Ha! Yeh same. I’ve created a ‘family’ group chat as we’re all on iOS and it started off OK but they’ve all reverted back to WhatsApp 
Seems like the vice like grip of Facebook is hard to undo
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That’s exactly what I thought, and why I moved to EE. The only advantage of Three for me was the price.
To be fair to Three, though, outside of London I found it quite reliable and data speeds were more than adequate.
I’ve only contacted them once to remove an under 18 restriction on my account. I phoned them up and got what I wanted in about two minutes. Very small sample size, but 100% record.
Ideally you want a provider you never have to contact. For me, EE is that provider.
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I saw the 5G icon yesterday but it kept coming and going. Plus it was in an area that Three struggles to load a web page so I don’t know what the point of showing 5G is!
O2 also do Visual Voicemail. They were the original iPhone network when it was first released.
I am going back to EE though I think for iPhone 12 mini and looking forward to getting data on my watch again (signed up for smarty during the pandemic and feel all the 3 pain that is mentioned here!)
Okay, a day of usage and I think this is a great phone, but… the combination of the square sides and the size (its a lot wider than my S8 was) make it difficult to hold for me. I wish I’d have waited for the mini. I can only just use it with one hand.
Otherwise, decent phone.
Everyone uses WhatsApp full stop among my family / friends / colleagues / other school parents, and most of those people seem to be on iOS. There’s no way I could get away from it. Best I’ve managed is to get the Mrs onto telegram for our private messaging.
I’m happy iMessage isn’t so prevalent as it would piss me off to have this blue / green bubble social hierarchy bullshit that seems rife in America. It’s also just not that great a messaging app IMHO. Pinned conversations and in-line relies being a big deal in 2020 is just crazy.
I’m not much of a fan of WhatsApp either but at the minimum at least it’s cross platform.
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What do you mean?
Text messages are green, iMessages are blue. Not sure why that would piss you off.
For one, I don’t want to have to use SMS and not have all features for all chats. It’s a crappy solution over just being cross platform.
In terms of the social hierarchy ■■■■■■■■: https://www.fastcompany.com/90391587/why-we-dont-want-you-and-your-android-green-bubbles-in-our-imessage-chat
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You can’t have a group of mixed anyway, so not sure what that article is all about. It just doesn’t work as a group.
I don’t think I text anyone now. It’s either iMessage or WhatsApp.
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That’s what it’s about. The one Android person causes the whole group to be green.
I had the SE and the iPhone 7 and used WhatsApp for 90% of my contacts
You mean the Government or the English, generally? 
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To be fair, there have been reports on here in the past that Monzo’s app stopped working when a customer changed iPhone. The workaround was to delete the app and reinstall from the store and not from a backup of I recall correctly.
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Can anybody comment on how big an upgrade the camera is from the 11? The impression I’m getting is that it’s not that big a leap (over what is already an amazing camera system).
I don’t think it’s a huge leap, comparing it to my partner’s 11.
Of course my pictures look much better than his to start with, but the iPhone 11 doesn’t have an OLED screen. When he sends them to me and we look on the same screen the differences are few.
Nightmode on the wideangle and portrait cameras seems to be the big upgrade. Occasionally useful I guess, although I can’t remember ever doing nighttime landscape photography.
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It’s the app, not the developers.
I’m no fan of this government but this is not their fault and is an issue with Apple and Google and their API.
It’s the same with the notifications of exposure without anything being in the app - the API not the developers.
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I found if you go into exposure notifications in settings and just toggle it off and back on, it seemed to reset it. No reinstall required.
Guessing it’s expecting you to be on your old phone so it glitches and dies.
The talk about the NHS app got me thinking. If you can’t carry over a backup, then I could theoretically have been near someone on Friday long enough to be exposed, get a new phone Saturday and even if that person tested positive and entered it in the app I’d never know as my new phone now has a new ID and no history. Or am I missing something?
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On a separate note, I’m so happy with the iPhone 12 Pro battery. I know it’s to be expected and my 3 year old battery had obviously deteriorated, but it’s nice to not have to connect to power midway through the day anymore.
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