web |url=https://support.google.com/pixelphone/thread/409472142/the-clipboard-history-is-terrible-in-pixel-things-copied-get-deleted-in-just-an-hour?hl=en |title=The clipboard history is terrible in Pixel! Things copied get deleted in just an hour! |date=2026-02-12 |access-date=2026-07-20 |website=Google Pixel Community }}&lt;/ref&gt;

The clipboard is not intended for long-term storage of course, but that's not an excuse for not giving the user the choice. Why not two hours? Why not one day? Why not indefinitely until a certain number of items is exceeded? Let the user decide.

In comparison, Samsung's and Xiaomi's keyboard applications (before Xiaomi ditched their native keyboard app in favour of GBoard) have no fixed time limit and delete the oldest unpinned clipboard item if a number of items is exceeded.

It should also be noted that the clipboard history is stored internally by the keyboard app and not accessible to any other app, so the argument that it would expose sensitive information to other apps without the knowledge of the user is not true.&lt;ref name=google-409472142 /&gt;

If special character shortcuts are enabled, there is a shortcut for the backslash (&lt;kbd&gt;\&lt;/kbd&gt;), but surprisingly not for the forward slash (&lt;kbd&gt;/&lt;/kbd&gt;), a much more commonly used key.

You can't change the delay until holding the backspace key will erase multiple characters, and how fast they are cleared (how many characters per second). A delay too long becomes a nuisance over time.

There are no virtual "Home", "End", "Page up", or "Page down" buttons.

Additionally, it lacks reverse backspacing. Samsung's keyboard allows reverse backspacing using Shift+Backspace. This is like the "delete" key on desktop computers.

== Google Calendar ==
Lacks a "jump to date" feature which would let you enter the numerical date.

This is something Samsung had in the early 2010s (but curiously removed with the S6), and Nokia had even in the 1990s, for example on the Nokia 7111.

If you want to check what day of the week a specific date was, you have to manually scroll to it.

== Google Chrome ==
Mandatory pull-to-refresh, data lock-in, lack of customization, and more. See ''[[User:JodyBruchonFan/Everything_wrong_with_Chrome|Everything wrong with Chrome]]''.

== Google Docs ==
Google Docs will only let you save documents locally if the creator allows it. This is moralized nonsense. If someone makes something public, they should expect that others are able to save it.

== YouTube ==
The [[YouTube]] website and mobile application provide no way to download videos to a local file that is accessible outside the YouTube website or app. Unlike most other things on this list, this has been done on purpose, not as a result of negligence, see [[YouTube#Digital_Rights_Management|YouTube § Digital Rights Management]].

There is no numerical "jump to time feature" like the one the desktop edition of VLC Media Player has had for decades. The mobile edition of VLC Media Player has it too.

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