[overfitted]

Interesting!

Your first concern and reason for De-Googling was privacy, so I'd say moving to iPhone, iCloud, WhatsApp (owned by Facebook) and the like doesn't help you much.

I also think you forgot video-conferencing/video chat. I'd go for Zoom, but there's a bunch of alternatives. Most have their drawbacks.

Lastly, move to Europe where we have GDPR. I actually can not read some news articles that are hosted in the US since the site might not have bothered to implement Privacy features and thus chose to just block EU visitors. Tells you something about the 'issue'.

[kortilla]

What privacy issues do you think the iPhone has?

[noisem4ker]

Perhaps most of the apps that you install from the store, which are just as riddled with analytics and tracking as their Android counterparts.

[ocdtrekkie]

iOS provides a lot less ways for third party apps to dig into the OS and interact with other apps. The same thing Android fans hate about it, the lock-in and lack of customizability, offers it a lot of additional privacy protection.

In general though, regardless of your phone ecosystem: Remove as many apps as you can from your device. Only install the ones you need and remove ones you don't frequently.

[Yetanfou]

More or less the same as a stock Android device has, the difference is that it keeps on sending data to Apple instead of Google. If you trust Apple at their word about being good stewards of your data you might think this is OK. If you see Apple as the corporate entity it is and you have a healthy distrust of any and all such entities when it comes to them keeping their word when money comes into play you probably want to limit exposure as much as possible.