iOS is worse than Android

It is true that clearing a notification may not clear the app badge, but that's because there's a distinction between clearing and dismissing notifications. To dismiss a notification, you have to view it, either by pulling down the notification banner as it comes in, or long pressing; that peeks at the notification, and if you pull down on it again, it's dismissed. Otherwise, if you clear the notification, it's assumed that you have not viewed it (since you can bulk clear and not have to interact with every notification individually). This may not be straightforward at first, but at least I prefer that it fails safe for the user, and they don't miss a notification they accidentally swiped away. I hear notifications on iOS 15 are coming closer to the Android experience, if that helps.

On the subject of getting to the settings quicker, at least on iOS 15 you can get to Spotlight search faster.

Regarding auto-correct, it's the first thing I turn off and only keep predictive text, but at least when you do have it on, you get a visual cue that the word has been changed with the word flashing. It would be better if it underlined the word like it does for when it's not sure whether it chose the correct word during dictation.

I would've expected something more systemically wrong (of which I'm sure there are at least a few) referred to in the article than just a few UI/UX quirks.

Power consumption is extremely low – rather than trying to micromanage that, you’ll see far more savings from using low-power mode earlier or uninstall the top consuming apps.

I pretty aggressively manage notifications on my phone. And will selectively disable either the entire thing or the little red bubble depending on their use case.

Also you can clear individual notifications by selecting them or swiping them off. Or you can en-mass delete them, theres an X at the top right of the main banner

For example:

By default most are off. I really dont need notifications from say...Pandora or Zoom or Youtube.

For things that i check, work email, phone calls, texts or chat apps or even TOTP/push like DUO I allow the banners and badges but generally disable sounds.

My kids daycare app that is largely required for basic communication, absolutely abuses the communication feature. Every time a picture is posted you get one, and if they post say...10 you get 10. They ONLY get the bubble, so i know theres something i should check.

This makes it look like theres more work than I put into as well. In general i deny notifications. For those that I want it I allow them and if they abuse it, i simply trim down what is bothering it. Its actually a pretty solid system imho.

Maybe something to do with the Rounded Rectangle patent?