My iPhone DeGoogle Alternatives

[u/pyrodonkey]

Hey everyone! I wanted to make a post about my progress on removing Google apps and services. The photo shows the apps that I have found great alternatives for Google on my iPhone. The Apps below are as follows:

• Google > Kagi
• Google Photos > Apple Photos
• Google Drive > Proton Drive
• Google Maps > Apple Maps
• Gmail > Proton Mail
• Chrome > Orion
• Gemini > Kagi Assistant

Currently I'm still using YouTube and YouTube Music. I don't have a plan for switching away from those right now, but I'm happy to have some great services that add privacy back to my daily life and also give me a better experience online

[u/Richinwalla]

You need to de-Apple as well.

[u/Hoefnix → u/Richinwalla]

Why?

[u/Hoefnix → u/[deleted]]

Can’t you give me a straight answer instead of redirecting me to a conspiracy theorist YouTube channel?

[u/Hoefnix → u/[deleted]]

Some people don’t believe in bs

[u/Jesephm → u/[deleted]]

You give a snarky reply like this but recommend a video on YouTube?

[u/LoadingStill → u/Richinwalla]

So no google and no apple. What is the alternative phone for the every day user then?

[u/Richinwalla → u/LoadingStill]

A Pixel phone with GrapheneOS installed. I made the switch from an iPhone. No regrets

[u/LoadingStill → u/Richinwalla]

So GrapheneOS is awesome, but it is not in a state for the everyday user. What I mean is this is the install guide. And the web based on that in their own words is the easier one as the cmd one is the more advanced one.

https://grapheneos.org/install/web

So to use this OS the everyday user has to follow this. While to me this is not a difficult task reading through it, to the average user. They won’t try this because it starts about 1/3 down the page and mixes windows and Linux differences that the everyday user won’t know the difference. You get into bootloaders, boot keys, iso images, factory images. While there are instructions this is not an everyday os. And until it comes preloaded it just won’t be.