Happiness-Craziness Currently on proccess to purchased Microsoft Lumia phone as the backup for calls and texts.
Hi,
like fria has mentioned, please don't use an old Microsoft Lumia, because you cannot use it private and secure!
– Yes, you want use it for calls and text only, but its whole system is vulnerable and difficult to secure.
And it is not so reliable as a new iPhone 16 Pro is (much better hardware).
– Yes, the iPhone 16 Pro has a much higher value und you could get much money by reselling it.
But otherwise, since iOS 17 (?) or higher you can delete the most of Apple's own apps from the device and combined with Apple's Lockdown mode you get a real secure and mostly private phone.
Deactivate Siri, iMessage and FaceTime, don't use other third party apps (except Signal app).
This way, you get an expensive, but valuable and nice device as classic smartphone like a feature phone, but with newest hardware and software and security updates!
Install OTP Auth on your iPhone as a backup for Aegis Authenticator on your Pixel phone.
Both can work local without any cloud storage.
And you can use iPhone's excellent camera…
Therefor also my hint: keep your iPhone as solid phone and use your Pixel phone as secure device with more privacy.