I switched from iPhone to the Pixel 2: One-week report
I wish I could switch to the iPhone, and I&#x27;ve tried several times. The hardware is excellent. But these are my deal-breakers that keep me on Android (I&#x27;ve only ever had Google Nexus &#x2F; Pixel phones):<p>- Lastpass or any other password manager on iPhone is a joke, requiring multiple convoluted steps and using the &quot;share&quot; menu in the browser because of the Apple lock-down. Lastpass on Android? Click the password field in any app or the browser, authenticate with your finger. Done.<p>- All the Google apps on the iPhone are of a much lower quality and behind design and feature wise. The reason I switched last time from the iPhone to Android was because I realized I don&#x27;t use any of the Apple apps any longer (mail, maps, notes, music, etc.) and I use the Google apps and services exclusively because they&#x27;re just so much better. And they&#x27;re way better still on Android!<p>- Google Photos is amazing. It&#x27;s hard to overstate just how good it is. And you can still plug in your phone and get your photos of the device, if you like. A recent experience of trying to backup my wife&#x27;s photos from her iPhone 7 was an incredibly frustrating experience in contrast. The Apple photos desktop app is a piece of crap, somehow even slower and beachball-prone than the Apple Store app, and the backup is very confusing. Using iCloud is <i>not</i> a backup solution, because deleting a photo on any device still deletes it everywhere.