Anyone switched from Samsung to iPhone?

[u/lcheung98]

Loke the title says, has anyone here owned a Samsung Galaxy before and then switched to iPhone? I'm thinking about doing that, currently have the Galaxy S24 and thinking of getting the iPhone 16 Pro Max, but I want to see if anyone has made a similar change before and what it was like adapting to a phone and system you've not used before.

[u/MRHubrich]

I was an Apple user for the first 2 iPhones and switched to Android after due to Apple's "walled garden". After 10 or so years using various Android phones, the last few being Samsung devices, I moved to an iPhone to see how things have changed. If not for the Apple Watch, I would have switched back last year. But, because I love Apple Health and the watch (Ultra 2), and because I was sold on the promise of Apple AI, I upgraded to the latest Pro Max model.

With all of that being said, I'm not a fan. I like parts of the ecosystem but find that it's the least intuitive phone I've used in a long time. Having to leave an app to go to system settings to change some things about that app is silly. They over use gestures, features like being able to use your phone wile on your Mac only work half the time, There are too many buttons now on the sides that I find I'm hitting the power button more than I want (3 buttons on the left, 2 on the right). The camera button doesn't work very well, the overall camera experience isn't great (any sort of dark photo takes too long to actually capture).

I was expecting a flagship, top notch experience for what they charge for the phone and I don't feel that I'm getting it. Android phones are great because there's some freedom there. A lot of things can be changed if you don't like it, like installing launchers, 3rd party apps, etc. If you want a phone to just work and you're only checking emails, etc, it's a great, overpriced phone. To me, not worth what they charge.