Name: I TOLD Him Not to Buy an iPhone
Uploaded: 2026-02-19T21:31:44.000Z
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So Zoomer streamers wouldn't make fun of you when you go to exchange contact information?

And the worst part is he pulled the trigger on this thing.

Just two weeks before Google announced that Pixel Phones will be supporting Airdrop, making it more convenient than ever to socialize cross platform.

Adding insult to injury, just weeks later, the Samsung Trifold that he waited four years for finally dropped.

But as crazy as it sounds, I actually don't regret my decision.

I know many of you out there may not love Apple's business practices, and

But I find myself really appreciating some of the quality of Life features.

And I wanted to give you guys my personal perspective on why the social aspects of the iPhone go a lot deeper than bubble colors and why it's gonna be really hard for Android to win me back again, even if I did buy this, like, one month before my dream Android device was announced.

Man, I really did buy this at the worst time, didn't I?

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No story is complete without the who, what, where, when, and why, though.

The TLDR is that I was looking for something fresher.

My OnePlus 11 was fine, but I really did miss being on something cutting edge.

Whether it was because of a better camera or even some fun gimmick like my Fold4 had.

But the biggest thing that actually pushed me to iPhone was the social experience.

Last October, I got to go down to TwitchCon for the first time.

And as dumb as this is going to sound to many of you, my Android device actually held back my networking efforts multiple times.

Oh, hey, I'd spark up a conversation, we'd talk about a collaborative effort in the future, or we'd hold out our phones to airdrop, and

Hey, can you just actually type your number into my phone?

While no one refused to give me their number I could immediately tell though, that I was kind of coming across as a bit of a burden.

I actually set my wallpaper to my Discord QR code, but sometimes people had issues with that too.

QR codes are a little less ubiquitous in North America, and

let's face it, us Zoomers aren't exactly known right now for being super tech savvy.

Of course, that wasn't enough to convince me to join the herd.

It was all of the other boxes that Apple also ticked.

This generation of iPhone, even Linus admitted, is an incredibly complete package, pretty much top to bottom.

I went out and bought this phone and I was actually so excited that I also picked up a base 17 as a birthday present for my wife to replace her aging 12 mini.

Then I grabbed some dinner and some hard to swallow pills because it took me, I kid you not, over 48 hours to finally get this device fully set up.

And this is where the what comes in Because I was constantly asking what the is Apple doing?

Just like Linus, I struggled to get the move to iOS app to do anything, and

One time my Android overheated and it shut down.

Other times it took so long that both phones died mid transfer.

And then there was the time that it got stuck at the one minute remaining mark for several hours.

When I complained about this on Twitter, I had several people saying I was either fabricating this story for clicks or this was a skill issue.

Well, excuse me, all I did was follow the app instructions.

And at the time I had no intention on this being a video, so why would I fake this for my own personal device?

I did get some helpful comments saying, you know, it's just broken on certain flavors of Android.

And honestly, if that's the case, I get it.

The fragmentation of the Android ecosystem is one of the greatest weaknesses, which I'm going to get into a little bit later.

But Apple should be the one telling me if I open the app and it knows that it might not work, Apple should pop up a little warning.

Eventually I had to give up and set everything up manually, which took about four hours.

But it was kind of a blessing in disguise because during that time I started to understand where people are coming from when they speak so highly about the iPhone.

For starters, it's really easy on the eyes, and

whether you like it or not, the smooth transitions and the fun little animations that come with liquid glass really do make the device feel luxurious, even if it can make things take a little bit longer.

The display is also incredible, especially with how dim it can get for some bedtime doom scrolling.

And the battery has lasted me multiple days multiple times, but

it charges so fast that I basically don't really think about my battery during the work week when I can charge it in my car.

Also, despite what I have been told for years about Apple, the customization seems on par or even better than some Android devices that I've used.

Which doesn't mean it can do everything that Android can though a big one is it can't sideload I often hear people talk about how terrible it is that you can't do this on Apple devices, but

then I realized I I have never sideloaded on Android, I just haven't needed to.

And while there are tons of great reasons to sideload something, not being able to has never held me back and it probably won't hold me back in the future.

And I found the same thing was true for most of the techy people in my life.

So I concede that it is a selling point for Android, but

I don't buy the narrative that not having it is a limitation of Apple.

To put it simply, Apple has the worst default keyboard I have ever used on a mobile phone.

The amount of wasted space that could have been used to have larger keys or more functions on the top layer drives me nuts.

And my Canadian homie Justin Bieber nailed this one.

The fact that they put the dictation key in the exact same spot as the send button in a text message is downright unacceptable.

the amount of times that I have hit it by accident tells me for certain that if any anyone at Apple actually uses this keyboard, they must know that this is a problem.

And I know that I could probably download a third party keyboard to get some of the functionality I'm missing, but

I never felt like I needed to replace gboard, so I think this is a fair criticism.

Another thing that drives me nuts is having three separate actions for swiping down the middle pulls down apps and search, top left handles notifications and top right brings down the control center.

You couldn't have just like moved one of these to a swipe up function?

And even more annoyingly, if I swipe down the control center, I either have to swipe back up in the top right which is not ergonomic, or tap and I'm sure I'm going to start a firestorm here, but

it's the one place in iOS where a tap is the gesture to go back instead of the other million back gestures that they have.

On a brighter note though, the camera is incredible.

This right here is why it's these phones dominate and will continue to dominate the social media addicted teen demographic.

It's just easily the best camera I've ever used on a mobile device.

No question there are things I don't like.

The default camera app feels too bare and not customizable and the camera button feels useless and I press it on accident more times than I'd like to admit.

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