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Got an iPhone some months ago because it was cheaper than getting a Pixel or S24 and I hate it.

The apps suck, sideloading sucks ass because of both apple restrictions and the lack of modded apps, browsing sucks because the adblockers suck because the extensions suck, FOSS is pretty much dead of iOS, call spam detection sucks, keyboard sucks.

I never saw an ad on android for the past three years because of how good my setup was with modded apps and Firefox+uBlock but iOS is pure Advertisement Hell.

The OS visuals and responsiveness are better than most android skins but 60Hz is trash as well and 4GB ram means that I can not even open like 3 tabs at once without the others shutting down.

The photo management sucks the most. Any photo I save goes straight to my Camera Roll and has ZERO organization which memes no more epic funny memes are getting saved on my phone anymore.

The integration with Google Photos is also non-existent and images get saved only when I manually sync them and I will never buy iCloud because I hate the locked down apple ecosystem.

Modded apps also suck and nothing is as good as revanced plus the 7 day refresh limit sucks because of course apple wants 99$ per year to have the godlike ability to install your own apps.

Airdrop is maybe the only positive I remember about this. And maybe the battery life which is better than my previous phone's battery.

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[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I switched iOS to Android and in general preferred the user experience on iOS out of the box, but the inability to load what you want to load is a non starter. I know the blue text thing is a meme as well but I did lose a couple of group chats which unfortunately has value. Hopefully regulators address this.

[–] da_gay_pussy_eatah@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think iOS has recently implemented RCS support? messages still green, but should be fully functional

The next iOS adds it. It’s available and fully functional in the beta if you feel like installing it.