iOS

Turn on Low Battery Mode if you want your battery to last longer. Also turn off Background App Refresh to stop apps draining battery in the background. Notifications will still work.

Set AirDrop to Contacts Only, to avoid random people sending you files. In Siri settings, turn off “Learn from this app” and “Show content in search” to prevent background indexing from draining battery after each new iOS update. Also turn off Bluetooth if you don’t need it.

You can search for any of these at the top of Settings.

Go to Settings -> Screen Time -> Content Restrictions and deny changes to Passcode and Account. Make sure your Screen Time passcode is different from your phone unlock passcode. If your phone gets stolen and they somehow know your unlock passcode, this setting will stop them from locking you out of your Apple account. There are other restrictions you might like to set in that same menu, but the passcode one is crucial.

Most of the problems /glitches you’ll encounter are fixed by restarting your iPhone (not turning it off then back on). This is how to perform that.

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/force-restart-iphone-iph8903c3ee6/ios

In Accessibility->Display & Text Size are options to make bold text or configure auto-brightness if you want. If you set up an iCloud, you can set up “Advanced Data Protection” which makes most data stored in iCloud E2EE, would provide recovery codes and would have to set up a recovery contact I believe, so that’s just an option if you’re interested.

If you use any heavy-customization or such, Apple is a walled garden, so you probably won’t be able to 100% replicate your workflow on there as you have on Android but the big name apps, Google Calendar, Gmail, Outlook and such should sync nicely.

Overall though I believe the setup is pretty intuitive, if you stick with Safari you can change your search engine and other settings in the settings app on the phone as well.

AdGuard is a good adblocker, Bitwarden is a good cross-platform password manager if you need.

I switched earlier this year.

Shortcuts app:

• Shortcuts has Tasker vibes. You can do a lot with it, especially automation.
• Lmk if you’re a Google Home user. You can setup Shortcuts so that Siri passes on commands to Google Assistant.
• You can even customize the Action button to run a Shortcut. I’ve got mine to check if it’s connected to my home WiFi, then toggle bedroom lights; if connected to work WiFi, then… etc.
• Take advantage of Focus modes (Work, Sleep, etc.) because Shortcuts can use that as a condition.

Apple TV: Ted Lasso is worth watching.

3rd party apps worth mentioning:

• QuickScan. Completely free, with optional donations. Create multipage OCR’d PDFs with your camera.
• ~~Brave~~ Vivaldi browser mainly for ad-free YouTube.
• Paperback if you read manga, manhwa, etc.

Lemmy apps: Voyager is the most frequently updated and smoothest, but it lacks some QoL features that I enjoy in other apps, such as Thunder. Give all of them a try.

Sleep alarm with gradually increasing volume: you need to use the 1st party Health app to set up your nightly alarm.

Additional settings:

• Back Tap. You can customize double tap and triple tap with a limited set of actions.
• Reachability. Top of the screen temporarily shifts down.
• Haptic Touch. Set to Fast so that long presses don’t take so long to activate.

taking a screen shot is useful from time to time.

Listener supported radio?

SomaFM Radio Player app. 30+ streams of curated, genre music, that’s been broadcast ad free for decades now.

Gonna attach the App Store description as a screenshot.

Enjoy.

Same here. Just joined #teamapple a few months ago. Overall, the transition has been fairly painless and what features the iPhone lacks, it makes up with new features I never realized I needed until I had them, lol.

Overall, I have been very impressed with iOS and Apple, in general. Though admittedly, some of the fanboyism rubbed off once I acknowledged that Apple is a company like any other and their bottom line is always the most important factor. I am referring to their recent increase to their Apple one plans. Though if I am being honest, it is still a better deal than any other OEM offers and as the price of everything else has increased lately, I can’t really begrudge them for the price increase.

As far as app recommendations, Android left a pretty sour taste in my mouth, to the point where I use only first party versions of apps, just to keep the ecosystem tight.

I guess my only piece of advice I would give you, is to not treat iOS like it’s Android. Don’t start handicapping your device features because you think you need to to get decent battery life. There’s no need for that, iOS is optimized a hell of a lot better than Android and the experience should reflect that rather quickly.