Samsung to iphone

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Hello,
I have been a long time Samsung user , currently with a S24+ and Galaxy Watch 6 classic.

Considering for next release to switch to iPhone and Apple Watch

Crazy idea or will it be a smooth transfer ?

Anyone been through this ?

Thank you
 
Apple products are very easy to use and incredibly uniform over all generations and devices.

If you use one Apple device you can easily jump to another.

It is the reason so many little children and elderly can use them, they are easy mode.

Apple famously have disadvantages over android but you are probably aware of some of them.
 
after using Samsung for years, I tried to use an iPhone and I was clueless. Everything was back to front it seemed. Could hardly work it out. Also the iPhone keyboard is very poor compared to Samsung. I would not swap for anything.
 
The only real answer is that they’re different.


It’s what you get used to.


My first few phones were Android, up until the Pixel 2 Pro. I then switched to an iPhone XS Max and haven’t looked back.


I switched because I’d had enough of sub par optimisation with background tasks and location handling.


It didn’t matter which Android phone I had, I’d rinse the battery by 8pm, with location always being a huge hog.



The iPhone keyboard isn’t as good, but I personally prefer the way iOS handles almost everything else.



It’s fluid, and it “just works”. Consistently good at everything.
 
something daft already!! said:
after using Samsung for years, I tried to use an iPhone and I was clueless. Everything was back to front it seemed. Could hardly work it out. Also the iPhone keyboard is very poor compared to Samsung. I would not swap for anything.
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agreed the memory muscle takes time to adapt. It is similar to going from windows to a mac. There is learning curve there which you will either enjoy or hate
 
After using android for so long now, every time I pick up an iPhone I find the UI clunky. I guess it's what you're used to but I'd never in a million years go back to apple.
 
the move process it self is not difficult per say but takes time.

whatsapp was the problem area for me but that apparetelly has got better recently.

it takes a couple weeks to get used to it but once you're past the "pain" stage it all makes sense and picking up certain android phones really reminds you why people like iOS.

if you want a phone that sorta just works it's perfect. If you enjoy playing with customization etc, it probably will feel very limited - getting better with iOS updates but still not at the level of Android.

I did try to move back to android with s24u but had to sell it soon after, was too clunky and basic things just didn't work as well.
 
I went Samsung to Apple back end of last year and don’t regret it at all - in fact I can’t see me going back the other way for a while at least.
 
I always consider this yearly. Not had an iPhone since version 4 but the Pixel phones have kept me rocking the Android for a while but do think about shifting as rest of the family are iPhone and would make a few things easier. Saying that I always find a few bits clunky but perhaps giving it time I may be fine with its way of doing things.
 
ddoubleep said:
I always consider this yearly. Not had an iPhone since version 4 but the Pixel phones have kept me rocking the Android for a while but do think about shifting as rest of the family are iPhone and would make a few things easier. Saying that I always find a few bits clunky but perhaps giving it time I may be fine with its way of doing things.
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that's basically all it is, just takes a bit of time to learn the "apple" way.. once you're past that it does work well. There are many things I miss about android but at the same time, I've gone "lazy" and just want me phone to do the phone things and I don't particularly care about the rest.
 
I use both daily and consistently find things do take longer to do in iOS than android.
Android has (at least in my eyes) continued to evolve and become more refined of late and has so many little quality of life features whereas iOS is generally quite clunky and antiquated and needing a serious overhaul.
 
I couldn't goto Apple software, but I'm coloured by my parents! They always find problems with their iphones/ask me to change some niggly random things - ultimately they've changed or broken something accidentally and I can never establish how they've done it/or how to fix it - we just end up resetting the device to fix it which of course works but just shouldn't be necessary.
 
I do think Android offers way more than iOS but I can't be dealing with half baked apps and some of the core apps not even optimized properly such as Gmail, it's not even like they aren't aware of the issue but they just refuse to fix/provide a solution (biggest gripe is delayed notifications with emails using Gmail app).

With iOS things just work and they work very well, the fact the Google suite of Apps run better on iOS is a massive insult to Google.
 
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Rimsy said:
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Plenty of content about it online, here's a few:



Google Issue Tracker

issuetracker.google.com issuetracker.google.com

Also just the general user interaction within some of the Google Apps (but this also extends to other apps such as Reddit, X etc where there is just poor optimization by developers compared to iOS equivalent:

Google Maps runs much more fluid and smoother on iOS, no map rendering stutter or lag.
Same as above with Waze
YouTube seems to kick in higher quality much quicker.

My last Android was the S24 Ultra for comparison.
 
Android don’t think gmail delivery is a priority hence the delayed gmail notifications when doze kills the process.

iOS pull/push is immense. Gmail notifications works 100% of the time. In sync across all Apple devices.

I could not go back to Android now, I don’t want to be messing about with battery optimisation settings. Who has time for that faff. :rolleyes:

Apps are better polished on iOS too.
 
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