"Upgraded" my work phone to iPhone

[Orrex]

So far, I only hate absolutely everything about it.

[LakeArenal]

1. I know I is completely different than Android.

But everyone we knew had I and we wanted to have plenty of advice learning phones.

[Orrex]

5. I'm ok with the "procedural" differences

I’m sure I’ll eventually convince myself that the iPhone model is better than the android model with was perfectly fine IMO,

But the physical and aesthetic issues are a bit deeper. The iPhone is smaller, the keypad layout represents a loss of functionality, and I simply don’t like the unlock process or the interface for app management.

It’s a work phone, so I can’t complain about the, forcing it on me for free, but I’d have greatly preferred to stick with Android.

[LakeArenal]

14. We hated backing out of everything.

[liberal N proud]

2. After you learn it you will love it

I got a iPhone a few years ago and just got a iPad last week.

[Orrex]

4. The screen is 20% smaller, so that's an issue right off the bat

Also, I dislike the keypad layout compared to the android.

It’s a lot like when I moved from Windows laptop to iPad. After 10 months of workarounds and patches and customization and concessions, I got the iPad to almost do most of the things that the laptop did easily and reliably.

[CountAllVotes]

3. Don't have a phone

I'm trying to get a free on via www.safelink.com

It says I have been approved but I don't know what comes next.

I really do not want a phone and I can sure understand the way you feel about it!

Best of luck.

[TheBlackAdder]

6. Just did the same thing. I can relate.

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But for my personal phone. It's a $1K paperweight.

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[Orrex]

7. My cynical side suspects that someone up the chain got some sweet kickbacks

Otherwise I don’t know why they’d switch to the smaller, more expensive, (nominally) equally functional device.

[TheBlackAdder]

8. Oh, I revised my post. Mine is a personal phone. Work is still on Samsungs.

[Happy Hoosier]

15. I dunno... but I personally....

Vastly prefer iOS to Android. To me, it‘s integrated way better. Biut that‘s a personal preference.

[Orrex]

20. I get the preference thing, and that's fair

Everything about the Android just feels more intuitive to me, basically from day one.

I've been reluctantly using an iPhone for about 2+ years and I know that the iPhone is similar, but I just don't like it.

And, again, even setting aside everything else, I really HATE having a phone that's 20% smaller than my last one.

"It's an upgrade," say the bosses at work.

"But I like the other one better."

"No you don't," say the bosses.

[Happy Hoosier]

21. I hear ya... my company let's us choose our phone...

... so I stick with iPhone cause I like it better. I tried a Samsung Android phone, and I had the oppositie expeirnece that you had.... I hated everything about it.... the form factor, the iffy hardware (had 2 malfunction on me in a year),the OS paradigm, the shitty multithreading.

That was a while ago, though... may be better now, but I haven't seen a reason to consider a switch.

I suspoect we get comfortable with what we use. I absolutely detest MacOS though, so there's that. Not that Windows is great, but it's what I know LOL.

[Orrex]

22. I'm sure that you've hit the essence of it

Sort of sliding into the inertia of comfort. Until they gave me the iPad, I'd probably spent about 45 minutes on Apple products in my entire life, and most of that was adjusting settings on customers' iPhones, or maybe playing games in my junior high computer lab on an Apple IIE. If I'd been steeped in Apple I'm sure I'd have a fonder opinion of it.

And I'll adjust, as much as anyone, I suppose. But I'll still grumble!

[Skittles]

11. WTF

I cannot even imagine paying that much for a freaking phone!

[TheBlackAdder]

16. It's one of the XL phones because I can't look at tiny screens. The thing is like a freakin brick.

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I don't know how kids carry these things around like they're nothing.

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[Skittles]

17. I was turned off to Apple when I saw people lining up to buy their overpriced crap

CULT!!!

[TheBlackAdder]

18. I got it because all my kids have it, for Facetime. Also, my medical apps are now loaded to it.

[Skittles]

19. I guess this confuses me

you HAVE to have Apple for Facetime and medical apps? Seems like just another reason for Apple to keep their stuff overpriced

[usonian]

9. I switched about 8 years ago. Two things:

1. It just works.

2. Despite not having a memory card (They are disappearing from Android (1) ) the iPhone connects to other devices and services and is not locked massively to Google. I am not locked into Apple except in ways I choose.

Things have improved in recent times. The SD card reader that used to work only on iPads works on the phone, and I plugged a terabyte drive into the iPad's usb-c port and can exchange files.


I programmed a bit in the past and miss the ability to drop apps onto the phone, but with that ability comes a raft of possible hacks. Google is very lax checking apps on their store, and some malware has been on their store for years, undiscovered until recently.

If you must write apps, make them web apps on a computer and access them from anywhere in the home or even outside the home via a software tunnel like ngrok or similar.

If you have any problems, there are folks here who can help.

P.S. File Explorer "connects" the phone with your desktop files. Just wait until it goes free (so that this is not a promotion. )

https://www.cherpake.com/






1. https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/microsd-card-android-guide/

[Orrex]

10. I appreciate the perspective!

The app thing isn’t really a factor for me since my employer installs the apps that they decide I want, and for my use the SD card makes no real difference, though it’s interesting.

As for “it just works,” so did my Samsung until they decided that I’d be more efficient with a smaller screen, a reduced keyboard, and (to my amazement) a more “tinny” sounding speaker.

Also the iPhone’s battery is shit. I charged it to 100% this morning and it’s down to 3% now, about seven hours later and most of the time it’s been sitting unused in my pocket. The Samsung would easily go 24-36 hours.

[usonian]

12. The battery thing is very wrong.

I can't recommend anything specific (call for experts!) but undoubtedly there's something running in the background killing the battery.

Well, one specific is to check on location services. I leave it on, but for every app on the phone, I tell the phone to "turn on only when running", or never.

The benefit of experience is often just knowing that a setting exists ...

If it weren't for work, I'd say Facebook.

But my motto is: "I'm no cutting edge user. Someone else HAD to run into this before I did" and that usually works.

I upgraded once and the phone went silent.
After some days of trying to figure this out, I realized that I took it out of its case because the upgrade was enormous and, since it was plugged into the charger, was getting very warm.

Taking it out and putting it back in, I had flipped the "mute" switch, which is normally invisible tucked in a recess in the case.

Good luck anyway, and pop questions here if you prefer us to support people at work or at Apple.

Search often helps, because there are lots of articles meant for non-experts.

[Orrex]

13. Thanks!

[Orrex]

23. And another thing: the hotspot

On every android device I’ve used, the hotspot has worked like a charm. Enter the password on the guest device, and it connects. Take the hotspot away & return later? The guest device reconnects.

But the iPhone? 10 minutes to find the iPhone as hotspot in the first place, and then if you have to reconnect it takes 10 or 2.0 minutes to do so. Or 75 minutes and counting, in the current case.

These are guest devices that just yesterday worked perfectly with the Android hotspot. But the iPhone? Well, let me check in another 75 minutes after 10 reboots and forget/relearn network, etc.