Why I Switched to iPhone

I've been an Android user for 10 years – until now.
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0:00 Introduction
1:13 Why I Had an Android
2:36 Making the Switch
3:19 Messaging Issues
4:18 What I Like More About iPhone
5:34 iPhone 14 Pro Features I'm Excited About
6:43 The Apple Ecosystem
7:42 Shaking the Guilt

[abraral-heeti]

Thanks so much for watching! A lot of people in the comments have mentioned the iMessage issue is an "American" problem, since most people outside the US use WhatsApp. I used WhatsApp a lot to communicate with friends, but it's not as common here, so being able to use iMessage has been a lot more seamless.

Also, a lot of you are calling my friends bullies, but looking at some of these comments, feels like the pot calling the kettle black! Haha

[jlira]

If a "friend" leaves you out of a conversation because you use a different kind of phone than they do, it's time to find better friends. Maybe having an Android is a good way to make sure you weed out people like that in your life.

[lucassocci]

It’s crazy because in my country there’s no such thing as green/blue bubble fight. We just use WhatsApp instead 😂

[claudiusboasman]

S10+ is a true flagship phone. That phone has features that current Galaxy phones don't have like a headphone jack, heart rate and blood oxygen sensor.

[LyssieLysse]

I switched to an iPhone last year after having an Android for 10+ years and haven’t looked back. I wasn’t pressured into getting one (I always wanted one since 2012) and got one as a gift to myself. I still respect Android and those who use them since not everyone is a fan of Apple. Androids have amazing features on them, especially the new Samsungs.

[sammyt]

It seems to me you were forced into switching to iPhone mainly due to the fact all your friends have it and you feel left out. That doesn't speak too well for your friends, I must say; 70% of my friends have iPhones too (and I have a Samsung), yet whenever we are in a situation where we took pics/vids that we share, for example, they always automatically send me their pics through WhatsApp without me even needing to ask! And I use the same to send them my pics too, obviously. Same with video calls; who needs Facetime when WhatsApp is available? Or Airdrop when Airdroid (and other similar apps) are available for Android? Not to mention the Samsung DeX feature that wirelessly turns your phone into a Desktop that you can interact with as you would any Windows PC, not just to transfer files.

Even if my friends didn't do that, however, I still wouldn't leave the freedom of Android and be held captive in iPhone's walled garden again. I say 'again' because I did try iPhone once back in 2017, when it was clear that the Android flagships were going to get progressively larger, so I got an iPhone SE since I wanted a compact phone with flagship-grade specs and it was the only one available. Well, I realized it was a mistake pretty quickly when I found that the simplest tasks, e.g. getting new ringtones, required a ridiculous amount of steps, not to mention Siri being far inferior to Google Assistant, just to name two issues out of many. With Android, I had full control on every aspect of the phone, which I sorely missed when I had the SE; I could, for example, assign a different ringtone to every contact so that I know who's calling/texting without even looking at the phone in Android, a feature I used all the time. Good luck trying to do that on an iPhone! Long story short, I promptly switched back to Android (Samsung S8) after a few months and have never looked back since. I was briefly tempted to get an iPhone 13 mini, which will probably be the last flagship grade smartphone that's truly compact, but I couldn't bring myself to go back to the iPhone prison after I tasted the Android freedom again.

[thevmbjr]

I went the opposite way. I went from a 12 Pro Max to a Galaxy Z Fold 4 and I'm loving it. Been a iphone user sense day one, but they were starting to get boring. When people TRY to talk down to me about switching over I just ask them can your iphone fold to a bigger screen? Can your iPhone do multi screen? Can your iPhone charge your ear buds? Does iphone have usb-c? They look at me and say no.
Yeah never going back to a slab phone again.

[jonathanmundy]

I just made the switch, too. iOS is weird. Way different than the last time I was on it in 2014. I do enjoy the integration with my MacBook. Been on MacOS sine 2015, but was an ardent Android guy for a long time. Partially because the budget carrier I was on at the time - Republic Wireless - didn't support iPhones until very recently. The customization of Android kept me there for so long. I had things exactly how I liked them and they worked. The learning curve isn't too steep, switching from Android to iOS, but it's noticeable. I still find myself doing Android things...like pushing the power button 2x to access the camera, or my thumb defaulting to the bottom left of the screen to go back. I'm sure I'll enjoy however long I have this iPhone 13. And who knows where the phone market will be in a few years, if it's time to upgrade.

As far as people in the green/blue bubbles thing...such a stupid thing for people to get their feathers ruffled over. As long as someone isn't still rolling with a Windows phone, let people be.

[iamcraigk]

If you’re American you pretty much have to be team IPhone by default due to most of the population of US being team iPhone. Also outside US, iMessage isn’t so popular, it’s WhatsApp so there isn’t that pressure to have blue chat bubbles

[Elywen]

So... The TLDR is "I switched because of peer pressure and because my 'friends' couldn't tolerate differences"? Clearly if "friends" are leaving you out because of your phone's brand, they're not your friends and you need to branch out...

[jerrybade]

If somebody talks about switching from android to iPhone, and doesn’t talk about file management, I conclude that person didn’t really use an android device

[July]

I'm 29 and never owned an iphone and don't think i ever will i just prefer open source and actually feeling like i own my device.

[ndennan]

You can send high res media across both iOS and Android by just using another of the other chat apps that’s available across all them. WhatsApp, FB Messenger, Telegram and Signal to them just a few.

I genuinely don’t understand the over reliance on iMessage in the United States tbh. It doesn’t seem to be as much as a deal breaker anywhere else in the world.

[gwaddles]

It’s the ecosystem that has me hooked. Being able to work and get my files across devices no matter where I am is the jam!

[JimKanaris]

Just switched myself from Android (Note20U) to iOS (14PM). So far I'm loving it, although, like the reviewer, I do miss certain things from my Android device.

[wendysanchez]

Same here, after 11 yrs of using Samsung I finally switched to the iPhone 14 Pro Max and after a month I’m enjoying it. Only features that I’m missing is the split-screen option and messenger chat bubbles but it’s not a deal breaker for me. 😊

[TheeDoinkZz]

I've only ever used android. However everyone else around me are Iphone users. I would say I'm a phone enthusiast to a certain degree and I love comparing and see what types of phones are better in certain areas. I just prefer Samsung's. Due to its customisation feature like no other. I love I phones stability and overall polished feel. I think to boil it down. An iPhone is everyone's phone (easy to use, gets the job done), Samsung are your phone (it's customisable to the point of it being an extension of your body)

[joe]

I was always an Android user from when I first got a smartphone. A few years ago I decided to switch to Apple to see how it is, and stuck with it for 2 years (iPhone 11 and then 12 Pro Max). I switched back to Android for the Fold 3 and now the S22 Ultra. There's things I like better about Android and things I like better about Apple, but overall I think they're both good and I'd be happy with either. The biggest advantage for Android for me personally is that my family is in the Samsung ecosystem so it make everthing easier.

[lawrenceslsko]

My addiction to the Android ecosystem since 2012 had always been about customization. I'm a product designer and my Galaxy Note 20 Ultra often serve as a tool for me rather than a toy. It's big, efficient, extremely customizable, powerful battery, blazing-fast processor, lots of storage, crazily-bright display, it's just everything. I hope to try out the iPhone 14 Pro though but as a secondary smartphone.

[rhbx]

I have been going back and forth between android and iOS and it's hard to beat the integration of the apple ecosystem. I wish we had direct alternatives to airdrop, FaceTime, seamless syncs etc...