Thanks everyone for your help these last couple of days with my questions. I am Also wondering who all uses GOS as a daily driver and who uses IOS? For those who are GOS what is going to be the biggest hurdle for an IOS user? The apps that I need are Reolink, Tonal, signal, and maybe a calendar ap…

You shouldn’t have any issues with those apps, the main thing that people have issues with currently is banking apps. Some banking apps like Revolut have been blocking custom operating systems recently. (This is due to Google’s Play Integrity API which custom operating systems can’t pass) The bigge…

Years ago I was on android, my phone got destroyed so I had to use my moms old iphone 4, then went back to google. Make sure you look up how to get apple to release your sms from iMessages or you won’t be able to receive text. I never used GOS, I only hope for everyone who does sake it’s better tha…

[image] anon54690201: Tonal I switched from iOS to using GOS full time. While I still have the iOS as a secondary device, that remains off for most of the time, my transition has been fairly smooth to be honest. I use Reolink Cameras but I have the app installed via Aurora Store in the Privat…

Oh wow that awesome! Is there a reason that some people are not fans of aurora store?

Aurora Store can be unreliable because Google sometimes blocks Aurora Store’s anonymous accounts that it uses to download the apps.

[image] anon54690201: Also wondering who all uses GOS as a daily driver and who uses IOS Please search the forum for existing threads tho [image] GOS or IOS Questions Hey Guys, I am in the middle of some big changes and want to hear your thoughts. I am about to go…

[image] PrivacysGhost: Make sure you look up how to get apple to release your sms from iMessages or you won’t be able to receive text. it’s not as bad as it used to be, you can do it easily in settings by deregistering your number from imessage yourself once you move your sim over to a non-iP…

[image] anon54690201: Also wondering who all uses GOS as a daily driver and who uses IOS? For those who are GOS what is going to be the biggest hurdle for an IOS user? I use GOS as a daily driver. I guess that the biggest hurdle if you are deep in the ecosystem will be to have to recreate a s…

Ty for informing me! At the time it angered me so much I didn’t touch another ios device for almost 5 years and honestly wouldn’t even consider the iphone for about 10.

When you move from iOS to GrapheneOS, it’s like moving from a rented apartment that you don’t really own or have complete control of with some absolutely random arbitrary restrictions that the landlord came up with to moving into your own house that you completely own, control, and can do whatever t…

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Please search the forum for existing threads tho

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