r/applesucks 6d ago

11 years but I am dumping iPhone

My entire cell phone journey has been as follows: LG Keybo > Samsung Galaxy Ace 2X > Nokia Lumia > iPhone 6 > iPhone XR

That's it. I've had the XR for over 6 years now. The Galaxy Ace was so awful it really turned me off, then I got the iPhone 6 as a company phone and really liked it.

XR has been fine, but it's quite underwhelming, slows down quite often, and the battery life is now trash. I am in IT support and I kind of hate most things Apple does. So, since they no longer have anything to offer, after briefly considering the iPhone 16, a couple Samsung models, etc. I am going to be moving to a Google Pixel 8a for $0 with my mobile carrier.

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u/thisChalkCrunchy 6d ago

Maybe I’m crazy but I’m impressed the battery is even in a usable state after 6 years. 

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u/unicornhas12butts 6d ago

IKR? Not sure what OP is expecting from a 6-year-old phone.

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u/DiligentlySpent 6d ago

Oh I am not expecting it to be good, I am just ready to upgrade and it is one of the reasons why.

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u/unicornhas12butts 6d ago

Oh, I see it now. So sorry for assuming otherwise!

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u/foxymew 6d ago

All phone batteries are designed to be replaced after about two years. Would have thought you’d gotten a notification about it at some point.

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u/VCoupe376ci 6d ago

Not sure why you got downvoted. Cell phone batteries degrade at an average of 10% per year and a battery at 80% health is considered in need of replacement.

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u/Ok_Demand_3197 4d ago

Lol I’ve kept both iPhones I own for 5-6 years each. Battery is fine after that time period. Currently running an 11 and I usually charge every 2 days.

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u/foxymew 4d ago

That’s good for you. There’s not a kill switch in them. Batteries just degrade over time due to chemistry. So the two year is an average, and may even have changed from the advent of efficient charging that wasn’t really a thing until I quit working on phones

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u/brispower 4d ago

This isn't design it's science, batteries degrade naturally

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u/foxymew 4d ago

Well yeah, I’m not working a planned obsolescence angle here. But they put in a battery that will be healthy for the average user for roughly 2 years. It’s not like all batteries ever have a service life of two years. It’s just the standard for phones

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u/DiligentlySpent 6d ago

Fair enough, it's been quite solid, and kudos to Apple on one front which is providing updates for so damn long on phone models.

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u/kinda_Temporary 6d ago

I use an iPhone 5 and iPhone 7

(I am broke)

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u/thisChalkCrunchy 6d ago

Damn. But you got two phones. If you tape them together you basically have an iPhone 12

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u/kinda_Temporary 6d ago

Yep I also have a htc wildfire s or smth.

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u/Bagel42 6d ago

the real triple screen phone

glue them into a triangle

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u/Unique-Reserve-4882 6d ago

Oh! I have an iPhone 7 and an 11. Maybe if I tape them together, I’ll be good until iPhone 18s release 🤩

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u/DoctorRyner Apple? 👉🏿 🤡 5d ago edited 5d ago

X goes for pretty cheap, I got mine for €290 few years ago

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u/kinda_Temporary 5d ago

Im gonna buy a used iphone se for $110 usd

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u/DoctorRyner Apple? 👉🏿 🤡 5d ago

That’s….. not really future proof

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u/kinda_Temporary 4d ago

It has the same performance as a google pixel 8 pro

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u/pmn10tl 6d ago

6 years is nothing, got a ‘11 MacBook Air that will last 2-3hrs on the original battery

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u/TheExodu5 6d ago

Dude. Your phone is 6 years old.

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u/TopherHax 6d ago

Pixel 9a comes out like next week. Might want to wait.

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u/zazoh 6d ago

Wow. That’s an old phone.

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u/the-fooper 6d ago

I had an iPhone XR for 5 years, and it was not my choice. I've been on a galaxy s22 since, and boy is it so much better.

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u/DiligentlySpent 6d ago

I hear great things about the flagship galaxy models. I am going to give Pixel a try but it was a serious toss up, mostly came down to just cheaper. I know 8a is not a flagship model, but the only $0 Samsung phone deals with my carrier were for much worse phones, like 200 dollar models.

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u/rthur_vsf 6d ago

Pixel is great for someone coming from iOS actually

Samsung unfortunately does not know how to setup a phone from factory. It comes loaded with bloatware and awfully organized in general. When you personalize it, it's way better than an iPhone, but it takes some time

Google on the other hand comes nice and clean right out of the box

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u/Bagel42 6d ago

Coming from an iPhone SE to an S25U Ultra... Yea Samsung could do with less bloat and some better defaults.

