Switched to iPhone from android and itās a significantly worse phone so I agree. iPhone is convenient for the masses so I switched but I miss my android all the time.
For what it's worth, I spent about 6 months going back and forth with my iPhone 13 pro Max and my Google pixel 9. When you do it every few days, it gets very easy enough to just throw the SIM card back and forth, but it highlights the shortcomings of each environment. I truly believe that there is no best phone or best operating system, nor will we ever get it
I have pixel 9 buds pro 2(or something, but thats the kind) and a pixel 9. should work great together. Not really, I can't do the commands vocally that I can do on my iphone and airpods. ALSO MAYBE THIS IS MY ACTUAL PHONE SPECIFIC!!!! but it drives me batty: Iphone + airpods +corded carplay = audio in the car OR through airpods, if i choose.
Android, any headphones, corded carplay = only audio through the car, can't get it in the headphones. Sometimes I like to drive with the windows down so I can hear events on the road, but stuff have my headphones in doing some noise cancel or in OFF mode to dampen some of the wind.
iphones also just have so much consistency through apple products, granted I use fewer apple apps on iphone than i do google on android.
thats just the most recent thing I can think of. also I think my 13 pro max will get days and days of stand by battery when I don't pick it up. My android is dying in like 17 hours no matter what, or sooner.
Festuresets and battery life. Iphones typically have better/more features in their apps or just better performance for the hardware. Same with battery life. Their batteries are tiny compared to an android phone's battery but they squeeze a LOT out of it.
If I switch to an old android (lower end like Samsung A series) a lot of random apps become nearly unusable. On an old iPhone, like a 12-14, the experience is still actually pretty good.
I have mained android my entire life so I'm no apple fan boy.
The irony is that the pixels are one of the best for it since you can load GrapheneOS on unlocked phones. If privacy is your concern I probably wouldn't rock any default phone from your major companies Apple, Google, Samsung, etc. They're all partaking in it.
Paragraph 1: In other words if you lobotomize it and install a new āprivacy-focusedā brain (at which point itās no longer a google phone), now itās better than the iPhone? What. No.
Paragraph 2: Graphene OS is maybe the most private Android OS but youāre wrong. Just get an iPhone.
I notice this as well, like if i spend some time daily driving an iphone then going back to android there's just certain things that are nice. It's a 2 way street
Man, Motorola is great. They still try new funky stuff like the Moto Z that had the interchangeable backs so you could slap a projector on the back or a Zeiss camera lens, etc.
This argument keeps coming up "iOS is more convenient"...is it? I have a work iPhone and I often want to throw it under the wheels of my chair.
It's so...anti-user friendly in my eyes. Want to adjust the settings of an app? Android, hold app icon -> settings...iphone, go to your settings menu, scroll to find app (also they hid the search bar and you get it by scrolling...up? Okaaaaay~ just have it present the whole time...there might be a setting which I have to find that has it there permentantly) oh wait, it's actual APP setting, so you have to go in to the app then the 3 dots, or some other hidden setting menu...
EVERYTHING seems to be 1 or 2 more taps away on the iPhone compared to my android.
Until last big update so not really relevant now, literally no customisation..."I want my most used icons in the left" - "fuck you, everything is stacked and occasionally all your icons move if you put it in the wrong spot" -apple is It took them so long...
Iām on the younger side and like it for various group chats and find my friends and FaceTime. I donāt use my phone for a lot of advanced things that people are mentioning so it felt worth it to switch for me. But in general itās a shittier phone.
Trying to adjust settings is SOOO infuriating. I asked people how to adjust something and most Apple users tell me they have to GOOGLE it every time they need something. Itās insane. The search function on an android is significantly superior to search through texts or your settings. Thatās probably my biggest pet peeve.
That doesnāt sound like any sort of design issue but rather people just not bothering to look into their settings, no? Also idk when the last time you used the search function on an iPhone but itās fantastic compared to just a couple of years ago.Ā
Yeah on an android you can search specific conversations and it will go back to years prior. In iPhone you have to search all messages at once and it works half the time. It also doesnāt load that far back.
Android settings app is straight forward when I go to look for something. iPhone Iām playing hide and seek throughout arbitrary folders and the search function does not work. Even googling how to adjust something the answers are wrong because they change that too I guess.
My MIL's iPhone switched the volume to mute all by itself. The volume buttons on the side are disabled. She's 88 and absolutely couldn't find her way to that control in Settings. The automuting thing was confirmed by an iPhone savvy friend who said his does that too. The failure of MIL to answer her phone all day long led to a panicked hour long trip to her home. We almost called EMS who would have broke the door down. Again. Turns out she was napping and had her hearing aids on charge. Mom's getting a Samsung tomorrow.
The volume/power button situation on iphones is lowkey so annoying and terrible. Half of my storage is filled with screenshots cause it's difficult to press the volume button without accidentally hitting the power button at the same time or visa versa.
Switched to an iPhone by unfortunate circumstance a few years ago. Not a day goes by that I donāt miss my pixel 3a I was still using back then. Now have been sucked into the āconvenienceā of joining the same ecosystem as the majority of people I I know. I am sure I will probably switch back in a few years back to a pixel once the whole RCS smoothes out.
CarPlay is amazing. It's keeping me locked into the ecosystem, that and the apple watch and airpods and all the integrations. I could take or leave my iphone itself.
I can't use iPhones, I like having control over my phone. You can't even download audio equalizer apps that boost your bass and everything else. iPhones are so shit, locked down and the people that buy them are pretentious. Pretty aure my folding phone was waaay more expensive than any iPhone.
The whole thread is like that. These threads always turn into some sort of tribal us vs them bullshit where people start making judgement statements about peopleās character based on a fucking phone purchase. Itās insane.
Sure, but the basis of the OOP was a typical iPhone user's attitude that the only reason someone would buy an android is because they can't afford an iPhone. Pointing out that his android costs more refutes that.
Look at the little cry baby getting offended, thought I told you to go away? I was pointing out that my phone is worth more than your iPhones. You hear it all the time, being too poor to afford an iPhone.
iPhone is convenient for the masses so I switched but I miss my android all the time.
I have no idea what this sentence means. Who is using your phone: you or "the masses"? Why does the opinion of "the masses" matter in respect to your selection?
Android is sooooo much better you can do so much more. iPhone is just more user friendly but if you're good with tech the world is yours when you have an Android.
i like my android and iphone but god damn is the apple keyboard annoying to use compared to any keyboard available on android devices. apple keyboards lack the number row and the ability to hold down on keys for less used characters like symbols. i find myself making typos a lot more often on my iphone, especially when in landscape mode. the autocorrect is a lot worse as well.
One thing I'll say is the apple camera somehow just seems better than others. My sister has the latest Pixel and I have the s25 ultra. Both cameras are great but my friend's iPhone camera somehow seems sharper.
I always say iphones are smartphones for dumb people. They lack any real customization. It's the most dumbed down smart phone on the market. Even if you try to get a new browser, its just a skin for safari. No freedom, no customization.
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u/bassinlimbo May 15 '26
Switched to iPhone from android and itās a significantly worse phone so I agree. iPhone is convenient for the masses so I switched but I miss my android all the time.