Teen has phone but not an iphone

[Anonymous]

Strange hill to die on, let him change.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a 15 year old teen. They have a group chat with and without android users. The without is far more active so they can easily thumbs up things and keep the bubbles the same color and they make a lot of plans as a group in this one. If you want your kid to be left out by all means die in this hill. Stupid and weird? Sure. They are teenagers their frontal lobe isn’t developed yet! Reduce the barriers where possible and parent through the rest.

They will exclude friends just to keep the bubbles the same color?? I guess the Apple people were right...but I will never own one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a 15 year old teen. They have a group chat with and without android users. The without is far more active so they can easily thumbs up things and keep the bubbles the same color and they make a lot of plans as a group in this one. If you want your kid to be left out by all means die in this hill. Stupid and weird? Sure. They are teenagers their frontal lobe isn’t developed yet! Reduce the barriers where possible and parent through the rest.

I give a thumbs up in one click on my android for all group chats? What do Apple users do?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I never understand that. I have an android phone and it works just fine in many group chats with iphone people.

Omg. The android group chats are the worst with teens! Apparently if you have an iPhone, and someone with an android phone makes a group chat that includes iPhone uses, the iPhones users cannot leave the chat. My teen was getting 100+ messages per day from some 20 person group chat. The only thing you can do is mute it, but still…

[Anonymous]

I often hear my teens complaining when a friend has an android, it messes up group chats and also the android user misses half or more of the conversation. As an adult, I also find it annoying, I can only see their texts on my phone (not iPad or laptop) and sometimes they are delayed, and emojis and reactions don’t work. I assume old people have androids, I understand they are cheaper, but an iPhone SE can be found for a low price too. I have heard there are plans being made to try to bring androids up to date, esp in texting arena though

[Anonymous]

Your son can rest firm in the knowledge that he has a superior phone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I often hear my teens complaining when a friend has an android, it messes up group chats and also the android user misses half or more of the conversation. As an adult, I also find it annoying, I can only see their texts on my phone (not iPad or laptop) and sometimes they are delayed, and emojis and reactions don’t work. I assume old people have androids, I understand they are cheaper, but an iPhone SE can be found for a low price too. I have heard there are plans being made to try to bring androids up to date, esp in texting arena though

What you probably heard but misunderstood was that Apple was being pressured to make their system compatible with other systems. Of course they are going to push back. They've got the money and they've brainwashed most of their users.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:A Pixel 8 does all the things you don't want a phone for as well as an iPhone, but the thing you do want them to have a phone for, like communicating with others for safety, or to build relationships, or plan in person interactions, it isn't nearly as good.

Let the kid switch.

SO kids can't build social interactions with non apple phones now?

Not when everyone else has an iPhone

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I never understand that. I have an android phone and it works just fine in many group chats with iphone people.

Omg. The android group chats are the worst with teens! Apparently if you have an iPhone, and someone with an android phone makes a group chat that includes iPhone uses, the iPhones users cannot leave the chat. My teen was getting 100+ messages per day from some 20 person group chat. The only thing you can do is mute it, but still…

If any android user is in a chat regardless of who started it you can’t delete.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a 15 year old teen. They have a group chat with and without android users. The without is far more active so they can easily thumbs up things and keep the bubbles the same color and they make a lot of plans as a group in this one. If you want your kid to be left out by all means die in this hill. Stupid and weird? Sure. They are teenagers their frontal lobe isn’t developed yet! Reduce the barriers where possible and parent through the rest.

I give a thumbs up in one click on my android for all group chats? What do Apple users do?

Your click shows up as a separate text, at the point in time you made it. So, if I say “Hey, like this if you are coming so I can start a plan!” I can look at it and see whether all the apple users are coming, but for the android users I have to scroll all the way through and read every message in the chat. Then call you because there is about a 50% chance you didn’t get the message.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I often hear my teens complaining when a friend has an android, it messes up group chats and also the android user misses half or more of the conversation. As an adult, I also find it annoying, I can only see their texts on my phone (not iPad or laptop) and sometimes they are delayed, and emojis and reactions don’t work. I assume old people have androids, I understand they are cheaper, but an iPhone SE can be found for a low price too. I have heard there are plans being made to try to bring androids up to date, esp in texting arena though

What you probably heard but misunderstood was that Apple was being pressured to make their system compatible with other systems. Of course they are going to push back. They've got the money and they've brainwashed most of their users.

It's a lawsuit to make Apple compatible with other phones.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a 15 year old teen. They have a group chat with and without android users. The without is far more active so they can easily thumbs up things and keep the bubbles the same color and they make a lot of plans as a group in this one. If you want your kid to be left out by all means die in this hill. Stupid and weird? Sure. They are teenagers their frontal lobe isn’t developed yet! Reduce the barriers where possible and parent through the rest.

I give a thumbs up in one click on my android for all group chats? What do Apple users do?

Your click shows up as a separate text, at the point in time you made it. So, if I say “Hey, like this if you are coming so I can start a plan!” I can look at it and see whether all the apple users are coming, but for the android users I have to scroll all the way through and read every message in the chat. Then call you because there is about a 50% chance you didn’t get the message.

I used to see apple peoples thumbs up type messages separately but now they show up with the message same as android. Why does apple insist on not being compatible?? Why do people put up with it??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I often hear my teens complaining when a friend has an android, it messes up group chats and also the android user misses half or more of the conversation. As an adult, I also find it annoying, I can only see their texts on my phone (not iPad or laptop) and sometimes they are delayed, and emojis and reactions don’t work. I assume old people have androids, I understand they are cheaper, but an iPhone SE can be found for a low price too. I have heard there are plans being made to try to bring androids up to date, esp in texting arena though

What you probably heard but misunderstood was that Apple was being pressured to make their system compatible with other systems. Of course they are going to push back. They've got the money and they've brainwashed most of their users.

It's a lawsuit to make Apple compatible with other phones.

I think a lawsuit in Europe successfully required Apple to use the same cords as everyone else. Hopefully a good start to full compatibility.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I often hear my teens complaining when a friend has an android, it messes up group chats and also the android user misses half or more of the conversation. As an adult, I also find it annoying, I can only see their texts on my phone (not iPad or laptop) and sometimes they are delayed, and emojis and reactions don’t work. I assume old people have androids, I understand they are cheaper, but an iPhone SE can be found for a low price too. I have heard there are plans being made to try to bring androids up to date, esp in texting arena though

Oh honey, Androids are more expensive than most apples and they are light years ahead of Apple in terms of text features. That is why your apples don't work with Androids

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I often hear my teens complaining when a friend has an android, it messes up group chats and also the android user misses half or more of the conversation. As an adult, I also find it annoying, I can only see their texts on my phone (not iPad or laptop) and sometimes they are delayed, and emojis and reactions don’t work. I assume old people have androids, I understand they are cheaper, but an iPhone SE can be found for a low price too. I have heard there are plans being made to try to bring androids up to date, esp in texting arena though

What you probably heard but misunderstood was that Apple was being pressured to make their system compatible with other systems. Of course they are going to push back. They've got the money and they've brainwashed most of their users.

It's a lawsuit to make Apple compatible with other phones.

But then how will Apple users show people how special they are?