Apple to Android switch

I’d like to go back to the ‘olden’ days when I used to get a different make of phone every contract. The thing putting me off leaving Apple is my music. I would have no idea how to begin to move so many songs. I just had a quick Google and it’s too late to really take it in. I will look in the meantime before my next contract is due as a new iPhone every time isn’t as exciting as it once was.

I tried switchin to Android a couple of years ago after the exchange rates in Russia went up crazy and the phones now cost a small fortune (some of the iphones cost more than I earned in a month). I lasted a week. After that I just returned to my old dying iphone and sold a kidney to get an iphone SE
For me the switch didn’t work, so think twice and maybe arrange yourself a tryout with an opportunity to change back to iphone if it is not working for you.

You can run Windows on a Mac, and a lot of software like MS Office has feature parity now. But admittedly it’s an expensive Windows machine! But I’ve never had any issues running Windows apps on my Mac.

Despite being the age demographic of people who want iPhones purely because they're iPhones (young adults, we don't need them but we all have them) I have a Samsung Galaxy S8, which is just as expensive, but the technology is miles advanced compared to whatever the latest iPhone model is.

I also find I dont have any of the issues my friends complain about with their phones; Constantly being out of battery, running out of storage because my phone has expandable storage, the camera quality on my phone is also better.

I will admit though, it is very easy to just pick up an iPhone and get on with it. They're very self explanatory, android can take a little but of fiddling with to get it how you want it.

I’d never heard of Huawei until this thread, but now seeing ads for them all over this page 😆.

I’m very happy with my iPhone and iPad but do often think, when I see Amazon Fire tablets on offer fir £40, that I’d change if my income reduced because Apple ID definitely luxury pricing. Let’s face it, we probably use only a fraction of the features whichever system we choose. It’s all a bit ridiculous really.

All this talk about music makes me think I’m going to stay with my iPhone.

I'm definitely not a fan of anything apple, can't stand their products, confusing and hard to use and awfully expensive. My mum has an iPhone and I sometimes have to use it and get annoyed with it, same with her iPad. Annoyingly I have had to use a mac for work in the past but luckily it wasn't mine and I didn't have to pay for it. I can use a mac but by far prefer and have only ever had windows computers myself.


Hmm, my phone is possibly a lot older than yours but try pressing down the home button at the same time as the power button and keeping them pressed for a few seconds. The swiping your hand across the screen does work on my phone but I've only ever used it to try it out and decided it was a silly way to do screengrabs.

I currently have a three and a half year old Samsung S5 mini and will be using it till it dies. Fingers crossed it's not any time soon but it's definitely had a good life so far.

Very much in the Android camp here, specifically Samsung. All my friends have iPhones and all of their devices have some sort of crack down the screen. I've dropped mine a lot, on tiles, concrete, you name it, and the screen is completely unscathed. Plus it's waterproof, unlike the iPhone (iPhone X has apparently fixed this but nobody can afford one of them). One little drop of water on that and it's dead.

I do have an iPad but the constant updates really irritate me.

Is there a way to transfer my current library of music on my computer to it quite easily? (Preferably with my playlists too.)

The link below should be the steps you are looking for;


support.google.com/googleplaymusic/answer/1075570?hl=en-GB


It might be a little time consuming uploading your music but it saves so much space on your phone and it's very handy to have your music saved to your account. I recently switched to a Google phone so if you have any more questions i can try and help.

I think poster J got it right above - it's a matter of what you're used to. I've had an iPhone since they were first available in the UK but I got an Android (Moto) a few years back when I started working for myself - mostly to keep my personal and work phones separate, but partly to try Android out (I was working with companies developing mobile apps so it was useful to have more than a passing acquaintance with Android). I found it difficult to get on with - it was fine when I was using standard Google products, like Gmail, but I found the App Store a bit more Wild West than the Apple equivalent - apps that I was familiar with on Apple often didn't have ad-free paid-for versions available on Google, so I was seeing ads in apps like Pocket, Words with Friends and the Met Office that I wasn't on my iPhone (although sometimes I had paid a couple of quid to get an ad-free version). I also didn't like that the phone came loaded with Google apps and Moto apps, sometimes to do the same thing - reminded me of the old days of Windows computers when the first thing you had to do was clear out the manufacturer's "enhancements" to Windows. I also didn't like that I had to wait for Moto to release Android security updates to me - I would read about the release of important updates, and they would only become available to me weeks or months later. So after three years there were no more updates and I decided to let it go. Ultimately there were just aspects of the Apple environment that I preferred. Others prefer the freedom to customise and add other apps to replace fundamental bits of the OS so that they end up with a phone which is completely different from "standard Android".

By contrast my sister went Android first, and after many years was allocated an iPhone by her employers, and she can't stand it. When I asked her what she didn't like, I didn't really get an answer other than "she didn't like the way that the iPhone didn't close apps", which I didn't pursue (iOS keeps apps open but dormant in the background when not using them, as long as there is memory available - which is what I'd expect Android to do, too).

You can use Google Play Music on an iPhone (I worked out how to move my music and my fixed playlists, but couldn't find a way to copy over star ratings for use in 'smart playlists'), and you can use Apple Music on an Android, they all do similar things with some things slightly better or slightly worse, and I find it rather amusing these days at how people take it as a personal affront if you disagree with them. It's just like Brexit...

Incidentally, I must have very sticky hands or London must be lined with very soft pavements, as I've never managed to break an iPhone screen in the over 10 years I've had one.

I'm enjoying these responses! The one thing i'm struggling with at the moment is how using the Huawei just simply isn't as easy as my iphone. I am enjoying how customizable it is though.

When I try to save an image online it won't appear in my phone's gallery. What's that all about?

I had one of those and it lasted me over 4 years without any problems - the phone shop I went to to get a replacement when it did finally pack in was astonished it had lasted that long! I've never had trouble with Samsung.

The only Apple I'd ever consider buying is a Pink Lady.