If you don’t ever plan on taking ProRes videos, I‘d say 128GB is ok. ProRes videos are huge and they actually only work in 4K if you’ve got 256GB or more, but they’re still huge in 1080p.

I’ve had my 13 Pro Max for a year. I take occasional pictures of my son, nature and so on, have quite a few apps and games (although not many big ones) and all the usual stuff, and I currently use 50GB.

One thing to note: I use Apple Music so I don’t have lots of music stored on the phone, just something like 10 playlists stored for offline listening. If you want to store lots of music locally and/or many big games like Call of Duty Mobile, I guess 128GB could be a problem.

If you’re so poor, don’t travel and buy a 50$ xiaomi

Having just switched over from my Galaxy S10 to the 14 pro max in the middle of my work week I miss the fade in alarms. Sleep schedules are nice, but clunky for how I wake with two alarms every day and since I’m in retail my schedule is all over the place.

Will likely just have to learn how to make a custom tone and port over Samsung’s Homecoming :\

You think I‘ll read a book first because YOU misused a word? Lol what a pathetic conversation

I hear ya, but in the U.S. at least, I don't think the 'Samsung network' is equivalent to the Apple one. Do Samsung phones even serve as finder hubs by default (like iPhones do), or do the users have to install an app first?

Samsung has SmartTags if you’re looking for an equivalent to AirTags.

After 11+ years of Android, the iPhone 13 Pro Max was my first iOS device too.

First things first:

• If you like Android‘s back gesture (it works on both sides), get ready to be disappointed. iOS has a different concept: You „push“ something back the way it came from. So if a new screen comes in from the right, you „grab“ the left side of the screen and push it back to the right. Sometimes „cards“ (noticeable by not going all the way to the top; the previous screen is visible on the top under the new card) turn up from the bottom, you push them from the top back to the bottom. All of this makes sense! The behavior is actually a lot more predictable than Android’s back gesture. But it’s more work for your fingers 😅

That out of the way, some things you might want to consider:

• iCloud works great, but iCloud Photos can be a bit confusing. Yes, it backs up your photos just like Google Photos, but it mirrors your phone. So if you delete a photo on your phone after it’s been backed up to iCloud Photos, it will also be deleted on iCloud. I also still use Google Photos for that reason.
• Get a VPN! And I don’t mean for changing your geolocation. I use AdGuard Pro, it’s a VPN that essentially is always running and blocks out advertising in many apps, especially Safari. Works really well and is well worth the money. You can still whitelist certain sites and all that. Speaking of Safari:
• Use Safari. I know, coming from an Android device you’re probably tempted to use Chrome or Firefox, bit give Safari a try for a few days. It’s naturally better integrated into the system, supports extensions (like AdGuard Pro) and works beautifully with:
• Apple Keychain. All your website and app login credentials get saved into Apple‘s Keychain, meaning you can log in with FaceID. It’s a very convenient, built-in password manager basically. If you use a PC, you can download iCloud and via an extension, you can even use Keychain in browsers like Chrome or Edge on your PC.
• You can add your Google account to iOS and it will sync stuff like contacts. You don’t have to move them to iCloud (I did, however - it’s easiest to do it in the iCloud web interface on PC).
• It still annoys me that there is no camera roll in the Photos app. More or less anything gets saved into one folder, no matter if it’s photos or videos taken with your phone, downloaded media, media from apps etc. Some apps give you the option to create their own folders/albums. If you want a folder with just camera media, you have to create an album and move it there, while it still has to stay in the main album. It’s not a real copy, it’s basically just links to the media in the main folder. All of that is annoying, cumbersome and one of my main gripes with iOS.
• If you somehow think you can access iPhone‘s settings via Control Center (which is essentially Android‘s quick settings), forget it. You can only access settings by opening it via the app icon on your home screen or in your app library. Which you will do a lot, especially in the beginning and since app settings are usually not in the apps themselves, but in the settings app.

These are a few good starting points. You’ll figure the rest out as you go along, sometimes a quick Google search will help, but all in all the switch isn’t hard. Just be open to do some things in a new way. Sometimes the Apple way is mind-blowingly cumbersome (don’t get me started on custom ringtones), oftentimes it’s actually more logical than on Android.

In android, you can adjust the volume of the notification,ringtone,system sound and media independently. I miss being able to do that with iOS. If I want to keep the ringtone volume high and notifications low, I cannot do that as both are tied to one another.

So Google is your means of knowledge? Great. 🤣

It still sounds like you‘re confusing „spending“ and „investing“.

Here is the definition for investment I get from Google: „the action or process of investing money for profit.“

No doubt a phone is an extremely useful tool that can improve one‘s life. A phone is more useful to me than 10 $100 bills laying around and me not having a phone. but if you don’t use it to start and run a business, which I don’t think many people do, and just could not do that with any other means you previously had, it‘s just money spent on a fancy communication and entertainment device that will be worthless in 10 years.

On the other hand „investing“ is just the act of putting money into something to get more money, in a return-on-investment kinda way.

Floating app interfaces for messenger and telegram

We invest (spend a lot of money) in our phones because we do expect something in return. Not for the value of the phone to increase but because we run our business from it, keep in touch with friends and family far away or are entertained by it. We invest in things to improve our lives.

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Hahah thank you! For sure, are you talking about the logo? Or which icon in the app?

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That’s also what I’m thinking

Is this just basically a taking notes app? Why not just update the Notes app and just combine the two ideas?

Apollo and Overcast are my go tos. I also pay the Apple Music subscription but I don't know if that counts.

Do you need the 256GB of storage? If not stick with the size you are used to, the 14 Pro Max is a great phone and battery life is very impressive.

Cases weren’t as nice - and definitely not as easy to get - in 2010 when the iPhone 4 came out. I think back then, 99% of iPhone and Android users just walked around with a naked phone all the time. No screen protectors either. It’s crazy to think how normal that was for us lol.

I could never imagine doing that now, as much as I’d like to. Like you, I’ll take my case off for like an hour, and then I’m like “nope, can’t risk it”

I miss the notification icon at the top of the phone. I think Android does handle Notifications better than IOS does.

App UI is very nice and fluid but the icon is very bad man it looks like a kid drew it no offence hahaha. Easy fix tho good work!

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you know you can change it so your timeline shows you latest tweets from only the people you follow with no suggested tweets right?

Tried that and no go unfortunately