I am currently an IOS user, however, as the title suggests, I wish to switch to android. This is because I would prefer to use free software and not be locked into the apple ecosystem. That being said I am already locked into apple and would like to know how anyone else here has managed the switch.

I for one know I will face problems regarding group chats with friends and family on IOS, I will lose out on iCloud+ features, I will have to buy a replacement for my HomePod, I will need to replace apple home, etc.

How did anyone else here who has made such a switch replace or solve these issues?

  • Margot Robbie@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    14·
    1 year ago

    iMessage is the biggest hurdle. I recommend that you ask your friends and family to switch to another messaging app to talk to you to avoid the green bubble frustration. (begrudgingly recommend Signal, though Sup. by the guy who made PixelFed looks interesting and can help grow the Fediverse)

    It’s not going to be easy though.

      • Margot Robbie@lemmy.worldMEnglish
        15·
        1 year ago

        IPhone users have a good reason to not like green bubbles in their group chats, because then their group chat loses functionalities like emojis and the ability to send large images. Or so I’ve heard.

        Apple is obviously unwilling to solve that because the lock-in benefits them.

      • xePBMg9@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        I have no experience with this myself, but I heard somewhere that apples protocol for handling messages do not conform to standards and deliberately mishandles media in messages, making images etc lower resolution. I might be wrong though.

        • moose@reddthat.comEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          Sorta. It’s not that they don’t conform to standards.

          It’s that they don’t adopt new standards.

          The newest iPhone still handles SMS and MMS the same way the iPhone 3G did back in 2008.

          It’s like if Ford refused to add CD players to their cars and insisted you use their proprietary “Ford Media Disk”

          And if you don’t like that, fine! It still has a tape player!

      • kick_out_the_jams@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        by default iPhone messages for things like images and videos have terrible quality.
        i had to mess with the network settings in brother’s phone for him to even get standard MMS because depending on your carrier it needs to be configured manually.

      • nottheengineer@feddit.deEnglish
        42·
        1 year ago

        Telegram is entirely unencrypted by default, so you shouldn’t use it for anything you wouldn’t say out in public.