iPhone for text & call

snaz

I'm heavily thinking about getting a second phone, and use that for all my personal texts, calls, contacts, & photos (with Ente Photos).

Am I making a dumb decision?
Biggest reason I want is the iMessage. I know, I know it's dumb. But I'm getting extremely tired of dealing with GrapheneOS & it's RCS issue. It's actually driving me up a wall as I use Google Messages strictly for the feature for the encryption.

Anyone got any thoughts? I'd keep this Pixel, but use it mainly for social media, video watching, etc.

raccoondad

snaz why not just move to signal? Imessage iOS based encryption will only work for other iOS devices, everything else is RCS and SMS

Probably9857

snaz I use Google Messages strictly for the feature for the encryption.

To expand on what raccoondad said...

...and RCS in Google Messages is only encrypted when both parties are using Google Messages.

That seems like a small benefit compared to all the problems people are having to make it work.

I mean, if you can afford a second phone, and don't mind having two devices, I guess that's up to you. Personally if I was in your position, I would just use plain SMS for regular stuff, and if I needed to discuss anything sensitive I'd try to get my contacts to use Signal.

wuseman

snaz Am I making a dumb decision?
Biggest reason I want is the iMessage.

Look up OpenBubbles before you start buying stuff. I've been using it for months now and my coworkers don't even know I'm not iOS.

snaz

Probably9857 as big of a corp Apple is. I trust their encryption more than Googles.
I had been using SMS, and I understand how iMessage, RCS works. I just think it's ridiculous the amount of work arounds GrapheneOS users have to do to get the encryption to work.
I use Molly, but it's so difficult to get any of my family/friends to use it. Everyones got that "one app to rule them all" kind of mentality.
I wouldn't mind a second phone. I love exploring different devices. I am trying to look up all the cons of getting an iPhone before I make a purchase. Right now used ones on Back Market are at great prices.

MineralWater

I think you will not be so strict and quickly use the iPhone for everything and the Pixel will become obsolete.

I came from an iPhone and switched to GrapheneOS.

And I can confirm that iOS is really a good OS and the usability is unrivaled by Google.

But, you can't restrict much about what apps can do or not. Apple has, like Google some settings to deny apps some features, but overall it's cosmetically.

In the end it's about if you want convenience or control about your data.
I think you should wait one or two weeks before you finally buy a phone.

Are you really this much dependent on rcs/iMessage? iPhones are great smartphones, but I wouldn't buy one only because of texting people. And maybe the rcs thing will get solved soon, it is not only Graphene having trouble with it, even stock android has problems.

So in the end you will not use RCS as much as you think, if it's down again on Google's side, you will send unencrypted SMS again.

So you can only be sure that iMessage works, but that can't send to Android.

Jgarrot75

Everyone I know has an iPhone, I simply told them I'm switching to Android and using WhatsApp. I was overthinking it initially but it's not a big deal. Breaking free from the Apple ecosystem feels nice. I found WA to be a good middle ground despite not really trusting their data practices, it works for now.