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I know Lemmy hates Apple but
While that is true, that just means they already own your soul and don't need you to reiterate it with every new phone. The fresh setup is just as awful as on Android.
…..or you saved a local encrypted backup.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/108353
I love when people call Apple out for their bullshit but this is just another case of automatic hate with no further attempts to understand the process.
As far as companies go, Apple is pretty good about keeping your private data private. They don’t want the liability of leaking confidential data or to have the risk of creating a backdoor into their devices.
If you want to make a local backup of your device and encrypt it with a password you define, you can. And you don’t even need a Mac to do it.
Yeah the whole ‘Apple = BAD’ trope here is obnoxious. iOS with Lockdown mode and Advanced data protection (both relatively new features) is plenty good (and probably overkill) for most threat models.
Yeah I get the hate but the blanket hate for all things <insert_company_here> is not productive.
Yeah... That device you're backing up... You had to set that up at some point. Perhaps it's the 10th device you used the encrypted backup to transfer all your data from, but at some point you had your first device that you set up fresh and you had to go through all of the prompts.
Not to discredit how neat being able to do an encrypted backup is, that's certainly a feature all phones should have.
Right, but it’s entirely possible to set it up once without opting into any Apple services (owning your soul), back it up, and never have to do it again.
The fact that every device requires an initial setup done once aside, the user you responded to simply made a point about how much easier it is on iOS to bypass that process going forward than it is on android.
You are missing the point of this post. They are criticizing the lengthy and difficult process of installing a custom ROM on android smartphones. iOS is not a custom ROM, and probably even more difficult (if not impossible) to install a custom ROM on ios
The 4channer isn't installing a custom ROM though, they are just rooting the phone and removing things.
Which is about the same result as not hitting decline and logging in to your Google account on an Android.
If you give your phone maker power of attorney, they'll even set up a will for you! So ease of use!