Advice on moving from Android to iPhone

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dafman

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#280035 23-Nov-2020 15:06

I'm moving from Android to iPhone in a week or two, so looking for some advice/info on the change. Some initial queries:

1. Apple Carplay. I'm a big user of Google Maps on Android Auto. How good is Apple Maps on Carplay for NZ driving – is it a good alternative to Google Maps or will I find myself using Google Maps on Carplay?

2. I use Keepass for password manager via Dropbox. When I last used iPhone, there was an app for viewing a .kdbx file but there was no ability to edit a file on phone - is this still the case?

3. Dark mode on iPhone. How well does it work? Ok with all 3rd party apps?

4. Pocketcasts or native Apple Podcast app. I use Pocketcasts on android, but how does the native Apple Podcast compare to Pocketcasts?

5. Is there a good app for taking photos that are not auto saved to Gallery? Reason, I often take photos to send to tradespeople, work etc, but I don’t want them saved to Gallery as I have no further use for them. I currently use Google Keep for this, but will no longer be using this app when I switch.

6. I use the Google music search widget on Android a lot to identify music. I used to use Soundhound, but the hit rate with Google is much better. Is there a good one-touch option for iPhone that will identify music? Note, I will be using YouTube music as my music player as our family is locked into YouTube Premium.

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#2609159 23-Nov-2020 15:20

2, keePassium, Can do bi directional (mine is to a web dav server), but caveat, it doesn't seem to always down load the latest. So I let the phone get behind and update as I need to.

4. Probably stick to pocket casts if you're used to it. Especially if you cast it to a chromecast or something. As the built in apple app wont talk to chomecast only airplay.

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#2609173 23-Nov-2020 15:40

3. It works on all my 3rd party apps. I dont see any that haven't but I'm sure there will be some.

6. You dont even need to touch the phone, as long as your phone is in the room. Just say "hey siri what song is this?", when apple purchased Shazam they integrated it into iOS

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#2609190 23-Nov-2020 15:47

davidcole:

2, keePassium, Can do bi directional (mine is to a web dav server), but caveat, it doesn't seem to always down load the latest. So I let the phone get behind and update as I need to.

Thanks. What are your thoughts - if I were to move the .kdbx file from Dropbox to iCloud, would that improve bi directional traffic between the masterfile and iPhone app - or likely make no difference?

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#2609192 23-Nov-2020 15:48

1. Just saw you can set google maps or apple maps as default in carplay so you can use what you like.

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#2609213 23-Nov-2020 15:53

dafman:

davidcole:

2, keePassium, Can do bi directional (mine is to a web dav server), but caveat, it doesn't seem to always down load the latest. So I let the phone get behind and update as I need to.

Thanks. What are your thoughts - if I were to move the .kdbx file from Dropbox to iCloud, would that improve bi directional traffic between the masterfile and iPhone app - or likely make no difference?

I couldn't say. I use nextcloud and it doesn't seem to automatically update each time. Since it's only me, and I know its behind, if I intend to write something to if with the phone, then I'll get the latest version. They do have a monthly option that may so the automatic updating, or yoiu might be able to ask them if icloud is a better platform for it.

I used to use dropbox for iKeepass, but have since taken most of my cloud content home again.

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#2609216 23-Nov-2020 16:05

I’ll just add you can say "hey Siri play [song] with you tube music"

It works great, can also create own short cuts with custom words.