Stress that you have full control over all apps and their permissions. Example keyboard gets no network access. See below for some recommendations. Some require a bit of getting used to the UIs but id never go back to apple. My recs, find what works for you
Coming from iOS to Graphene most people want the below
-Navigation
Open Street Maps or HereWeGo
-App Store =
Aurora (for normie apps)
Zapstore
Obtainium
Fdroid
-Messenger
Molly or Signal if FOSS isnt your thing
K9 or Thunderbird
FairEmail
-Social Media
Just use Nostr
-Notes
Logseq
Obsidian
Simple Notes
-Calendar
Fossify Calendar
-Podcasts/YT/media
Many YT frontends (newpipe, bravenewpipe)
AntennaPod
Harmony Music
VLC
-News
Feeder - copy paste or search rss feeds. Control your news
-Airdrop = LocalSend
-2FA
aegis authenticator
-Adobe Reader = MuPDF
-Passwprd Manager
KeePassDX
Hope this helped. Happy to help.
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