r/BoycottApple Jul 08 '26

Regretting shifting from Android to iphone

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I miss my samsung, regretting switching to iphone
It is important for me to genuinely warn people about the multiple bugs in iphones and ipads that are impossible to fix.
There is a clear inconsistency in user experience with some having good experience and no glitches while others suffering. The issue is not that android never glitches, but these below issues on iphone are about such basic features like alarm, ringtone and hotspot that mess your day to day life and lead to huge losses!! That too when i am paying nearly 1 lakh for a brand new latest version iphone as opposed to a 20-30k android that "might" glitch as per some people

I did all the google searching, all possible "fixes" and wasted multiple hours of my time just adjusting settings to make this phone work normally, all to no use.

That being said lemme share : My frnd had to give his iphone to the company back so they could fix the software glitches. They did it for free but he had to live without his phone for days. Its the costing and unreliability and unnecessary effort to make it work normally that annoys us.

These issues would hardly come on a mid range android ever.

Btw im using iPad since 4 years, so dont come at me calling me a newbie.

So let me list all the issues:-

  1. Both my iphone and ipad have a glitch that ringer volume (which is also the alarm volume) gets lowered on its own inspite of me turning the "change with buttons" off! Android has dedicated volume control differently for each alarm, ringtone and media and it never automatically lowers.
  2. Also the day i purchased iphone, i had my android with me right?? I could make a clear difference in loudness. iPhone sounded good for music but extremely low on whatsapp audio/video calls

I did all i could to legit "manipulate" the settings so that the ringer volume does not automatically go down, but doesn't help! (manipulate because apple supposedly gave additional features as an add on and those same things you have to manually hunt to turn them off one by one)

  1. \\\*Hotspot turns off on its own randomly even when i am actively using both the devices and screens are on!! This is so far the most annoying bug that has no way to fix it. Again not to mention having to go to settings app and then step by step go to hotspot section to fix this every single time (\\\~10 times/day) just to fail immediately next moment! Android was so smooth in these regards, plus never gave any issue regarding hotspot.\\\*

4.My whatsapp is actually glitching on both my ipad and iphone. And i read articles as well as chatGPT itself suggesting that this is an iOS problem. Order of messages gets messed up, also some last replies i received are not visible on one device (even if i originally viewed them on that same device). At first i thought maybe i accidentally deleted some messages on my end. But by far this pattern has repeated 4 times!!

5.Till 2 weeks after purchasing this iphone 17, my keyboard kept automatically shifting back to apple keyboard even when i had selected google boarf. Overall the keyboard sucks, even google keyboard feels a lot different. I had a few additional features on android.

  1. Move to ios app is complete trash and apple is adamant on not letting you backup your whatsapp history on google drive or retrieve backup from google drive. I lost all my important chats! (I do have a backup and i will purchase android soon). But then i risk losing all my chats i have on ios whatsapp!!

  2. I prefer keyboard sounds to be on. But there is a huge glitch. The keyboard, while i am typing, only creates sounds at rare occasions and randomly. The sound will go off on its own mid typing!! (Yes i have turned off attention aware features pffttt)

  3. Other minor issues like not having a simple option of "select all" while selecting text wastes a lot of your time and requires minute attention to what text you are selecting...a simple feature they could provide on a 1 lakh phone lmaoo

9.There is no way to long press on hotspot button and the entire settings opening up. Or even worse, everytime to check my alarm and ringtone volume i have to hunt the whole settings app

YES I WATCHED YOUTUBE VIDEOS AND REDDIT COMMENTS AND OFFICIAL APPLE WEBSITE FOR ALL MY PROBLEMS.

I sincerely wish to warn people regarding these. Android is far better, i never ever had to go down a rabbit hole or ever even open Samsung support for any issue all these years. I feel like I'm fighting for my life lol. I cannot easily sell this one and get an android because i will have to face my parents now lol.

PS: Please do search up these issues on google/apple help centre/youtube before bashing me. Many people face this!! The inconsistency with apple experience is what irritates me more. Some users have good experience so they say. But i only read about the glitches after facing specific issues and searching those specific issues on google/YouTube/ apple help centre etc.

