| I switched Android to Apple last month, and it is my biggest regret of 2022. What I wish I knew! Posted: 21 Feb 2022 02:43 PM PST So I have mostly had OnePlus android phones, and I have loved them. However, because they still rely on questionable networks, occasional texts still fail to get delivered. This only happens about 0.001% of the time or something like that. Still, I missed one particular text that was SUPER important that led to the end of a relationship. Things wouldn't have worked out anyway, but things would have ended much more pleasantly. So I decided that this situation was my wake-up call. I decided to get an iPhone because I imagine iMessage should significantly reduce this issue. After all, most of my friends have iPhones. I regret getting one so hard. I thought so many things would work better when I got iPhone, but I was so wrong! To handle my frustration, I have made a list of complaints. I wish I had known all of these things because I would have never switched if I did. Before I start, I also want to emphasize that this is my only apple product. If I had an iMac and an iPad, I wouldn't have so many complaints. However, I am a bioinformatician; I use Windows and Linux. So there is no chance I will be getting an iMac any time soon. Because I have been Android/Windows-based, I am all in on google apps such as Chrome and Google Maps. Also, note that I am a bioinformatician and a recent college graduate, so I am very tech-savvy. I also want to mention that several things work well! There are several positives to having an iPhone, but these positives are completely overshadowed by the issues below. - The apple move to iOS app is garbage. I tried for hours to get it to transfer my messages, and it never did. I had to use a paid app that cost $30. This moved my messages, but every time I send or receive a new text, it starts a new thread instead of following the imported android one. My iMessage inbox is such a mess. In addition, for some reason, several messages a day are coming to my email address instead of my phone! Now I feel like I am MORE likely to miss messages than before!
- I have disabled all iCloud syncing except for iMessage because they only give you 5GB free. I receive notifications every morning saying my iCloud is full. I have used 24 MB so far. This is a disgusting and deceitful way to bully customers into buying iCloud plus. This is what I am up to every day.
- Even though the Google versions are available, Apple forces you to use their apps. On Android, if I got an apple map location pin from a friend, I could still open it in Google Maps. But now that I have an iPhone, I have to open Apple maps when my friends send me locations from other iPhones, even though I have all my addresses and lists saved in Google maps. It is very tedious to transfer the location data from a pin in Apple Maps to Google maps. It is a similar story with Safari because the Chrome app is super basic on iPhone. I am not sure who to blame for this next issue; it might be Google. On iPhone, Google Chrome lacks the basic features of "find on page" and "open desktop version ."Online forums suggest both elements exist but rest assured that those features are not here on my phone.
- Siri is awful. Many Apple fans assume Siri is the best because that is all they ever used, but it is so much worse than Google! Google definitely has its issues, but with Siri, I have to constantly repeat myself because it doesn't catch what I am trying to say. But when it does catch what I am trying to say, it usually doesn't do what I would expect. Part of that is on me because I need to learn its preferred commands.
- Notifications are wacky. I use the Google calendar for work and personal life. But when I imported my accounts, Apple was very kind to copy all of my data over to their calendar app! Nice try. I am still going to use Google. So, I uninstall the Apple Calendar app. Somehow I still keep getting notifications from the Apple Calendar app, even though it should be removed from my phone!! I had to reinstall the zombie app, turn off notifications, and then uninstall the app again!
- Bluetooth is terrible. I don't have AirPods, but I have a nice pair of wireless earbuds from another company. They work perfectly with Android and Windows. But for some reason, they barely work with my iPhone. They do not auto-connect, and when I try to connect to them by clicking on the name of the headphones, the phone tells me to forget and reconnect the headphones. It doesn't do this every time, but it does this about once a day.
- I really miss my fingerprint scanner. With Covid, I wear a mask all day, every day. My face is never available, but my fingers are. My friends told me that Apple supposedly released an update to do FaceID work with a mask. Still, I have retrained my phone multiple times trying to get it to work, and it does not work!
- Something seems to be wrong with the GPS in my device. What is displayed on the screen is about 10 seconds behind where I am actually. It makes navigation feel like I have gone back in time ten years.
- Android Auto is far superior to Carplay! On Android, I can use Google Maps and have my music app display the current song being played at the bottom of the screen. There was no need to switch between apps. This is not the case for CarPlay. While navigating on Android Auto, I could also zoom in or out using my fingers to see the whole trip, but there is no such feature on Google maps. Also, when I use Siri to initiate calls while driving about half the time, it doesn't connect their audio to my car. So essentially, the call is placed, but I can't hear them, and they can't hear me. I choose not to make calls from my car anymore unless I unplug my phone, make the call, and reconnect mid-call.
Some of you may have issues with my problems, and that's great! But that's not the point. Apple is marketed to be simple, and if I have to spend hours solving problems, the Apple image has failed me. If I hadn't bought this phone from an Apple Store, I would have assumed I received a fake Chinese knockoff from China with all my problems. Unfortunately, I am past the obnoxiously short 14 day return period, so I have to live with my mistake. If you are considering the switch from Android to Apple, please remember how much regret I feel in my soul for buying an iPhone. iPhones are riddled with more problems than I could have ever imagined. I wish I had been more grateful for how polished and logical Android was. Thanks for listening to my woes! submitted by /u/three_y_chromosomes [link] [comments] |
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