has anyone here made the switch from ios to android in the past couple of years? im finally doing it but i’d like to know about your favorite apps and how you replaced some of apples functionality

Coming at this from the other side - I think AirDrop is the one thing I would love to have (Nearby Share isn't as good or popular in my opinion). Nova Launcher, Authy, Resplash come to mind.

Thank you so much for the recommendations! I can’t even remember the last time I used airdrop so hopefully i won’t miss it too much. The thing I am dreading the most is the loss of imessage, but i’m sure i’ll live haha

Based on what I know, Telegram is on feature parity and all of my iOS friends are on there. Haven't seen anyone using iMessage outside of America but your mileage may vary :)

Oh thank god things are changing!

Yeah the whole green/blue bubble debacle is an American thing....but they don't realize it xD

As someone living outside the US, everyone just uses WhatsApp or Instagram DMs, iMessage is used sometimes but rarely, probably why they got out of DMA lol

yeah i’m outside of the us as well, and i feel like whatsapp is very common, though i’m not a huge fan of using meta. But my entire family is spread through out the world including the us, uses imessage a lot. But i’ll make them accommodate me as the only android user haha

Disclaimer: this isn't Apple-approved and so you might lose a bit of the security that comes with iMessage, and you're trusting AirMessage with your messages

Thank you so much! I have left Mac as well haha, but I do appreciate your help.