Hello community,

after using iPhones since the 3GS 15 years ago I switched to GrapheneOS last week with a pixel 8pro.

First of all I have to say the experience is quite good.

I really like the focus on privacy and some of the features, like sandboxed apps, sandboxes play services the possibility to deny a lot permissions for each app, the automatically turn of of WiFi, the possibillity to have two, or more separated profiles (I always wanted to keep work and private life separetatd) and some more. Also nice is the freedom I do have on an android phone with all the settings. As you know, iOS is much more restricted

What i don't like are some shortcomings in the integration of apps. For example: I use bit warden as PW manager. sometimes it works automatically when using Vandium or Brave. But most of the time i have to open it manually search for the right pw, copy and paste and so on. That is just annoying.
Never had such issues on iOS...

Also big miss for me is that i can't stream music from apple music (I do have a family subscription plan) or movies on my TV or HiFi receiver.

Things I also miss are Airdrop, iMessage (all my family uses iPhones) Apple Maps and Apple Mail. I use an iMac as well. And if good or not: The Apple ecosystem has some benefits.

And as a not only privacy oriented person but also an esthetic oriented person, the look of the apps on iOS is just much more beautiful as on android. I haven´t found just one nice calendar app. or something that works as nice as the foto app on iOS.

I know, that's complaining on a high level. Especially when you consider that GrapheneOS is a project that is provided free of charge. So please don't take my criticism the wrong way. From the point of view of data protection and privacy, GrapheneOS is definitely the gold standard.

But I hate it when things don't work the way they should or the way I'm used to.

Maybe I'm just not done learning yet.
But I have to hurry, the deadline for returning my Pixel is in the middle of next week.....

Please feel free to comment.