Phone criticism/feedback and suggested fix. Create "Favorite Animations" and "Favorite Items" folders of 10-20 items max that can be accessed both on mobile and PC so people can access them to make vertical YT and Tiktok shorts. Having access to dance animations would encourage people to make vertical shorts anywhere with the great dance animations available inworld. While we have phone access to some clothes through the "Outfits" folder and landmarks through "Favorite" landmarks folder, there is no access at all to animations or items unless they can be worn. It limits items to wearable like cigarettes and purses. One of the reasons why Second Life has so many long term users who don't want to switch to another virtual world is all their stuff; and the variety of stuff that can be bought by amazing creators. Having no access to any of the stuff at all is a major roadblock to using the phone and getting new residents through phone use. One of the main things I and others would use the phone for is to make vertical short videos for Tiktok and Youtube. A common short genre is dance videos. However, we can't access my dance animations at all. While some people do sell dancers preloaded with animations, I don't like using dancers when I go to other people's regions because they play music aloud and some people don't like it. Also preloaded dancers don't have good dance animations. I'd prefer to access my really good dance animations that I paid lindens for. On a PC, it's easy to access animations but harder to make nonpixelated vertical shorts because they need to be stretched to the height while the sides are cut off -- making horizontal videos are no problem. YT and Tiktok make it easy to make shorts directly in your phone but just standing there in your clothes with no animations makes for a very boring short. Same thing with items. I'd like to do a driving short but can't rezz a car or motorcycle. Right now you could first rezz the car in the pc, log off and then log onto the phone especially since sometimes the phone can take up to 10 minutes to log and hope your vehicle isn't returned to you while you are logging out and logging back in. But that adds to the pain level of using the phone. In general, the phone is painful to use compared to the good experience of using the PC. Logging in the phone is a pain, always saying "app is not responding" and I have to click the "wait" button to keep it going. It takes 5-20 minutes to login compared to the pc 1 minute or less. I can't do anything on the phone other than sit and walk. And it took awhile to even figure that out. Shopping is a common experience that cannot be done on the phone because you can't see if you received your item or open it after you buy it. Going to a club, you can't use your own dance animations. This is unfortunate as a new SL user on the phone would get a negative experience of SL and never come back because they would experience SL as very limited when in fact SL is very wide open to doing whatever you want to do. I have tried to get friends to get on the phone with me to test things out but the consensus is logging in to get money is fine (positive reinforcement) but hanging out on the phone is not fun and if all you can do is chat with each other, it's much easier to chat in Discord. Something that can be done on the phone easily for fun like making dance videos would create some positive reinforcement for staying in the phone app for more than 5 minutes.
