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by InsomniacL 898 days ago
They give iMessage an unfair advantage by allowing it access to their device functions they prevent iMessage competitors from accessing.

They do this with a lot of things, if you try to use a password manager on iOS other than Apple's, it's so restricted it's almost unusable.

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Are you kidding? 1Password is excellent on iOS, far better than the MacOS version.
I don't think you can use 1Password passkey without turning on the default password manager; at least, you cannot login using apple account passkey on the computer with 1Password.
1Password works great for me on macOS and iOS. What am I missing?
In my experience, password managers on iOS are significantly more usable than on Android.

Source: recently switched from iPhone to Pixel, not sure how long I can keep it up though

What device functions exactly? I don't see many differences in the UX and functionalities of WhatsApp or Telegram.
Not OP but one that is usually contentions is the ability to act as an SMS client. Facebook's Messenger can or at least used to be able to do this on Android. It cannot on iOS.
Ugh, that's one of the things I really hate about it (and hated about Messenger and that Google app thing on Android).
I use Bitwarden on iOS and MacOS (and Windows and Linux). Works great.