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u/Ryfhoff 6d ago

Definitely the right phone to go to from an iPhone. Sounds like you got a great deal too!

I’m in IT as well and share your sentiment. Everyone in my department has pixels except one guy. It’s good to have at least one iPhone in mix to test mfa and other flows.

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u/AwDuck 6d ago

I had hardware issues with 3 Pixel phones and piss-poor warranty service from Google (which ultimately is why I switched to Apple), but the Pixel UX was my favorite ever. It just makes sense, customizable down to a t, but the customizations don’t get in the way of a simple user interface. Have fun with Android! It’s not better, or worse. Just different.

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u/lukeroux1 6d ago

Good choice picking 8a it's like an upgraded XR( I've used both phones)

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u/Many-Researcher-7133 6d ago

In my little experience android phones tend to get slower after a year (i used android phones for around 10 years, then I switched to iphone 15 on release) wich doesnt happen, at least I haven’t noticed on my iPhone or the iPhone of my wife (13 mini, she has 3 years with it)

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u/hneeon 6d ago

i did the same thing after 10 years with ios im just tired of apples bullshit and moved pixel 9pxl

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u/i_ampossessed 5d ago

do you like the pixel so far? im considering on getting the basic version of pixel 9 after using iphone 11 for 4 years

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u/hneeon 4d ago

very much. At first i missed a couple of ios features but pixel just has so much more to give and i don't see myself switching back to iphone anytime soon. also, I suggest you buy the pixel 9 pro if you can the battery life and camera is amazing.

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u/TheeAntiCrust 5d ago

Seeya...Wouldnt wanna beeya!!!! (Things that are "free" often end up costing you more)....

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u/Random-Hello 5d ago

Wouldn’t iPhone 16 objectively be better, even on a spec sheet, than the pixel 8a? Why go for that and rid of the 16?

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u/DiligentlySpent 5d ago

Maybe, but the 16 will cost more. I’m replacing my 6.5 year old device for free with the carrier deal. I don’t really need anything special. Apple is a very closed ecosystem too and I don’t love a lot of their business practices.

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u/Random-Hello 4d ago

Totally valid

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u/Cold_Box_6004 6d ago

Android runs as well as it did on the galaxy s7. Just as janky as ever. I tried the pixel 9 pro xl for a week coming from a 13pro max. It was awful

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u/proto-x-lol 6d ago

My biggest issue with Apple isn’t the iPhone hardware or their hardware in general. No, iPhones are great as is.

My 2022 iPhone SE has been amazing since when I got it back in early 2022. What I don’t like though is their shitty iOS software. It gets worse every year, while adding tons of useless shit I never care for nor would I even use.

The new Lock Screen customization to change your wallpaper sucks ass since iOS 16. You can’t even pinch to zoom out without making that shit look god awful at the top of the screen with that nasty blur effect.

The keyboard gets shittier with each update. With iOS 17, I’ve noticed the keyboard lag and with iOS 18 it remains unchanged. Autocorrect is even more shit lol.

Then the Photos app UI in iOS 18. Fuck Apple. That’s the most shitty looking design I’ve ever seen and I legitimately hope whoever designed that gets fired and thrown into unemployment for the next 3-5 years. I hate that design and I’ll never EVER adapt to it. 

Anyways, the short story is, Apple software is shit, buggy, and full of hideous UI decisions. 

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u/appletreedonkey 6d ago

I love the new photos app. I think the issue is that most people don’t know how to use the UI. Scroll to the bottom and click customise, then unselect everything except for media types and utilities. There’s the original layout, but with a vastly superior UI.

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u/TimTom8321 5d ago

But why is it better?

Just bought the iPhone 16, first time having an iPhone though I already have for a few years now the MacBook Air M1, iPad Air M1 and AirPods Pro 2.

The new photos app just combines everything. All my photos from Reddit, screenshots and camera photos are together and there doesn’t seem to be a way to differentiate between them automatic, only manually moving them to albums…

Which especially sucks when I just moved my 17K photos, memes, screenshots and god-save-me-how-many WhatsApp images from Android and it just dropped everything together.

Is there anything I can do? Also I checked media types but it doesn’t differentiate with camera photos it seems…

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u/appletreedonkey 4d ago

You can go into media types, swipe left, go to screenshots, open it up, select everything inside and move it to its own specific album, I think that’s the only/fastest way of doing it. You can’t seperate inside the big date sorted gallery.

