Switching from iPhone to Android

[Gin N Rum 5454]

So I am planning on buying the Honor Magic 8 Pro. I am just wondering, what are the most painful things about this switch. I want to try and transfer as much as possible. 

What about things like live photos, my icloud emails? 

My main reason why I am switching is apple devices being so hostile to other devices in different ecosystems, will switching to android solve these issues or will I just be buying into a new ecosystem with the same problems. Because if that is the case I may as well stay with apple.

When it comes to photos and videos, I have already transfered them to my pc using iMazing and plan to upload them to google drive, I liked iMazing tool because it keeps the regular photo and extracts the live part of the photo and i can play it back and it appears exactly the same as it does on my iPhone comapred to when I uploaded to google drive straight from my iphone and it absolutly butchers live photo playback

DO android devices have good tools for transfering things over?

[Crunchy Dragon]

Most Android devices can plug straight into a Windows/Linux computer and the filesystems talk to each other natively, so that's typically the easiest and most straightforward way to move things around in that "ecosystem" for lack of a better word; Android doesn't really have an ecosystem apart from being outside of Apple's ecosystem. 

 

In a mixed(Apple + non-Apple environment), I've found owning a MacBook + Android phone is far easier than owning an iPhone + non-Mac computer. The mobile devices are really what push you into Apple's ecosystem more than anything else. 

 

I don't know anything about live photos, but it is possible and pretty easy to link your iCloud email account to the Gmail app on Android: https://www.androidcentral.com/how-set-your-icloud-email-account-android

This will even let you continue to send and receive emails via iCloud on your Android phone.

[Gin N Rum 5454]

1 minute ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Most Android devices can plug straight into a Windows/Linux computer and the filesystems talk to each other natively, so that's typically the easiest and most straightforward way to move things around in that "ecosystem" for lack of a better word; Android doesn't really have an ecosystem apart from being outside of Apple's ecosystem. 

 

In a mixed(Apple + non-Apple environment), I've found owning a MacBook + Android phone is far easier than owning an iPhone + non-Mac computer. The mobile devices are really what push you into Apple's ecosystem more than anything else. 

 

I don't know anything about live photos, but it is possible and pretty easy to link your iCloud email account to the Gmail app on Android: https://www.androidcentral.com/how-set-your-icloud-email-account-android

This will even let you continue to send and receive emails via iCloud on your Android phone.

Wow thanks very much for the info. Glad to hear though that MacBook + Android phone is easier than the other way around. One reason that really is pushing me to switch is, I want to setup a homelab, and if I ever wanted automatic backs n shit I feel like android will just work easier with that than apple will. 

This would just have been so much easier if I had the choice of my first phone, but apple was forced onto me.

But that's great to hear about your experience of it. And I am glad iCloud email linking is a thing. 

Any big "uh ohs" with that?

[Crunchy Dragon]

Just now, Gin N Rum 5454 said:

Wow thanks very much for the info. Glad to hear though that MacBook + Android phone is easier than the other way around. One reason that really is pushing me to switch is, I want to setup a homelab, and if I ever wanted automatic backs n shit I feel like android will just work easier with that than apple will. 

This would just have been so much easier if I had the choice of my first phone, but apple was forced onto me.

But that's great to hear about your experience of it. And I am glad iCloud email linking is a thing. 

Any big "uh ohs" with that?

Homelabbing with Apple isn't terrible. I set up a Time Machine backup server on my Proxmox server last year, and I can back up an image of my iPad to my MacBook, which then backs up via Time Machine to my server. Really, it all just hinges on having a Mac, otherwise yeah Android is the better route. 

 

Nothing major jumps out at me from anything you've said. The only technical thing about linking iCloud is just adding it as an account that you can access via an email app, it's functionally the same as using it from a web browser. 

[Gin N Rum 5454]

3 hours ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Homelabbing with Apple isn't terrible. I set up a Time Machine backup server on my Proxmox server last year, and I can back up an image of my iPad to my MacBook, which then backs up via Time Machine to my server. Really, it all just hinges on having a Mac, otherwise yeah Android is the better route. 

 

Nothing major jumps out at me from anything you've said. The only technical thing about linking iCloud is just adding it as an account that you can access via an email app, it's functionally the same as using it from a web browser. 

Okay, that's very good to know as my Grandma still uses an apple so it will be good to get that setup.

Cheers.