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Just got my first iPhone since the 3G, now what?
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this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2023
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The best advice I can give is: don’t immediately abandon the stock apps. I see tons of people who get an iPhone, immediately install Chrome and Gmail and all I can think is, what’s the point?
AdGuard or a similar adblocker for Safari will give you the results you got from Firefox. Safari on iOS also supports full desktop extensions if the developer chooses to make them available. So things like 1Password work great on it.
Same with the Mail app, Calendars, etc. Try setting up your accounts and services in the stock apps and see if you like them. Besides that, there isn’t much to tweak, that’s kind of the point.
If you want app recommendations, it depends on what services you use. Some of my favourite apps are:
Weather - CARROT Mastodon - Ivory Lemmy - Bean or Voyager Package Tracking - Parcel RSS - Reeder Password Manager - 1Password Remote Management - Remotix Home Server Management (Sonarr/Radarr/SabNZBd) - LunaSea
carrot looks super cool but just don’t see the value in a subscription weather app
I'm using the free version and it's still great. The best feature for me is that you can see hourly timelines of temperature and precipitation for every day for the week ahead. I've found the free data source to be reliable enough, so I don't currently have a reason to pay.
Default weather app can show the hourly temperature and precipitation for the next 10 days as well; simply tap the day you want more info for from the 10-Day Forecast section and you can see all the forecast details. I believe this was added after Apple bought Dark Sky.
You know, I just realised this yesterday. I thought to myself "oh, this is mostly the same as Carrot, then!". Good to know :)