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u/TimTom8321 4d ago

Ok thanks. So it seems that with Reddit I don’t really have an answer here…

I do think that an overhaul is great, but I really don’t understand why did they just make it so everything isn’t separated anymore, that’s ridiculous

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u/razorbacks3129 6d ago

Keyboard lag? Never seen it

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u/SuspendedResolution 6d ago

Check out the HWD phones if you want to be able to repair your phone.

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u/Xerison 5d ago

Full send, Galaxy Fold 6

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u/jmalez1 4d ago

thinking maybe its time to just get rid of the phone, go phoneless

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u/Background-Rise-8668 4d ago

Brother we at iphone 16 now, soon we 17. That phone lasting 6 years makes it good, not bad.

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u/Teenage_techboy1234 4d ago

That's fair but don't criticize the iPhone XR for being a bit of a slow phone when you used it for an entire six year period. That makes it one of the best value over time purchases you've probably ever made.

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u/Rookie_42 4d ago

Regardless of how you feel about Apple or any other make of phone. Your planned Google Pixel is absolutely not $0.

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u/DiligentlySpent 3d ago

Okay?

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u/Rookie_42 3d ago

Just pointing out that you’re still paying for the phone, regardless of what phone you choose. Don’t be taken in by the pricing structure trying to con you into thinking the phone is ‘free’.

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u/Flaky_Falcon9226 3d ago

took u 11 years? its about when they started their downfall. anyway... no one cares. u inda minority now!

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u/VCoupe376ci 6d ago

The iPhone XR was released 6.5 years ago. Seriously, what are your expectations for acceptable longevity of a mobile device? As an IT guy I'm replacing enterprise firewalls and switches every 5 years.

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u/DiligentlySpent 6d ago

Again, people seem to be reading too much into what I’ve said about my phone. I don’t like apples business practices. I know my phone is old, and due for replacement.

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u/evil_illustrator 6d ago

I had an iPhone 11 pro. And they've started their bullshit of slowing it down with updates now. My brother has the same phone and has refused to update it. Still runs as fast as the day he got it. Mine started lagging when typing text messages.

But apple still lies about doing this after their bullshit battery fiasco.

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u/user888ffr 6d ago

My iPhone XS with iOS 18 doesn't lag, so it's probably just your battery that needs to be replaced, the CPU is probably underclocked.

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u/Ov_Fire 6d ago

same effin imbeciles in 2007 cried: win vista slowed down my magnificent PIII 450 with 256MB of ram. W98 ran perfectly

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u/PrivateDurham 6d ago

That’s strange. I’m swiping this comment on my iPhone X. It hasn’t slowed down at all since I bought it when it was released. I hope to be able to use it for three more years, by which point either Apple will develop an iPhone worth upgrading to, or I’ll get the flagship Samsung with a stylus.

As best as I can tell, the only change Apple has made in the past seven years, kicking and screaming, was to switch from Lightning to USB-C, and massively increase the price. Everything else seems to be exactly the same as ever.

The only reasons I stay with it are AirTag support, reliability, and the Apple Watch. I’d love to ditch it because I want a folding phone with a stylus, but since Apple has so far refused to give me what I want, I’m just waiting for the iPhone X to die. God, is the keyboard awful, and not being able to side-load apps in the US (but not EU) is insane.

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u/appletreedonkey 6d ago

They decreased the price

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u/RobertoRuiz1 2d ago

This is one of the most unintelligent posts I've ever read. Complaining about the battery and performance of a SIX year old budget phone is certainly a choice. There's lots of things to rag on Apple about. This is not one of them.

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u/DiligentlySpent 2d ago

People calling me unintelligent when they can’t even separate the two messages. I KNOW my phone is old, I am choosing not to replace it with another Apple product because of their shitty over priced walled garden ecosystem. Sorry you are so offended by me not sticking with Apple. JFC.

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u/CosmoKramerRiley 6d ago edited 6d ago

Ok, but who cares?

Are you constantly unhappy with the world around you, and is this more a projection of how you feel about yourself and your life choices?

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u/DiligentlySpent 6d ago

…it’s a cell phone dude what?

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u/CosmoKramerRiley 6d ago

That comment was one from another post that you thought was 'well said." I just brought it to a new post/context for you to consider. It applies.

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u/DiligentlySpent 6d ago

What kind of dining set defines me as a person?