r/Android • u/unnecessaryrisk_ • 4d ago

After 19 years, iOS to Android

I just switched over to an Oppo Find X9 Ultra after being on iOS since the first iPhone! iOS' UX is better in some areas and makes every day use convenient.

  1. What are some tweaks/apps you'd recommend which make using your phone more enjoyable and smooth?

  2. Is there a repository somewhere I can start looking into? Where are the best resources?

I'm big on shortcuts, automation, customisation, and general productivity tweaks. Thanks so much!

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u/Party-Cake5173 2d ago

Use Morphe for ad-free YouTube, YT Music and Reddit

Use Private DNS feature for system-wide ad blocking (my recommendation Control D Hagezi DNS Pro resolver).

Use Brave as your default web browser to hide ad placeholders left over by blocking ads with Private DNS.

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u/el_doherz 2d ago

Firefox on android still supports a proper Ublock Origin implementation so you can get your adblocking whilst browsing needs met there too.

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u/MakeoutPoint 2d ago

I would take Firefox over Brave too. uBlock is great, but There are a ton of awesome extensions as well.

3 favorites I'll mention:

Sponsorblock for YouTube gets all the personal ad reads as well, so my videos are 100% ad free.

Hide Shorts - yep, hides YT shorts so you don't see them anywhere, stops the doomscrolling.

LeechBlock - sets timers and restrictions on websites with a lot of control and schedules for free. Got 8 minutes left of Reddit use for the day.

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u/unnecessaryrisk_ 2d ago

Amazing, thank you! Found Morphe a few days ago. That and Shizuku. Haven't had the time to sit down and learn it all properly, but will do that. Thanks for the recs!

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u/woodstar11 2d ago

And thats just the start, there are so many apps to patch it's amazing. In fact Morphe is the reason I could never go back to iOS.

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u/Party-Cake5173 2d ago

Same here.

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u/onedollar12 2d ago

Is morphe similar to revanced

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u/Party-Cake5173 2d ago

Revanced team had a fight and most of them left and created a new project called Morphe.

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u/woodstar11 2d ago

Similar but much better, bigger and so much easier, it's brilliant.

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u/Capt_TittySprinkles 2d ago

Activate developer options. All three animation scales to . 5x

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u/chetlyp 2d ago

It's funny that everyone says do this. I go to Goodlock and slow the animations down cuz I love to watch them and am in no hurry to do something else when leaving an app.

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u/unnecessaryrisk_ 2d ago

Haha nice. I did this earlier today!!

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u/ronakg 1d ago

I'd suggest using the phone as the designers intended for a while before you dig into such developer options.

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u/Joseph1968R 1d ago

If you like automation, install Tasker. If you like customization, browse XDA Developers. If you like discovering hidden gems, check out F-Droid. Those three alone will show you why a lot of us stick with Android despite iOS having a more polished UI in some areas.

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u/unnecessaryrisk_ 1d ago

Thank you so much! Will get on this right away

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u/MHcharLEE 2d ago

shortcuts, automation

r/tasker is the place. The app has a steep learning curve but also tons of ways to make it work exactly the way you need it to. And if it comes to it, use an LLM to figure your way around the app

customisation

r/androidthemes and r/kustom

The customization scene is a bit dead these days because of one crucial thing - third party launchers (home screen replacement apps) don't play nicely with gesture navigation. There are animation glitches or delays, depending on what phone you use. Google Pixels and Samsung Galaxy phones are, in my experience, the best in that regard. OnePlus (and by extension OPPO - sister companies) are out of the question, the animation delay is not worth the trade off of having a fancy home screen.

However, the stock launcher on your OPPO will let you use KLWP and KWGT with not that many downsides, so it's definitely worth looking into anyway.

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u/unnecessaryrisk_ 2d ago

Thank you! This is what I was talking about, thanks so much.

Do you know of an app which will allow me to add any app shortcut to the lockscreen?

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u/MHcharLEE 2d ago edited 2d ago

That's very limited. It used to be possible like over 10 years ago but now the lockscreen is, well, locked down. You can disable the system lockscreen and use a present pretend lockscreen app, meaning your phone is never really protected, or you can accept what little customization is available to you. Go to settings > Home screen, Locks screen & Style (if that's what it's called on Color OS 17) and tap on the setup preview in that screen. That's where you can edit the two lockscreen shortcuts and add widgets (depending on the theme you chose, there are a lot of them).

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u/cs_rohit2003 2d ago

How can you say iOS is better than Android?😂 There are so many drawbacks in iOS like no universal back gesture support, uploads are blocked in the background, notifications are a mess to see

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u/unnecessaryrisk_ 2d ago

Not gonna turn this into a iOS Vs. Android debate. I think they're both great. I specifically wrote 'in some areas' from a UX perspective.

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u/googdude 2d ago

It depends on what you want out of your device. If you want something simple that just works iPhone is your choice, if you want to tinker Android is your phone.

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u/ANS__2009 2d ago

Restrict background usage for apps you don't use at all

Turn off wifi and bluetooth scanning

Turn off google usage and diagnostics, and personalized ads

A dns is a really good thing to use, I use p2.freedns.controld.com . This one turns off background telemetry data and ads, also helps in better battery life

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u/unnecessaryrisk_ 1d ago

Thank you!!

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u/Equal_Interaction946 1d ago

Google will be all up in your business. I suggest proton for emails, photos and video backup and vpn plus ad blocking.

Morphe for YouTube and YouTube music is a must.