Switching From iPhone to Android Fractured My World

I’ve had an iPhone since 2013, and have owned my iPhone 12 Mini for the past four and a half years. Everyone I communicate with regularly also has an iPhone. I love AirDrop. I love FaceTime. All of my photos and videos from the past decade are stored in my iCloud, and I have hundreds of voice memos and notes with creative ideas stored in them. 

Just thinking about migrating more than a decade’s worth of my digital life from one ecosystem to another boggles my brain. My iPhone-loving friends and family have begged me not to do it. I almost made the switch last year when the hot pink Motorola Razr Plus debuted… but then I had a stress dream about the mess that having an Android would cause in my life, and I decided not to do it.

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The day I never thought I’d see coming might be here. Flash forward a year, and I’m starting to tire of my trusty mini iPhone. The new iPhones bore me and are too big for me to use with one hand. I really want Apple to just come out with a flip phone already — a flip, not a fold. So again I’m tempted to pick up a Razr, but this time it’s the super cute, blinged-out Swarovski crystal Razr 2025.

In this episode of Prove It, which you can watch embedded above, I take Android out for a test run and switch my phone number over to the Razr. I attempt to transfer my whole digital life into the Android ecosystem. That should be easy enough. What could go wrong?

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