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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)
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  • 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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[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 2 points 2 weeks ago

take a few extra taps and swipes than they would on Android

I've swapped from iOS to Android and I very much have the opposite experience.

Everything in Android feels just a little bit like someone somewhere went 'well we have to put this option SOMEWHERE' and just shoved it in, which leads to me fiddling in apps and system settings a lot more than I was on iOS.

I'm happy to chalk it up to much more experience in iOS than modern Android, but it's been kinda a pervasive experience.

And, also related and annoying: googling 'how do I change a thing' routinely makes me nuts because how you do something seems to vary from manufacturer to manufacturer and even like, model to model.

I guess it's just... maybe iOS needs more button presses, but Android is utterly inconsistent as to where something might be which means you spend a little more time digging for a specific thing than you might on iOS which leads to the impression that you're hitting a lot more buttons to do something, even if maybe the actual number of presses would be lower if you knew exactly how to do it.