Oh. I remember *all* of those issues! I loved Pixel. but got increasingly fed up with google changing stuff and monetising everything - "if it's free, your are the product" etc. Wife changed first. We're on the senior side. On the day she got really upset and I had to enlist help from family with iPhones. I brought forward my change so we could at least learn together. I remember being told in the Apple Store that i'd find it very intuitive compared to android. My ar5e. It's about as intuitive as my left cheek.
We're getting there, but the jury's still out on whether we go back.
In answer to your queries:
"My reliance on Google password manager although I've read I can use Chrome"
You can still use Chrome, although increasingly I'm using Safari. I've found running the equivalents side by side, if only for a while, makes the transition smoother. So we still use Password Manager, as well as the Apple equivalent. Same with Google Photos and both cloud back ups. So it's a couple of quid a month. It makes life easier.
New passwords I'm tending to let Apple do something strong - although it doesn't always seem to save them properly. So of course youve no chance of remembering it, and have to reset.
"Can't remember passwords for my apps such as FB and Insta and even using Move to IOS app, things like this won't move across"
Yes. We found it did maybe 90%. No banking apps. All that had to be reset up. Any PW's not transferring you'll have to reset.
"Moving to Apple Pay from my Google Wallet, will have to dig out all my physical loyalty card and re-add them"
Yes. Again, we run both. Have to say 1 thing is better - Face ID. I believe it's the only bio login authorised for payments. We love it.
"The keyboard/adding words to the dictionary."
Yep. We just muddle through.
"Having an iCloud backup when I've always used Google One"
As above. For now, we run both together. We also have Apple Music and Apple TV+, and could envisage a time when an Apple One combined subscription could make sense.
"Not having touch ID- how??? I'm asked to use it all the time for stuff like PayPal as again, I can't remember my password. How does Apple pay work with no touch ID?? Banking apps with no touch ID?"
See above. I loved Pixel's finger print authorisation. Fell perfectly to hand - no pun intended. But I prefer Face ID, honestly. Authorise it, you won't regret it.
Anything else that comes to mind, shout out.
Mike
EE Fibre 900 via SH+ with 2 Extenders, EE TV Pro & Mini boxes, 2 EE SIM's only, all originally BT, and wishing it still was.
LG Oled, Denon/Cambridge Audio 7.1, Panasonic 4K player, Apple TV 4K
