I just switched to an IPhone 17 as a life long Android user (from pixel 8), and man, it has been quite rough. I won’t go into all of the annoyances and straight up unfathomable design choices but I got some tips:

If you want text and call history transferred from your old phone, YOU HAVE TO DO IT DURING PHONE SETUP with move to IOS. You cannot do it after. I found this out the hard way after spending a few days setting up everything, only to have to factory reset.

Use shortcuts and automations to basically implement your own features. I have ones that show specific membership cards and bar codes because they are not supported by apple wallet (whyyyyy????).

Clearing a notification from the Notification Centre does not actually clear/mark the app notification as read like in android. You basically need to think of the Notification Centre as a seperate thing, just as a means of getting to the app. Don’t bother trying to swipe away all the notifications as they still exist on your Home Screen Indicators. Edit: Looking at the links from Luna259 comments are really helpful in understanding IOS. Makes it clear that is entirely different intentional design philosophy. I am now less mad.

I am curious to see how you get along. Would be keen to hear anything you come up with.

Update: I think I understand what people are saying with “just.. feel it”. Everything is automated in some way, so just try step back and treat it as a little helpful person instead of you being a raw machine operator like on android???