Everyone has their preferences, I would love to hear why you guys prefer using Android!

  • HeavyRaptor@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    1 year ago

    Was it more involved than sign out -> factory reset -> set up as a new phone? (I’m just curious, have been on android for a few years now)

    • sadr0bot@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      There were some self inflicted complications to be fair. I couldn’t fully back up the broken phone because it was in a family group with an expired payment card. My wife hadn’t had her iPhone for years so that was a pain in the arse to resolve which included waiting nearly two weeks for an email from Apple. Even when I got into her iCloud account updating the bank card failed every time, also you can’t modify a family group in the browser. I ended up borrowing a family members old iphone so I could set it up as my wifes and disband the family group, then update the payment method directly on the broken phone. We could then pay the 70p or whatever for additional storage and back it up. I couldn’t factory reset the other phone because in addition to the passcode, you also needed the screen time passcode which nobody could remember. I eventually installed iTunes on my PC and wiped it that way. I mean if you know all the security information I imagine it’s a lot easier but I wouldn’t have had this much trouble had they been android phones.

      • OneShoeBoy@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        Not an Apple fanboy in the slightest but one could argue that the fact it was so difficult (without knowing ALL the security details) is a feature not a bug.

        • sadr0bot@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          1 year ago

          Agreed, but I wasn’t even able to reset the screen time passcode on the phone where we actually knew all the other security details.