Google, Apple and few other cloud photo storage service providers recently announced a service to move all your photos from Apple iCloud to Google and vice versa. It takes a few days but it’s all automated. So if you want to move on from iCloud, check that.

https://support.google.com/photos/answer/10502587?hl=en

On iOS, I feel like doing things take a few extra taps and swipes than they would on Android.

But on the whole apps made for iOS feel higher quality. Even Google’s own apps are better on iOS. I feel like the problem is that Apple forces developers to adopt changes quickly, whereas Google lets apps use years old API versions.

You can export the passwords using a Mac and you can get the email ids being used for “Sign in with Apple” and just use that email id if you can’t change it on the websites. I do it now as some websites stopped supporting that feature.

Note: the following is based on an email I sent to clients who switched to Android last year. Sorry for long format but figured it might help.
TL;DR: Android can be a great choice. Just plan ahead and be careful.

There’s a few extra steps to preserve data security and privacy. In particular, prepare to:

• Flash an open-source system
  • Why: increasingly, data harvesting is deeply woven into the fabric of common Android systems provisioned for individual sale
    • Google’s approach to system design adds privileged telemetric access everywhere for truly robust user surveillance (to which third party developers are offered access via their platforms)
    • Manufacturers and carriers want in on the feeding frenzy, so they add their own data harnesses on top of vanilla Android to supplement their device sale and telco service revenues
    • All this data proliferation will dramatically expand your attack surface if you’re not able to take responsibility for your own security hygiene
  • How: select your preferred ROM first (since your device selection can be limited by compatibility) then buy your device and (if possible) flash it before carrier activation
• Be vigilant and thorough in your audits of any app market installations, especially from the Play store
  • Most app stores take little responsibility for what developers offer in their market (beyond the most obvious malware) and are especially hands-off re: user data collection and “dark patterns”
  • In other words there are no guarantees (by Google, Samsung, Verizon, or anyone else) that you might be accustomed to with Apple’s strict (draconian) quality control
• Avoid installing anything by Google if possible, including the Play store, because their apps try very hard to re-google any de-googled Android system
• Find a different password manager
  • KeyChain is basically impossible to use on Android without compromising security one way or another
  • You can export your passwords to CSV and import to most password managers
• Host your own cloud photo sync/backup service
  • While you can access iCloud Photos on Android in various ways, including through a browser, I’m not aware of any software that offers equivalent e2e integration
  • There are several popular options but I was most impressed by LibrePhotos

In my experience, I feel like Apple does a much better job curating and vetting their content, making things a lot more stable. Also, Apple at least tries to care about your security and privacy vs the alternative.

I’ve also given Graphene a (short) try and while the privacy features are nice. I don’t want to spend time fiddling with my phone, and trying to get things working.

Yes, the new iPhones are expensive. But if money is tight, you can still get it subsidized by your phone provider. Worst case scenario, get a slightly older/refurbished iPhone.

Good luck OP!

Edit: I also prefer 1Password, but that is another discussion altogether.

Oh, and you are asking in an Apple community. You aren’t going to get many people giving you reasons to use something else ;)

The Android OS is very hostile to background processes running.

The rules around what’s okay and what’s not is constantly changing, so apps that need to run things in the background are constantly having to update things so they can work properly and sometimes they don’t, or they do it wrong, and then certain features don’t work properly like push notifications or schedules events.

Then, even if the developer does everything perfectly you get OEMs like Samsung that ignore the rules and fuck with your app anyway, and the literal only way to stop it is to go into the OS setting and disable a lot of things, which puts the onus on the user, and not the developer to make the app work.

But Samsung is such a bitch that even then they don’t honor your settings and sometimes revert them, or add new ones that fuck with it again in a constantly changing hard to find nested settings menu.

I actually do like my Samsung phone, but god damn fuck you Samsung for doing this.

If you want a phone that at least follows the ever changing rules properly, get a pixel.

It’ll take about 6 months to get used to the new UI. Don’t expect to not be frustrated by not being able to quickly do simple things you used to be able to do easily

The Android experience is quite a bit more wanky than Apple’s walled garden. I moved to Android a year ago and it took me months of fiddling until I was satisfied. Google really tries to give you their own not-that-walled garden, giving you an Apple-esque experience. If you are not 100 % invested, it could get finicky, though. The vendors usually provide their own standard apps, but more often than not, I find them unpolished.

Regarding Log in with Apple, you could, from what I experienced, get problems, as some Android apps won’t let you sign in wit Apple, and even websites don’support it all the time. Take Tripadvisor as an example. Create an account on the iOS app, and when changing to Android, you’re basically locked out, because neither their Android app nor their website support Log in with Apple.

Just don’t.