That is good to know! It can be hard to find the official Voltage on electronics batteries.

That the Apple pack uses double the voltage explains why its performance Is so close to the 5,000mAh options from others even though it’s posted capacity is under 2,000mAh.

I wish all battery products would use Watt-Hours for capacity measurements instead of Amp-Hours with varying degrees of obfuscation on the voltage.

According to my quick web search the TSA asks for spare batteries to be carry on (not checked bag) and under 100 watt hours (exceptions on request for 101-160Wh).

The largest MagSafe battery bank I’ve seen so far is 10,000mAh which at the typical 5V only comes to 50Wh so it should be a non-issue so long as you keep it in your carry on.

TSA website link: https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/whatcanibring/items/lithium-batteries-more-100-watt-hours
Let me know if I misunderstood what that’s saying

For sure, wireless chargers don’t keep up with heavy use. It’s a very passive charging speed and that’s one big advantage to the Ankers and others that support wired charging. If you need higher speed charging you can plug it in.

I’m finding it stays on while in pocket but usually slips off when I’m taking it out, then I just pop it back on while I’m holding it.

Nothing wrong with using a cord charger, some of us just want to wander while charging.

No kidding, my partner’s family are all Apple die hard but they never used MagSafe until I got an iPhone and started showing off my accessories.

That sounds like the intended use for the Apple brand.

I would definitely list the lightning connector in the downside column for the official MagSafe battery. Particularly considering it has reverse charging So it can be charged by the phone.

I miss the filtering methods from my Pixel as well. I have my iPhone set to filter unknown, but just yesterday that meant i missed a call and text from an old family friend who was in town for the day! I only saw the missed messages at the end of the day when i was clearing out my notification summary :(

I'd say my autocorrect has been consistently awful. I usually spend about as much time editing as i do typing. In particular mine likes to add extra letters to short words.

That's correct. For me at least, I received my iPhone in the apple packaging which was in a plain looking brown cardboard box.

Obviously if i could have both that would be best (yay unlocking while wearing gloves!) however, if I could choose i would take the touch unlock option.

Maybe you hardly notice, but i notice every time I'm doing something else and want to check something on my phone.

Most (maybe all?) Longtime apple users have adapted and forgotten the advantages of fingerprint, or the difference is unnoticeable. The people who prefer the advantages of touch over face (including myself) seem more adamant about it. I didn't let the lack of fingerprint hold me up from buying my iphone but it is still on my list of gripes.

Mark me in the still wishing i had a fingerprint scanner column. There is the aforementioned time delay of waiting to have the phone in front of my face before starting the unlock process, which i still get irritated by occasionally after 3 months of use. I also wear a mask more often than i wear gloves which leaves the face scanner much less useful in a 'relative number of situations it won't work' metric.

Edit to add: there's also the situation of not looking directly at my phone but wanting to view something on it. Particularly when it's laying on the desk/table while I'm working on something else and want to reference the phone. With touch i just touch it to wake and view what was last on the screen, even while holding something in my hand. But with face i have to put down what I'm holding to pick up the phone and look directly at it.

The difference is that with a fingerprint it's already unlocked when you first look at it. With my old phone i could even open one of my favorites tray apps before looking at my phone. I know in reality the difference is negligible (around 1 second, maybe less) but 3 months in it still bugs me sometimes.

Add: background processes often stop when i switch to another app, so i have to manually open apps and keep them open watching the sync bar slide along for a couple minutes. It's a small thing, but happens regularly.

And I'm not enmeshed in the apple hardware ecosystem and many of my other devices don't play as nice with my iPhone as they did with my Pixel.

> What limitations have you experienced outside of customization?

Here's my short list off the top of my head:

• can't play music while recording video (i didn't realize how much i used to do that!)
• music doesn't consistently automatically resume after something stops it (phone call, video recording, etc.)
• picture in picture? (Nah, this screen is really too small for it anyways, but worth mentioning for bigger devices maybe?)
• independently adjust different volume settings (alarm, alert, ringer, media) without that type being currently playing.
• gboard isn't available in every app
• gboard missing the clipboard feature
• copy-paste doesn't always work between different apps
• overall app interconnectedness is much lower than on Pixel
• face recognition is great but i miss the middle of the back fingerprint reader(on my Pixel 2 i could have it unlocked ready to use by the time i was looking at it)
• no-look camera activation by double tapping power (again, having it ready by the time i was actually looking at it. On iphone i can set up the double knock shortcut for camera, but it's not as fast or reliable)
• autocorrect is pretty awful on all keyboards i have tried
• easy access to media controls from all apps that could be playing media
• old notifications take an extra swipe to view
• some notifications cannot be dismissed with a swipe (for various reasons, but it's not always clear which ones are swipe proof until i swipe at it) And ends up opening the camera app while I'm trying to dismiss
• i have to dig through the settings app to customize individual app notification settings and they're much less flexible, usually all or nothing(sometimes more flexible notifications are available in the app itself)
• i almost forgot flip to silence! (I used to think the hard switch for silence was cool, and it still is, but if i could choose between the hardware switch and flip to silence i would take flip to silence everyday) ...That's all i can think of right now.

I considered the Zenfone 9 long and hard since it's the smallest Android that checks all my other boxes, but it's just a little bigger than i would like. The iphone mini is truly one handed operation for me and that particular feature is currently still in balance with my complaints. Then with the incentives available at the time the iphone ended up costing about a 3rd what the Zenfone was.

Got any recommendations for a sub to look into?

Jailbreaking and customizing has always seemed like a lot of effort for not a lot of payback, but if no small Android crops up in the next year and this becomes a long term device I just might get that inclination. If I could have a Pixel interface on my iPhone i would call it perfect.

Fair enough. iOS is certainly different!

Why are you switching to iOS? I ask because I'm a recent adopter (in the last 3 months) on account of the mini being the only small form factor phone with a decent camera. That's the only feature i cared about that i couldn't find something better in Android so I'm taking a chance on iOS. So far I'm disappointed with iOS limitations, to the point that i would have returned it if I wasn't so pleased with the perfect size of the iphone mini.

Has anyone been sent a bit.ly link out of the blue that wasn't scammy?

If apple won't work on it, any iphone is probably common enough to get work done at most phone repair shops. There's even diy kits you can order! Might not be able to get the official battery though so like your screen you'll lose something on that route, usually the state of health feature.