I liked my Pixel 6a and 8 a lot when I had them. That said, the "AI" features I liked the most were the onboard transcription and the at a glance music recognit

I liked my Pixel 6a and 8 a lot when I had them. That said, the "AI" features I liked the most were the onboard transcription and the at a glance music recognition. The music recognition was seriously good and since it always ran in the background on device, it was always there when you picked up your phone. The assistant changes were unimpressive and invasive IMO and I felt like I could never take advantage of Google's main suite of features because I didn't trust them or their privacy policies. Apple does a lot more on device and I respect them more from a privacy perspective, so they won me as a customer. The other issue I had - and I don't know if this is an Android across the board issue or a Pixel thing - was that apps would _regularly_ need force kills and restarts. Mind you, this was on a Pixel 8 when it was their flagship phone. Things just didn't work as well. It was one of the things I was more pleasantly surprised by when switching to iOS. Apps generally run better and crash/bork way less. The other thing that I don't blame Google or Android for is that iOS apps just seem to have more attention put into them. Larger market share for most app audiences and I assume fewer targets to deal with so I've just had a much better experience with the actually software. Datadog's mobile app is notably better on iOS for me than it was on Android, for example. I am glad that Google has consistently released a well priced quality phone though. the A-series is a real bang for your buck smartphone.