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How to ensure you don't have a weak moment and switch back to using iPhone...

Sell your iPhone.

I'm a #grapheneos maxi now.
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deeznuts 2y ago

Good luck with cars and maps and photos and music

2.5 years later back on iOS

Back on the Apple plantation

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eee8f902... 2y ago

Yep you for sure nailed some pain points. Still working out some things. Photos management and storage is one of the harder ones for sure.

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Slimer 2y ago

Nextcloud is the next logical step for anyone missing iCloud. StartOS makes it fairly easy if you follow their guides

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eee8f902... 2y ago

Read my mind. I'm not rushing to self host right away but in am picking solutions that have easy export and/or will easily transition to something like StartOS (eg Joplin notes)

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DiceRolls 2y ago

Privacy focused graphene users don't have these items on their priority list and there is for sure open source options.

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eee8f902... 2y ago

Yeah I had to change my mindset to make this switch. I fully accept that I lost some functionaliy but like you say, my priorities changed

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mattybs 2y ago

From what I understand, you can still install Google services to get some of that functionality without surrendering everything. Was that not worthwhile?

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eee8f902... 2y ago

Yeah that's corrct, you can install Google Services as a sandboxed app. The difference is that its usually baked in to the OS and has full access to everything at all times, but with graphene has access to nothing unless you explicitly say so.

So technically if you really really had to youcould install Google Maps etc

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deeznuts 2y ago

Android Auto is not usable and for me, Apple photos, find my, etc is unfortunately indispensable