I Switched to iPhone After a Decade on Android. Here's What Convinced Me - CNET

After 10 years of being connected Team Android, I've yet caved.

A fewer weeks agone -- and aft months of going backmost and distant -- I went to my section Verizon store and ordered an iPhone 14 Pro. It whitethorn dependable similar I'm being overly dramatic, but the determination signaled a large displacement for me.

I've ever prided myself connected not buying into the Apple hype. Despite years of pestering from friends to power to an iPhone, I pushed back, maintaining that I liked being antithetic from the masses. Everyone astir maine has an iPhone. It felt bully to defy the norm. And truthful for years, I stuck with my Samsung Galaxy devices, which I inactive judge are unthinkable phones. 

But aft conversations with friends and household astir what I could get from the iPhone that I could ne'er get with my Android, I started to reconsider my stance. Yes, I loved my Galaxy S10 Plus and everything it offered: a top-notch camera, a customizable interface and the top instrumentality of all: Object Eraser, which removes immoderate unwanted radical oregon objects from your pictures (Pixel has a akin feature). But astatine the extremity of the day, determination was 1 large happening my Android could ne'er offer: a seamless mode to pass with each my friends connected the iPhone.

I've been told countless times that I ruin radical chats by turning each the texts "green." This, of course, is due to the fact that Apple refuses to marque iMessage compatible with Android phones, truthful erstwhile you connection idiosyncratic who isn't connected iOS, you'll spot greenish substance bubbles alternatively of the modular bluish ones. Because this felt similar a superficial ailment -- and is 100% Apple's responsibility -- I brushed it aside.

Until I realized I was missing retired connected other, much important benefits of owning an iPhone. 

Unless you usage a third-party app similar WhatsApp, there's nary casual mode to nonstop high-resolution photos and videos straight betwixt an Android telephone and an iPhone. I was OK with conscionable utilizing WhatsApp, until I began to envy my friends who were instantaneously AirDropping pictures and videos aft our hangouts. WhatsApp besides diminishes the prime of videos, and Google Drive takes a batch longer to upload videos to.

It besides was frustrating that apps similar TikTok diminished my camera prime connected Android. Comparing TikTok videos taken connected an iPhone -- adjacent an older mentation similar the iPhone X -- with those taken connected my Galaxy S10 Plus is similar nighttime and day. On my Galaxy, TikTok distorted the colors and blurred everything successful the astir unflattering and unrealistic way. On the iPhone, videos are crisp and wide and look conscionable arsenic they should. For idiosyncratic who uses TikTok arsenic overmuch arsenic I do, this was important.

These reasons, on with the information that I already usage a MacBook and would truthful payment from the Apple ecosystem, led maine to commencement changing my caput astir owning an iPhone. Throw successful features similar the caller always-on display connected the iPhone 14 Pro models -- thing I perfectly loved connected my Galaxy devices -- and amusive caller elements similar Dynamic Island, and abruptly I was sold connected the thought of switching over.

Of course, I had to combat disconnected feelings of being a sellout. But I realized that ultimately, it's conscionable a phone. And nary substance what you do, radical volition person unsolicited opinions astir what instrumentality you're using. My Galaxy worked good for maine for galore years. Now I was acceptable for thing new. And truthful far, I person nary regrets.

Check retired the video supra for much of my thoughts connected switching from an Android telephone to an iPhone.