My Switch to iPhone From Android Solved These Frustrations

After 10 years of loving Android telephones, I’ve lastly caved.

Just a few weeks in the past — and after months of going forwards and backwards — I went to my native Verizon retailer and ordered an iPhone 14 Pro. It could sound like I’m being overly dramatic, however the transfer signaled a giant shift for me.

I’ve at all times prided myself on not shopping for into the Apple hype. Despite years of pestering from mates to modify to an iPhone, I pushed again, sustaining that I preferred being totally different from the lots. Everyone round me has an iPhone. It felt good to defy the norm. And so for years, I caught with my Samsung Galaxy units, which I nonetheless consider are unimaginable telephones. 

But after conversations with family and friends about what I might get from the iPhone that I might by no means get with my Android, I began to rethink my stance. Yes, I cherished my Galaxy S10 Plus and every part it provided: a top-notch digicam, a customizable interface and Object Eraser, which removes any undesirable folks or objects out of your footage (Pixel has the same function). But on the finish of the day, there was one large factor my Android might by no means provide: a seamless solution to talk with all my mates on the iPhone.

I’ve been advised numerous instances that I wreck group chats by turning all of the texts “green.” This is as a result of Apple refuses to make iMessage appropriate with Android telephones, so while you message somebody who is not on iOS, you will see inexperienced textual content bubbles as an alternative of the usual blue ones. Because this felt like a superficial grievance — and is 100% Apple’s fault — I brushed it apart.

Until I noticed I used to be lacking out on different, extra important advantages of proudly owning an iPhone. 

Unless you utilize a third-party app like WhatsApp, there is not any simple solution to ship high-resolution photographs and movies straight between an Android telephone and an iPhone. I used to be OK with simply utilizing WhatsApp… till I started to envy my mates who had been instantaneously AirDropping

footage and movies after our hangouts. WhatsApp additionally diminishes the standard of movies, and Google Drive takes rather a lot longer to add movies to.

It additionally was irritating that apps like TikTok diminished my digicam high quality on Android. Comparing TikTok movies taken on an iPhone — even an older model just like the iPhone X — with these taken on my Galaxy S10 Plus is like night time and day. On my Galaxy, TikTok distorted the colours and blurred every part in probably the most unflattering and unrealistic method. On the iPhone, movies are crisp and clear and seem simply as they need to. For somebody who makes use of TikTok as a lot as I do, this was vital.

These causes, together with the truth that I already use a MacBook and would subsequently profit from the Apple ecosystem, led me to begin altering my thoughts about proudly owning an iPhone. Throw in options like the brand new always-on show on the iPhone 14 Pro fashions — one thing I completely cherished on my Galaxy units — and enjoyable new components like Dynamic Island, and instantly I used to be offered on the concept of switching over.

Of course, I needed to struggle off emotions of being a sellout. But I noticed that finally, it is only a telephone. And it doesn’t matter what you do, folks can have unsolicited opinions about what machine you are utilizing. My Galaxy labored nicely for me for a few years. Now I used to be prepared for one thing new. And thus far, I’ve no regrets.

Check out the video above for extra of my ideas on switching from an Android telephone to an iPhone.