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When it comes to the iPhone, there are plenty of complaints from various users. For instance, we can whine about the lack of copy and paste or even criticize the missing feature of over the air iTunes syncing. However, along with these somewhat serious issues, there are still some complaints that are just plain weird. Although they don’t receive as much attention as the others, they are still somewhat annoying to me. I’m sure you have noticed these at one point or another during your use of the iPhone but just haven’t really realized just how strange they are. Well we have.

• Weird iPhone Auto-corrections - I love the iPhone auto-correction, as it increases my typing speed drastically during normal use of the iPhone. However, there are those certain words that the iPhone totally chokes on. For example, since when did people start typing “lol” as “LOL”? And since when were swears not a word? I’m somewhat annoyed with always saying “shot” and “duck” to all my friends instead of their not-so-friendly counterparts. Is this the iPhone’s way of controlling our mind and cleaning out our language? Nope, just a quirky complaint.
• Pointless Phone Ringtones - Most phones these days come with some pretty interesting and awesome ringtones out of the box. The iPhone, in my opinion, is an exception. Although some of the built in ringtones are pretty cool (Marimba being on of those), since when did people want to have barking dogs or quacking ducks as their ringtone? There have got to be cooler digital mixes Apple can come up with than that. I’m aware you can still get almost any ringtone you want on the phone via iTunes and making your own, but it would be nice to have some awesome built-in ones. Either that or I’ll have to keep waking up to the wonderful sound of chirping crickets from my iPhone alarm.
• Nonsensical App Reordering - With all the apps available in the App Store, I quickly wound up with five or so pages on my iPhone instead of the usual one or two. Being the kind of person I am, I love to keep these apps organized and ordered in a certain way. The iPhone makes that task so annoying that I’ve just stopped worrying about it all together. To begin, you can’t even drag an app over more than one page at a time. Even worse, once you move the app, it also changes the position of every other single application after it instead of just swapping places.  This not only puts the current page out of order but each one after it (so long as your pages are 100% full of apps).

So, there are a few of my abnormal complaints. Feel free to add to the list in the comments. We’re always ready for a good laugh!