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They really don't make it easy do they?! I finally got my iPhone 13 Pro Max on Wednesday and started trying to move everything over that night. Between spending time with the mini O'Leary and sorting out finance on a new car I haven't had loads of time so it's been about 5 hours of work so far. Initial impressions are.... iTunes is crap! It hasn't sorted all the music I had on my computer properly so there are songs and even entire albums missing or listed under "unknown". Loads of album artwork is missing too, which I often use to select albums from my collection more so than album titles. So now I need to find all my CDs and rip them to iTunes directly, followed by deleting all downloaded content from my phone and reloading from iTunes.
Having to go into every app and enter login details is a bloody pain in the bum, especially banking and credit card ones. The move to iOS app that Apple use was basically pointless. It hasn't even transferred all my contacts and text messages haven't moved across either. I'm also going to lose all chats and media from WhatsApp which is really annoying.
Realistically it's going to take me all weekend to get everything set up even without the music I already own. That's a project for every evening next week, apart from the evening I take delivery of the car.
All in all I'm really starting to regret moving from Samsung and thinking I should have gone for the top spec Galaxy Note instead. This is going to take some getting used to once I actually have it all working. Even the really rounded corners compared to Samsung are currently annoying me. And don't get me started on the lack of fingerprint unlocking!
I'm reporting this thread. Apple products just work.
/Sent from my S21 Ultra 😉
The best is yet to come. When you're all up and running and it's working perfectly you'll realise that it's just not that good anyway.
Well, I could argue the same when I went from iPhone to an S9. Back on iPhone but, I will totally agree iTunes is utter shite and has been for years. I use Waltr 2 to transfer music to the phone as it just works and if you want custom ring tones iRing from the same company does a good job.
Is there a way to set music I own as my ring tone on iOS or is that another good feature missing from "the best smartphone ever"?
And don’t get me started on the lack of fingerprint unlocking!
Recently gone from Samsung to Pro Max too.
Much prefer the Face ID unlocking and in place of entering password too. It will work whether I’m wearing my glasses or not which is handy.
Only real pain was my Barclaycard app as it keeps telling me the account is already registered to my number . Looks like I should have generated a code on the Samsung before I set it up on Iphone. Now it’s not even opening on the Samsung.
I do find my ring and blink applications work a lot better on the iphone than the Samsung . They are instant rather than 30 seconds behind.
Oh and my Galaxy watch works ok with it too
Is there a way to set music I own as my ring tone on iOS
Yes. Try Googling it and you’ll get full instructions.
There are apps that will move your WhatsApp messages over for you, I used one and it worked fine.
If you’ve got SMS you want to be able to access is the Android SMS to Gmail backup (can’t remember what it’s called). All my old texts are available by searching in Gmail which comes in handy occasionally.
Aren’t your contacts in your Google account? Just carry on using that on your new phone.
Doppler is probably a better music player and will play Flac files too. It's not free but you do get a week's trial.
If your music library is large it can take a while to get all the album artwork sorted on auto download. Beatunes will analyse, sort and catalogue things automatically on the Mac and will then generate playlists if so required.
NB iTunes no longer exists on the Mac it's Music app now. Beatunes uses it to maintain the library.
Is there a way to set music I own as my ring tone on iOS or is that another good feature missing from “the best smartphone ever”?
Have you tried getting a phone from 2004 when people did this sort of thing?
@klunky Samsung still do it.
Found another feature I f###### HATE! Automatically playing music when I open photos.
That when you open a memory in photos - not when you look in your library.
It automatically creates these slideshows, with music, on a theme. Maybe it's opening where you were when you closed it last?
That was the first time I had ever opened photos on the phone. Just assumed it would let me see my photos, not make me search for a way to stop that bollocks
Same, it’s a niece piece of kit but the apple OS is way behind Android
I just go into Photos and it brings up my photos. No music, just photos. iPhone 11.
I went the other way - iPhone 6S to Google Pixel, was extremely smooth and easy.
But I do run iTunes on my PC, have a huge library and never had an issue. I do run everything through mp3tag before adding it though, always have done.
You'd have thought there would be some automatic algorythm that could tag stuff by now, seeing as Shazam and the like can recognise songs in a split second.
WhatsApp history excepted, when I went Android to iOS last year after years of disliking apple I found it pretty easy. It actually fixed some buggy album art and whatnot in google music too.
I’m still not 100% convinced one way or the other- there are aspects of iOS that make me want to scream because they only think one way and that is a different way to me, but the flip side does seem to be that more things work reliably.
I think I’m happy to role over for the apple way for phones/tablets but stick to windows/Linux for computer stuff.
I have just remembered the fact that I actually needed a computer to make music work, after the pretty seamless way google music does stuff, was a bit of a throwback.
Well I now have 3 months free Apple music so I can compare it to Spotify side by side and choose one. Suppose that's one good thing, however small.