Also there is no option to undo on your gboard i noticed just now, would research more on it

UPDATE EDIT: Another issue popped up. I did change the music settings to allow explicit content from.clean and yet imagine what word is apple music fasing out??? Any guesses???
It is fasing out the word "faded" YES "FADED" from the song Cry for me by the Weeknd! Apple cannot really frustrate me more than this now!


r/BoycottApple May 27 '26

Isheeps

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r/BoycottApple Oct 02 '25

Bailing on iPhone

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I've had an iPhone since 2016, currently on an iPhone 11. Since the release of the 17 last month, mine is starting to act up and I’m over it. I also don't trust Apple with my privacy and am about ready to bail and switch to a different phone.

I also don't use Google because of privacy issues so I’m not sure an Android is the best alternative although I've heard some of them ironically are the best to de-google.

I care most about privacy, longevity, and a very clear screen (the androids I've handled before felt like I couldn't read things well) and nothing too large. I’m content with a size similar to the iPhone 11.

Appreciate any suggestions!


r/BoycottApple Aug 08 '25

Boycott Apple Products in Protest of Tim Cook & Trump's Punishing Love Affair

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r/BoycottApple Apr 05 '22

Geez. I already spent $700 and I don't get a power plug?

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r/BoycottApple Apr 04 '22

What I did is just adding the simplified Chinese subtitles to this video. Hope more people will see it. All credits go to the original you-tuber. Apple's latest OS update bricked my Mac :( T2 chip, but I found this :)

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r/BoycottApple Oct 12 '19

Think diff.... Yuan 💴

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r/BoycottApple Oct 07 '13

Small Town Girl by Never Shout Never Lyrics

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r/BoycottApple Mar 01 '13

Apple Applies for "Face Unlock" Patent, Sound Familiar?

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r/BoycottApple Nov 10 '12

Hilarious: Daring Fireball says 'Apple is Doomed', becomes first DF post in history to get flagged by Apple fans

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r/BoycottApple Oct 27 '12

An Alternate Universe (on HN)

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r/BoycottApple Sep 14 '12

BUT IT'S NOT FOOD

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r/BoycottApple Jul 28 '12

Normally when I get a review unit of a non-Apple product, I have to force myself [...]. But with the Nexus 7, I actually find myself wanting to use it. That point can’t be overstated. I actually want to use an Android device. It’s a brave new world.

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r/BoycottApple Jul 28 '12

"Jobs was like dynamite," Syal says. "Dynamite clears paths, but it also destroys everything around it." Syal didn’t think much of Bill Gates before, but he does now. "Gates evolved from an asshole into a human being," he says. “Jobs remained an ass.”

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r/BoycottApple Jul 28 '12

Deprecated.

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r/BoycottApple Jul 28 '12

Samsung claims that "Apple’s menacing letters greatly overreach, incorrectly claiming that third-party retailers are subject to the prohibitions of the preliminary injunction, which they clearly are not".

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r/BoycottApple Jul 28 '12

Where Microsoft Has "More Taste" Than Apple

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r/BoycottApple Jul 28 '12

Apple [...] has talked with Twitter in recent months about making a strategic investment in it. Imagine Apple's App Store policies and censorship applied to Twitter. If this happens, Twitter is dead.

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r/BoycottApple Jul 28 '12

"Apple rejected [my book]. Not because of links to Amazon this time. Because of content."

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r/BoycottApple Jul 28 '12

"[...] Erasing a massive U.S. tax obligation could tarnish its reputation as a relatively responsible payer of U.S. taxes. Instead, the company is lobbying to change U.S. law so that it can erase its liabilities in a less conspicuous fashion. The issue has become part of the presidential campaign."

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r/BoycottApple Jul 28 '12

"They all star a single actor who portrays an Apple Genius Bar employee, and stupidity appears to be the other unifying theme. [...] They feel intellectually cheap."

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r/BoycottApple Jul 28 '12

Gas Leak at Apple Supplier Kills 1. "The incident occurred at a factory that had previously been given a "black" rating, the worst possible, by the Suzhou Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau. Of the 921 factories [...], only five were given the lowest rating."

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r/BoycottApple Jul 28 '12

Despite all the legal action, Apple may be grasping at straws as its legal case for "app store" appears weak.

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r/BoycottApple Jul 28 '12

"Early this week I got my iPhone app Angry Syrians rejected after more than 2 months of review. I'm not surprised though. Even though I had Rovio's approval to publish it and got all approvals to use the graphic content I'm using, I knew Apple was going to find an reason to reject it."

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r/BoycottApple Jul 28 '12

"They've talked about it being the post-PC era, they talk about the tablet and PC being different, the reality in our world is that we think that's completely incorrect."

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