I'm by no means an Apple fan, but AAC on Android is worse due to using SOC-builtin encoders a lot of the time (sometimes they use the Fraunhofer AAC encoder, wh

I'm by no means an Apple fan, but AAC on Android is worse due to using SOC-builtin encoders a lot of the time (sometimes they use the Fraunhofer AAC encoder, which sounds better). Apple's AAC encoder is unparalleled and the difference is 100% tangible, so the listening experience will be better on iOS, followed by whatever uses the Fraunhofer encoder (PipeWire on Linux is pretty damn solid in AAC Bluetooth for this reason, but not as good).