I switched recently and here’s some things that come to mind:
Not every android app has an iOS version
Even if an iOS version exists, it doesn’t mean you can always migrate your data. For example: WhatsApp can only migrate your chat history during the setup of the phone and using the move to iOS app. Once the phone has been set up, it’s too late. The chat history of the messaging app Signal can not be migrated between iOS and Android. Microsoft authenticator can not migrate your authentication codes so you have to set them up from 0 (cannot export > import and it saves the cloud version differently for iOS and android
The notification management on iPhone is a mess. You have to manage it on a per-app basis (just getting used to) but they way it shows and keeps notifications is just… terrible. I was quite shocked about this and still frustrated
lack of freedom (f.e positioning shortcuts Home Screen. Due to this I chose to have almost no icons and use the search function for everything
no fingerprint sensor, but the facial Id works surprisingly well (and smooth)
app specific: I have Reolink camera’s and the iOS version doesn’t support PiP video on screen (even though some other apps like Plex somehow managed to do it). Not sure what the exact reason is but Reolink support said it was due to the OS
MagSafe is really neat and handy
And my biggest frustration: no universal back gesture on the right side of the screen. There’s a gesture on the left side (but I’m right handed) and there’s some apps that don’t support gesture. In this case you need to press the X or Close button which is always at the left top corner which forces me to use 2 hands (small hands). Hands down almost made me go back to android.
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I switched recently and here’s some things that come to mind:
And my biggest frustration: no universal back gesture on the right side of the screen. There’s a gesture on the left side (but I’m right handed) and there’s some apps that don’t support gesture. In this case you need to press the X or Close button which is always at the left top corner which forces me to use 2 hands (small hands). Hands down almost made me go back to android.