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

    • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
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      5 months ago

      If you’re in the US (or Japan, they also restrict some models there) you can visit the unlock pages (select a model from the list on the page I linked) and see what they say. Maybe they don’t restrict all models, or maybe they don’t restrict older/cheaper models. I’m not in the US so I never get to see the message directly, I’ve only seen in other people’s screenshots.

      Also I’m not 100% if they give you the message if they see you have an American IP, or wait until you enter the IMEI to slap you down.

      • Fuzzy_Red_Panda@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        I am in the US and went to Sony’s bootloader unlock page and they say that the US variants of the 1 iv and the 5 iv cannot be unlocked. It doesn’t mention other models until you enter your model from the dropdown list.

        INTERESTING NOTE! For anyone interested in the new xperia 1 vi, selecting it from the dropdown list brings up a note that the US and JP variants cannot be bootloader unlocked. Does this mean the 1 vi is coming to the US after all?