Quite a lather to have your android gradually deteriorate and suffer loss of ability to communicate with various websites for news/weather etc.

My 3.3 year old S21 Samsung has been weening me off its affections the last 3-4 months such that now I can't access even SigForum. Bit by bit behavior has changed such that even photo access is slipping away. And it does change its own settings periodically.

Some variation of "Web Page not available...etc user_name_not_found" .or net....ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT...

Today is last straw, no internet function other than phone is operating..

Battery sinks to low 40% with moderate web browsing. Recharges rapidly, seems mildly warm to touch.

Carrier ConsumersCell advises taking it to the Target store where some service is reputed to be available.

I'm lusting after a new phone with the emergency satellite connection is available. the 14-15 iPhone seems to carry this feature.

Hesitant to leap into Apple OS when its been such a struggle to learn the minimal tricks Android has demanded.

Who else has made the leap from one to the other language and did the change serve you any better?

My wife made the switch, and if she can do it you surely can. She likes being able to facetime me if needed, and being able to see if messages are read or not. But the main reason she did it was to facetime our grandson on his tablet, and she loves that.

Just get the iPhone. There's not shit to learn with da Apple.

I was a big android person from the beginning with various samsung galaxys (since the original) before I migrated to OnePlus phones. But in the end, I switched when the iphone 6 came out and currently in the 14promax now. My daughter is also on iphone and we're both happy. easy to use. nothing to worry about with upgrading the OS.
My son and his mom are still on Android and constantly complain.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Just get the iPhone. There's not shit to learn with da Apple.

The Apple just reads your mind and tells you what to do next.

iPhone is definitely easy to learn and you have pretty much 5 years of iOS updates guaranteed depending upon which iPhone you buy.

A few years ago I bought my wife an Iphone for her birthday. We had android phones for several years prior.
Glad I bought the phone on Amazon as she hated it and I was able to return it for a full refund.
I have observed most people once accustomed to one type or the other don't li9ke to change.

I’ve had both, sometimes simultaneously, but either way I always make sure the iPhone is my personal device.

Simple. Intuitive. Functional.

Still having trouble? There will be a pre-loaded tutorial app called TIPS to help you navigate around after your transition. It’s loaded with guidance and hidden little tricks many iPhone users don’t even know they have.

Apple is the Chromebook of smart phones. It just works.

Well, I'm a never-Appler so there's that.
However, sounds like you just want a change.
Those issues, are not really issues or something that can be addressed so it is just an excuse to change if that is really what you want.
The S21 is fairly recent and a good machine so maybe look at the source as it could also happen with Apple.

My take, having owned both:

If you spend about the same kind of money there's generally little difference in quality between iPhones and the various flavors of Android phones.

Android is much less of a closed system.

With Android you have a choice of manufacturers.

With Android what you get may be an amalgam of Android, manufacturers' customizations, and carrier customizations. With Apple: An iPhone is an iPhone is an iPhone.

Apple has much better privacy policies than Google and the assorted manufacturers that make Android phones.

iPhones tend to retain value on resale better than Android devices. That may be because...

• iPhones (as well as iPads and other Apple devices) are generally maintained with OS updates more timely and much longer than (most?) Android devices, and...
  
• If your battery starts to become weak after a few years with your Android phone you're often out of luck. With an iPhone you can take it to an Apple store and get the battery replaced relatively economically.

Other possible considerations:

Apple's integration between phones, tablets, watch, set top boxes, etc. is quite simply unmatched.

Android is beginning to catch up in the smart watch arena, but the Apple Watch still reigns supreme.

Having also owned several brands of set top (streaming) devices: IMO the Apple TV is the best on the market.

Went from 15 years of android to iPhone15 in November. Takes some getting used to and there is definitely some functionality that I still haven't found yet, but you just kinda get over it. I would not characterize it as intuitive, personally, as there are plenty of things that don't make sense to me. Some of that is just it being different, a little of it is I think android did it better. Cest la vie. I have certainly figured it out.

I think the biggest reason to have an iPhone is because everybody else has one. And that's a perfectly valid reason, imo.

I have bought my last two Android phones from Amazon Renewed and have been pleased

See link to Crapple Iphone 14

https://www.amazon.com/Apple-i...srs=12653393011&th=1

I have never bated a phone before until i met my current iPhone 12. Hate it with passion and i wonder why it hasn’t suffered a fatal accident yet. Guess i’ve never taken so much care of a phone but here it is. Making me miserable each time i use it.
Definitely going back to Android when the iphone dies.
Owned other iohones before and they were the dog’s bollocks.
Not fond of current iOS.

Android is closer to Windows.

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I am a yuge proponent of Open Source systems (AOS barely qualifies, and when massaged by a phone vendor, not at all) so I was an Android user until my wife won a free iPhone Xs in a raffle and gifted it to me. As I had bricked my LeEco LE727 trying to root it, I accepted the challenge and haven't looked back. I'd recommend getting the 15 unless you can wait until June or so for the 16, mostly because the newer the model, the longer it will be useful.

Remember the good ol' days when we'd tune up the car every 3,000 miles? Change the points, set the dwell, set the timing with a timing light strobing on that nearly invisible index mark on the pulley wheel. Every year replace the distributor cap and rotor, new spark plugs and wires periodically.

And then there was the carburetor, which needed cleaning every so often, and even a rebuild after a while.

Of course, an oil change happened every 3,000 miles. And the valves needed adjusting (or at least checking) annually.

Nowadays they say other than an oil change every 15,000 miles, which is 2 years for me, everything else is good to go for at least 75,000 miles.

Android is the good ol' days. Apple is nowadays.

appreciate comments & tips noted above.

iPhone 15& Galaxie 24+ are finalists so far.
Watched Tom's Guide to 24 Ultra but have no need for the insane
AI tricks in image manipulation or conversation translated live
as neat as it seems.

Get the iPhone 15

As far as phones, iPhone all the way. It’s super simple to use. The “tricks” you have learned for an android you just don’t need to learn. The user interface with the iPhone is very simple and user friendly.