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I used to love Android but I want to move, and I don't know if it's the right thing.

I was an iOS supporter until iphone 5 then I discovered the beauty and freedom of Android.

To this day with Samsung s22+

But currently I am a bit tired, there is no android phone that I am passionate about, oneplus has given me nothing but problems, Samsung with exynos is a disaster (not to mention the new blockages at sideload and the green stripes on the display), I don’t even want to go near all the other Chinese brands, and Nothing is not what it promised to be.

I want to go back to iOS but there are a few things holding me back:

  • how can sideload be managed on iOS? Are there modified apps like youtube, reddit?
  • I follow a lot of NSFW channels on telegram, discord and reddit itself, are there any problems on iOS? are there ways around this? (my girlfriend has iOS, and every time I want to forward an nsfw gif she doesn’t see it)
  • surf the sea, is it complex on ios? Especially in terms of gaming?

TBH only yt, nsfw and modded apk keep me on android. Thanks a lot in advance

2xsaiko ,
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  • I used to do side loading on iOS for a modded YouTube app (uYou+) but now I just use YouTube in the browser with AdGuard and Vinegar extensions. There’s ways to sideload and auto refresh the certificate that don’t need you to connect the phone to a computer which apparently work pretty well (I used AltStore which was pretty annoying because it doesn’t do that).
  • Usually I think you just have to enable NSFW on a computer/via the browser for it to work in the app. At least that how it is for Telegram iirc. Generally there shouldn’t be a problem accessing anything.
  • No idea, the only thing I play on my phone is Shattered Pixel Dungeon and I bought that
NicoCharrua ,
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Sideloading is quite bad. If you’re in the EU, I know you can use AltStore PAL, which costs money (~€1.50 a year), but all you’ll be getting is emulators, virtual machines, clipboard managers, and torrent clients.

There is another method for sideloading that works anywhere and lets you download modified apps, but it is very limited, tedious, and probably insecure. I’ve done it, it’s not worth it. Better to stay on android or use a browser with adblock or something.

I don’t think iOS has any specific limits to do with NSFW stuff, I’ve never heard of anything anyways.

Pirating games is probably not going to be worth it either since you have to sideload apps with the second method.

Other types of piracy are probably fine. If you have AltStore PAL you can get a torrent client and an emulator.

DoucheBagMcSwag ,

Wait WHAT BLOCKS ON SIDELOADING for Samsung?? I’m not in the loop

Rocketpoweredgorilla ,
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Normally it’s blocked by default which is pretty easy to get around (It’s just a setting toggle) but apparently Samsung added a second “safety” autoblocker to a recent update. (Which can also be turned off, so I’m not sure what all the fuss is about, aside from being a mild inconvenience.) androidauthority.com/enable-sideloading-one-ui-6-…

DoucheBagMcSwag ,

Interesting. I don’t like this at all. Remember AT&T tried this with locked phones (or something like that I believe) where unknown sources was completely gone?

Rocketpoweredgorilla ,
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Ya it’s not a good look of things to come, but so far it’s not a huge issue (yet).

DoucheBagMcSwag , (edited )

Ah yes here is is

xdaforums.com/…/q-how-to-enable-unknown-sources-o…

And another one web.archive.org/…/lesson-not-learned-att-locks-do…

TheDuckPrince OP ,

Ya it’s not a good look of things to come, but so far it’s not a huge issue (yet).

Not a huge deal now, but…I don’t like this move…I don’t like it AT ALL…

lemmyvore ,

Normally I wouldn’t worry about it, Samsung just apes everything Google does. It’s part of their tug of war, basically Samsung is saying “if you ever pull a Huawei on me and disable every Google feature I’ll still have a copy of everything”.

Then again the US market is wierd so I don’t know. You can unlock Sony bootloaders everywhere else without a hitch but they cut a deal with US carriers so they won’t give unlock codes to US models. If Sony did deals like that so can Samsung.

DoucheBagMcSwag ,

Wait so when if I bought a Sony phone from then directly they wouldn’t fucking let me unlock it??

lemmyvore ,

Just to be clear, I’m talking about bootloader unlock (so you can root it and install custom ROMs) not carrier unlock. Normally Sony offer bootloader unlock codes on their website, but not for US models.

Carrier (network) lock and unlock is done by the carriers, manufacturer doesn’t care.

DoucheBagMcSwag ,

Oh bootloader was exactly what I was talking about. Would this be the case if I bought it directly?

lemmyvore ,

Yes, sorry. The unlock code is generated on the Sony website based on the IMEI of the first SIM slot. They can tell when it’s the IMEI of an US model and will refuse to give out the code.

DoucheBagMcSwag ,

Wow what assholes. Thanks for telling me as I was considering Sony as a replacement. Not anymore

DoucheBagMcSwag ,

Wow what assholes. Thanks for telling me as I was considering Sony as a replacement. Not anymore

Imgonnatrythis ,

Funny, I followed the same exact course. IPhone 2-5 then switched to Samsung after 5. I feel like they had a strong edge at that time and it was getting to be more and more of a PITA to jailbreak the iphones then. Pixel w graphene sounds intriguing but I can’t imagine it’s without headaches. If you are already sideloading things frequently though you might be the type to not mind some of the extra steps graphene will demand. I wouldn’t blame anyone for going with Apple right now - I don’t think the Android benefits are as strong as they used to be. At the same time, I don’t see any attractive reason to switch since for me it would mean more cost and dealing with the frustrations of an ecosystem switch without any clear reward in return.

TheDuckPrince OP ,

good answer thank you, the problem is that if I have to sideload every week it could be an issue for me. My concern is about youtube, because I watch so much vanced, reddit (that I still read but I’m writing here when I can), and the freedom to see nsfw. I love to try games and on the high seas I can find a lot of apk but I don’t know if its the same on iOS.

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  • For nsfw I use Quix but its shareware
  • For youtube I use Yattee
  • I don’t use reddit since some of us moved to lemmy
  • For gaming I use RetroArch
  • I don’t know how are things with sideloading
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