switch from Apple ecosystem to Android?

My wife and I switched from iPhone's to Pixel's back in October. It was relatively painless, me having used both in the past and my wife having ONLY used iphones. She actually loves her phone. Also have a MacBook pro we use. Hardest part was transferring passwords.
 
JeffKeryk said:
Android users can move to Apple, at the cost of a little pain.
Apple users, in general, will scream and shout, and struggle moving to Android.
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The reason Android users can move to Apple is because they do not have the amount of devices that Android users have.
From the OPs post " everything in the Apple ecosystem. iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, AirPods, MacBook, etc"

Most Android users are basic Smart phone users with very little of the devices above.

I know because like the OP I wouldnt mind giving a Pixel 10pro max (or whatever it is) a spin but the Android ecosystem is a mess. I would have to give up the same Apple devices that the OP has if I wanted the unmatched integration of all my Apple devices.
BTW- just because I wouldnt mind giving the Pixel 10 a spin does not imply in anyway I do not like my iPhone 15plus, it just means I like electronics so much I want to try them all. BTW this is coming from a long time android user many years ago before I switched with an iPhone X I think it was a at this point, forever ago.

Wife and I have 2- Mac desktops, iPhone 15plus and iPhone 13, 1 MacBook Air, 2- Apple Watches (which we use extensively), AirPods gen 2 pro (wife), I have Bose, and an iPad. She also has a later model Lenovo Yoga EVO plus of course Apple Car Play. So to take a main component like the iPhone out of the picture and you would ask yourself why did (or why would) I do that?

Oh ... and .. .in our huge family circle there is only one Android user. I hate that I cant go back and edit text messages to her. I do lots of typo's *LOL* She typically has the latest Galaxy S (whatever number) ultra plus.
 
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Hall said:
Honest question - why ?
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the real reason can't be articulated here w/o getting sanctioned, but mainly because i don't want my txts going over 3rd party networks, later when I was adopting 2FA I realized that the login codes might hit other devices which I saw as a vulnerability.

everyone should turn off auto updates on their iphones, it's clear now that Apple is pivoting to H1Bs handling the updates based on the abomination known as the ios 26 rollout
 
sopususer said:
I did just the opposite. I was into the Android system for years. 1 1/2 years ago I went with an Iphone 16. It truly was the longest and most miserable technology aggrevation I ever experienced. Honestly, most of it was just dealing with the Apple differences in how things work. Long story short I had enough this past March, and traded back into an Android, the Pixel 10. As Forest said, "It was just like old times...we were peas and carrots." YMMV, but as an old dog who doesn't learn new tricks well, I'd stay put.
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Exact same here. I was Android from the very first phone (HTC G1) back in 2008 until present day. In January of last year I bought a new Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max. I spent a full week trying to get it to do the things I have always done in Android. I got 95% of the way there with a LOT of research, asking people who had Apple products already, and customer service help. In the end, the aggravation was just too much. There are BASIC things that iOS still doesn't have in 2026. For example, independent volume controls. When I go to bed, it takes 3 seconds for me to turn the sliders for messages, notifications, and media volume off but leave ringtone volume on. That way if my aging parents have an emergency in the middle of the night they can call me, but I won't be awakened by notifications and texts. Just a simple function, right? iOS still cannot do that, and even the Apple customer care folks didn't seem like they cared. That's just one example of many. Apple just never did catch up to Android and the user friendliness of Android can't be matched.
 
dishdude said:
I find more tech savvy people have Android, the ones using iPhone just got it so they can Facetime their mom.
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I'm reasonably "tech savvy" (having worked in IT for almost 30 years now in healthcare) and I've had every major smartphone under the sun, started on Blackberry and Palm. I currently use an iPhone, and my last several phones have been iPhones.
 
OVERKILL said:
I'm reasonably "tech savvy" (having worked in IT for almost 30 years now in healthcare) and I've had every major smartphone under the sun, started on Blackberry and Palm. I currently use an iPhone, and my last several phones have been iPhones.
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Be honest, you just want to Facetime mom and can't be bothered to install an app that works cross platform :cool:

My post was tongue in cheek, responding to an absurd post.

I have a Pixel and an iPhone. I can't figure out why anyone would choose iOS but that's just my opinion.
 
dishdude said:
Be honest, you just want to Facetime mom and can't be bothered to install an app that works cross platform :cool:
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Hilariously, my mom favours FB messenger :ROFLMAO:
dishdude said:
My post was tongue in cheek, responding to an absurd post.
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I think everybody is being absurd. Most smartphone users are not power users, regardless of the platform. :D
dishdude said:
I have a Pixel and an iPhone. I can't figure out why anyone would choose iOS but that's just my opinion.
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It just "works". I've got lots of *nix boxes kicking around that aren't in an unholy marriage with "The Googs". Have FreeBSD 15 w/Wayland & KDE running nicely on a last gen HP ProBook currently that I'll probably DD for local site visits now, this is the stuff I tinker with, not phones anymore. I did my "fast and furious" smartphone time. Had Dom preaching to me about family while I wasn't double-clutchin' my 2JZ+NAS and lost the Uncle Bens 500. Those days are behind me now, I've got my "Toyota Sienna" iPhone. Sure, sometimes I hear that familiar rip-fart brzzzzttt popping nearby, glance over and see a new Samsung S-3 billion rocking uncontrollably from its massive cam in the hands of some young buck and feel that wave of nostalgia wash over me, but then I put my iPhone in drive and head to the job site. Racing is a young man's game, and I no longer feel like one.
 
OP, As SOON as you move from Apple someone in your family will call wanting a FaceTime chat...
I suggest never moving from Android to Apple but once you do, if like me, your kinda stuck!
 
OFFRD said:
Exact same here. I was Android from the very first phone (HTC G1) back in 2008 until present day. In January of last year I bought a new Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max. I spent a full week trying to get it to do the things I have always done in Android. I got 95% of the way there with a LOT of research, asking people who had Apple products already, and customer service help. In the end, the aggravation was just too much. There are BASIC things that iOS still doesn't have in 2026. For example, independent volume controls. When I go to bed, it takes 3 seconds for me to turn the sliders for messages, notifications, and media volume off but leave ringtone volume on. That way if my aging parents have an emergency in the middle of the night they can call me, but I won't be awakened by notifications and texts. Just a simple function, right? iOS still cannot do that, and even the Apple customer care folks didn't seem like they cared. That's just one example of many. Apple just never did catch up to Android and the user friendliness of Android can't be matched.
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IOS can do this in a way,

You can control the volume on or off on the side of the phone.
In contacts every contact has an option for emergency bypass for a call or text, so you can set the call ringer to emergency bypass for your parents and even with the ringer turned off their call will ring through.

I do this for all of the kids and my mom just on the ringer for a call, I figure if they are really in trouble they will call instead of texting.
 
I think the OP subject line has been lost as the thread wore on.
Its migrated from APPLE ecosystem that the OP is heavily into and making an Android phone worth it to try to integrate.
It is not about iPhone vs an Android phone, as if it was, this is clearly a simple choice of what phone you prefer.

Android has no ecosystem in any way shape of form close to Apple, so if you use all the devices that Apple offers nothing will be as seamless and actually work as intended. Android is mix of different companies trying to make all their devices work as one ecosystem, they have a long way to go, if it's even possible. It's a mess.
 
SeaJay said:
Sounds like a large commercial cloud hosting account.
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here's a not large biz account:



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