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

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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

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[-] deranger@sh.itjust.works 26 points 5 months ago

my girlfriend has iOS, and every time I want to forward an nsfw gif she doesn't see it

Say what? There’s no content censoring that I’m aware of. I’ve had no issues looking at all kinds of NSFW/NSFL content.

Regardless, you’re likely not going to enjoy the lack of modified apps and game piracy; I don’t do either of those. Maybe it’s possible but you’ve gotta jump through so many hoops IMO it wouldn’t be worth it.

Zero issues with NSFW though, that’s bizarre to me. There’s screen time web content filtering but I believe that only affects safari.

[-] GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml 9 points 5 months ago

My partner can't view webp/webm content on ios either. It's a real pain once in a while.

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 20 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yeah but there's a difference between'doesn't support webp' and 'blocks porn'

[-] TheDuckPrince@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

I can tell you that there are channel marked as NSFW that share video and gif and if I send it to my gf, on her phone (even with nsfw enabled) she get the message "this channel is used to share pornographic material" while on android I can see everything.

[-] M500@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Apple did something a while back to limit nsfw stuff on iOS. There was a setting in discord that you had to change to see nsfw stuff and some communities you had to join it from the desktop before you could view it on the phone.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/04/ios-users-and-only-ios-users-face-nsfw-content-ban-on-discord-app/

I’m remembering more now, Apple had a policy that was like we might block your app if it’s for nsfw. So some apps got worried and limited nsfw stuff on iOS.