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Samsung → iPhone: Need Your De-Google Tips
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this post was submitted on 26 Jul 2025
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Congrats on your decision to replace Google spyware with Apple spyware.
That's funny, if I truly wanted zero spyware, I'd go with a Fairphone running /e/OS. But even then, I'd still need certain government apps to function as a citizen. Since I prefer Apple over Google and I'm not ready to go full privacy-hardened, I'd rather find a balance between convenience and privacy protection.
Why don't you use /e/os or another custom rom? all android apps work perfectly fine on custom rom's it shouldn't really be any different from Samsung except there is less spyware.
Also you can just stick with samsung and just turn off as much telemetry as possible, there is a much better ecosystem of foss apps on android + the ability to use third party repositories like f-droid, obtanium and accresent.
I said in my post that I dont like google, dont like the ui or ux of anything related to google.
I don't like the ux on Samsung either, and I kind of got stuck with this phone a bit back by my own fault.
I don't think ios is a better solution for privacy or anything related to that, I just prefer iOS and I wanted to see what my options are when I make the switch, I apologize if I offend anyone for mentioning iOS.
The reason for not using a custom rom on my Samsung is because alot of people have been telling me to stick to stock OS on Samsung, its the recommended thing to do for security if I remember correctly (got told this by a guy in the grapheneOS community)
Ok, I understand now, and that's totally fair. I didn't really realize that's what you meant in your post.