stability, airdrop, security, performance, user experience, better native apps.

The UI, hardware, and app quality. Less intrusive advertisements. Most importantly no preinstalled Google shit.

Besides what you said, smoother animations on iOS, face id (compared to fingerprint) and camera I like better, but that’s subjective.

Other than that, android is a far superior operating system. Besides things it simply does better like notifications and device input (keyboard, cursor management, copy&paste) android simply has more features available.

If you will notice people who say iOS is better, other than what I mentioned they can’t have concrete examples, they say passwords, “it just feels better”, “it just works”, “its more polished”. But it’s easy to give concrete examples of the advantages of android:

Just a few examples of features android has and iOS doesn’t: true caller id support, notification history, separate alarm and call volume, control over messaging app which gives abilities such as automatic spam filtering, notification history view, infinite call history log, can sort camera images automatically into a dedicated folder/album (this one is a mess in iOS), controlling different types of notifications per app, consistent back gesture, and the list goes on…

Also most things you want to do can simply be done with less steps and friction on android. There are many examples but one example is if you get a notification from an app, you can get from this notification straight into the notification configuration of this app.

Lately I’m thinking about getting an iPhone but I’m someone who pirates a lot. Not necessarily on mobile but I download various movies, TV Shows, books, apps like YouTube Vanced and other things like that on my PC and then transfer it to mobile. Would an iPhone be a decent choice for me? Or is it better that I stick with Android?

I have both phones. What I do miss on an iPhone is the complete lack of split screen, multitasking so I can have a tiny window of YouTube open and DEX to use a phone as a computer when connected to a monitor.

battery life. no Android flagship (with us availability) can compete.

I totally get your perspective. For me it’s the tight integration, and the “it just works” aspect of the whole Apple ecosystem, including Watch with Fitness+, Airpods, iPad, and MacOS.

Starting with my morning, my alarm I set on my phone gently wakes me up on my watch. Turning off the watch deactivates the Sleep Focus on my Watch, iPad, and iPhone without me having to do anything.

I go to work out, and activate my Fitness+ Treadmill-routine on my iPad. My watch starts tracking my workout and reports it to my iPad without me needing to do anything. Meanwhile, I put on my Airpods, and they connect without any prompting.

When I’m done with my workout, I pull out my iPhone and fire up Podcasts. The Airpods switch from the iPad to the iPhone automatically.

When I get to my desk, my Airpods, again, switch to my Mac so I can have video-calls there. If my phone rings during the day, I can take the call, once again, without manually switching.

When I get a PDF I need to sign, I can open it on my Mac, click the Signature button, and direct it to use my iPad to capture the signature with an Apple Pencil. It just works without any extra effort.

If I take a photo of a prototype product I’m working on, I can Airdrop it to my Mac for further Photoshopping. Two clicks on my Phone.

If I need to focus for a while, and tune out any notifications, I change my Focus mode on my Mac to “Work” and the only notifications I get on my Phone, Mac, iPad, and Watch can come from my boss. When I’m done, deactivating that Focus mode turns it off for all my devices.

The sheer quantity of additional features Android has are less interesting to me if they work inconsistently, or not without a lot of tweaking and management. The Apple ecosystem works for me because I don’t have the time or patience to tweak settings.

Ecosystem and update cycle (unless pixel 8 or fair phone) FaceTime and iMessage I guess if you have fomo

There are still pros and cons. I use both for specific reasons.

iOS > Android

1. On-screen fingerprint on Android just doesn’t work for me, even with the Face detection thing was turned on. It fails more…so I always end up using the pattern or number pin code…with Face ID, even with surgical masks on, ios can detect in a snap.

2. Android’s camera loads so slow from lock screen. I can quickly pull out my iPhone from my pocket and still get the shot. With Android, even the latest model, couldn’t beat it. I’d surely miss the moment. (I always carry 2 phones with me)

3. Clarity of camera (good lighting) if you’re into pixel peeping. Android wins on night shots tho, no doubt. Sunset/sunrise, too. iOS tops for diffused lighting/portraits. Perfect skin tone, no adjustments. Androids make skin tones a bit reddish and wipe out impurities (probably in the settings which you have to tweak for the first time I guess)

4. I get more typo on android keyboard for me. I feel like the touch screen (target?) isn’t as precise as on the ios’. Sorry not familiar with terms

5. Apple Shortcuts. Automate. Sample use case: when you charge your phone it goes on low power mode, turns off wifi and data to charge faster. Less heating up It can program calculations (sample use case: price costing on the go. Input cost, it’ll provide different tiers of selling price with its margin) which you have to use third party apps for Android.

6. IMO iOS has a cleaner interface. Minimal. It just displays what you need. Not much on customization (personal preference)

7. GPS!! I use the same phone network and the Android always mess up with the directions on way out of some village. It gives me different directions as it redirects to another road…which i rarely encounter with ios.

8. Probably the best part is I can use Android to charge iOS since Android has a longer battery life even with the mobile data turned on 24/7. I haven’t tried to charge the other way around since the iPhone always drains out first.

9. Screen resolution. The color tones on 4K movies on Android messes up the colors!! Too red skin tone. With iPhone, nothing to tweak.

10. Android wins on having built-in pens to write notes or fill out and sign quick documents.

I could list so much more lol I use iOS as my main. Android for company phone.

OP, are you asking about under the hood stuff or things like @apprehensive_view614 mentioned?

Privacy.

It just works perfectly with the hardware. That’s the top argument.

iPhones are way more secure if you have your phone stolen or lose it. Their cloud storage is more secure. It’s the most secure mobile platform.

The ease in which Apple devices connect to each other is amazing and unmatched. I tell my watch to start outdoor run and it will track that and also be available to see on all my devices.

My biggest advantage in my house is AirPlay 2. I’m not 100% sure if android now has access to AirPlay as well, but I use it every single day in every room of my house.

And the fact that all my friends that visit can use it as well, without any type of “pairing” is a plus.

IOS is the caring spouse, Android is the fun boyfriend/girlfriend. Decide what relationship you want. This is my summary after 15yrs w these two.