• Asonta Benetti purchased an iPhone 13 Max Pro in January after avoiding Apple products for 10 years.

• Benetti tired of the constant issues with her cheaper Android devices and made the switch to Apple.

• After months of use, she breaks down the things she likes and could do without, on the new device.

After more than a decade of resisting joining the Apple community, I finally caved and purchased an iPhone 13 Pro Max in January 2022.

I was never a proponent of Apple during their rise to popularity in the late 2000s, shunning them and their products.

For the last 10 years, I purchased Google, Samsung and LG smartphones in an attempt to evade the ubiquitous iPhone.

But when my LG Stylo 5 began to fail me after a short two years, I decided it was time to bite the bullet. I needed a reliable device for work and my last few Android phones, some cheaper and some not, had been riddled with issues.

I purchased my brand new Sierra blue iPhone 13 Pro.

Using my new iPhone for the last few months, I've been surprised by what things still catch me off guard and what are pleasant additions to my day-to-day life.

These are the things I like and dislike the most about my new iPhone.

Siri is oversensitive 

I'm not a fan of virtual assistants. However, as a writer, I do use dictation for talk-to-text.  To use dictation on an iPhone, it requires keeping the virtual assistant enabled.

This was the same on my Android device, however, it was rare for me to accidentally engage the virtual assistant function.

Siri, on the other hand, is somehow enabled via various methods every time the phone is in my hands. It doesn't help that the way I instinctively want to turn off the phone, by simply holding the long side button down, is what kicks Siri on now, which can be rather frustrating.

The iOS keyboard reduces my typos 

On my previous Android phones, I've tried various keyboards and keyboard sizes, trying to find one that wouldn't leave my sentences riddled with misspellings. I found them either less sensitive or the letters not quite the right size to prevent me from consistently punching another character.