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I've had ios apple phones all my post-2010 life and am thinking about buying my first android phone, what are some things to know before switching? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Relevant details that might make this a headache.

Most my passwords are saved on the safari password manager and I use the “sign in with apple” on a bunch of websites
My photo library is currently backed with an icloud subscription

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

The Android experience is quite a bit more wanky than Apple's walled garden. I moved to Android a year ago and it took me months of fiddling until I was satisfied. Google really tries to give you their own not-that-walled garden, giving you an Apple-esque experience. If you are not 100 % invested, it could get finicky, though. The vendors usually provide their own standard apps, but more often than not, I find them unpolished.

Regarding Log in with Apple, you could, from what I experienced, get problems, as some Android apps won't let you sign in wit Apple, and even websites don'support it all the time. Take Tripadvisor as an example. Create an account on the iOS app, and when changing to Android, you're basically locked out, because neither their Android app nor their website support Log in with Apple.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

Thanks. I’m actually considering /e/os (a degoogled privacy focused android fork) But I’m assuming sone of the issues here still apply.

I’m really iffy about the privacy constraints with android and the main reason I’m considering switching is

lack of customisation (for me, torrenting is a must have which apple doesn’t allow)
cheaper. I lost my job due to disability so I just need a more affordable solution than apple.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I went the /e/os way and quickly turned back. Not to dismiss the effort of the maintainers, but it really felt like a frontend on lineage os meant to sell alternative cloud services. I did not find convincing arguments over a bare lineage os and the pretty much forced /e/ cloud was a total turn off.

I went the "real" security / privacy way and switched to grapheneos. Very happy overall, already went thought with 2 major os updates, no issues whatsoever. Only issue would be if you want Google pay (won't work on graphene). You'd need a pixel phone if that's in your budget. The pixel phones are great at photos, but pretty "meh" otherwise

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Thanks. I’ll look into lineage and graphene.

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